03/09/2026
Zionites, I hope he's communicating
When you invite the Pope to visit your country and pray with Catholics, the greatest thing he can ever do when he comes is to celebrate Mass and share the Holy Eucharist with the people.
When you invite a Bishop to your parish or to a gathering of Catholics, the greatest work he can ever do, and the very thing expected of him, is to celebrate Mass and share the Holy Eucharist with the people.
When you invite a priest to a Catholic gathering, whether it is a youth convention, a women’s or men’s prayer meeting, or any other gathering of Catholics that is designed for prayers, the greatest thing he can do is to celebrate Mass and share the Holy Eucharist with the people.
So, anytime you gather together in your prayer meetings or crusades, and still call yourselves Catholics, and invite a priest who later showed up, but the priest cannot celebrate Mass for you, or the organizer did not factor in the need for the celebration of the Holy Mass in such gathering, you probably don’t need any special message to tell you that something is wrong.
Either the priest has a problem, the gathering has K-leg in the eyes of the church, or perhaps both have problems.
Because if Catholics gather, or people who still believe they are wholly Catholics gather, and a Catholic priest or priests are present, and the gathering is not academic conference but meant to be for worship, yet the Eucharist…the very heart and summit of Catholic worship…is somehow missing, the reasonable thing is to ask: What exactly am I doing here?