Fr. Roger J. Landry
Eucharistic Convention in Auckland, New Zealand
“Take Courage: I Have Overcome the World”
Sacred Heart College, Glendowie
July 13, 2019
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The following points were attempted in the conference:
- We are living at a time in which so many people are eaten alive by fears.
- In response to all of them, Jesus says, “Take Courage, I have overcome the world.”
- 69 times in Sacred Scripture God says “Fear not” or “Be not afraid” or “Take courage.”
- Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict and Pope Francis have all stressed how fear is one of the most debilitating problems of the post modern age.
- How Jesus seeks to en-courage us in the Holy Eucharist
- “Take courage, it is I, be no afraid” — The image of the Church in the storm and the role of Jesus
- Witnesses of how love for Jesus in the Eucharist, and Jesus’ love for us from within, makes us strong. The matters of Abilene. The Christians of southern Sudan. Fr. Jean-Marc Fournier. Cardinal Xavier Nguyen van Thuan.
- How Jesus in the Eucharist is meant to become our “genuine substance” our “real presence” (Spe Salvi)
- Practical points.
- Conclusion
