17 June 2024 · 2024-06 newsletter
On Sunday 2nd June, many Schoenstatt members gave witness to their love for the Blessed Eucharist when they attended the Corpus Christi Procession from Martin Place to St. Mary’s Cathedral, in Sydney.
Walk with Christ
A “Walk with Christ”. Although we were small in number, we took our place among 15,000 other Catholics from around the Sydney Archdiocese and beyond.
Several of us walked together as Schoenstatters with our MTA and Schoenstatt Flag held high. Others joined their parishes or other organisations to which they belonged.
Some were carrying their Pilgrim Mother Shrines, others being aware of the Heart Shrines, engaged with friends at the beginning and end of the procession. It was encouraging to be part of such a powerful witness to our faith in the company of other Schoenstatt members.
Archbishop Fisher’s Homily
During his homily at the final celebration in front of the Cathedral, Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP encouraged and praised the people as he said among other things:
“Today, my dear people, you have very publicly acknowledged God. Today, you have very publicly witnessed to hope and unity…
My dear people, you have just proclaimed to our city the gift of redemption in Christ Jesus. Not through robust argument, clever rhetoric or special effects, but simply by ‘Walking With Christ’ whom you love. You have formed a chavurah, a minyan, a communion, not of ten but more like ten thousand!
Like a priest calling down the Spirit upon the elements of bread and wine to change them into Christ’s Body and Blood, you have exercised your priestly power as the baptised to call the Spirit down upon this city to change it into God’s kingdom.
That his kingdom come, his will be done, on earth as in heaven, you brought Sydney our daily Bread, the Bread of Life.
You proclaimed that Christ lives in our city, our communities, our hearts. He has given us his all, his very Body and Blood, all his substance and reality, all his spirit and grace, so no one would be left behind. Give him your all in return!”
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