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Catholic Time Travel, by Ray Sullivan – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Catholic Time Travel, by Ray Sullivan

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By Ray Sullivan, Catholic Stand, May 22, 2026

Ray Sullivan – Retired engineer from Texas, because the cowboy thing on the ranch growing up didn’t work out. Actually rode the Vomit Comet at NASA in Houston once, being totally weightless for 20 minutes! Married with two kids, Toby the chihuahua, and Dakota, a really wonderful terrier. I love the Church and what it stands for. Without the sacraments, I am nothing.

Catholic time-travel happens through the Eucharist, looking at the crucifix, saying the Rosary, and remembering the day of your marriage.

Picture of Ray SullivanCatholic time travel? Are you kidding me?  According to the rational mind, we live in the present age, and time travel is only something we read about in sci-fi novels or see in the movies. But in reality, everyone participates in time travel when we look up at the stars in the night sky. The light from those stars took billions of years to reach us, and what we see may in fact no longer exist. Stars burn out all of the time. One day, every star in the sky will burn out, albeit many, many years in the future. So when we look up in the night sky, our eyes are really time-traveling into the past. But time travel occurs in our modern world in other ways, too!

The Mass

At every Holy Mass celebrated every day (give us this day our DAILY bread!), time travel occurs for Catholics. What was present at the Last Supper on Mount Zion in the upper room now becomes spiritually and physically present to us here in the 21st century. …

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