Jeanie Hannaman

By Gayle Somers, Catholic Exchange - Soon, we will return liturgically to the relative “quiet” of Ordinary Time, after so many celebrations of great historical events in Jesus’ life. Today, we pause to look back at the Last Supper. Why?... Now that we have liturgically re-lived with Jesus the culmination of His earthly ministry and His return to Heaven, it might seem that Jesus has, in a sense, “gone away.”... To avoid thinking that the long period of Ordinary Time is a time of Jesus’ “absence,” the Church calls us to the observance of the Body and Blood of Christ, or Corpus Christi. ....

By Mary Kroner, Catholic Vote - Have you ever seen a depiction of a pelican in the stained glass windows of your church or in an adoration chapel you’ve visited?... Read on to discover the spiritual meaning of the pelican and how it is related to the Eucharist... Before the birth of Christ, an ancient legend claimed that during a famine, a mother pelican would pierce her breast with her beak and feed her young with her own blood. ...