Eleanore Spetrino Highland Heights, Ohio “O God, you are my God — for you I long” (Ps 63:2). During the past nine years, it has been a privilege for me to bring the precious gift of the Eucharist to the sick at University Hospital. I did not realize the impact this ministry would have […]

Eucharistic Witness
Eucharistic Witness · May / June 2018
Eucharistic Witness (May/June 2018)
Raymond Worhacz Holiday, Florida “. . . I was in prison and you came to visit me . . . “ (Mt 25:36). After 18 years of daily Communion, I find myself kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament listening rather than speaking. Looking back, it is remarkable to see what God had in store for me […]
Eucharistic Witness · March / April 2018
Eucharistic Witness (March/April 2018)
Father Roger Bourgeois, SSS THE CALL STILL ECHOES There was something adventuresome and daring about jumping on a bus at midnight, at age 14, saying goodbye to my parents and heading out with older seminarians on a six-hour trip to the minor seminary of the Blessed Sacrament Congregation in upstate New York, my first venture […]
Eucharistic Witness · January / February 2018
Eucharistic Witness (Jan / Feb 2018)
Rose Mattax Maywood, Illinois I am an Associate of the Blessed Sacrament at Saint Eulalia Parish in Maywood, Illinois, west of downtown Chicago. Three fellow parishioners and I made our Promise Commitment in September 2014. Like hundreds of lay women and men in the Province of Saint Ann, I am inspired by the teachings and […]