Perseverance in prayer can ignite grace to overcome obstinacy of heart
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[Part III of a three-part series on intercessory prayer, a key to conversion.]
In Part I of this series, we examined the conversion of Jewish musical marvel Hermann Cohen, tracing his transformation from a melancholy man-child fluent in depravity to a passionate missionary-priest ablaze with love for God. We explored his account of the Blessed Virgin Mary's role in awakening him to faith, as well as his mystical encounters with Christ as he walked the road of repentance. We saw how his turn toward God testifies to the power of intercessory prayer, and to the impact that grace, ignited by such intercession, can have even upon seemingly hopeless cases – including our own.
In Part II, we studied how after his rebirth, Fr. Augustine-Marie, as he became known, dedicated himself to a life of intercession, working to win wayward souls for God. We observed how his devotion, driven by an unremitting zeal for Christ in the Eucharist, reignited the tepid faith of untold thousands across Europe, and replanted the Carmelite Order in corners of the continent where it had long been dormant. Along the way, we were reminded of our own need to persist in prayer for those we love.
This necessity is reiterated once again here in Part III, the culmination of our series on the urgency of intercessory prayer. Having earlier explored how consistent supplication can rouse souls from stupor and fuel the fires of faith, below we peer beneath the veil, so to speak, to catch a glimpse of intercession in action – spotlighting a conversion that could perhaps be considered more remarkable than even that of Fr. Augustine-Marie.
Part III culminates in the account of Rosalie Cohen's salvation – how, in the final moment of her life, Fr. Augustine-Marie's biological mother was delivered from damnation through the intercession of his spiritual mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary.
CONVERSIONS FAR AND WIDE
Having yielded so fully to God's grace during his conversion, Fr. Augustine-Marie spent the rest of his life serving as a channel of grace for others, interceding in prayer to aid in the salvation of the lost – all to good effect. Wherever the holy cleric was sent, conversions followed and faith began to flourish.
As recounted in Part II, for example, in the early days of his priesthood, he traversed the south of France, tasked with preaching and ministering to the lukewarm souls of the Pyrenees, Occitania and the Alps. His work throughout these regions resulted "in the conversion of a great number of sinners and many Jews."
Recall that Fr. Augustine-Marie made his mark on Paris, too, returning there in April 1854 to preach at the famous Church of Saint-Sulpice. At his first public appearance in the French capital since his conversion, the contrite young Carmelite delivered an impassioned homily, begging those in attendance to forgive him for his scandalous former lifestyle, and beckoning them to share in his happiness by embracing Christ. The radical changes wrought by his conversion, on full display at Saint-Sulpice, amazed the throngs of curious Parisians who had filled the pews. Gone was the dissolute, self-aggrandizing pianist; in his place towered a pious priest espousing repentance. That day, it was noted, "many of the people present, including some of his former companions in sin, were touched by grace and converted."
It has been suggested that Fr. Augustine-Marie even played a role in his former mentor's reversion to the Faith:
"In June of 1862, Fr. Augustine-Marie found himself in Rome. During his time there, he caught up with an old friend whom he hadn't seen in many, many years. This old friend had also had a major conversion – perhaps as a result of the intense prayers of Fr. Augustine-Marie – and he was now a diocesan cleric and a Third Order Franciscan secular.
Franz Liszt had returned to the Faith of his youth. They visited and played the piano together at a Carmelite monastery, and Liszt received Communion from his former pupil. In a marked contrast to their former lives and a striking testimony to the Mercy of God, the two old friends walked side-by-side praying the Stations during the Solemn Way of the Cross held at the Colosseum."
Without question, Fr. Augustine-Marie's evangelizing sparked a spiritual renaissance for countless souls across France, England, Germany and beyond. However, closer to home (quite literally), he encountered far greater difficulty in winning hearts for Christ. The members of his family proved more resistant to his appeals, and clung tenaciously to a bitter anti-Catholicism.
A HOUSE DIVIDED
In Mark 6:4, Jesus tells us, "Prophets are not without honor, except in their hometown, and among their own kin, and in their own house."
Indeed, this was precisely Fr. Augustine-Marie's experience.
Following his baptism on Aug. 28, 1847 – the Feast of St. Augustine – Cohen's Catholicism grew ever more robust. Over the next two years, as he worked feverishly to pay off his gambling debts so that he could be free to enter religious life, word of his new religiosity spread. Eventually, his siblings discovered that he had converted to Catholicism – no small matter for a family whose Judaic lineage stretched back millennia.
In the spring of 1849, as he finally emerged into the black, the news reached his mother. Up to that point, "Rosalie had been kept in the dark about his conversion," writes Fr. Timothy Tierney in his book, A Life of Hermann Cohen: From Franz Liszt to St. John of the Cross. "His brother Louis was anxious for her to know, but his sister Henrietta didn't wish to tell her. Since Cohen visited his mother every week, this must have created a tense atmosphere. She seems to have guessed that there was something unusual, but Cohen remained evasive."
Eventually, one of Cohen's friends decided the time for secrecy was past, and elected to disclose his conversion to his mother. Initially, Fr. Tierney notes, it appears that Rosalie "didn't take it seriously and thought it was just one more eccentricity in her favorite son." However, that would soon change.
After securing a special dispensation in Rome to enter religious life, Cohen returned to Paris, where he was admitted to the Discalced Carmelite Order on July 16, 1849 – the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
Announcing his accession to the Carmelites to his family, Cohen attempted to mitigate the shock of his conversion by stressing the order's Jewish roots.
"The religious order I have entered originated among the Jews 930 years before Jesus Christ," he explained in a letter. "The prophet Elijah of the Old Testament founded it on Mount Carmel in Palestine."
"It is an order of real Jews, of children of the prophets who waited for the Messiah, who believed in Him when He came," he continued. "They have survived to our time living in the same manner, with the same bodily deprivations and the same spiritual joys that were there about 2,800 years ago. They still bear today the name of the Order of Mount Carmel. Among these religious, those stemming from the reform by St. Teresa of Ávila and St. John of the Cross are a separate group called the Discalced Carmelites. This is the branch that I belong to."
"Why follow this life? To imitate the life Jesus led when He came to save men through suffering, obedience, humiliations, poverty – the Cross. This is the life I have chosen."
Cohen's attempt to assuage his family's concerns was unsuccessful, to say the least. Once the news reached his family, "his father cursed him and disinherited him."
PRAYER PIERCES THE WALL
Despite his disappointment at his family's response, Cohen remained unbowed, and doubled down on his praying for their conversion. Over time, the incessant hammering of his intercession began to open cracks in their wall of resistance.
While studying for the priesthood, Cohen introduced his sister, Henrietta Raunheim, to Sr. Marie-Pauline, a friend and member of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary. As time passed, through the influence of this holy nun, Henrietta began to feel drawn to the Faith. Before long, she resolved to visit her brother at the monastery in southwestern France where he was pursuing his religious studies.
"In preparation for the visit, Cohen sent his sister a letter outlining his own newfound Christian faith and including a copy of biblical passages that pointed to Jesus as the Messiah expected by Israel," Fr. Tierney writes. "He had already enlisted many people in the south of France in a prayer crusade for the conversion of his family. When Henrietta arrived, Hermann took the opportunity of expounding the doctrine of the Trinity at a Mass she attended. By this time, Henrietta's difficulties resolved themselves."
The opening of his sister's heart was a remarkable answer to prayer. Yet, a major hurdle remained.
"She told her brother that she would rather be lost than separated from her only son George," Fr. Tierney notes. "Her husband was adamantly opposed to Christianity, and she knew he would try to separate her from her child."
Uncharacteristically, Cohen tried to break the impasse by upping the pressure. "I no longer knew what saint to invoke," Cohen later recalled, "for I had exhausted all my arguments; so I stopped and challenged her energetically."
"How will you face Sr. Marie-Pauline if she knows you believe but you don't have the courage of your convictions?" he asked Henrietta. "Is this going to be the thanks she gets for all her efforts, her love, her kindness, and her prayers?"
"We were in the garden where we had gone to have a heart-to-heart exchange; she walked on and on in silence. A great struggle was evidently taking place within her. After a few minutes, she turned to me and said, 'If I can be baptized unknown to my husband, I will be a Christian before I return to Paris.' The fifth evening after this conversation, I poured on her forehead the water of new birth and placed in her mouth the delightful bread of the holy Eucharist, the bread of life."
A few years later, in October 1856, Henrietta sent for her brother – now Fr. Augustine-Marie – asking him to return to Paris to secretly baptize her son George, who, though still quite young, had begun voicing a strong desire to become Catholic. Father Augustine-Marie eagerly honored Henrietta's request and departed for Paris, where upon his arrival he baptized his nephew at a parish overseen by the Blessed Sacrament Fathers. Though George's conversion was effected quietly, it wasn't long before the secret was exposed.
"Soon afterward," Fr. Tierney explains, "when the boy refused to join his father in a Jewish prayer, the father realized what had happened and George admitted he was a Christian. His father then took the boy and put him in a non-Catholic boarding school in Germany under a false name. He refused to divulge where he had put him. When George asked to see his mother, he was told he could see her on condition that he renounced his faith. This he refused to do. His mother prevailed on her husband to take her to see her son, but they were forbidden to mention religion. A few months later, George's father admitted defeat, and the boy was recalled home."
The young boy's perseverance in suffering soon sparked another Cohen family conversion. Eying George's display of heroic virtue, Fr. Augustine-Marie's elder brother, Albert, elected to enter the Church, declaring that "a faith that gave such strength to a child must be from God."
For almost a quarter-century, from his conversion in August 1847 to his death in January 1871, Fr. Augustine-Marie prayed fervently for the salvation of his family. In time, the effects of sustained intercession began to magnify, and by the time of his passing, he had been graced to see 10 members of his family enter the Church.
Sadly, his mother was not one of them.
OBDURATE TO THE END
Rosalie Cohen, in fact, remained stridently anti-Catholic, even in her final waking moments.
It seems that out of the entire family, it was she who took her son's conversion the hardest:
"In July of 1850, after Hermann had been in Carmel for a year, his mother arrived from Hamburg, came to the monastery and asked to see her son. He arrived in the company of the novice master. She swooned, fell into his arms, refused to be consoled, generally had a histrionic fit, and carried on until he finally had to leave and go to Divine Office. She begged him to come back to the world with her, but he held firm. She spent a week there, caterwauling, carrying on like this, but he held firm. Finally she left, cursing those who had taken her son away from her."
After his mother's return to Hamburg, Cohen wrote to a friend, expressing hope that she "might become a Christian as a result of her visit." Unfortunately, these hopes were dashed.
Writing again some time later, he reflected, "I have left her to follow Jesus Christ; she no longer calls me her 'good son'. Already her hair is silvered, already her brow is furrowed, and I am afraid to see her die. Oh! No, I would not like to see her die before loving Jesus Christ, and already for many years I await for my mother that which Monica awaited for Augustine."
Five years after storming out of her son's monastery, Rosalie Cohen was dead.
By all appearances, she died a hopeless case – an unbaptized anti-Catholic who obstinately refused to follow her children into the Church.
However, as one member of the Congregation of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer (FSSR) writes, it would be "unwise" to automatically dismiss Rosalie Cohen as irretrievably lost.
Her story, he notes, is of profound interest "for all of us who pray for souls that seem to live and die without the grace of conversion."
It is imperative, he points out, that we not overlook an essential component of this story – the fact that Fr. Augustine-Marie "consecrated his mother to Our Lady hundreds of times and offered many prayers for her salvation."
INTERCESSION UNVEILED
Rosalie Cohen died during the season of Advent, on Dec. 13, 1855.
Father Augustine-Marie was hit hard by her loss; or rather, by the potential loss of her soul. Her spiritual state at death – unbaptized, unconverted, unchurched – troubled him long after her physical body was buried.
"God has struck a terrible blow to my heart," he lamented to a friend. "My poor mother is dead ... and I remain in incertitude."
"However," he added, "we have so much prayed that we must hope that something has passed between her soul and God during these last moments that we cannot know about."
The uncertainty Fr. Augustine-Marie faced was agonizing. Even so, the holy priest chose to persist in prayer, and to hold fast to hope.
"We can easily imagine the pain of Father Hermann in learning of the death of his mother," the FSSR member reflects. "He had so much prayed and so much had prayers said for her conversion, and she came to appear before the tribunal of God without having received holy Baptism! God seemed to have despised all his prayers and rejected his loving and legitimate desires. His faith and his love were put through a harsh trial. Nevertheless, if his sorrow was deep, his hope in the infinite goodness of God would not allow itself to be struck down."
Not long after his mother's death, Fr. Augustine-Marie called on a friend – a fellow priest serving a nearby parish in the tiny hamlet of Ars. During this visit, he confided his concerns to his friend, the Curé of Ars – the future St. John Vianney, patron saint of parish priests.
After listening to Fr. Augustine-Marie's concerns, the Curé, who was renowned throughout France for his mystical insights, responded:
"Hope! Hope! You will one day, on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, receive a letter that will bring you great consolation."
Six years later, the Curé's prophecy was fulfilled.
On Dec. 8, 1861 – the Feast of the Immaculate Conception – Fr. Augustine-Marie was approached by a Jesuit priest. Inexplicably, the cleric handed him a letter, written by a woman "well-known in the religious and ascetical world by her written works on the Eucharist," who had recently "died in the odor of sanctity."
The contents of the letter are a stunning testament to the power of intercession – specifically, the intercessory power wielded by the Blessed Virgin Mary, who pleads with Christ continuously on behalf of poor sinners. Arriving six years after it was first prophesied, on the feast day the Curé of Ars had forecast, the letter provides a brief glimpse into Our Lady's unceasing advocacy. The author, clearly acquainted with the mystical, begins by recounting an extraordinary encounter with Christ after receiving the Eucharist:
On the 18th of October, after Holy Communion, I found myself in one of those intimate moments of union with Our Lord, wherein He so sweetly makes me feel His presence in the sacrament of His love that it seems to me as if faith were no longer necessary in order to believe in Him.
After some moments, He made His voice audible to me and was pleased to give me some explanations relative to a conversation that I had had the previous evening.
I remembered then that in this conversation one of my friends had expressed to me her astonishment that Our Lord, who promised everything to prayer, had nevertheless remained deaf to those prayers of Fr. Hermann, so often offered up for the conversion of his mother. Her surprise amounted almost to discontent, and I had found some difficulty in making her understand that we must adore the justice of God and not seek to penetrate His secrets.
I had the boldness to ask Our Lord how it was that He, who is goodness itself, could have resisted the prayers of Fr. Hermann, and not grant the conversion of his mother.
This was His answer:
"Why will your friend always seek to sound the secrets of My justice and try to penetrate into mysteries that she cannot understand? Tell her that I owe My grace to no one; that I give to whomsoever I please, and in acting thus, I do not cease to be just, and justice itself.
But let her know also that sooner than fail in the promises that I have made to prayer, I would overthrow the heavens and the earth, and that every prayer that has My glory and the salvation of souls for its object is always heard when it has the necessary qualities.
And to prove this truth to you, I will let you know what took place at the moment of the death of Fr. Augustine's mother."
I was made to understand that the moment the mother of Fr. Hermann was on the point of breathing her last – when she seemed deprived of consciousness and life was almost gone – Mary, our good Mother, presented herself before her Divine Son, and prostrating herself at His feet, said to Him:
"Grace, Mercy, O my Son, for this soul that is about to perish! Another moment, and it will be lost, lost for all eternity. The soul of his mother is what is dearest to him. A thousand times he has consecrated it to me. He's confided it to the tenderness and solicitude of my heart. Can I allow it to perish? This soul is mine; I want it; I claim it as a heritage – as the price of Thy blood, and of my sorrows at the foot of Thy Cross."
Hardly had the Most Holy Virgin ceased to speak, when a grace – strong, mighty – escaped from the source of all graces, the adorable Heart of Jesus, and fell upon the soul of that poor dying Jewess and triumphed instantly over its obstinacy.
The soul immediately turned with loving confidence towards Him whose mercy pursued her, even in the arms of death, and she said, "O Jesus, God of the Christians, God whom my son adores, I believe, I hope in Thee, have mercy on me."
In this cry, which was heard by God alone and which came from the lowest depths of the heart of the dying woman, there were included sincere regrets for her obstinacy and her sins; the desire of baptism; the explicit wish to receive it and to live according to the rules and precepts of our holy religion, if she could return to life.
This outburst of faith and hope in Jesus was the last sentiment of this soul. As she was uttering it before the Throne of Divine Mercy, the feeble threads that still held her in her earthly tenement were broken and she threw herself at the feet of Him who had been her Savior before being her Judge.
After having shown me all these things, Our Lord added:
"Make this known to Fr. Augustine. It is a consolation that I wish to grant to his longsufferings, in order that they may everywhere bless, and cause to be blessed, the goodness of My Mother's heart, and her power over Mine."
This incredible account underscores many things – first and foremost, the unfathomable Mercy of God. It also reaffirms that Catholics, and all Christians, must intercede for souls through prayer.
Most of all, perhaps, it confirms the power of Our Lady's advocacy, and captures the extraordinarily beautiful tenderness with which the Son of God regards His Mother. His Heart is moved, simply by her asking.
At the wedding feast at Cana, Jesus Christ acted before the time of His own choosing at the behest of His Mother; yielding to Our Lady's request, He revealed Himself by conducting His first public miracle, thereby setting into motion the countdown to the crescendo of salvation history, His crucifixion and resurrection. He did all that simply because His Mother asked Him to. What more would He do – what more does He do – now that His Mother's advocacy is no longer aimed at sparing a family embarrassment over a shortage of wine, but at sparing countless souls eternal damnation in the fires of hell?
RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
I was first introduced to the stories of Fr. Augustine-Marie and Rosalie Cohen several years ago, when I stumbled across a video (or, more accurately, an audio recording) examining in brief the interwoven accounts profiled throughout this article series.
Posted to Sensus Fidelium's YouTube channel in January 2013, the video, titled the "Miraculous Conversion of Fr. Augustine-Marie," is a compilation of back-to-back homilies, delivered by an unidentified priest over the course of two Sundays, that recount the conversions of Fr. Augustine-Marie and his mother, and underscore the Blessed Virgin Mary's role in securing both triumphs.
From the first time I listened to the video, it seized my imagination. It still does today – it was the original inspiration for this series, in fact. At various points over the past few years, I've shared it with individual Catholics who happened to voice concern over the salvation of wayward family or friends. But even now, eleven years after the video was first posted to YouTube, too few people have heard its message. My goal in including it in Part III (below) is to expand its impact to whatever degree possible – to offer hope for seemingly hopeless cases; to fuel intercession for the lost and encourage persistence in such prayer; to increase devotion to Servant of God Fr. Augustine-Marie; to glimpse Our Lady's advocacy in action, as well as her eagerness to soften the Heart of Her Son.
We close out Part III with observations by the aforementioned unknown priest, whose homilies are punctuated by a series of robust exhortations.
After recounting Rosalie Cohen's story, the unnamed cleric notes that "there's a lot to ponder, here," before proceeding to outline three key takeaways from the account of her last-second salvation:
The importance of hope.
The awesome responsibility each one of us has, as a Catholic.
The urgency of having a true devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Diving deeper, he stresses the need to nurture hope, even if – especially if – we're grappling with loved ones who appear hopelessly lost.
"We all know hopeless cases. Every one of us has friends, relatives, even enemies, who either aren't Catholic at all, or else they are, but they're going to land smack dab in hell unless something miraculous happens.
We all know hopeless cases. The salvation of Rosalie Cohen, Fr. Augustine-Marie's mother – and she'd be a hopeless case if ever there were one – her salvation ought to fill us with hope for the salvation of our so-called hopeless cases."
Indeed – no matter how bad things may seem, we are to move forward, in hope. We must persist in fervent prayer, confident in Our Lady's intercession and trusting in the Mercy of God. Even if the person in question has already died, continue praying for him or her – after all, God is beyond time, and if He chooses, He can apply your prayers retroactively, so to speak, to garner graces for conversion.
Next, the priest moves to his second point, pondering the enormous responsibility Catholics bear to intercede for others.
"Anytime God gives us a right, He also gives us a duty. The fact that we have the right to turn to the Blessed Virgin Mary and beg Her for the salvation of those whom we love and hold dear means that we have the duty to do just that for those for whom we are most responsible to pray for: our immediate family and our godchildren – that's at the least. We have that duty, but we shouldn't stop there.
There are people that literally won't be saved unless we pray for them. That's not an exaggeration; that's the fabric of reality. God has poured out His Mercy on us by giving us the true Faith, and He expects us to beg for His Mercy to be poured out on others less fortunate."
Lingering on this point, the cleric reflects on "the infinite value" of the soul, noting that even a single soul is so precious to God that "He would have gone through everything He went through – His Incarnation, Passion, and Death on the Cross" for that one soul alone.
This underscores "the awesome responsibility we have as Catholics," he reiterates. "God expects us to pray for the salvation of those who most need His Mercy." This is our charge as faithful sons and daughters of the Church, he adds – the duty "to pray for those who haven't been given what we've been given."
Finally, the anonymous priest turns to his third point, the urgency of cultivating a true devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary:
"In the story of Rosalie Cohen, we get a glimpse of the incredible power Our Lady's prayers have before the Throne of Justice. When She asks her Son to spare a soul, it just plain, flat happens – that's how it works.
We need to be devoted to Our Lady. We need to be faithful to laying our prayers for the salvation of our hopeless cases at Her feet every day, begging Her to take them under Her mantle."
For those Catholics who may be unversed in intercession, he suggests a number of possible ways to pray for others, including placing a list of those we're praying for beneath a statue of Our Lady on our altar at home; lighting a candle for them on our home altar; praying a Memorare for them each day; or remembering them in our daily Rosary.
The priest then proceeds to link all three points – bridging the need to nurture hope, fulfill our intercessory duty, and cultivate true devotion to the Blessed Mother – while reminding his listeners of the words of St. Alphonsus Liguori: "There is no one, however wicked, whom Mary does not save by her intercession when She wishes."
"If we're faithful and we're fervent in our prayers, we have every reason for hope," he continues, noting that Our Lady "interceded for Rosalie Cohen" simply because "Her son," Fr. Augustine-Marie, "asked Her" to do so.
"Does anyone think our prayers can't obtain the same graces for the people we pray for?" he queries. "If you think that, think again."
"She's our Mother. We have the right to turn to the Blessed Mother and beg Her for the salvation of those we love and hold dear, and if we're faithful and fervent about these prayers, we have every reason and every hope that She'll intercede for our hopeless cases. What loving mother is going to ignore prayers like that?"
And it's not just lost loved ones we should be praying for; amid today's ongoing tsunami of temptations and frustrations, it can be easy to catch ourselves cooling in our ardor for God, or to find ourselves struggling spiritually in some other way. If anything of the sort occurs, we should ask others to intercede for us in prayer – most especially, our spiritual matron, the Blessed Virgin Mary. And, as the unidentified priest notes, when we do, God will respond with an outpouring of grace to get us back on track:
"No matter how bad we've been – no matter how bad – we can become holy. The grace of God that worked miracles in the life of Hermann Cohen, that grace can work miracles in our own lives, no matter how bad we've been."
As for Fr. Augustine-Marie, the cleric acknowledges, "I consider him a saint for modern times."
"He still needs miracles to be beatified and canonized," he adds. "We can turn to him and pray for the conversion of our Jewish friends, for the conversion of our worldly friends and relatives, for the conversion of wayward youth or any party animals we happen to know."
Father Augustine-Marie's cause for beatification was put forward on Jan. 19, 2016 by Abp. Jean-Pierre Ricard of the Diocese of Bordeaux-Bazas, in France.
PRAYER FOR THE BEATIFICATION OF FR. AUGUSTINE-MARIE
Mary, Immaculate Virgin Mother, at the grotto of Lourdes you restored to health Father Augustine-Marie of the Most Blessed Sacrament that he might serve you faithfully in your Order of Carmel. Obtain from the Blessed Trinity, I ask you, the grace [here insert your intention] through the intercession and merits of your devoted servant. His joy was to suffer for Jesus. In answer to his heartfelt prayer, he received the grace to consecrate his life in its entirety to God's will, service and glory.
Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, we ask you to glorify your servant. Through the redeeming power of Christ present in the Holy Eucharist, he was brought to the knowledge of the truth. We ask you to make known this apostle who was fired with devotion to the Sacrament of your Son's love. May he bestow upon all God's people his burning zeal. Through his intercession may the divine presence in the Eucharist be adored, may the Mass be celebrated with reverence and sincerity, may Holy Communion be received frequently and with devotion.
Grant that soon throughout the world the Eucharistic Kingship of Jesus, the Living Bread who came down from heaven, may be established. Amen.
(With approval of Peter Theas, Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes).
Editor's note: To read more about A Life of Hermann Cohen, click here or on the image below.
Writer, editor and producer Stephen Wynne has spent the past seven years covering, from a Catholic perspective, the latest developments in the Church, the nation and the world. Prior to his work in journalism, he spent eight years co-authoring “Repairing the Breach,” a book examining the war of worldviews between Christianity and Darwinism. A Show-Me State native, he holds a BA in Creative Writing from Pepperdine University and an Executive MBA from the Bloch School of Business at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
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