CWR Dispatch: New organization working to promote Eucharistic Processions nationwide by Joseph M. Hanneman
Men of Christ, a Milwaukee-based apostolate, has founded “Unite Our Nation” following the success of the August 15th Eucharistic Procession and patriotic Rosary rally in Madison, WI.
For the sake of argument... let us assume that this, like the March for Life or prayer processions, is not reducible to a mere political act. What is the spiritual significance? Can one have the pure intention of just praying in public like this? Or are there spiritual risks when one is parading in such a manner in front of non-believers? A vestige of Latin triumphalism? It would seem that this is without precedent in the early Church. Is this act ordered towards evangelization? Of course God can work upon the human heart through any event, but is the public display of Roman Catholic piety in a non-Catholic society effective as a means of evangelization? What does such a procession accomplish that prayer within a temple or at home could not?
Would some say that the duelling of gods can be found in the Old Testament and in some missionary saints (St. Boniface) and see such prayer processions being similar to that? But have we accepted a righteousness comparable to the prophets or those missionary saints?
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