Spiritual Communion in a time of coronavirus, Father Hugh Barber is next.

Hello again and welcome to Cathagancers Focus.

I am Cy Kellett, your host and I hope all is going

well that you are getting through this time of coronavirus without it being too

eventful or interesting.

Maybe a little bit of boredom now is good.

We, of course, in many places, people are not

able to make it to mass now, you if folks over 60 for example I think

probably a bad idea to go to mass in some places masses are in fact closed so we

thought we'd spend some time with Father Hugh Barber,

at Norbertine Priest, former prior of St Michael's Abbey in Orange County and our

chaplain, to talk about something called spiritual communion. Father Barbara, thanks for being with us.

Great to be here.

So some of the Saints I noticed,

because I read up a little bit about this

before coming into this conversation with you

and Jose Escriva in particular and

also Padre Pio recommend regular spiritual communion.

So what is it that they're recommending? What is that?

Well we haven't the term spiritual communion but refers to and of course is recommended by

Saint Jose Maria who is the founder of Opus Day, as you know, and then

Padre Pieu, of course, but by many, many saints and the church herself,

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