In pastoral letter, Bishop Olmsted urges a return to Sunday Mass, deeper love for Christ in the Eucharist
One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of the Diocese of Phoenix has written a pastoral letter to the faithful aimed at bolstering faith in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.
The letter, “O Sacred Feast,” was released Jan. 28, the memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas, whose writings have shaped hundreds of years of theology and whose hymns of praise for the Eucharist helped inspire the letter’s title.
The missive was issued as a precursor to an Apostolic Exhortation on the Eucharist which will be published on the Feast of the Lord’s Supper, Holy Thursday, which this year falls on April 1.
