The Restoration Review

The Latin Mass Community in Cleveland has strongly embraced Bishop Edward Malesic’s recent call to share the truth about the Real Presence in the Eucharist.  Indeed,  Latin Mass devotees appear to be some of the bishop’s chief Marines in this heroic effort to restore the Faith.   In mid-February, the diocesan website reported : …Regarding the focus on the Eucharist, the bishop said a 2019 Pew Research Study revealed that less than one-third of self-identified Catholics expressed a belief in the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist…   Since the beginning of our faith, Bishop Malesic said the Church taught that at the Last Supper, “when Jesus said to his apostles, ‘This is my body’ and ‘This is my blood,’ he meant it.” Unfortunately, a majority of Catholics does not believe what the Catechism of the Catholic Church says: “the body and blood together with the soul and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ, and therefore, the whole of Christ, is truly, really and sub...

Catholic Tradition is more than Latin, incense and bells; it is feeding a neighbor, clothing a stranger, and rescuing the unborn.  And so, when more and more young adults started returning to the beautiful, historic Catholic churches in urban Cleveland and attending the timeless Traditional Latin Mass, these same young adults found neighborhoods in need of their love, kindness and Christian Charity.        Thanks to these young Catholic traditionalists, last month we were able to witness Cleveland charity at its best.  And when the Cleveland Latin Mass community, the pro-life community, the Benedictines and people with good hearts all work together amazing things can happen.  In mid-March, on the eve of the Feast of St Joseph, friends of Father Bede OSB joined together to supply residents in the Buckeye/Shaker Blvd neighborhood with 100 free fish dinners from the Benedictine HS fish fry.  The idea started with the Oliver Plunkett Young Adult ...