I’m the Girl in the White Dress

So what happened?

On Saturday night, World Youth Day hosted praise and adoration. My friends and I were walking back from watching this ceremony when we spot some large gray boxes sitting on the table.

There were two or three people praying around them, and I was honestly confused. I didn’t know what they were praying to, and neither did my friend.

I went up to one of the ladies and she said, “Jesus. Jesus is in there.”

At that moment I was infuriated: how dare they disrespect our Lord? What do they think they are doing- putting Him in a box with almost zero respect… people walking right past not knowing it’s Him at all!

As we walked back to our campsite, I was fuming, but among some conversation with ourselves my friends and I decided that instead of purposeless anger, we were going to do something about it.

We were going to take our rosaries, go back to Jesus, and say a rosary in reparation for sins against his Sacred Heart. So that’s what we did.

There was so much GOOD that came out of World Youth Day, but I’ve been posting about the good all weekend. I think that it’s important to address this atrocity:

In my humble opinion, it is an absolute disgrace to put the Host in such an unworthy container to be worshiped. Furthermore, it’s an incredible shame that many of the young people didn’t even know this was their Jesus- who came and suffered and died for them- that they should be bowing down to worship!

When adored- an incredible privilege and honor that Our Lord gives us- Jesus should always be kept in a tabernacle or exposed in a monstrance.

One priest I discussed this with even stated that at Masses of 10s of thousands in St Peter’s Square enormous gold bowls are invested in to hold Jesus.

The fact that 70% of Catholics don’t even believe in the true presence makes this case even sadder. How are we- the youth- supposed to believe that Jesus is truly here when this is how he is presented?

I love our Catholic faith, I love our magisterium, but I want to hear something- I want to hear a statement from them: tell us, bishops and priests- tell us, the youth from across the world:

Why was Jesus exposed in such a manner?