Catholic Music for Eucharistic Adoration | True Presence, by The Vigil Project

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The Vigil Project: We make music for the Catholic journey. True Presence is an album of Eucharistic devotion featuring a collective of Catholic musicians. Learn more and support our work at: thevigilproject.com
List of Songs:
00:10 Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All (Sweet Sacrament) // feat. John Finch & Andrea Thomas
04:41 Humble Miracle // feat. John Finch & Hannah Shea
08:39 Alabaster // feat. Andrea Thomas
13:59 It is You // feat. Andrew Ferguson
20:27 May We Be One // feat. Corrie Marie
24:43 I Am the Bread of Life // feat. Andrea Thomas
29:31 Lord I Need You // feat. Sophie Salopek
35:08 Jesus, I Trust in You // feat. Nico Cabrera
40:06 First Love // feat. Corrie Marie
45:05 Holy God We Praise Thy Name // feat. John Finch
Produced and mixed by Shawn Williams, Recorded at Patercastle Records in Nashville, TN, Assistant Mixing by Vince Byrne and Billy Whittington, Mastered by Drew Lavyne, Album artwork by Marianna Pimiento ©2021 Vigil Publishing // ©2013 Provident Label Group LLC, a unit of Sony Music Entertainment // Words and music by Christy Nockels, Daniel Carson Jesse Reeves, Matt Maher, Kristian Stanfill Text Author: Suzanne Toolan RSM ©1999 GIA Publications, Inc.
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[@GemmaEduarte]

Lord Jesus may Marguerite Frances Mangubat fill your presence specially at this time that she is sick and she is going to take the CPA exam, come this October 26, 27 & 28, 2024. May she be healed and still has the courage to take the exam. Thank you Lord

[@viniciuszoffoli3766]

I am a brazilian Catholic passionate about your praises, The Vigil Project !!! God bless your ministry !!! Hail Mary and Forward !!!!

[@francysdiaz1060]

Jesús is presence in the Eucaristic

[@eucharisticadoration3228]

Good to hear Catholics praising God!

[@clarieodhiambo1247]

Sweet Sacrament l a dore thee

[@PiusBade]

I love these lovely spirit filled songs. Thanks and God bless.

[@clarieodhiambo1247]

Thank you so much Lord Jesus Christ! I do believe you present in the Holy Sacrament of the Altar.

[@clarieodhiambo1247]

Am blessed 🙌 ❤

[@MatthewKamwaka-mb9zy]

Brilliant

[@clarieodhiambo1247]

Jesus you take as l am

[@yuancom3332]

thank you the Vigil Project❤❤🙏🏼 Viva Cristo Rey!

[@anabanana3289]

Thank you so much for this 🙏🏽 All glory to God

[@sanpablo.contenidos]

Wow. Beautiful!.

[@ukaszkrawczyk6260]

I don't belive in transubstantiation but Your songs are beatiful. God bless!

[@eyefisher]

Praise Jesus you are touched by these songs. May they draw you closer to Him, not just spiritually, but physically. God bless you.

[@ukaszkrawczyk6260]

@@eyefisher Thank you. I physically experience Jesus through the community of the Church, which is His Body on Earth ;) I have never understood the idea and purpose of literally eating the Body of Jesus and drinking His Blood. For me, the Lord's Supper is always an opportunity to remember what the Lord Jesus did on Golgotha and to give thanks for this gift. Just as earthly food - bread and wine sustain our physical life, Christ's sacrifice of His Body and Blood is a source of eternal life for us - it is true food and drink that satisfies our needs forever. Therefore, for me the Lord's Supper is a beautiful image of the Gospel - the Word of Truth, which is spirit and life.

[@eyefisher]

@@ukaszkrawczyk6260 very wonderfully written here, and I agree that is how we should all experience Christ. But as Catholics, we can't take communion to be just a symbol, because we follow the lead of Christ who told us that his body and blood is ACTUAL food and drink in John 6. And we have examples of church fathers throughout the first 100, 200 and 300 years of Christianity who believe this wholeheartedly. To me it is the ultimate mystery of God's love, to want to be physical food for us. There is nothing more humbling I can think of that God can do. To paraphrase St.Thomas Aquinas, "on the cross He hid His divinity, but in these elements He hides his humanity." It took me 45 years to believe it, but now I can't look back. But at the same time I totally understand where you are coming from because I would have argued the same things, but a lot less graciously than you are.

[@ukaszkrawczyk6260]

. @eyefisher For me, it is amazing how we can come to different conclusions despite many years of consideration on such a topic. I grew up in a devout and practicing Catholic family and was even preparing to become a Roman Catholic priest. I based my belief in transubstantiation on exactly the same grounds that you mention, and yet after many years I am in a completely different position. I don't want to elaborate here, but I will give an example of my dilemmas. You wrote: “Christ who told us that his body and blood is ACTUAL food and drink in John 6” The problem I personally see is that this verse when read in the context of the entire passage in chapter 6 and the entire Gospel of John means something completely different. In chapter 6, the Lord Jesus accuses the crowds of following him because of the physical/literal bread they ate the day before, and the Lord Jesus shows them that they should pursue food that does not perish and gives eternal life. He indicates here that what they have to do is believe in Him. When they ask him about the sign he will do so that they will believe him, they remind him of the miracle of manna from the desert. Then the Lord Jesus uses this image to point to Himself. He says that the fathers in the desert ate bread but eventually died, but now the Father gives bread that gives eternal life. The Lord Jesus therefore compares the physical bread that the fathers ate with their mouths and filled their stomachs and contrasts it with the "true" (Greek: ἀληθινὸν) bread that the Father now gives (John 6:32). It is already clear from this comparison that the word "true" (Greek: ἀληθινὸν) does not mean literal here because the bread in the desert was literal bread. In the Gospel of John this word is not used to emphasize the literal nature of a given statement. For example, when the Lord Jesus says about himself "I am the true (ἀληθινή) vine" it is clear that he is not literally a plant. The Lord Jesus in chapter 6 indicates that He is the bread that gives life to the world in the statement "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.” And then he also says in verse 51 that he is this bread because he gives his body for the life of the world, pointing to what is to happen at the end of the Gospel. The problem with this whole scene is that no matter what Jesus says, people do not believe him and murmur against him and do not understand at all what he means, for example when he says that he descended from heaven. These misunderstandings are a constant theme throughout the Gospel of John. Already in the chapters preceding this speech, we have several scenes in which different people have the same problem. When he tells Nicodemus about the new birth, he thinks about physical birth. When he talks about the Samaritan woman about living water, she is thinking about water that must be drawn from a well. When he tells the disciples about His food that He has to eat, they think that someone has already brought Him something to eat. Here we have a situation analogous to the one in the temple when the unbelieving Jews asked him about the sign he would perform and he announced his death and resurrection there, using an image completely incomprehensible to them, which only caused scandal. Ultimately, the Lord Jesus, in a conversation with his disciples, sums up this entire speech about the Bread of Life by saying that "The Spirit gives life, but the flesh avails nothing. The words I have spoken are spirit and life.” Throughout this speech he presents himself as the one who came from Heaven from the Father to give life to the world by giving himself. Therefore, he speaks what we call the Gospel, which are words that give life to everyone who believes in it. The statement about the flesh as the true food and the blood as the true drink is simply a statement contrasting the food followed by the multitudes and the manna which the fathers ate in the wilderness, which do not give people eternal life. The sacrifice of Christ's Body and Blood is true food and drink because it is the source of true and eternal life for every believer. Therefore, there is no basis to claim that the Lord Jesus announces the Eucharist/Lord's Supper in these words, but rather shows the necessity of faith in Him, which results in eternal life. The Lord's Supper, however, shows us through the symbolic image exactly the same truth - that Christ's sacrifice on Golgotha is true food and drink - a source of eternal life. Reading the words of the Lord Jesus you refer to literally seems to be the problem of people that John shows throughout the Gospel. I'm sorry for the length of the post, but I really tried to simplify the issues of this fragment as much as possible. :)

[@ukaszkrawczyk6260]

@@eyefisher For me, it is amazing how we can come to different conclusions despite many years of consideration on such a topic. I grew up in a devout and practicing Catholic family and was even preparing to become a Roman Catholic priest. I based my belief in transubstantiation on exactly the same grounds that you mention, and yet after many years I am in a completely different position. I don't want to elaborate here, but I will give an example of my dilemmas. You wrote: “Christ who told us that his body and blood is ACTUAL food and drink in John 6” The problem I personally see is that this verse when read in the context of the entire passage in chapter 6 and the entire Gospel of John means something completely different. In chapter 6, the Lord Jesus accused the crowds of following him because of the physical/literal bread they had eaten the day before, and the Lord Jesus indicated to them that they should seek food that does not perish and gives eternal life. He indicated here that what they had to do was to believe in Him. When they asked him about the sign he would do so that they would believe him, they reminded him of the miracle of manna from the desert. Then the Lord Jesus used this image to point to Himself. He said that the fathers in the desert ate bread but eventually died, but now the Father gives bread that gives eternal life. Therefore, the Lord Jesus compared the physical bread, which the fathers ate with their mouths and filled their stomachs, with the "true" (Greek: ἀληθινὸν) bread that the Father now gives (John 6:32). It is already clear from this comparison that the word "true" (Greek: ἀληθινὸν) does not mean literal here because the bread in the desert was literal bread. In the Gospel of John this word is not used to emphasize the literal nature of a given statement. For example, when the Lord Jesus says about himself "I am the true (ἀληθινή) vine" it is clear that he is not literally a plant. The Lord Jesus in chapter 6 indicates that He is the bread that gives life to the world in the statement "I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.” The uniqueness of this true/God's bread is that it came down from heaven and gives life to the world (John 6:33). Then the Lord Jesus said in verse 51 that he is the bread because he will give his body for the life of the world, indicating what is to happen at the end of the Gospel. The problem with this whole scene is that no matter what Jesus says, people do not believe him and murmur against him and do not understand at all what he means, for example when he says that he descended from heaven. These misunderstandings are a constant theme throughout the Gospel of John. Already in the chapters preceding this speech, we have several scenes in which different people have the same problem. When he tells Nicodemus about the new birth, he thinks about physical birth. When he talks about the Samaritan woman about living water, she is thinking about water that must be drawn from a well. When he tells the disciples about His food that He has to eat, they think that someone has already brought Him something to eat. Here we have a situation analogous to the one in the temple when the unbelieving Jews asked him about the sign he would perform and he announced his death and resurrection there, using an image completely incomprehensible to them, which only caused scandal. Ultimately, the Lord Jesus, in a conversation with his disciples, sums up this entire speech about the Bread of Life by saying that "The Spirit gives life, but the flesh avails nothing. The words I have spoken are spirit and life.” Throughout this speech he presents himself as the one who came from Heaven from the Father to give life to the world by giving himself. Therefore, he speaks what we call the Gospel, which are words that give life to everyone who believes in it. The statement about the flesh as the true food and the blood as the true drink is simply a statement contrasting the food followed by the multitudes and the manna which the fathers ate in the wilderness, which do not give people eternal life. Therefore, the final conclusion of this speech in verse 58 is: "This is the bread that came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; whoever eats this bread will live forever." Christ is the living bread and His sacrifice of Body and Blood is true food and drink because it is the source of true and eternal life for every believer. Therefore, there is no basis to claim that the Lord Jesus announces the Eucharist/Lord's Supper in these words, but rather shows the necessity of faith in Him, which results in eternal life. The Lord's Supper, however, shows us through the image exactly the same truth - that Christ's sacrifice on Golgotha is food and drink for us and therefore a source of eternal life. Reading the words of the Lord Jesus you refer to literally seems to be the problem of people that John shows throughout the Gospel. I'm sorry for the length of the post, but I really tried to simplify the issues of this fragment as much as possible.

[@andrewgoldstein4052]

🙏