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Corpus Christi Sunday

May 25, 2008 |

How about if we truly think about the following when we go to communion today on this the Solemnity of Corpus Christ (the Body and Blood of Christ) -

We are partaking of THE body and blood of Christ - it is the Real Presence of our Lord.

There is one piece (or so) of bread and one glass (or so) of wine which is turned into the body and blood of Christ and then shared with us all.

No matter where we go in the world, we can go to any Mass on any day at any time and share in the Corpus Christi.  Christ is the same in Paris, Kentucky and Paris, France.

The Real Presence binds us to all of those who have come before and all of those who will come after.

It doesn’t get any more intimate than joining ourselves with the Son of God, inviting him wholly into our being - both physically and spiritually.

The Real Presence satisfies every hunger and satiates every thirst - if we accept this gift, this blessing, from Christ with all of our being.

The Real Presence can bring us immense peace and healing - if we offer our cares to him as we approach the altar.

There are saints who have wished for nothing more than receiving the Real Presence and have subsisted on nothing but the Real Presence.

We cannot obtain this intimacy in any other way - no other church, no other faith, no other belief.  Without the Real Presence, we will always be found searching and wanting for something more.

We cannot possibly fully appreciate the gift we are given each and every time we go to Mass if we do not go to Mass in the first place.  Even if we go to Mass, we miss out if we nonchalantly go up to receive communion; or if we leave as soon as we receive this gift and have time to contemplate this wondrous mystery. 

With each and every Mass throughout the world and throughout the ages, God shows us how incredible, how loving, how powerful he is - so we may have faith in Him, so we may have hope in our lives, and so we may come together as one people.

Incredible stuff this Real Presence - let us never, ever, take the Corpus Christi for granted.  The Eucharist should be the focus of who we are as disciples of Christ - the focus of our lives. 


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