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Solemnity of The Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ
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June 5, 2021This weekend we celebrate that important Solemnity of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ other-wise known as Corpus Christi. After each Mass this weekend we will have a short time of adoration before our Lord. This is to emphasize the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, and to take a mo-ment to adore Him and thank Him for all that He has given us in the Eucharist. We also spend a little time in adoration and thanksgiving because so many in the world do not know this gift and so many Catholics ignore the precious gift we have in our Church. We take a moment in silence after Mass to do reparation for ignoring Jesus.
Here is what our Lord said to St. Faustina about the Eucharist“I desire to unite Myself to human souls, Know, My daughter, that when I come to a human heart in Holy Communion, My hands are full of all kinds of graces which I want to give to the soul. But souls do not even pay any attention to Me; they leave Me to Myself and busy themselves with oth-er things…They treat Me as a dead object.”(Diary 1385)St. Therese of Lisieux speaks beautifully on the Eucharist
Do you realize that Jesus is there in the tabernacle expressly for you – for you alone? He burns with the desire to come into your heart…don’t listen to the demon, laugh at him, and go without fear to receive the Jesus of peace and love. Receive Communion often, very often. There you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus has not put this attraction in your heart for nothing.”The Catechism Teaches us about the truth of the Eucharist
1413 By the consecration the transubstantiation of the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ is brought about. Under the consecrated species of bread and wine Christ himself, living and glorious, is present in a true, real and substantial manner: his body and his blood, with his soul and his divinity(cf. Council of Trent: DS 1640; 1651).The Eucharist in God. The Eucharist contains the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. I repeat (and ask you to repeat in your heart now), the Eucharist is fully Jesus, fully God and he comes before us so that we can receive and adore! May God be praised!
Peace in Christ,
Msgr. Robert Panke
