Friday, June 12, 2009

Feast of Corpus Christi

Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity.

   "There is nothing passive in Eucharistic Adoration; it is a font of activity, and it leads us to fuller participation in the true centre of our life as Christians, the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, especially if we spend our time in adoration praying over the biblical texts used at Mass. There is nothing individualistic in Eucharistic Adoration, for we come before the Lord as members of the family of faith, linked to them through Baptism and through the celebration of the Eucharist. In the presence of the Lord in the Eucharist we seek the light to see our world and its needs, to judge the issues we face according to the values of the Gospel, and to act decisively as disciples of Jesus." Archbishop Thomas Collins, Edmonton Canada from therealpresence.org


   "God is near. God knows us. God is waiting for us in Jesus Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. Let us not leave him waiting in vain! Let us not, through distraction and lethargy, pass by the greatest and most important thing life offers us . . . The Lord is near us in our conscience, in his word, in his personal presence in the Eucharist: this constitutes the dignity of the Christian and is the reason for his joy. We rejoice therefore, and this joy is expressed in praising God. Today we can see how the closeness of the Lord also brings people together and brings them close to each other: it is because we have the same Lord Jesus Christ in Munich and in Rome that we form one single people of God, across all frontiers, united in the call of conscience, united by the word of God, united through communion with Jesus Christ, united in the praise of God, who is our joy and our redemption." Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, God Is Near Us


   Homily from Mass of the Feast of Corpus Christi at the Marian Friary of Our Lady of Guadelupe, Griswold Conn.


Online Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at http://www.savior.org/ .

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