Corpus Christi
The Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Exodus 24: 3-8 ~~~ Psalm 116 ~~~ Heb. 9: 11-15 ~~~ Mark 14:12-16, 22-26 ~~~
I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord.
How shall I make a return to the Lord for all the good he has done for me?
These words from psalm 116 are so beautiful. There is no way that we can truly make a return to the Lord. The Lord wants us to believe and to follow as best as we can in his footsteps of love, compassion, and forgiveness.
The best we can do is to be forever thankful for all that he has done for us.
The gospel today reads like a screenplay for a movie...
Go into the city and a man will meet you, carrying s jar of water.
Follow him.
When they do arrive at the chosen house they are led to a large upper room furnished and ready. Everything has been prepared ahead of time for the feast of Passover; for Jesus and his disciples were devout Jews.
Tucked into this annual Passover celebration was the nucleus of what we believe.
Jesus pronounces the words of consecration of the Eucharist.
Our ministers today are still using those very words spoken many years ago in this upper room. Words which Jesus intentionally uses to institute the the Bread and Wine into his very being.
"While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, gave it to them, and said, 'Take it, this is my body.' Then he took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. He said to them, 'This is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many'."
As we recite during the Mass...
'When we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim your death,
Lord Jesus Christ, and your rising to eternal life.'
Jesus is the Bread of Life whoever believes has eternal life.
Jesus himself says, I am the Bread of Life.
Today we rejoice in the Eucharist...
the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ
that was given up;
sacrificed for our salvation.
He alone was the perfect sacrifice offered for the atonement of our sins.
Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life because he is the conduit
through which we pass to our promised eternal inheritance.
We have been saved and nourished through the mystery of the Body
and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Each time we take and drink from the cup and each time we take and eat the bread we enter into this great Divine Mystery. We become part of the mystery;
because we consume this precious Body and Blood.
This bread and wine are processed into our bodily cells for food.
Physically and spiritually we are fed. He gave himself to us as bread and wine for the journey. The journey; returning back to him where we belong.
Prepare your upper room for the Lord wants to remain in you.
Believe that you might have life eternal.
Jesus shares his very essence with us each time we eat and drink
at his table. Your 'Amen' is your verbal conviction to his presence.
It is by Faith that we Believe.
Pray for God to decrease any disbelief you may harbor silently within.
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