SPIRITUAL WINGS: The Feast of Corpus Christi

Thursday, June 16, 2022

The Feast of Corpus Christi

We Remember you O'Lord...

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Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

"The Feast of Corpus Christi, also known as the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, is a Christian liturgical solemnity celebrating the Real Presence of the Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, in the elements of the Holy Eucharist" site ref: Wikipedia

"Corpus Christi has history dates back to the early Middle Ages, with the mystic, Saint Juliana of Liege (+1258), who, based on private revelations from God, advocated for a day celebrating the Holy Eucharist outside of Lent. For on Holy Thursday, we also commemorate the Eucharist, in its inauguration at the Last Supper, with the Triduum."

"Our Lord desired His own day, to foster devotion to this Sacrament of Sacraments, the source and summit of the Christian life, as our faith has it. A fruitful read is Pope John Paul II’s 1996 meditation on this feast on the 750th anniversary of its inauguration."

"In John chapter 6 - Christ’s own Bread of Life discourse, wherein The Word Himself promises us..."

"His ‘flesh to eat, and blood to drink"

"Catholics have always believed that..."

"Christ, the Word made Flesh"

"Which has left us his very ‘body, blood, soul and divinity’ present under the species,

that is, the appearance of simple bread and wine."

This I didn't know... That it was "Saint Thomas Aquinas who described with unsurpassed clarity the metaphysical reality of the ‘Real Presence’, that the Second Person of the Trinity, much as He presented Himself in human nature, now continues to ‘present’ Himself to us in the Eucharist.

There is the substance, the reality, of Christ, which we adore, and which we receive in Holy Communion. As the Church teaches, unlike regular food, which we turn into our substance, by consuming the Host...

We are transformed into His divine Being.

Hence, the necessity of receiving the Eucharist, weekly, even daily if possible and as we are able. As Christ taught us in His own prayer, ‘give us this day our daily bread’. The Greek for ‘daily’ is ‘epiousios‘, the ‘supersubstantial’ bread. As the Catechism puts it, this phrase “refers directly to the Bread of Life, the Body of Christ, the “medicine of immortality” without which we have no life within us‘. (CCC, 2837)"

Site Reference: Catholic Insight.com