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| Dear Friends, Today the Church celebrates the Feast of the Body and Blood of our Lord. Some years ago we called it "Corpus Christi", and many of us still remember it as that. It is a beautiful feast that used to be celebrated as a Holyday with processions of the Blessed Sacrament. Because we no longer have that Holyday we may think that the feast is no longer important. We now celebrate it on a Sunday when more people will have the opportunity of receiving the Lord in the Eucharist. Work schedules and the busy-ness of life made it difficult for people to get to Church on a weekday. We remember our First Communion Day. How very special it was with family and friends rejoicing with us as we received Our Lord for the first time. Has our first fervor waned a little? Do we prepare for our Sunday Eucharist with the same enthusiasm as we did for our First Communion? Or sadly, do we not receive the Lord at all in the Eucharist? This may be a good time for us to renew our fervor and invite our friends to do the same. In the Gospel we read that Jesus said to the people, "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood you will not have life in you." This was received with very mixed emotions. Some could not take it and walked away, but Jesus did not water it down. He meant what he said. We do not have to understand it but to accept it on Jesus’ word. We believe because he said it. Today would be a good day to ask the Lord to increase our faith. Today is also Father’s Day. Every grace and blessing on all fathers. May your greatest gift to your children be a love for the Eucharist. God bless you, |
