REFLECTION ON THE SOLEMNITY OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. BY EZENWATU PHILIP C.
SUNDAY (CORPUS CHRISTI) YEAR A
1st reading: Deutr. 8:2-3.14b-16a
2nd Reading: 1cor. 10:16-17
Theme: The body and blood of Christ: Life for those who believe.
Today is the Solemnity of the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Today we profess our belief in the Holy Sacrifice of Mass (Eucharist) as true body & blood of Christ. This feast began in the year 1264 – when Juliana, an Augustinian nun, saw a vision of the Church under a full moon with a black spot, suggesting a lack of this feast.
This is an expression of the love of God; that God sent his son (Incarnation), and the son did not just save us, he also gave us his body and asked us to always do this in memory of him. Hence, whoever we celebrate the mass, and the Priest lays hands on the host and wine they are transubstantiated into the body and blood of Xt irrespective of the Spiritual state of the priests.
The question is: As Catholics, how do we believe and appreciate this gift to the church.
In the 1st reading, Melchizedek offered a sacrifice of bread and wine, and blessed Abraham. This is a prefiguration and is why Jesus is referred to by the Letter to the Hebrews as Priest according to order of Melchizedek.
In the learnt about the Mass, the body and blood of Christ which we are commanded to do always in the memory of Christ.
In the Gospel, Jesus nourished the people with bread and fish, showing how he nourishes us with His body and blood spirituality. We see the words; took it, blessed it, broke it, and gave it.
Sometimes we do not believe, we just fulfill righteousness. The body and blood of Christ is real.
The story of the Priest who doubted and host & wine became physically the body and blood of Christ (Cardiac).
Some Christians receive it unworthy, while others disdain it. The body and blood of Christ gives us eternal life and gives us sanctifying grace and the hunger for the things of heaven. When we receive the body, we also receive the blood (for there can be no body without blood).
The story of my friend who took it because he was hungry in the Pentecostal churches.
Even after Mass, Christ remains in the Terbanacle against the Protestant Lord’s supper theology. When we eat it, we join ourselves in the one body of Christ, but when we abstain from it, we remove ourselves from Christ’s body.
The miracle of the Child raised in Terbanacle.
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