Today’s readings Perhaps the most distinctive aspect of Catholic worship is our celebration of the Eucharist. We state very strongly that it’s not just a symbol, not just a nice memory. It is the actual Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity of our Lord. We know that we are spiritually in the presence of our… Continue reading The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Category: Eucharist
The Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time: Bread of Life Discourse III
Today’s readings You may have heard of Viaticum, which we generally think of as one’s last Communion. Indeed, the Church encourages us by precept of the Church to receive Holy Communion in our last moments, if at all possible. The word viaticum is Latin for “bread for the journey.” So in our last moments, when… Continue reading The Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time: Bread of Life Discourse III
The Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time: Bread of Life Discourse I
Today’s readings I’m Italian on my mother’s side of the family, and in our family, as in families of other ethnicities, I am sure, the prospect of not having enough food for people to eat at a gathering is the stuff of nightmares. For many of our family gatherings, we have way more food than… Continue reading The Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time: Bread of Life Discourse I
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Today’s readings If you’ve ever travelled abroad, to a country where English is not the spoken language, maybe you’ve had this experience. I travelled to Mexico when I was in seminary to learn Spanish. The first day I was there, we went to Mass at the local Cathedral. Even though at that point my Spanish was pretty sketchy,… Continue reading The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Bilingual Procession Mass)
This is the homily I preached for our bilingual Mass including the Procession with the Blessed Sacrament. I fear my Spanish was lacking, but I did the best I could… Quizás el aspecto más distintivo de nuestra devoción católica es nuestra celebración de la Eucaristía. Afirmamos firmemente que no es solo un símbolo. Es el… Continue reading The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Bilingual Procession Mass)
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Today’s readings I once read a very interesting story about some of the aftermath of World War II. During the war, the officers of the Third Reich’s secret service forcefully recruited many 12- and 13-year-old boys into the Junior Gestapo. The harshly treated boys were given only inhumane jobs that they were to perform without rest… Continue reading The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
The Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Bread of Life Discourse IV: Choosing the Table of the Lord
Today’s readings Today we have set before us two tables. One is the incredibly rich banquet of wisdom, and the other… let’s call it the fast food of foolishness, I guess. What we need to ask ourselves today is, at which table have we been eating, and is that where we want to find our… Continue reading The Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Bread of Life Discourse IV: Choosing the Table of the Lord
The Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Bread of Life Discourse III: Bread for the Journey
Today’s readings You may have heard of Viaticum, which we generally think of as one’s last Communion. Indeed, the Church encourages us by precept of the Church to receive Holy Communion in our last moments, if at all possible. The word viaticum is Latin for “bread for the journey.” So in our last moments, when we set… Continue reading The Nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time – Bread of Life Discourse III: Bread for the Journey
The Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time: Bread of Life Discourse II – What’s Your Hunger?
Today’s readings My niece Molly used to say that she wanted to open a restaurant when she grows up. She even had a name all picked out for it: “Hungry.” That makes a lot of sense when you think about it. Where are you going to go when you’re hungry? Well, to Hungry, of course! I… Continue reading The Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time: Bread of Life Discourse II – What’s Your Hunger?
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Today’s readings Today we celebrate with great joy one of the most wonderful feasts on our Church calendar, the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Through this greatest of all gifts, we have been made one with our God who loves his people beyond all imagining. We experience this love in perhaps one of… Continue reading The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
You must be logged in to post a comment.