{"id":1514,"date":"2007-06-08T11:46:54","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T11:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/06\/corpus-christi-1.html"},"modified":"2007-06-08T11:46:54","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T11:46:54","slug":"corpus-christi-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/06\/corpus-christi-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Corpus Christi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was the Feast of Corpus Christi  – it is normally and traditionally celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday<\/a>. Where it is not a holy day of obligation, it is transferred to the following Sunday (as it is here.)<\/p>\n

The Pope lead the procession in Rome from St. John Lateran up the hill to St. Mary Major. From Catholic News Agency:<\/a><\/p>\n

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Christ\u2019s incarnation and presence in the Eucharist \u201cputs into crisis the wisdom of men\u201d.  So the Pope spoke this past Thursday, at 7 p.m., on the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi). <\/p>\n

\"20070607corpusdomini2014\"<\/a> To mark the feast, Benedict XVI celebrated Mass in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, and afterwards presided over a Eucharistic Procession from St. John\u2019s Basilica until the Basilica of Saint Mary Major.  The Pope greeted the Romans gathered there, together with the Cardinal Vicar of Rome, Mons. Camillo Ruini, and other cardinals and bishops present at the celebration.<\/p>\n

During the homily, the Pope said: \u201ca moment ago, we have sung in the Sequence: It is certain for us Christians, \/ that the bread becomes flesh, \/ the wine becomes blood\u2019.  Today we affirm with enthusiasm our faith in the Eucharist, the Mystery which constitutes the heart of the Church.\u201d It is also, \u201cthe gift which Jesus Christ makes of himself, revealing to us the infinite love of God for every man.\u201d<\/p>\n

Making reference to the counter-Reformation, the Pope noted that the feast has its origins in the desire of the people to reaffirm their belief in the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.  The purpose of the feast, he said, is \u201cto adore, praise, and thank publicly the Lord, who \u2018in the eucharistic Sacrament continues to love us \u2018until the end\u2019, to the point of giving his body and his blood.\u2019\u201d The Apostles received the gift of the Eucharist from the Lord in the intimacy of the Last Supper, but the gift was intended for everyone, for the whole world.<\/p>\n

Linking Thursday\u2019s celebration with the heightened spiritual tension of the last days of Lent, the Holy Father commented: \u201cThis evening\u2019s Eucharistic celebration leads us back to the spiritual climate of Holy Thursday, the day in which Christ, on the eve of his Passion, instituted in the Cenacle the most holy Eucharist.  The feast of Corpus Domini constitutes in this way a taking up of the mystery of Holy Thursday, as if in obedience to the invitation of Jesus to \u2018proclaim from the rooftops\u2019 what He has said in secret (cf. Mt 10:27).\u201d<\/p>\n

As he prepared to begin the Solemn Procession, the Pope declared, \u201cThis is why [the Eucharist] is proclaimed and exposed openly, so that everyone may encounter \u201cJesus who passes\u201d as he passed through the roads of Galilee, of Samaria and of Judea; so that everyone, in receiving him, may be healed and renewed by the strength of his love.\u201d  <\/p>\n

Calling the assembly\u2019s attention to the miracle of the Eucharist, Benedict XVI noted that \u201cwhen the priest proclaims after the consecration, \u2018This is the Mystery of our faith!\u2019 he proclaims the mystery just celebrated, and manifests his stupor in front of the substantial conversion of the bread and wine into the body and blood of the Lord Jesus, a reality which surpasses all human understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"20070607corpusdomini2011\"<\/a> Noting the disbelief today of many Christians in the real Presence of Our Lord, the Holy Father explained: \u201cPrecisely because we are dealing with a mysterious reality which surpasses our comprehension, we should not be amazed if even today many find it difficult to accept the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist.  It could not have been otherwise\u2026Today, just as back then, the Eucharist remains a \u2018sign of contradiction\u2019 \u2026 because a God who becomes flesh and sacrifices himself for the life of the world puts into crisis the wisdom of men.\u201d<\/p>\n

Besides an incredible miracle, the Eucharist is nourishment: \u201cThe Eucharist is \u2018the bread of pilgrims\u2019\u2026 the food which sustains them on their long exodus journey throughout the desert of human existence.\u201d  The Holy Father remarked that this world is like a \u2018desert\u2019, \u2018dried up by ideological and economic systems which do not promote life, but instead put it to death; a world where the logic of power and of having dominate, rather than that of service and of love<\/p>\n

As an antidote and answer to the culture of death, the Pope noted that the procession would be made \u201cas if to bring ideally the Lord Jesus through all the streets and neighbourhoods of Rome.  We will immerse Him, so to speak, in the ordinariness of our life, so that He may walk where we walk, so that He may live where we live.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Photos from Catholic Press Photo<\/a><\/p>\n

Kansas City Catholic has photos and descriptions of the Mass celebrated last night at the Old St. Patrick Oratory by the Superior General of the ICSKP, with Bishop Finn and the diocese’s chancellor participating. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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