Today’s celebration of Corpus Christi,
the Body and Blood of Christ, is the feast of the very center and heart of our
Church, the center and heart of our faith, and the center and heart of the
lives of each of us.
On this feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, we remember that Jesus is
truly and really presence in the Eucharist. It
teaches us that as real food, the Eucharist is the true body and blood of
Christ which nourishes our souls. We are fed with the “heavenly food.” It is a
concrete way through which Christ is divinely present with us every day and every
moment.
When we receive Holy Communion, we also
receive a mission to “Go in peace and glorifying the Lord by your life.” When
we go forth after the Eucharistic celebration, we grow daily into the Eucharistic Christ who
reaches out to all people and who gives Himself fully for the life of the
world.
Pope
Francis reminds us that the Eucharist is to become what we eat, to be another
Christ for the world, to be Eucharistic in our self-giving love, in our
reaching out and in our embrace of all people in the manner Jesus showed us.
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