The Body and Blood of Christ
June 10, 2012 2 Comments
God our Father whose Son our Lord Jesus Christ in a wonderful sacrament has left us a memorial of his passion: Grant us so to venerate the sacred mysteries of his Body and Blood that we may ever perceive within ourselves the fruit of his redemption: who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever, Amen.
About Fr Stephen Smuts
Living in one of the (Catholic) countries in Europe I was lucky to celebrate it on Thursday (state holiday), attending a splendid procession to four altars built in nearby streets.
I’ve heard that it has been made optional for Ordinariates to celebrate it on Thursday or Sunday after the Trinity.
JESUS IS EUCHARIST–BODY BLOOD SOUL DIVINITY!
I was taking in some of the opening ceremony (on EWTN) for the 50th Int. Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, Ireland; “The Irish Tenors” singing “Panis Angelicus” just sends me!
The reception of The Most Blessed Sacrament IN Holy Communion should–and could–and would do the same, given its Dynamism and Power within the Mass–The Sacred Liturgy! It disquiets me greatly that ‘parish announcements’ are read immediately after the reception of The Most Blessed Sacrament in Holy Communion–it disrupts/displaces this ‘Divine Infringement’ upon our mortal lives, just being fed like hungry children with “The Bread Of Angels”; the precedence of Eucharistic Meditations, Reflections etc. would instead enoble these venerable moments! A Sacred time when Jesus is PRESENT in every Soul and wishes to commune with each Soul in a new and unique way…so that we can indeed “go forth in PEACE” and EMPOWERED…to transform the world by our Witness…the living-out of a Gospel Life!
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