Sunday June 7.  Corpus Christi A. SEE. Fr Fidelis took a very serious line.  He began, “This is one of the most important feasts in the Church because it teaches us about the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, in the bread and the wine and the Body of the community too.  I ask you whether you really do believe that as Catholics, or whether it is something you don’t really think about and take for granted?  As a priest it is something that challenges me too.  It helps me to remind myself that God is also present in the sacramental love relationship of marriage, which we should reverence much more than we do, as we should too with parental relationships.   In fact, God is present everywhere in Creation too, in so many different ways and appearances. This month is Youth month and we also celebrate Father’s Day so now I especially call on fathers to value and worship Jesus in the Eucharist. Teach your children and do not desecrate it by unbecoming behaviour.  Did you know that to strengthen people’s faith there have been recognised miracles of the bread and wine physically being changed in appearance to human flesh and blood. Science has confirmed what we have believed in faith and what the Catholic Church has taught for the last 2,000 years; echoing the words of Jesus. So please think about, worship and thank Jesus for this gift to us, the Church.” 

JUDGE. Reflect, share,  Scripture:    My Flesh is real food; my Blood real drink.  Whoever eats My Flesh and drinks My Blood dwells continually in Me and I dwell in him.” John 6:56-57.  Pope Francis: A family’s living space could turn into a domestic church, a setting for the Eucharist, the presence of Christ seated at the table. AL 15. Pope Leo: The spirituality that we need (in this time of AI) is a Eucharistic spirituality, that is, a spirituality of ecclesial unity in love. The Incarnation and the Paschal Mystery reveal God entering into our human condition and transforming it through the gift of himself. This gift remains present and active in the Eucharist, in which the Lord gives himself and gathers the Church together, so that his offering becomes the principle of unity and source of new life. It is from this communion that Christian solidarity also arises, since “union with Christ is also union with all those to whom he gives himself.” MH 234.

ACT AND PRAY: Reflect on the importance of the Eucharist in family life.  Pray for deepening and growth in family spirituality.