Scripture Reflections for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi

“the Eucharist is the kinship bond that joins us to God and makes us the family of God”

"Last year, the unthinkable happened. Catholics were unable to receive Holy Communion for four months – over Holy Week, Easter, and even Corpus Christi, the Feast of the Body and..."

"Last Bank Holiday, a friend took me to St. Paul’s Abbey in Jarrow, near Newcastle. This is where the Venerable Bede lived a simple and holy life, as a spiritual..."

"Dominicans from St Thomas Aquinas onwards have been very articulate in helping the Church understand more deeply the mystery of the Blessed Eucharist that we celebrate today. A modern Dominican,..."

"In the Catholic Tradition we use the phrase 'Body Of Christ' in three distinct but interconnecting ways. The first and constant use is to refer to Jesus himself, stressing the..."

"'Don't play with your food,' my mother used to say to me, and still does. Some people would say the same about today's feast, that food is for eating and..."

"When the Pope came to Britain, one of the broadsheet papers had a rather unkind cartoon, depicting the Pope speaking to a vast crowd, but with the word balloon full..."

“I believe that we need to accept that our theological reflections are shaped by our experiences”

“And Christ does not come for us to just watch. He comes for us to join him. He comes to share Calvary so we can share in the self-giving Love, Truth, and Fidelity which is God’s Life”

“What is promised to our bodies in the Resurrection of the future, should become a reality of our spirit even now”

"The solemnity of the Corpus Christi or Corpus Domini as the case may be is one of the principal movable feasts in the Church’s liturgical calendar. It could either be..."

"The last four Sundays, we’ve celebrated one Solemnity after the next. It started with the Ascension, and Christ showing that He truly is the Son of God, that He is..."

"Today’s reading from Exodus can be a bit off-putting: Moses dashes the blood onto the altar, and dashes it onto the people. Why? What seems repugnant to us was of..."

“It would take an ultimate sacrifice to regain that union where God could physically become part of us again and we could share in that very being and grace with Him again as Adam and Eve did before the Fall”

“The images of sacrifice come alive for me as I reflect on these readings because as a newly ordained Catholic priest, assigned to work in Guatemala in 1965, I witnessed so much killing, bloodshed and sacrifice among the people I served for those first 24 years”

“this Eucharistic meal is not only a meal that we celebrate today, but a meal that points to a future hope; to the establishment of God’s Kingdom”

“And so with confidence we approach the table. We come not as individuals but as one united body in communion”

"Friends, for this feast of Corpus Christi, today’s readings run red, dripping in sacrificial symbolism. When we gather together for Mass, we are not calling to mind some disconnected historical..."

“when you been blessed, you're called to be a blessing to someone else”

"To truly understand what Jesus did at the climax of his life—and what the Catholic Church does at every Mass—we must understand the importance of blood sacrifice to Judaism in..."

"For this feast of the Body and Blood of the Lord, I reflect on the Mass as a sacrifice. Sacrificial language runs right through all of our readings for today,..."

"Another homily from Fr. Robert Barron and Word on Fire Catholic Ministries."