I'm sure that probably all of us here remember celebrating the Feast of Corpus Christi many times as we grew up and throughout our lives as Catholics. The emphasis always was on adoration of the ...

Sunday, June 3, is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) Sunday. Mass Readings: Exodus 24:3-8; Psalm 116: 12-13, 15-16, 17-18; Hebrews 9:11-15; Mark 14:12-16, 22-26.

The Feast of Corpus Christi (“Body of Christ”) is a Catholic solemnity celebrating the real presence of the body and blood of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, in the elements of the Eucharist. During ...

“We become like the things we contemplate,” the Rev. Hank Hilton says. In this homily for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi), Year C, Hank draws on ancient ...

Sunday, May 29, is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Year C). Mass Readings: Genesis 14:18-20; Psalm 110:1- 4; 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, 6-10; Luke 9:11-17 Imagine what Jesus must ...

Through that most ardent love, with which Thou instituted this Divine Sacrament, deliver us, O Lord. Through the most precious Blood, which Thou hast left for us upon the altar, deliver us, O Lord.

Today's reading from Exodus describes a majestic, identity-forging scene in which the people who had followed Moses out of slavery solemnly committed themselves to the covenant God offered them. Twice ...

It is almost too much to comprehend: the ways in which the Body and Blood of Christ are present and real to us and nourish us. We have a type of this heavenly food in the manna in the desert, which ...

Our Gospel for this feast is as well, set around a celebrational liturgy. It begins with a picture of preparing for the Passover, which recalls the blood of the Passover lamb being sprinkled on the ...

Today’s Solemnity highlights the Eucharistic Presence, in the Body and Blood of God the Son. We meditate on the following readings: Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14-16; Psalm 147; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17; John ...