Next week is Corpus Christi, the Feast of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus! We will process with Jesus around campus to kick off a year of Eucharistic Revival!

 

Living Bread, our message series, has guided us up to this Feast. Jesus tells us, “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world” (Jn 6:51).

 

Jesus gives us Himself as spiritual food, as living bread. Ultimately this gift is received in the Sacrament of His Body and Blood, but it also passes through the Cross, on which Jesus sheds His blood and offers His body for the life of the world. This is an amazing mystery, which requires the eyes of faith.

Because of this awesome mystery, we say that the Liturgy is the place or space where heaven touches earth, where the heavenly host (all the angels and saints) gather to unite their prayers and praise with the earthly host (that’s us) as we fulfill what our Lord commanded us to do by offering this memorial of His death and resurrection.

 

This Sunday is Trinity Sunday - when we spend time with the deepest mystery of our Faith - the Holy Trinity. We recognize that Son, the Incarnate One, is the one who unites heaven and earth in Himself. Jesus is the bridge between heaven and earth, the mediator between God and humanity. He accomplishes through what He does, but even more profoundly through who He is as the God-man. In His very self, He affects the union of the divine and the human, which is why when we receive Him in the Eucharist, we receive the Living Bread, who for the life of the world has offered Himself.

 

Please take a moment to watch "The Veil Removed" - a short film that reveals the coming together of heaven and earth at Mass, as seen by saints and mystics, revealed by scripture and in the catechism of the Catholic Church.