Posts Tagged 'Corpus Christi'

Homily – June 22nd, 2025 – Corpus Christi

As with every gospel story we hear, including this one, the miraculous feeding of the multitude, it’s often helpful to read the story that precedes it. It gives us context and context is always a good thing to have. Bad theology–and there’s lots of it around–doesn’t do that. People, including priests, will take a handful of lines from the entire Bible and run all of reality through those three or four lines in order to justify why they are right ...

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Homily – June 2nd, 2024 – The Feast of Corpus Christi

I realize, that by the time we get to proclaiming the Gospel, it’s already the fourth piece of Scripture we’ve heard, and we don’t always remember what we heard in the first reading, the second reading, or the psalm. So, let me refresh your minds by taking you back to that first reading from the Book of Exodus.

The Book of Exodus gets its name from that great departure, that great “exodus” of the Hebrew people from the land of slavery ...

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Reflection – June 2nd, 2024 – The Feast of Corpus Christi

Today’s reflections focus on the Gospel about the significance of the Passover Meal when Jesus took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it He broke it, gave it to them and said, ” Take; this is my Body.” Then He took a cup, and after giving thanks He gave it to them, and all of them drank from it. He said to them, ” This is my Blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.”  These words ...

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