Walking with Jesus on the Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
For Sunday, June 22, 2025 Genesis 14:18-20, 1 Corinthians 11:23-26, Luke 9:11-17 Today’s feast combines two separate feasts from years ago: Corpus Christi and the Precious Blood of Christ. As with last week’s readings from the Most Holy Trinity, the readings today have been chosen to highlight aspects of the feast’s theology. They emphasize the living presence of Christ which we celebrate when we come to receive the Eucharist at Mass. Each of us comes to the altar with different intentions: to pray for our loved ones or to seek help for our life, relationship difficulties or workaday world. We come in humility ... in gratitude … in love … in deliverance from the onslaughts of Satan, the devil, Lucifer (same reality). The purpose of the Spirit of Evil is to distract, confuse and drag us away from God and lead us away from loving, forgiving and caring for those who come into our lives for moments or short periods or the long term. We are tempted, and we succumb to lies and all sorts of r...