Ordinary Time is the
Season of Growth. We live and grow in
our understanding of the Mysteries of Christ that are highlighted in special
ways by all the other Liturgical Seasons of the Church. This Sunday we experience the celebration of
the Solemnity of Corpus Christ, the Body and Blood of Christ. This feast is linked to the Paschal Seasons
that have just come to their close – Lent-Easter-Pentecost. It is as if a painting of bright and glorious
colors flows over beyond its frame onto the wall on which it is hung.
Pentecost pours out the
Holy Spirit on the Church, giving us our share in the very Life of God through
Jesus Christ. Trinity Sunday, which was
celebrated last week, plunges us into the Love of the Trinity, Each Divine
Person’s act of giving and receiving, and Being in Relationship with Each
Other. Corpus Christi points to the
simple truth that Jesus, the Eternal Son of the Father, Whose Life, Death,
Resurrection and Ascension makes possible our Union with God, has given us
Himself as the Bread of Life and the Blood of the Covenant. The Holy Spirit, Who effects the
transformation of bread and wine into the very Body and Blood, Soul and
Divinity of Jesus Christ, enlivens in us the capacity for sharing in the Triune
Life. We receive the Body of Christ in
the Eucharist and we become what we receive.
In the week after
Corpus Christ is celebrated, we also experience the feasts of the Sacred Heart
of Jesus (Friday) and the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Saturday), the two human
hearts that opened fully to the action and flow of grace offered to us. Our hearts can embrace the full gift of the
Mysteries because the Hearts of Jesus and Mary have already done so in our
human nature.
If you can look at all
of this in a simple “glance” of Faith, you cannot help but be caught up in awe
at what God accomplishes among those who are open to receive Him in Love. May every heart be ready to respond to this
great act of Love poured out for us by Jesus the Lord.
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