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Worldwide Adoration

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Adoration

Just in case you hadn’t heard, this Sunday on the Feast of Corpus Christi (June 2nd), Pope Francis will be presiding over an hour of Eucharistic Adoration in St. Peter’s and is inviting all Catholics around the world to do the same.

A few months ago we had “Mega Adoration” in San Diego when several hundred young adults attended Adoration together in one of San Diego’s larger churches. Clearly Pope Francis heard about this and decided to take it to the next level… 😉

St. Francis will be doing this at 5pm (Rome time), which works out at 4pm in England and in the USA it’ll be 11am on the East Coast and 8am on the West Coast.

So, join the Facebook Event, find yourself a chapel or church and go pray!

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Sunday Lectionary: Take. Eat.

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Life continues to be a bit hectic so I’m afraid these notes will be rather brief again…

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ: June 10th, 2012

This Sunday is the feast of “Corpus Christi” (Latin for “Body of Christ”), a feast which came about during the 13th Century. Our First Reading describes the institution of the Yahweh’s covenant with Israel through the Patriarch Moses. While instituting the Eucharist in our Gospel Reading, Jesus speaks about a new covenant in His blood. In the Second Reading we hear more about this covenant, brought about through Christ, our great High Priest.

Every time we go to Mass we renew our covenant with the Lord. Let us approach the Eucharist this week mindful of this great covenant, purchased for us by the very blood of Christ.

In all He did from the Incarnation to the Cross, the end Jesus Christ had in mind was the gift of the Eucharist, his personal and corporal union with each Christian through Communion. He saw in It the means of communicating to us all the treasures of His Passion, all the virtues of His Sacred Humanity, and all the merits of His Life. -St. Peter Julian Eymard

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