Friday Frivolity: Raiders of the Lost Tabernacle
Although I don’t really like the word “Modernist”, this is still pretty funny…
This typically happens whenever I’m visiting a parish in LA or Orange County.
"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
Although I don’t really like the word “Modernist”, this is still pretty funny…
This typically happens whenever I’m visiting a parish in LA or Orange County.
When the flag is flying above Windsor Castle, we know that the Queen is in residence. Likewise, the light by the tabernacle lets us know that the King is present there; all is well.
– Anonymous, One of my old prayer journals.
Life continues to be a bit hectic so I’m afraid these notes will be rather brief again…
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