{"id":11660,"date":"2012-06-10T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=11660"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:31:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T22:31:15","slug":"take-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/10\/take-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Lectionary: Take. Eat."},"content":{"rendered":"

Life continues to be a bit hectic so I’m afraid these notes will be rather brief again…<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ: June 10th, 2012<\/h2>\n

This Sunday is the feast of “Corpus Christi”<\/span><\/em> (Latin for “Body of Christ”<\/span><\/em>), 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<\/span>\u00a0covenant in His blood. In the Second Reading we hear more about this covenant, brought about through Christ, our great High Priest.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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

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Reading I: Exodus 24:3-8<\/h3>\n

The text for our First Reading comes just after the giving of the Ten Commandments<\/a>, but before the incident with the Golden Calf<\/a>. Through His servant, Moses, the Lord enters into covenant with His people, Israel.<\/p>\n

When Moses came to the people\u00a0and related all the words and ordinances of the LORD,\u00a0they all answered with one voice,\u00a0“We will do everything that the LORD has told us.”\u00a0Moses then wrote down all the words of the LORD and,\u00a0rising early the next day,\u00a0he erected at the foot of the mountain an altar\u00a0and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.\u00a0Then, having sent certain young men of the Israelites\u00a0to offer holocausts and sacrifice young bulls\u00a0as peace offerings to the LORD,\u00a0Moses took half of the blood and put it in large bowls;\u00a0the other half he splashed on the altar.\u00a0Taking the book of the covenant, he read it aloud to the people,\u00a0who answered, “All that the LORD has said, we will heed and do.”\u00a0Then he took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, saying,\u00a0“This is the blood of the covenant\u00a0that the LORD has made with you\u00a0in accordance with all these words of his.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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Questions:<\/p>\n