SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT
This feast is being celebrated in the Church with a twofold purpose: first, to praise our Lord for having given himself as our spiritual food and drink in the Holy Eucharist, and second, to help us realize the absolute necessity of the Eucharist for our Christian life. Today, we are not only celebrating the reception of the body and blood of Christ in holy communion but also the fact that we are the Body of Christ. At the end of every celebration of the Eucharist, we are sent out with this great prayer of mission, ‘let us go in peace to love and serve the Lord.’ On this wonderful day, as we honour the real presence of the Body of Jesus in the Eucharist, the source and summit of Christian life, may each of us be fed and nourished through the body and blood of Christ. Pope Francis says: “The Eucharist is not a prize for the perfect, but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak.” Do we realize our unworthiness and weakness?
Liturgical materials for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ (The Corpus Christi).
Tamil Response Hymn - https://youtu.be/5vgZrcVHczA
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