Corpus Christi Year C

Gasoline, we need it. How often? Story of men and women running out of gas.

(Seems to me that women/mom’s wait until the red light comes on, and some til they go to get gas, “because we all know there are like 30 more miles in the tank after the light comes on, right?!”)

What we try and do with barely enough?

I think we are trying to get by, spiritually, with the least amount that we need.

But how much spiritual are you? Are you half spiritual half physical?

No, you are completely spiritual, and physical, you can’t separate your soul from your body.

They ate and were satisfied. (Conforms to every taste)

Does it satisfy physically? well no, fish and chips? or this little snack?

If you are kind of a pagan, this wont do anything for you, it will actually be bad for your soul and your eternal salvation, or if you are in a state of sin.

But if you are growing in your faith and in a state of grace, this is what you want and desire! This food, this unity with God.

Conforms to every taste

Bad and good the feast are sharing,Of what divers dooms preparing,Endless death, or endless life  Life to these, to those damnation, See how like participation, Is with unlike issues rife.

They lied down

Psalm 23

He fed them, they still wanted more.

Do this in memory of me.

Anamnesis

Time Travel!

I hand on to you what I myself have received.

The Church hands on in her

Doctrine

Worship

& Life

perpetuates and transmits to every generation all that she herself is, all that she believes.

From Dei Verbum (8)

“I Can get to heaven myself”

No you can’t (But I’m a good person!) By what standard?!

Story of anointing old and possibly senile man

“Its been nice having you priest, there’s the door.”

I’m not enough!

Have any of you had this experience? As a parent? as a child? as an athlete? As a spouse? As a priest? As a disciple?

But your little bit with Christ is plentiful

But Christ in you.

Where do you join yourself with Christ?

Here.

For all the Sacraments point towards this one Sacraments.  It is all for this.  We are Catholics based on this one doctrine.

We yearn for Christ, so that we can become Christ.  We are born and learn good and bad.  Our concupiscence is our pull towards the bad, towards the flesh, towards the world. Our Sacraments, especially the Eucharist, is our anchor, pulling us towards Christ, his morality, his mind, for in the Eucharist, we receive His mind, all of Him, as much as we are capable of.

Finally, the Catechism concludes in paragraph 1327: “In brief, the Eucharist is the sum and summary of our faith. ‘Our way of thinking is attuned to the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn confirms our way of thinking’ (St. Irenaeus, Adv. haeres, 4,18,5:PG 7/l,1028).

Wis 16:20 Instead of this, you nourished your people with food of angels and furnished them bread from heaven, ready to hand, untoiled-for, endowed with all delights and conforming to every taste. 21 For this substance of yours revealed your sweetness toward your children, and serving the desire of the one who received it, was changed to whatever flavor each one wished.

New American Bible, Revised Edition. (Washington, DC: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2011), Wis 16:20–21.

This is kind of cool that we can’t fully understand this mystery, that there is such a thing as mystery.

And just as you will never fully know your spouse,