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Homily Notes: Corpus Christi
Saturday, June 21, 2014 4:34
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In the year 1263 a priest from Prague was on route to Rome making a pilgrimage asking God for help to strengthen his faith since he was having doubts about his vocation. Along the way he stopped in Bolsena 70 miles north of Rome. While celebrating Mass there, as he raised the host during the consecration, the bread turned into flesh and began to bleed. The drops of blood fell onto the small white cloth on the altar, called the corporal. The following year, 1264, Pope Urban IV instituted the feast of the Body and Blood of Jesus, today’s feast, Corpus Christi.
Doubts can assail people when it comes to faith. The road we travel on is not a smooth, straight one, it can be rocky, uphill, difficult to travel upon and contain many hidden unnoticed hazards that come from nowhere to unsettle our travelling. There is a choice that people make when doubt or misfortune come our way, when a fork in the road of faith.
We are to choose which road to follow then. The one fork in the road is where we will take, if we give in to doubt, choose to be negative and hold onto hurts, mistrust, anger. Or we can choose to take the other fork in the road, one that trusts in the goodness of God, one that says God has a plan for me and I have followed it to this point, so I will carry on, with trust in my heart, that God’s goodness will sustain me through the difficult moments of life.
We all need a helping hand, now and again a rock to lean upon. The Eucharist is that helping hand, that rock to lean upon when times are hard. It amazes me that people blame God if something goes wrong and that blame moves them away from God and his loving helping hand. If anything I am closer to God when I am weak and cannot understand, or see the certainty of the future before me, adversity is an invitation to trust not to blame.
The Eucharist received with reverence and often is the light that guides footsteps in the darkness of life and puts a spring into the steps taken when the sun shines brightly overhead.
Today we honour the real presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, we walk in procession out of Church and adore and worship Christ, present to us, our rock, our helping and guiding hand. Then we receive the benediction, the blessing of God’s promise to remain with us, when the journey of life is difficult and when it is sweet.
Sweet Sacrament divine, with suppliant hearts we come, to sing your praises, and to adore you.
Source: http://humblepiety.blogspot.com/2014/06/homily-notes-corpus-christi.html
