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The Most Holy Body and Blood of Jesus Christ June 14, 2020

Here beneath these signs are hidden Priceless things to sense forbidden, Signs, not things, are all we see.

Flesh from bread, and blood from wine, Yet is Christ in either sign, All entire, confessed to be!

Parish Mission Statement Parish Vision Statement Blessed Sacrament Parish forms and nurtures To be a flourishing faith community, with all active disciples of Christ, who love God and parishioners engaged in transforming lives neighbor, through the Dominican pillars through evangelization and discipleship. of Prayer, Study, Community, & Ministry.

Eucharistic Adoration Mass Times Wednesday: 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM Monday & Friday: 8:30 AM Saturday: 9:00 to 10:00 AM Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday: 7:00 & 8:30 AM Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday: 8:30 AM & Vigil Mass: 5:00 PM Wednesday: 6:30 to 7:00 PM Sunday: 7:30, 9:00, & 11:00 AM Saturday: 9:00 to 10:00 AM & 4:15 to 4:45 PM Sunday: 7:00 to 7:30 AM & 10:15 to10:45 AM Corpus Christi Br. Edward van Merrienboer, O.P. [email protected]

Happy Feast Day!

This weekend we celebrate the parish’s patron, the Most Blessed Sacrament. I think this feast this year takes on special meaning because the Eucharist has not been as available in the last months due to the virus pandemic. Our parish has a tradition of many celebrations of the Eucharist daily, so not to have public services and now only limited availability is a strange new thing for us. This new reality has cause many of us to reflect on the meaning of the Eucharist in our personal lives and I thought it might be an interesting exercise to review that the Church teaching us through the centuries about this sacrament.

Sacramentality and institution by Jesus Christ: In holding that the Eucharist is a sacrament the Church is teaching that it is an outward sign instituted by Jesus to give grace. In giving his body and blood to us under the elements of bread and wine he is sharing the gift of salvation with us. The gospels of Matthew (26), Mark (14) and Luke (22) each record for us the action of institution by Jesus. This fact is affirmed by Saint Paul in his first letter to Corinthians reminds these early Christians that it is Jesus himself that gives us his body and blood to perpetuate the sacrifice of the Cross until his return and continue the memorial of his death and Resurrection.

This truth of our faith was never seriously challenged until the time of the Protestant Reformation, though there were occasions when individuals proposed teaching that were in conflict with Church doctrine, for example, the correction of the Archbishop of Narbonne by Clement IV in 1267. The Council of Trent would take great pains to clarify what the Church held:

To begin with, the holy council teaches and openly and straightforwardly professes that in the Blessed Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist, after the consecration of the bread and wine, our Lord Jesus Christ, true God and man, is truly, really and substantially contained under the appearances of those realities [can. 1]. For, there is no contradiction in the fact that our Savior always sits at the right hand of the Father in heaven according to his natural way of existing and that, nevertheless, in his substance he is sacramentally present to us in many other places. We can hardly find words to express this way of existing: but our reason, enlightened through faith, can nevertheless recognize it as possible for God [cf. Mt 19:26; Lk 18:27], and we must always believe it unhesitatingly. (Trent, Session 13, October 11, 155)

This teaching which is called transubstantiation (change in substance) confirms that after the consecration the species of bread and wine is seen, but the reality of the flesh and blood of Christ is believed. We cannot exhaust this great mystery with human words but we can embrace it in faith.

Participation in the Eucharist: In the Acts of the Apostles it is recorded that the early Church gathered for the “breaking of the bread.” The early Church Fathers exhorted and encouraged great reverence for the Eucharist and the reception of Communion for those who were worthy. Those who were not believers were to be excluded according to Saint Justin Martyr (150AD). As the centuries progressed the frequency of the laity receiving Communion became less and less while in the monasteries the Eucharist was celebrated often, even daily in some places. During the Middle Ages so few laity went to Holy Communion that the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) required all Catholics to receive the Eucharist at least once a year during the Easter season. This rule is still in effect today but the struggle to have people participates in the Eucharist continued.

In more recent times, Pope Pius X (1904) made new strides in encouraging frequent and even daily Communion among the faithful. He lowered the age of reception to seven years and answered the main objections to this renew practice in the Church. A particular problem was the heresy of Jansenism that spread in many parts of the Church. In addressing those who came under this influence he wrote:

Away, then, with the widespread but most mischievous error of those who give it as their opinion that the reception of the Eucharist is in a manner reserved for those narrow-minded persons who rid themselves of the cares of the world in order to find rest in some kind of professedly religious life. For this gift, than which nothing can be more excellent or more conducive to salvation, is offered to all those, whatever their office or dignity may be, who wish—as everyone ought to wish—to foster in themselves that life of divine grace whose goal is the attainment of the life of the blessedness with God. (CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE) June 14, 2020 There were many setbacks in the promotion of frequent New and Noteworthy Communion in addition of Jansenism. The two Great Wars, the Spanish flu, and the Great Depression created conditions that made it difficult to form the laity in a Eucharistic spirituality. Pope Pius XII with renewed effort would promote participation of the Returning to normal Sunday schedule laity in the Mass and by changing the requirement of the Eucharist fast made it easier for those who attended later Mass- Due to lower attendance at all of our Masses for the last es to receive Communion. He encouraged the laity to respond few weekends, we have eliminated the 7:00 pm Saturday (in Latin) to various parts of the Mass. His efforts would flourish and 12:30 pm Sunday Masses and have returned to our in the work of the future Council called by Saint John XXIII. usual Sunday schedule. See yellow box below with information regarding how to attend Sunday Mass. The Second Vatican Council would give its supreme authority to these efforts by confirming and restoring the ancient teaching of Adorers needed on Wednesday the Church regarding the priesthood of the laity: We are in need of adorers for our all-day Wednesday adoration! Please see this link and consider signing up to Though they differ from one another in essence and not spend an hour with our Lord one or more Wednesdays this only in degree, the common priesthood of the faithful month: bit.ly/2uzsqqe and the ministerial or hierarchical priesthood are nonetheless interrelated: each of them in its own Mass intention openings special way is a participation in the one priesthood of We have several open Mass intentions in the coming Christ. The ministerial priest, by the sacred power he weeks! Please contact Erin in the parish office to check enjoys, teaches and rules the priestly people; acting in the person of Christ, he makes present the Eucharistic availability! sacrifice and offers it to God in the name of all the people. But the faithful, in virtue of their royal “The Chosen” DVDs available priesthood, join in the offering of the Eucharist. They If you borrowed a DVD copy of “The Chosen” in the last likewise exercise that priesthood in receiving the several weeks, please continue to take your time watching sacraments, in prayer and thanksgiving, in witness of a it, but know that we would like them back soon! We have holy life, and by self-denial and active charity. (Lumen one copy available in the office currently. Gentium Chapter 10)

As we celebrate this great feast that is special to our parish whose name we bear, let us rejoice in the gift of Christ Body and Blood with great reverence and gratitude. Luke House is looking for volunteers! -Br. Edward, O.P. As summer is just about upon us, keep in mind a great Important information regarding the return of many of our brothers and sisters in Christ rely on volunteers like us to continue to provide important meals at public Masses at Blessed Sacrament Luke House during the summer months. Specifically, our

We have resumed our normal Sunday Mass schedule: Blessed Sacrament community has committed to these 4th 5:00 pm on Saturday, and 7:30 am, 9:00 am, and 11:00 -Monday-of-the-month summer dates: Monday, June 22; am on Sunday. In order to attend a Sunday Mass, you Monday, July 27; and Monday, August 24 must sign up online or by contacting Erin in the parish office. As of June 5, Mass attendance must be capped at While this summer will look a little different at Luke House 25% capacity (75 people in our church). Please visit with only a grab-and-go option for meals, please still take a blsacrament.org/mass-sign-up to read our directives and to look at the sign-up below and help out where you can! sign up for a Mass. Paper copies of our directives are also available in the back of church and in the office. https://tinyurl.com/yb24t8ph

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