The Most Holy Body & in order to show you that not by bread alone does one live, but by every word that of Christ June 13/14 comes forth from the mouth of the LORD. "Do not forget the LORD, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, Entrance Hymn that place of slavery; who guided you He fed them with the finest wheat through the vast and terrible desert with its and satisfied them with honey saraph serpents and scorpions, its parched from the rock. and waterless ground; who brought forth water for you from the flinty rock and fed you in the desert with manna, a food unknown to your fathers."

Kyrie eleison. Christe eleison. Kyrie eleison. Responsorial Psalm Gloria Praise the Lord, Jerusalem!

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace Second Reading 1 COR 10:16-17 to people of good wíll. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you, we glorify you, we give you Brothers and sisters: thanks for your great glory, Lord God, heavenly The cup of blessing that we bless, King, O God, almighty Father. Lord Christ, is it not a participation in the blood of Only Begotten Son, Lord God, of God, Son Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a of the Father, you take away the sins of the participation in the ? world, have mercy on us; you take away the sins Because the loaf of bread is one, of the world, receive our prayer; you are seated at the right hand of the Father, have mercy on we, though many, are one body, us. For you alone are the Holy one, you alone for we all partake of the one loaf. are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen. Lauda Sion

Laud, O Zion, your , 1st Reading DT 8:2-3, 14B-16A Laud with hymns of exultation, Moses said to the people: Christ, your king and shepherd true: "Remember how for forty years now the Bring him all the praise you know, LORD, your God, has directed all your He is more than you bestow. journeying in the desert, Never can you reach his due. so as to test you by affliction and find out whether or not it was your Special theme for glad thanksgiving intention to keep his commandments. Is the quick’ning and the living He therefore let you be afflicted with Bread today before you set: hunger, and then fed you with manna, a food unknown to you and your fathers, From his hands of old partaken, Bad and good the feast are sharing, As we know, by faith unshaken, Of what divers dooms preparing, Where the Twelve at supper met. Endless death, or endless life. Full and clear ring out your chanting, Life to these, to those damnation, Joy nor sweetest grace be wanting, See how like participation From your heart let praises burst: Is with unlike issues rife. For today the feast is holden, When the sacrament is broken, When the institution olden Doubt not, but believe ‘tis spoken, Of that supper was rehearsed. That each sever’d outward token Here the new law’s new , doth the very whole contain. By the new king’s revelation, Nought the precious divides, Ends the form of ancient rite: Breaking but the sign betides Now the new the old effaces, Jesus still the same abides, Truth away the shadow chases, still unbroken does remain. Light dispels the gloom of night. The shorter form of the sequence begins What he did at supper seated, here. Christ ordained to be repeated, Lo! the angel’s food is given His memorial ne’er to cease: To the pilgrim who has striven; And his rule for guidance taking, see the children’s bread from heaven, Bread and wine we hallow, making which on dogs may not be spent. Thus our sacrifice of peace. Truth the ancient types fulfilling, This the truth each Christian learns, Isaac bound, a victim willing, Bread into his flesh he turns, Paschal lamb, its lifeblood spilling, To his precious blood the wine: manna to the fathers sent. Sight has fail’d, nor thought conceives, Very bread, good shepherd, tend us, But a dauntless faith believes, Jesu, of your love befriend us, Resting on a pow’r divine. You refresh us, you defend us, Your eternal goodness send us Here beneath these signs are hidden In the land of life to see. Priceless things to sense forbidden; Signs, not things are all we see: You who all things can and know, Who on earth such food bestow, Blood is poured and flesh is broken, Grant us with your saints, though lowest, Yet in either wondrous token Where the heav’nly feast you show, Christ entire we know to be. Fellow heirs and guests to be. Amen. Whoso of this food partakes, . Does not rend the Lord nor breaks; Christ is whole to all that taste: JOHN 6:51-58 Thousands are, as one, receivers, Jesus said to the Jewish crowds: One, as thousands of believers, "I am the living bread that came down from Eats of him who cannot waste. heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give kingdom will have no end. I believe in the Holy is my flesh for the life of the world." Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who to eat?" Jesus said to them, has spoken through the prophets. I believe in "Amen, amen, I say to you, one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins and drink his blood, and I look forward to the resurrection of the you do not have life within you. dead and the life of the world to come. Amen. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the Holy, Holy Holy last day. For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of hosts. Heaven and Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood earth are full of your glory. in the remains in me and I in him. highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of Just as the living Father sent me the Lord. Hosanna in the highest. and I have life because of the Father, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. The Priest intones: "…" This is the bread that came down from We proclaim your Death, O Lord, and profess heaven. Unlike your ancestors who ate and your Resurrection until you come again. still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever." ()

The Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the of heaven and earth, of all things visible and world, have mercy on us. invisible. I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the Only Begotten Son of God, born of the Father world, grant us peace. before all ages. God from God, Light from Light, true God from true God, begotten, not made, Antiphon consubstantial with the Father; through him all Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood things were made. For us men and for our remains in me and I in him, says the Lord. salvation he came down from heaven, all bow: and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Closing Hymn: Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he O Living Bread from heaven, how well you fed was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered your guest! The you have given have filled death and was buried, and rose again on the my heart with rest. O wondrous food of third day in accordance with the Scriptures. He blessing, O cup that heals our woes, my heart, ascended into heaven and is seated at the right this gift possessing, with praises overflows! hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his