{"id":7434,"date":"2024-06-03T14:13:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T19:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/?p=7434"},"modified":"2024-06-03T14:13:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T19:13:54","slug":"homily-for-feast-of-corpus-christi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/labmind\/2024\/06\/homily-for-feast-of-corpus-christi.html","title":{"rendered":"Homily for Feast of Corpus Christi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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In the year 107, Ignatius was arrested in the city of Antioch in the Roman province of Syria, and was condemned to death for not renouncing his faith in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n
He was eventually sent to Rome to die, where he was thrown into the Circus Maximus to be devoured by beasts \u2013 a common practice at that time to execute prisoners.\u00a0 During his journey to Rome in the year 110, less than 80 years after the death and resurrection of Jesus, Ignatius wrote letters to various churches, in the same way Saint Paul had done so decades earlier.\u00a0 In his letter to the Romans, he prepares the Christians of Rome for his arrival and execution, and writes:<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no taste for corruptible food nor for the pleasures of this life.\u00a0 I desire the bread of God, which is the flesh of Jesus Christ<\/em>; and for drink I desire his blood<\/em>, which is love incorruptible.\u201d<\/p>\n
In another letter, he writes about some who \u201cabstain from the Eucharist and from prayer because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n
So, in the year 110, Saint Ignatius of Antioch believes as we believe today: in the true presence of the Body and Blood of Jesus \u2014 that bread and wine are transformed by the power of the Holy Spirit into the presence of the living God.<\/p>\n
\u201cTake it; this is my body<\/em>,\u201d Jesus said to his friends as they celebrated the Passover.\u00a0 \u201cThis is my blood<\/em>of the covenant, which will be shed for many.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saint Paul himself recalls the words of Jesus in his letter to the Corinthians when he writes, \u201cfor I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread, and after he had given thanks, broke it and said, \u2018This is my body<\/em> that is for you.\u00a0 Do this in remembrance of me.\u00a0 In the same way also the cup, after supper saying, \u2018This cup is the new covenant in my blood<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n
On this feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, Corpus Christi, we recognize that our belief is the same as the belief of the early Church.\u00a0 We affirm together with the first Christians that Jesus has left us the wonderful gift of his presence, given here on the altar so that we may experience the presence of Jesus just as those who saw him and heard him centuries ago.<\/p>\n
Just as he gathered with his disciples at the Passover in Jerusalem on the night before he died, Jesus continues to gather us to himself Sunday after Sunday.<\/p>\n
Just as Jesus longed to remain with his friends, he longs remain with you and me, and He does so through this gift of His presence.<\/p>\n
How can this be? \u00a0Some ask. And many have asked this throughout the centuries.\u00a0 Isn\u2019t Jesus present whenever two or more are gathered in his name?\u00a0 Isn\u2019t Jesus present in the hearts of all who believe in him?\u00a0 Certainly, he is present there, as he promised.\u00a0 Yet he also promised he\u2019d be present in the breaking of bread, and in the offering of the cup.<\/p>\n
Some Christians eventually denied this foundational early teaching of the Church, the true presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, dismissing it as superstition or something simply impossible.<\/p>\n
Yet we believe God the Father had the power to say, \u201clet there be light\u201d and there was light.\u00a0 We believe Jesus had the power to say, \u201cyour sins are forgiven, pick up your mat and go,\u201d and the paralytic got up and ran away.\u00a0 The Apostles filled with the Holy Spirit after Pentecost, went out into the ancient world performing countless miracles, and we recognize God performing even miracles today.<\/p>\n
We also believe that when Jesus said, \u201cthis is my body; this is my blood,\u201d his words were effective \u2013 they brought into being what he said.\u00a0 The Church has obediently done what Jesus asked us to do in memory of him, repeating his words and actions at the Last Supper, and the effect has remained the same.\u00a0 Bread and wine are transformed into the very presence of the living God.<\/p>\n
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