Throughout the years preceding the establishment of the feast of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) many had written about the need to name a day solely focused on God?s tremendous gift to us in the Eucharist. Therefore, Pope Urban IV established this feast on Sept. 8, 1254. Yes, Holy Thursday is the day of the Last Supper, but it is filled with so many other events in those 24 hours that our attention is not focused solely on God?s gift of himself in the Eucharist.
Since the feast of Corpus Christi is celebrated on June 7, I wanted to encourage you to take time during the Easter season to ponder specifically what God?s great gift of the Eucharist means for us as a people, and for each of us personally.
This is a day to thank God for giving himself so totally to his people; it is a feast to ask for an increase of faith to believe in the lavish love of God. It is a feast to ask that more and more Catholics might come to true faith in the Eucharist
