Corpus Christi

A Mystery Beyond All Understanding

March 15, 2026By Servants Of The Holy Family

^{4th Sunday In Lent – Laetare Sunday 2026}St. Patrick was kidnapped as a boy and taken to Ireland. After his miraculous escape, he studied in Europe and eventually became a priest and bishop. He returned to Ireland to preach to its inhabitants and, by the grace of God, converted that nation.

Today Holy Mother the Church gives us a respite from the suffering of Lent so we might celebrate that we are so close to the glory of Easter. This Gospel reminds us that everything was created for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, because the miracle recounted today foreshadows the Eucharistic Sacrifice. The reverence shown to the bread and fishes which were multiplied and distributed point to the love and reverence we must give the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar. We should pray to grow in our appreciation of this unfathomable gift.
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Nourished By The Sacred Heart

June 27, 2025By Servants Of The Holy Family

Feast of The Sacred Heart 2025

Although this feast was only added to the universal calendar within the last few hundred years, its origins go back to the Incarnation itself. How fitting this year that this feast falls on the feast of Our Mother of Perpetual Help, in whose womb Christ’s Heart first began to beat. A new devotion was necessary to combat false Christianity and Jansenism. This devotion of the Sacred Heart was reserved for our latter times, when the love of the world has grown cold. The propagation of the Sacred Heart devotion faced great opposition, even from Catholic bishops and priests. Jesus Christ’s Sacred Heart not only moved His Precious Blood throughout His Body but represents His love for all of us. As was seen in the apparition to St. Margaret Mary, in the wound of the Heart of Christ was written the word “caritas,” meaning “love.” His Heart remains forever in the Holy Eucharist to sustain and nourish us. We must not be passive on this day; His love obliges us to love Him in return.
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A Necessary Feast

June 19, 2025By Servants Of The Holy Family

Feast of Corpus Christi 2025
Our Lord Himself expressed the need for the institution of this feast. It was necessary from both a liturgical point of view and for the spiritual life of all the faithful. We are unable to celebrate properly this greatest of all sacraments on Holy Thursday, because it is overshadowed by the sorrow of Christ’s Passion. At the beginning of our spiritual journey following the feast of Pentecost, this day points us to the greatest aid we are given to achieve our last end – the Blessed Sacrament. We are brought into the Faith because of the Holy Eucharist, we grow in the Faith because of It, and receiving Holy Communion is the promise of our future glory. This sacrament, like the manna from Heaven, strengthens us throughout that arduous sojourn in the desert of our lives.
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Communion of Reparation

May 30, 2024By Servants Of The Holy Family

Feast of Corpus Christi 2024
We should strive to better understand the feast of Corpus Christi from both a historical and doctrinal perspective. The Church is called to celebrate today with even greater joy and reverence knowing that the doctrine of the Holy Eucharist is so ignored, unknown, and attacked. The Holy Eucharist is both a sacrifice and a sacrament. The sacrifice is remembered on Holy Thursday, while the sacramental aspect is celebrated today. Christ deliberately called for two consecrations at the Mass, so that under the separation of these signs the mystical sacrifice would take place. We are at the Cross in a mystical way, and receiving God in this sacrament brings us into the Trinitarian life. We must not only adore Our Lord and thank Him today, but also make reparation for all our sins and those of our fellow man.
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We Offer Infinite Glory

June 11, 2023By Servants Of The Holy Family

2nd Sunday after Pentecost 2023
Today’s Gospel warns us against neglecting God. If we put off His invitation to salvation through sin and vice, we will surely lose His invitation. God instituted the feast of Corpus Christi right before this Sunday to remind us of the importance of the Blessed Sacrament. This day is a second Corpus Christi in which we may offer ourselves in union with Christ. Through the Holy Sacrifice we give God infinite glory. Without the spirit of poverty, chastity and obedience, we will not be saved.
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Bringing Heaven To Earth

June 8, 2023By Servants Of The Holy Family

Corpus Christi 2023
This feast was requested by God Himself so that the Blessed Sacrament might be honored not only as a sacrifice but also as the greatest of sacraments. It is the reason for the other sacraments, It is the reason for the priesthood, and It is the cause of unity in the Mystical Body of Christ. This feast is perfectly placed after the feast of the Blessed Trinity because it is the greatest means of achieving our last end in possession of the Blessed Trinity. God placed in our hearts a desire to taste the Infinite, and in the Holy Eucharist we fulfill that desire.
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Guarantee of Heaven

June 16, 2022By Servants Of The Holy Family

Feast Of Corpus Christi 2022
The Mass, renewing our Savior’s death on the cross, replaced all the rites of the Old Law. None are excluded from this sacrifice unless they should decline the invitation. We faithful strive daily for union with Christ in the Holy Eucharist, and we hope to die doing so. This is the food to strengthen us on our journey back to heaven. We are made in God’s image and have been given the ability to choose so that we might use it to choose Him. Our Lord leaves us free and does not compel us in this choice. Let us receive Christ’s Body now as a foretaste of heaven to come.
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Eucharistic Heart

June 4, 2021By Servants Of The Holy Family

First Friday Conference June 2021
This First Friday coming between the feasts of Corpus Christi and Sacred Heart points out the unity between these truths of the Faith. We learn from Our Lord how much humility is a foundational virtue for Him and in our own spiritual life. The complementary virtues are magnanimity and magnificence. In the Holy Eucharist Christ lives in a state of humility and the Mass is the means of bringing this to us. The eucharistic miracle of Lanciano shows this humility of the Sacred Heart. The creation and conservation of all that is comes through Jesus and is recalled and honored at Mass, particularly the minor elevation. Unfortunately, all too many, especially impious Catholics, insult our humble Savior in His loving Sacrament.
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Sacrament of Sacraments

June 3, 2021By Servants Of The Holy Family

Feast Of Corpus Christi 2021
The Holy Eucharist is the greatest of the sacraments because It not only gives us grace but is the Author of grace Himself. It is the beginning and goal of the Christian life. Catholics do not appreciate this as much as the enemies of the Church do. They attack the Holy Eucharist as seen in the case of Martin Luther and those who followed him. A primary tactic of theirs in destroying the faith of the people was communion in the hand. A recent survey showed that 70% of Catholics do not believe Our Lord is present in the Holy Eucharist but that It is only bread. In reality, this sacrament was the source of the conversion of the world and the power behind all missionaries. The Holy Eucharist accompanies us during life and through Viaticum leads us to eternal life.
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