Corpus Christi Sunday reminds us that Jesus, fully divine and fully human, had a body. And he offered that body for us not only in the Eucharist, and not only on the Cross, but by taking his body all over Galilee and Judea, and offering himself physically in that way to people.
Jesus's public ministry was tiring and even grueling ("The Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head," he said) but Jesus "gave his body" for us by going to where we were and offering himself for us.
Often when I celebrate Mass and say the words, "This is my body," I think of this aspect of Jesus's "offering" of himself.
--Fr. James Martin,
Facebook, June 19, 2022
Image source: Balavendra Elias, Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes, carving, St George Church, Hangleton, UK, https://loandbeholdbible.com/2017/11/19/the-multiplication-of-the-loaves-john-61-15/
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