Corpus Christi – Catholic Clarion Call

CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Encyclical Letter Ecclesia De Eucharistia of His Holiness Saint Pope John Paul II, On the Eucharist in Its Relationship to the Church” – Saint John Paul II/VaticanVa

June 3, 2018 Catholic News Wire - Faith Central - Steve Welsh Catholic, Catholic Faith, Corpus Christi, Eucharist, Sacraments

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“The Church draws her life from the Eucharist. This truth does not simply express a daily experience of faith, but recapitulates the heart of the mystery of the Church. In a variety of ways she joyfully experiences the constant fulfilment of the promise: “Lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age” (Mt 28:20), but in the

CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “THE SACRAMENT OF THE EUCHARIST” – Catechism of the Catholic Church/ VaticanVa

June 18, 2017 Catholic News Wire - Faith Central - Steve Welsh Catechism, Catholic, Catholic Faith, Corpus Christi, Eucharist, Faith Links, Headlines

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“… 1324 The Eucharist is “the source and summit of the Christian life.”136 “The other sacraments, and indeed all ecclesiastical ministries and works of the apostolate, are bound up with the Eucharist and are oriented toward it. For in the blessed Eucharist is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely Christ himself, our Pasch.”137 1325 “The Eucharist is

CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Encyclical Letter Ecclesia de Eucharistia” – Saint John Paul II/ VaticanVa 2003

June 18, 2017 Catholic News Wire - Faith Central - Steve Welsh Catholic, Catholic Faith, Christ, Corpus Christi, Eucharist, Faith Links, Headlines, Saint Pope John Paul II

CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Celebrating Corpus Christi A look at the feast’s history, customs and current practices” – Our Sunday Visitor/ Michael R. Heinlein

June 18, 2017 Catholic News Wire - Faith Central - Steve Welsh Catholic, Catholic Faith, Corpus Christi, Eucharist

“The fact that the Church celebrates the solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ makes good sense, given the Eucharist’s centrality in the life of the Church, neatly described by the Catechism of the Catholic Church as the “sum and summary of our faith” (No. 1327). And there’s the Second Vatican Council’s famous reiteration of this reality

CATHOLIC FAITHLINK: “Are You a Mouse or A Man? A Homily for The Feast of Corpus Christi” – Msgr. Charles Pope/ Archdiocese of Washington

June 18, 2017 Catholic News Wire - Faith Central - Steve Welsh Catholic, Catholic Faith, Corpus Christi, Eucharist, Faith Links, Headlines

Last Supper by Duccio, adapted from image at openi.nlm.nih.gov

“In many places this Sunday, the (moved) Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Our Lord is celebrated. …”