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THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
Saturday Vigil Mass: 4:30 pm
Sunday Mass: 8:30 am and 10:30 am
- Corpus Christi
“This is my body, which will be given for you; do this in memory of me” (Luke 22:19). These are the words that our Lord Jesus Christ said at the Last Supper. We celebrate the Eucharist not only as the memorial of what Jesus did before He suffered for us on the cross, but we are living that sublime moment in union with the disciples. Jesus’ power surpasses all the limits of space and time; therefore, each time we celebrate the sacrifice of the Eucharist, we are eyewitnesses of passion, death, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.
There is not any question about the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist. Jesus said that the bread (or host) and wine that we see is now His body and blood. Jesus Christ is offering Himself for the forgiveness of our sins. He is present in the Eucharist. Pope Francis, in his homily about the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ on June 6, 2021, says, “To celebrate the Eucharist, we need first to recognize our thirst for God, to sense our need for Him, to long for His presence and love, to realize that we cannot go it alone, but need the Food and Drink of eternal life to sustain us on our journey.” For this reason, we celebrate this Sunday the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. We recognize that we need Jesus’ presence in our lives. When we receive Holy Communion, we are not only receiving a host or piece of bread, but we are receiving Jesus Himself. Because Jesus loves us very much, He wanted to stay with us in a piece of bread. We eat His body because we need His strength. The body of Christ is our spiritual food that we need for our journey. Therefore, God is a priority for us.
We need God. Corpus Christi reminds us that Christ gave Himself because He loves us, and we need to receive His love which is present in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar. The Eucharist is the most beautiful gift that our Lord gave us. We cannot deny ourselves this wonderful gift. Nevertheless, we need to be well prepared to receive it. If we are not, we have another wonderful sacrament: Reconciliation. We experience the mercy of God in this sacrament.
Pope Francis also says in the same homily, “In celebrating and experiencing the Eucharist, we too are called to share in this love. For we cannot break bread on Sunday if our hearts are closed to our brothers and sisters. We cannot partake of that Bread if we do not give bread to the hungry. We cannot share that Bread unless we share the sufferings of our brothers and sisters in need. In the end, and the end of our solemn Eucharistic liturgies as well, only love will remain. Even now, our Eucharistic celebrations are transforming the world to the extent that we are allowing ourselves to be transformed and to become bread broken for others.”
Let us always celebrate the presence of the Lord in the sacrifice of the altar with joy and love. Let us be one with Christ who gave Himself in Holy Communion and let us share our joy for having received our Lord with our brothers and sisters who do not have the opportunity to participate with us in the Eucharistic sacrifice.
Remember, The parish that we dream is the parish that I help to build!
God bless you, and may the Blessed Virgin Mary be with you always!
Fr. Jorge Ramirez.
This Week’s Mass Intentions
Saturday, June 21, 2025
4:30 pm (VIGIL) Bill & Helen Schreiber, req. by the family
Sunday, June 22, 2025
THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST
8:30 am For the people of Holy Trinity, living and deceased
10:30 am Schoene & Bachman families, req. by the Schoene family
Monday, June 23, 2025
8:30 am Gonzalo Ramirez, req. by Fr. Jorge
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
THE NATIVITY OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST
8:30 am Special intentions of Gina Karshick, req. by Jean Wolf
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
8:30 am James Sippel, req. by Marcy & Joe Leonardo
Thursday, June 26, 2025
8:30 am Connie Capuano, req. by sister, Susan Gianforte & family
Friday, June 27, 2025
THE MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS
8:30 am Joseph H. & Mary F. Basch, req. by the family
Saturday, June 28, 2025
4:30 pm (VIGIL) Iva & Gordon Wilbert, req. by the family
Sunday, June 29, 2025
SAINTS PETER AND PAUL, APOSTLES
8:30 am Special intentions of Jennifer Waldow, req. by Jeannine Waldow
10:30 am For the people of Holy Trinity, living and deceased
Red Cross – Blood Drive
Saturday, June 21
Holy Trinity Picnic
Sunday, August 3rd
The Ascension of the Lord Mass – Live from Medjugorje with Fr. Jorge
Thursday, May 29 at 6:00 am
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Reading One: Genesis 14:18-20
In those days, Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine,
and being a priest of God Most High,
he blessed Abram with these words:
"Blessed be Abram by God Most High,
the creator of heaven and earth;
and blessed be God Most High,
who delivered your foes into your hand."
Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 110:1, 2, 3, 4
R (4b) You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.
The LORD said to my Lord: "Sit at my right hand
till I make your enemies your footstool."
R You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.
The scepter of your power the LORD will stretch forth from Zion:
"Rule in the midst of your enemies."
R You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.
"Yours is princely power in the day of your birth, in holy splendor;
before the daystar, like the dew, I have begotten you."
R You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.
The LORD has sworn, and he will not repent:
"You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek."
R You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.
Reading Two: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
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, "This is my body that is for you.
Do this in remembrance of me."
In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying,
"This cup is the new covenant in my blood.
Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me."
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup,
you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.
Sequence: Lauda Sion
Laud, O Zion, your salvation,
Laud with hymns of exultation,
Christ, your king and shepherd true:
Bring him all the praise you know,
He is more than you bestow.
Never can you reach his due.
Special theme for glad thanksgiving
Is the quick’ning and the living
Bread today before you set:
From his hands of old partaken,
As we know, by faith unshaken,
Where the Twelve at supper met.
Full and clear ring out your chanting,
Joy nor sweetest grace be wanting,
From your heart let praises burst:
For today the feast is holden,
When the institution olden
Of that supper was rehearsed.
Here the new law’s new oblation,
By the new king’s revelation,
Ends the form of ancient rite:
Now the new the old effaces,
Truth away the shadow chases,
Light dispels the gloom of night.
What he did at supper seated,
Christ ordained to be repeated,
His memorial ne’er to cease:
And his rule for guidance taking,
Bread and wine we hallow, making
Thus our sacrifice of peace.
This the truth each Christian learns,
Bread into his flesh he turns,
To his precious blood the wine:
Sight has fail’d, nor thought conceives,
But a dauntless faith believes,
Resting on a pow’r divine.
Here beneath these signs are hidden
Priceless things to sense forbidden;
Signs, not things are all we see:
Blood is poured and flesh is broken,
Yet in either wondrous token
Christ entire we know to be.
Whoso of this food partakes,
Does not rend the Lord nor breaks;
Christ is whole to all that taste:
Thousands are, as one, receivers,
One, as thousands of believers,
Eats of him who cannot waste.
Bad and good the feast are sharing,
Of what divers dooms preparing,
Endless death, or endless life.
Life to these, to those damnation,
See how like participation
Is with unlike issues rife.
When the sacrament is broken,
Doubt not, but believe ‘tis spoken,
That each sever’d outward token
doth the very whole contain.
Nought the precious gift divides,
Breaking but the sign betides
Jesus still the same abides,
still unbroken does remain.
Sequence: Lauda Sion (short version)
Lo! the angel’s food is given
To the pilgrim who has striven;
see the children’s bread from heaven,
which on dogs may not be spent.
Truth the ancient types fulfilling,
Isaac bound, a victim willing,
Paschal lamb, its lifeblood spilling,
manna to the fathers sent.
Very bread, good shepherd, tend us,
Jesu, of your love befriend us,
You refresh us, you defend us,
Your eternal goodness send us
In the land of life to see.
You who all things can and know,
Who on earth such food bestow,
Grant us with your saints, though lowest,
Where the heav’nly feast you show,
Fellow heirs and guests to be. Amen. Alleluia.
The Gospel: Luke 9:11b-17
and he healed those who needed to be cured.
As the day was drawing to a close,
the Twelve approached him and said,
"Dismiss the crowd
so that they can go to the surrounding villages and farms
and find lodging and provisions;
for we are in a deserted place here."
He said to them, "Give them some food yourselves."
They replied, "Five loaves and two fish are all we have,
unless we ourselves go and buy food for all these people."
Now the men there numbered about five thousand.
Then he said to his disciples,
"Have them sit down in groups of about fifty."
They did so and made them all sit down.
Then taking the five loaves and the two fish,
and looking up to heaven,
he said the blessing over them, broke them,
and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.
They all ate and were satisfied.
And when the leftover fragments were picked up,
they filled twelve wicker baskets.
Pope Leo XIV
From the Bishop
