We are given a great gift when Christ offered His Body and Blood, as we've been made aware through the seasons of Lent, Triduum, and Easter.
It was a sacrifice that brought us back to God.
Christ is a priest like Melchizedek who offered bread and wine, from natural elements, to be a meal. Now Christ fulfilled that feast by offering Himself so that we could be completely satisfied. As Monsignor Shea said in his presentation at the National Eucharistic Congress last summer, the Eucharist has a satiety score of infinity.
Through this meal, we re-present the sacrifice of Christ and He continues to bring us Life when we gather to partake of this meal and proclaim the death of the Lord that has brought us life, the very life of God in which we now share.
We now share in His mission to be Christ in the world, because we have been joined to God, so we are His Body in the world.
It's special that churches have Corpus Christi processions today as a way to show how we take the Body of Christ out into the world, so that others can experience the life of God as we have. He indeed satisfies us with the great abundance of the offering of Himself, His Divine Life.
Indeed, just as we have focused on for the past few weeks on the idea of the mysteries of our faith, on this day we celebrate that though the Eucharist is a great mystery, it becomes something very real in us and that we make real in the world.
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