The Real Presence of Christ in Holy Communion: Gospel, Scripture, and Tradition
June 22, 2014--The Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) Today the church universal celebrates and underscores one of the three great mysteries. The first is the nature of God as three in one, a trinity. The second is the incarnation, the Word became flesh and lived for a while among us as Jesus Christ. The third is the mystery of the Eucharist, that by the words of blessing of our priest, bread and wine become transformed in substance, not in form, into the body and blood of Christ. A lot of times, when we think of the word “mystery”, we are really thinking that there is no answer, or its some kind of dodge. Something like we just heard of in Washington by the IRS, “ I don’t know how those 7 pc systems all crashed at the same time, and the e-mails were all destroyed….it’s a mystery! Well, that’s not it at all…the New Testament writers gave the name “mystery” to revealed truths that surpass the powers of natural reason. Mystery in its strict