{"id":85260,"date":"2015-06-06T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=85260"},"modified":"2019-03-07T17:24:52","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T01:24:52","slug":"body-blood-soul-divinity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/body-blood-soul-divinity-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Body, Blood, Soul, Divinity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nD<\/span>epending on what calendar you use (Ordinary Form or Extraordinary Form), and whether or not it is a Holy Day of Obligation in your diocese, tomorrow (or last Thursday) will be (or was) the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi<\/a>)<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Happy Corpus Christi!<\/p>\n

Whereas Holy Thursday<\/a> is a celebration of the institution<\/i> of the Eucharist, Corpus Christi is a celebration of the Eucharist itself. And what a gift has God given us!<\/p>\n

The feast was instituted to help combat the creeping idea that maybe when Christ said “this is my body”, He didn’t really mean it. Go read the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Saint John – it’s plainly clear that this teaching was not symbolic, not a parable, but the Truth. <\/p>\n

It is Christ Himself: body, blood, soul, divinity.<\/p>\n

Even when Jesus was there, walking among the disciples, it was a difficult thing to get your head around. People refused to accept it, and they stopped following Christ. It has ever been thus.<\/p>\n