CORPUS CHRISTI June 22, 2025

Today is Corpus Christi Sunday.

     Since Holy Thursday was too close to the sufferings of Our Lord to offer any but the briefest celebration of such a momentous gift as the Eucharist, the Church took the first suitable opportunity after Holy Week and Eastertide were over, to return at greater leisure to celebrate this gift.

     So, it came about that on the same weekday, namely the Thursday following Trinity Sunday, after the white days of Paschal (or Eastertide) are over and we have returned to “Ordinary Time” with its green vestments, the Church established the tradition of this joyful celebration of our Lord’s Body and Blood in the Blessed Sacrament. The celebrations are not over yet!

                                                        ~ Fr. Paul Dobson