THE GREATEST SACRAMENT June 7, 2026

Last Sunday we celebrated the greatest of all mysteries, the Blessed Trinity. Today we celebrate the greatest of all Sacraments, the Eucharist.

   All the Church’s Sacraments are instituted by Christ, and in them all He is present and active. Yet the Sacrament of our Lord’s Body and Blood surpass them all, for in it He is not only active, He is fully present in His entirety: Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity. Nothing that He is, as both God and man, is absent from the Blessed Sacrament. All that differs from Him as He is in the totality of His being is the visible form.

   Out of His desire to be the food of our bodies and souls, He instituted this Sacrament under the forms of food and drink, so that we could thereby be both nourished and comforted. All the other Sacraments are a preparation for this one, since they are all instituted in order to bring us to Communion with Our Lord.

   In heaven where we will be in full communion with Our Lord, there will be no more need of the other Sacraments. Yet all that Our Lord’s Body and Blood really is here and now will then still be at the centre of all things. The only difference will be the mode of His presence. In heaven He will no longer be veiled from our sight by the forms of bread and wine, but He will see us face to face in all His glorified humanity and godhead. That same Lord and God, once crucified and now risen eternally, whom we hope to see by His mercy for ever in heaven, that same Lord and God is present here to us now in the Host.        ~ Fr. Paul Dobson.