Corpus Christi

We pray Corpus Christi with a full opening, a day offering, and a closing act of trust that places everything we are into Jesus’ hands through Mary. We then sit with St Thomas Aquinas as he explains the Eucharist as sacrifice, healing, and a lasting memorial of Christ’s love. 
• Opening prayers and doxology for Corpus Christi 
• Offering our prayers, works, joys, and sufferings with the Mass 
• Aquinas on Christ sharing divinity with us 
• The Eucharist as sacrifice, ransom, and purification 
• Communion as spiritual food that strengthens unity with Christ 
• The sacrament’s healing power, growth in virtue, and lasting consolation 
• Closing collect asking for the fruits of redemption 
• Devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Our Lady of Guadalupe 

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Transcript

Opening For Corpus Christi

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Corpus Christi. In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me. Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

Morning Offering And Intentions

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O my Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day, in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, for the remission of my sins, for the intentions of my family and friends, and in particular, for the intentions of the Holy Father. Amen.

St Thomas Aquinas On The Eucharist

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From a work by St. Thomas Aquinas, priest. Since it was the will of God's only begotten Son that men should share in his divinity, he assumed our nature, in order that by becoming man he might make men gods. Moreover, when he took our flesh, he dedicated the whole of its substance to our salvation. He offered his body to God the Father on the altar of the cross as a sacrifice for our reconciliation. He shed his blood for our ransom and purification, so that we might be redeemed from our wretched state of bondage and cleansed from all sin. But to ensure that the memory of so great a gift would abide with us forever, he left his body as food, and his blood as drink, for the faithful to consume in the form of bread and wine. O precious and wonderful banquet that brings us salvation and contains all sweetness, could anything be of more intrinsic value? Under the old law it was the flesh of calves and goats that was offered, but here Christ Himself, the true God, is set before us as our food. What could be more wonderful than this? No other sacrament has greater healing power. Through it sins are purged away, virtues are increased, and the soul is enriched with an abundance of every spiritual gift. It is offered in the church for the living and the dead, so that what was instituted for the salvation of all may be for the benefit of all. Yet in the end, no one can fully express the sweetness of this sacrament, in which spiritual delight is tasted at its very source, and in which we renew the memory of that surpassing love for us, which Christ revealed in his passion. It was to impress the vastness of this love more firmly upon the hearts of the faithful that our Lord instituted the sacrament at the Last Supper. As he was on the point of leaving the world to go up to the Father after celebrating the Passover with His disciples, he left it as a perpetual memorial of His Passion. It was the fulfillment of ancient figures and the greatest of all his miracles, while for those who were to experience the sorrow of his departure, it was destined to be a unique and abiding consolation. Know that in this bread is the body of Christ which hung on the cross, and in this cup the blood of Christ which flowed from his side. Take therefore and eat his body, take and drink his blood, and you will become members of his body. Eat this sacred food, so that your bond of unity with Christ may never be broken. Drink this sacred blood at the price he paid for you, so that you may never lose hearts because of your sinfulness. And you will become members of his body.

Prayer For The Fruits Of Redemption

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O God, who in this wonderful sacrament have left us a memorial of your passion. Grant us, we pray, so to revere the sacred mysteries of your body and blood, that we may always experience in ourselves the fruits of your redemption, who live and reign with God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God for ever and ever. Amen. All that I have and all that I am, I give to your hands, Jesus, through the heart of Mary, your blessed mother. Amen. Sacred heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. Our Lady of Guadalupe, pray for us. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Closing Devotions And How To Join

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