SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST [THE FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI] ~ JUNE 2, 2024
[Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ is celebrated on Thursday after Holy Trinity or, where this is not a holy day of obligation. In the United States and some other parts of the world, it is always transferred to the Sunday after the Most Holy Trinity. May 30, 2024 (Where celebrated Thursday), June 2, 2024 (Where transferred to Sunday)]
SAINTS OF THE DAY ~ FEAST DAY: JUNE 2, 2024
NOVENA TO THE SACRED HEART: Novena dates: May 29 – June 6, 2024. June 7, 2024: Solemnity of the Sacred Heart (Novena link below)
Greetings beloved family. Happy Corpus Christi Sunday!
On this special feast day, as we commemorate this great Solemnity of the Most Holy and Precious Body and Blood of Christ or Corpus Christi, let us all reflect on how much we truly believe in the Real Presence of the Lord in the Eucharist.
We pray for the safety and well-being of our children, youths, students and children all over the world. With special intention for all students graduating this school. year. May God continue to grant them all wisdom, knowledge and understanding and may He empower them as they walk into the future with faith, hope, and love guided by the Holy Spirit through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary. Amen🙏
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Today’s Bible Readings: Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ | Sunday June 2, 2024
Reading 1, Exodus 24:3-8
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 116:12-13, 15-16, 17-18
Reading 2, Hebrews 9:11-15
Gospel, Mark 14:12–16, 22–26
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SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST [THE FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI]: Today, we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, also known as the Feast of Corpus Christi. The feast of the Eucharist is a day when we honor and give thanks for the gift of the Eucharist, through which the Lord is present among us in a very special way. We commemorate the real presence of the body (corpus) of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist which we partake and consume during every celebration of the Holy Mass. As Christians, we all firmly believe that the Eucharist we partake and receive in the Holy Mass is none other than the Most Holy and Precious Body and Blood of Our Lord Himself. The Feast of Corpus Christi, is celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday in honor of the institution of the Holy Eucharist (it is a movable observance that is transferred to the following Sunday in some countries and U.S. dioceses). The celebration on Sunday after Trinity Sunday is then considered its proper day in the calendar. The Mass includes an option of singing or reciting the Sequence Laud, O Zion or Lauda Sion before the Alleluia. This sequence is optional. There are only two other feasts (Easter and Pentecost) with Sequences. The feast of Corpus Christi is a holy day of obligation in many countries.
The Feast of Corpus Christi originated in 1246 when Robert de Torote, bishop of Liège, ordered the festival celebrated in his diocese. He was persuaded to initiate the feast by St. Juliana, prioress of Mont Cornillon near Liège (1222–58), a Belgian nun deeply devoted to the Holy Eucharist, who had experienced a vision, Jesus appeared requesting a feast in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. St. Juliana shared this vision with the Church hierarchy. It did not spread until 1261 when Jacques Pantaléon, formerly archdeacon of Liège, became pope as Urban IV, after decades of opposition. In 1264, Pope Urban IV instituted the feast of Corpus Christi for the universal Church. At the time there was a formal dispute among theologians on the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist—that is, Christ’s actual Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity—for the first time in Church history. In response to this heresy and in support of the authenticity of St. Juliana’s visions, a Eucharistic Miracle took place in Orvieto, Italy which proved the truth of the literal interpretation of Christ’s doctrine handed down from the Apostles. The Holy Father, Pope Urban IV requested that the liturgy for the feast be composed by St. Thomas Aquinas in the year 1264, now one of the Church’s most sublimely poetic liturgies. It is unquestionably a classic piece of liturgical work, wholly in accord with the best liturgical traditions. . . It is a perfect work of art. Pope Urban’s order was confirmed by Pope Clement V at the Council of Vienne in 1311–12. By the mid-14th century the festival was generally accepted, and in the 15th century it became, in effect, one of the principal feasts of the church.
The feast of Corpus Christi calls us to focus on two manifestations of the Body of Christ, the Holy Eucharist and the Church. The primary purpose of this feast is to focus our attention on the Eucharist. The opening prayer at Mass calls our attention to Jesus’ suffering and death and our worship of Him, especially in the Eucharist. At every Mass our attention is called to the Eucharist and the Real Presence of Christ in it. The secondary focus of this feast is upon the Body of Christ as it is present in the Church. The Church is called the Body of Christ because of the intimate communion which Jesus shares with His disciples. He expresses this in the gospels by using the metaphor of a body in which He is the head. This image helps keep in focus both the unity and the diversity of the Church. The Feast of Corpus Christi is traditionally accompanied with Eucharistic large and elaborate public processions, most notably by the Holy Father in Rome. The public Eucharistic processions serves as a sign of common faith and adoration. Our worship of Jesus in His Body and Blood calls us to offer to God our Father a pledge of undivided love and an offering of ourselves to the service of others.
“Take it; this is my body. This is my blood.” ~ Mark 14:22-25
“For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink” ~ John 6:55
PRAYER: 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. Save Us, Savior of the World 🙏
SCRIPTURE REFLECTIONS
Bible Readings for today, Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ | USCCB | https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/060224.cfm
Gospel Reading ~ Mark 14:12–16, 22–26
“This is my body. This is my blood”
“On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrificed the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples said to him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to eat the Passover?” He sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the city and a man will meet you, carrying a jar of water. Follow him. Wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says, “Where is my guest room where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?”’ Then he will show you a large upper room furnished and ready. Make the preparations for us there.” The disciples then went off, entered the city, and found it just as he had told them; and they prepared the Passover. While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is my body.” Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. He said to them, “This is my blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many. Amen, I say to you, I shall not drink again the fruit of the vine until the day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God.” Then, after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.”
Today’s Gospel reading from the Gospel of Mark describes the moment when Jesus gave the gift of the Eucharist to His first disciples. It was Jesus’ last meal with them, on the evening before He was crucified. It was the last in a whole series of meals that Jesus shared with all sorts of people, with His disciples and friends, with those considered sinners, with the religious leaders. At all these meals Jesus gave Himself, gave something of God, to those present. Sometimes He gave God’s loving mercy to those who had been labelled sinners by others. Sometimes, He gave God’s word to those present, a word that brought comfort to many and disturbed others. At this last supper, Jesus gave Himself to His disciples in a way that was distinctive and memorable. He took the bread that was on the table, blessed it, broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, ‘This is my body’. He then took the cup of wine that was on the table, blessed it and gave it to His disciples, saying, ‘This is my blood, the blood of the covenant’. He identified all of himself, body and blood, with the simple fare of bread and wine that was on the table, and He called on His disciples to consume them. He wanted to give Himself to His disciples and, through them, to all of us, to disciples of every age, and He wanted them and us to receive His gift of Himself, to take him and all he stands for into our lives, as we take food and drink into our bodies. The last supper may have been the last in a whole series of meals, but Jesus also intended it to be a beginning, the beginning of what we have come to call the Eucharist. This is why in the earliest account of the last supper in one of Paul’s letters, and also in Luke’s Gospel, Jesus goes on to say, ‘Do this in memory of me’. In other words, ‘Repeat what I have just said and done’. Before his death, Jesus was giving his followers a gift through which he would always be present to future disciples in a way that was unique.
At the last supper there was a giving and a taking, the Lord’s giving and the disciples’ taking. That is true of every Eucharist. The Lord’s giving of Himself in love to his disciples at the last supper looked ahead to the gift he would make of Himself to them and to all humanity the following day. On the cross he gave his body and his blood, his entire self, out of love for us all. The love that shone through Jesus on the cross was shining through him at the last supper, and continues to shine through him at every Eucharist. That is why Saint Paul could write to the church in Corinth about twenty five years after the last supper, ‘As often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes’. At every Eucharist we are proclaiming the Lord’s death, the Lord’s self-giving love on the cross, and that love becomes present to us in a powerful way. The Lord who gave Himself on Calvary gives Himself to us at every Eucharist. As at the last supper He called on His disciples to take His gift of himself, the gift of his love, so at every Eucharist he calls on us to take His gift of Himself, to receive His love into our lives. The Lord’s love that we are invited to receive at every Eucharist is a costly love, it is the love of one who came not to be served but to serve and to give His life for all. We are sent from the Eucharist to share this costly love that we have received, so that the Lord can continue to serve others through us. The Lord comes to us in the Eucharist to catch us up into the rhythm of His own self-giving love. He comes to us so that he can live in and through us, so that His attitudes and values can take flesh in our daily lives.
The last supper must have had a tremendously unifying effect on the disciples. In living through that last supper together, they became conscious in a new way that they belonged not only to the Lord, and also to each other. In a similar way, our weekly celebration of the Eucharist can and must have a bonding effect on ourselves. As St. Paul says in one of his letters, ‘we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread’. As together we take the body of Christ and eat, we become more aware of ourselves as members of one body, the body of Christ. Our celebration of the Eucharist inspires us, and obliges us, to relate to each other as members of one body, Christ’s body, Corpus Christi. At this Eucharist, we commit ourselves again to being Corpus Christi, members of one body, the body of Christ. St. Paul spells out what that means in practice. He says that the members of Christ’s body are to ‘have the same care for one another. If one member suffers, all suffer together with it; if one member is honoured, all rejoice together with it’. On this feast of Corpus Christi, here is a vision of church worth reminding ourselves of and recommitting ourselves to.
In our first reading today from the Book of Exodus, Moses, the leader of the Israelites during the time of their Exodus from Egypt and their journey towards the Promised Land of Canaan, spoke to the Israelites regarding the great and most wonderful love which God has shown to His people in all that He had done for them, and this culminated with the Covenant which He established anew with all of His people at the holy mountain of God, Mount Sinai, where the people of Israel had journeyed towards. There at the holy mountain, through Moses, the Covenant between God and His people was sealed and established, by the sacrifice and the outpouring of the blood of a sacrificial lamb upon the altar. This was in fact a prefigurement of what would happen much later on, mentioned in our second reading today from the Epistle to the Hebrews. The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews often linked the Lord Jesus to the role of the High Priest for indeed, Christ is the one and only True, Eternal High Priest for all mankind. Why is this so? This is because by His Passion, His sufferings and His trials, His crucifixion and ultimately His death on the Cross, our Lord has willingly offered the perfect and only worthy offering to the Lord for our salvation and redemption. In the past, the sacrifice and the outpouring of the blood of the animals like lambs were used to represent the redemption and forgiveness of God for the sins of His people.
However, the blood of the lambs alone would not have been enough to redeem all of mankind for all their innumerable sins and faults, and that was why the sacrificial and sin offerings were repeatedly done again and again by the priests and the high priests who offered them for the sake of the people of God. But God had promised His salvation to all of His people, telling and reassuring them all that one day He would send His Saviour, Who would deliver them all from their sins, much as how He has once delivered them and freed them from the hands of the Pharaoh and the Egyptians, leading them to freedom and bringing them to the Promised Land where He settled them and made them to dwell in peace. Again all of those were prefigurement of the salvation that is to come for all of us, the whole people, all the children of mankind. For through His Beloved Son, His only Begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ, Our Eternal High Priest, He showed us all the sure path to eternal life and salvation, because by His offering of the perfect and most worthy offering, which is worth all of the immense and unimaginably great extent of our many sins and wickedness, of all mankind that has, is and will ever exist, from the beginning to the end of time, He has redeemed all of us, once and for all through this supreme act of sacrifice and offering. And what is this perfect and most worthy offering, brothers and sisters in Christ? It is none other than His own Most Precious Body and Blood, the Body and Blood of the Lamb of God, broken and outpoured upon us from the Altar of the Cross. Through His Precious Body and Blood, Christ has made with us all, a New and Eternal Covenant between us and God.
As we reflect on the words of the Sacred Scriptures on this great Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of the Lord, we celebrate the great and Most Precious Body and Blood of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, Who has given His Body and Blood for us to partake, in Holy Communion of the Church, the Sacrament of the Most Holy Eucharist, Corpus Christi. On this day, celebrating this great and most important aspect of our faith and pondering upon the mystery and the important tenet of this Real Presence in the Eucharist, of the Most Holy Body and Blood of the Lord that we have partaken, all of us are called to be faithful bearers of this truth, and to proclaim the Real Presence of the Lord in the Eucharist, as our faith has required of us. All of us are brought together and reminded of this great real and spiritual union all of us have as the parts and members of the same Church of God, the Body of Christ, that is the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. On this day, all of us are called to remember our belief in the Real Presence in the Eucharist, as we all believe that the bread and wine offered by the Priests at the Holy Mass is truly turned into the real and true essence, material and substance of the Lord Himself in the Flesh and Blood. All of us believe that the bread and wine while they may seem to appear still like bread and wine, but we believe that they have been completely turn in reality, essence and all things to the very essence of the Body and Blood of the Lord Himself, and this is what we all know as the Real Presence in the Eucharist. We believe wholeheartedly that when we receive the Eucharist in Holy Communion, all of us are not just merely remembering the event of His giving us His Body and Blood, and we are also not just commemorating the event of the Last Supper and the Lord’s sacrifice on His Cross. Instead, all of us truly believe that the Holy Mass itself is the same Sacrifice that the Lord had made on His Cross, through time immemorial and beyond the boundaries of time and space, uniting all Christians, all sharing in the Most Precious Body and Blood of the Lord that has been given to us, for us to eat, drink and share amongst us all as the tangible sign of unity in us all as Christians, members of the same Body of Christ, the Church. May God in His infinite grace and mercy, grant us His grace and may the Lord, truly present in the Eucharist, continue to help and guide us, strengthen us all in our journey throughout life. May He continue to guide and empower His Church, all of us who are faithful in this world and beyond, so that each and every one of us will continue to proclaim His truth and Good News, and may all of us continue to grow ever closer to God and His love, and may He be glorified by our actions and works, in each and every moments. Amen 🙏
SAINTS OF THE DAY: MEMORIAL OF SAINTS MARCELLINUS AND PETER, MARTYRS; SAINT ERASMUS (ELMO), BISHOP AND MARTYR AND SAINT BLANDINA, MARTYR ~ FEAST DAY: JUNE 2ND On this feast of Corpus Christi, as we continue the Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in preparation for the Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, today, we celebrate the Memorial of Saints Marcellinus and Peter, Martyrs; Saint Erasmus (Elmo), Bishop and Martyr and Saint Blandina, Martyr. Through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary and the Saints on this feast day, we humbly pray for the sick, we pray for God’s divine healing and intervention. We also pray for the poor and the needy, for peace, love and unity in our families and our world. And we continue to pray for the Church, the Clergy, for persecuted Christians, for the conversion of sinners, and Christians all over the world.🙏
SAINTS MARCELLINUS AND PETER, MARTYRS: Sts. Marcellinus and Peter are two fourth century Roman martyrs who suffered under the Diocletian persecution, about the year 304; St. Peter was an exorcist and St. Marcellinus was a priest. Eminent for their zeal and piety, they were condemned to die for their faith. Saints Marcellinus and Peter were highly venerated after the discovery of their tomb and the conversion of their executioner. In 302, the ruler changed his tolerant stance and pursued a policy intended to eliminate the Church from the empire. Diocletian and his subordinate ordered the burning of Catholic churches and their sacred texts, as well as the imprisonment and torture of clergy and laypersons. The goal was to force Christians to submit to the Roman pagan religion, including the worship of the emperor himself as divine. It was at the mid-point of this persecution, around 303, that a Roman exorcist by the name of Peter was imprisoned for his faith. While in prison, tradition holds that St. Peter freed Paulina, the daughter of the prison-keeper Artemius, from demonic influence by his prayers. This demonstration of Christ’s power over demons is said to have brought about the conversion of Paulina, Artemius, his wife, and the entire household, all of whom were baptized by the Roman priest St. Marcellinus.
After this, both St. Marcellinus and Peter were called before a judge who was determined to enforce the emperor’s decree against the Church. When St. Marcellinus testified courageously to his faith in Christ, he was beaten, stripped of his clothes, and deprived of food in a dark cell filled with broken glass shards. St. Peter, too, was returned to his confinement. But neither man would deny Christ, and both preferred death over submission to the cult of pagan worship. It was arranged for the two men to be executed secretly, in order to prevent the faithful from gathering in prayer and veneration at the place of their burial. Their executioner forced them to clear away a tangle of thorns and briars, which the two men did cheerfully, accepting their death with joy. Both men were beheaded in the forest called the Silva Nigra and buried in the clearing they had made. They were beheaded in secret so that their place of burial would remain unknown. The location of the saints’ bodies remained unknown for some time, until a devout woman named Lucilla received a revelation informing her where the priest and exorcist lay. With the assistance of another woman, Firmina, Lucilla recovered the two saints’ bodies and had them re-interred in the Roman Catacombs. By an irony of Divine Providence, the Martyr’s names Sts. Marcellinus and Peter that were doomed to oblivion have been inserted in the Western Church’s most traditional Eucharistic prayer, the Roman Canon of the Mass (that is, Eucharistic Prayer I) where they have been perpetuated over the centuries. Pope St. Damasus I, who was himself a great devotee of the Church’s saints during his life, he composed an epitaph to mark the tombs of the two martyrs. The source of his knowledge of the Saints, he said, was the executioner himself, who had subsequently repented and became a Christian and joined the Catholic Church. Their cultus was so important that after peace was restored to the Church, Constantine built a basilica in their honor.
PRAYER: God, You surround and protect us by the glorious confession of Your holy Martyrs, Sts. Marcellinus and Peter. Help us to profit from their example and be supported by their prayer. Amen🙏
SAINT ERASMUS (ELMO), BISHOP AND MARTYR: St. Erasmus of Formia (d. 303 AD), also known as St. Elmo was born in the 3rd century. St. Erasmus name morphed into St. Elmo as it was passed along. He is also one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, saintly figures of Christian tradition who are venerated especially as intercessors, they are a band of saints whose intercession was asked for around the time of the bubonic plague. St. Erasmus or Elmo was an Italian bishop of Formia in Asia Minor. Formia, sits between Rome and Naples. When that city burned, he moved to the nearby town of Gaeta, and he remains the city’s patron. Both Formia and Gaeta sit on the west coast of Italy, and St. Erasmus was invoked by sailors who frequented their ports—today he is patron saint of those who make their living at sea. During storms at sea, sailors noticed a blue electrical discharges dancing in their rigging and masts, and took it as a sign of St. Erasmus’ protection. This meteorological phenomenon – the electrical discharge on ships at sea, gave the evolution of his name, we know this today as “St. Elmo’s Fire.”
St. Erasmus or Elmo was bishop during the reign of Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian. According to legend, during their brutal persecution against Christians, St. Elmo left his diocese and fled to Mount Lebanon where he lived for seven years and being sustained by food delivered by a raven. An angel advised him to return to his diocese in order to vanquish his enemies. As he traveled there he was stopped and questioned by Roman soldiers. After declaring himself to be a Christian, he was brought to stand trial before Diocletian himself. St. Elmo confessed his faith in Christ and denounced the emperor for his impiety. For this rebuke he was tortured and thrown into prison, but an angel miraculously freed him so that he could continue on his journey and save many souls along the way. Two more times St. Elmo would endure the cycle of working miracles, baptizing thousands of people, getting arrested and mercilessly tortured, and being miraculously freed before arriving back in his own diocese. During his travels he suffered many horrible tortures at the hands of his enemies, but according to the oldest tradition he died at peace in Formia, though later accounts have him being martyred there by disembowelment. Died in 303 AD at Illyria. Relics of St. Erasmus rest in the reliquary chapel in the Basilica. St. Elmo is venerated as the patron saint of those suffering from abdominal pain because he was martyred by being disemboweled. He’s the Patron Saint of sailors, mariners, abdominal pain, colic in children, intestinal ailments and diseases, cramps and the pain of women in labor, cattle pest, Gaeta, Formia, Fort St. Elmo, (Malta). His feast day is June 2nd.
PRAYER: Holy martyr Erasmus, who didst willingly and bravely bear the trials and sufferings of life, and by thy charity didst console many fellow-sufferers; I implore thee to remember me in my needs and to intercede for me with God. Staunch confessor of the Faith, victorious vanquisher of all tortures, pray Jesus for me and ask Him to grant me the grace to live and die in the Faith through which thou didst obtain the crown of glory. Amen🙏
SAINT BLANDINA, MARTYR: St. Blandina, lived as a slave at Lyons, Gaul in the second century after Christ. She was a Christian martyr, one of the illustrious company of those martyred under the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius in Lugdunum. She was apprehended and taken into custody together with her master, who was also a Christian. St. Blandina was tortured for her faith; she endured every torment imaginable, to the extent that the tormentors confessed that they could not think of anything else to do to her. And to every question put to her, she gave the same answer: “I am a Christian, and we commit no wrong.” Brought to the arena for fresh torments, St. Blandina was bound to a stake and wild beasts were released upon her but refused to harm her. She witnessed the podvigs (struggles) of all her fellows, and was the last to suffer martyrdom, by being placed on a red hot grate, enclosed in a net, and thrown before a wild steer, who tossed her into the air with his horns. In this manner the great martyr of Christ received her crown. He body was burned and ashes thrown in the Tiber River. She is Patron Saint of those falsely accused of cannibalism, servant girl, torture victims.
PRAYER: Grant, O Lord, that we who keep the feast of the holy martyrs Blandina and her companions may be rooted and grounded in love of you, and may endure the sufferings of this life for the glory that shall be revealed in us; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen🙏
DEVOTION OF THE MONTH OF JUNE: The month of June is set apart for devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. “From among all the proofs of the infinite goodness of our Savior none stands out more prominently than the fact that, as the love of the faithful grew cold, He, Divine Love Itself, gave Himself to us to be honored by a very special devotion and that the rich treasury of the Church was thrown wide open in the interests of that devotion.” These words of Pope Pius XI refer to the Sacred Heart Devotion, which in its present form dates from the revelations given to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque in 1673-75.
*THE POPE’S MONTHLY INTENTIONS FOR 2024: FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE – FOR MIGRANTS FLEEING THEIR HOMES: We pray that migrants fleeing from war or hunger, forced to undertake journeys full of danger and violence, find welcome and new opportunities in the countries that receive them.
https://www.usccb.org/prayers/popes-monthly-intentions-2024
Let us pray:
Corpus Christi: My ever-glorious Eucharistic Lord, I do believe that You are here, made present in our world under the form of bread and wine, every time the Holy Mass is celebrated. Fill me with a deeper faith in this Holy Gift, dear Lord, so that I may be drawn into wonder and awe every time I witness this holy Consecration. Jesus, I trust in You ~ Amen 🙏
Save Us, Savior of the World. Our Most Blessed Mother Mary and Saints Marcellinus and Peter; Saint Erasmus (Elmo) and Saint Blandina ~ Pray for us🙏
Thanking God for the gift of this day and the gift of the Holy Spirit and praying for justice, peace, love and unity in our families and our world and for God’s Divine Mercy and Grace upon us all. Have a blessed, safe, and grace-filled Corpus Christi Sunday and week🙏
Blessings and Love always, Philomena 💖