Always act in such a way, that if God should decide to call you from this world, you may enter not into His judgment, but into His peace. Listen, dear ones, and understand that what you look upon in this world is nothing but it is like the Prophet Solomon's song, 'All is vanity.' Happy is he who can live in the world so as to deserve to see the glory of God in heaven - St. Salvius of Albi.
So what are we called to do as Catholic Christians by this Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ we are celebrating today? We are called to: (a) acknowledge and honor the real presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist; (b) to thank God for remaining with us through the gift of His Son in the Eucharist; and, (c) to be grateful to God for feeding and strengthening us with the Body and Blood of His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
Today we celebrate the Solemnity of our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe. Our first reading today from the Second Book of Samuel, 2 Sm 5:1–3, ...
My dear friends in Christ, saying “yes” to God entails loving Him and surrendering to Him by listening to His Word, accepting His Word, and putting His Word in practice. So let us say “no” to the world and “yes” to God like Joshua and Simon Peter in today’s readings, then firmly follow Christ by truly believing in Him and by showing the world that He has the words of eternal life and is indeed the Holy One of God.
