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22-06-2025 MOST HOLY BODY & BLOOD OF CHRIST Year C
INTRODUCTION of the reference to the offering of
Dear Brothers and Sisters, bread and wine. Christ is the King
Today Holy Mother Church and Priest who offered himself and
commemorates the institution continues to offer himself daily, as a
of the Holy Eucharist. The feast true sacrifice to God the Father on
of Corpus Christi is a Catholic our behalf, under the form of bread
liturgical solemnity, celebrating and wine in the blessed Eucharist.
the real presence of the body A reading from the Book of
and blood of Jesus Christ, the Genesis 14:18-20
Son of God, in the elements of the In those days:
Holy Eucharist. Let us celebrate Melchizedek king of Salem
this feast with deep respect and brought out bread and wine.
devotion. (He was a priest of God Most
ENTRANCE ANTIPHON High.) And he blessed him and
He fed them with the finest wheat said, “Blessed be Abram by God
and satisfied them with honey Most High, Possessor of heaven
from the rock. (Ps 80:17) and earth; and blessed be God
COLLECT Most High, who has delivered
O God, who in this wonderful your enemies into your hand!”
Sacrament have left us a memorial And Abram gave him a tenth of
of your Passion, grant us, we everything.
pray, so to revere the sacred The word of the Lord
mysteries of your Body and Blood
that we may always experience RESPONSORIAL PSALM 110:1,
in ourselves the fruits of your 2, 3, 4 (R. 4bc)
redemption. Through our Lord R. You are a priest forever, in
Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives the line of Melchizedek.
and reigns with you in the unity of
the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever The Lord’s revelation to my lord:
and ever. “Sit at my right hand, until I make
your foes your footstool. R.
FIRST READING
The Lord will send from Sion your
The life of Abraham has been sceptre of power: rule in the midst
chosen for our first reading on this of your foes. R.
Feast of Corpus Christi, because
With you in princely rule on In old types pre-signified.
the day of your power. In holy Jesu, shepherd of the sheep:
splendour, from the womb before Thou thy flock in safety keep,
the dawn, I have begotten you. R. Living bread, thy life supply:
The Lord has sworn an oath he Strengthen us, or else we die,
will not change: “You are a priest Fill us with celestial grace,
forever, a priest in the line of Thou, who feedest us below:
Melchizedek.” R. Source of all we have or know:
SECOND READING Grant that with Thy Saints above,
Sitting at the feast of love,
In this second reading, we hear We may see Thee face to face.
St. Paul preaching the doctrine Amen. Alleluia.
of the Blessed Eucharist to his
Corinthian converts. The custom of ALLELUIA (Jn 6:51)
the early Church was to imitate the V. Alleluia, R. Alleluia.
Last Supper, during which our Lord V. I am the living bread that came
had his last meal with his disciples, down from heaven, says the Lord;
and then instituted the Eucharist. If any one eats of this bread, he
A reading from the First Letter will live for ever.
of Saint Paul to the Corinthians R. Alleluia.
11:23-26 GOSPEL
Brethren: A reading from the holy Gospel
I received from the Lord what I according to Luke 9:11-17
also delivered to you, that the Lord At that time:
Jesus on the night when he was
betrayed took bread, and when he Jesus spoke to the crowds of the
had given thanks, he broke it, and kingdom of God and cured those
said, “This is my body, which is for who had needed healing. Now
you. Do this in remembrance of the day began to wear away, and,
me.” In the same way also he took the twelve came and said to him,
the chalice, after supper, saying, “Send the crowd away to go into
“This chalice is the new covenant the surrounding villages and
in my blood. Do this, as often as countryside to find lodging and
you drink it, in remembrance of get provisions, for we are here in
me.” For as often as you eat this a desolate place.” But he said to
bread and drink the chalice, you them, “You give them something
proclaim the Lord’s death until he to eat.” They said, “We have no
comes. more than five loaves and two
The word of the Lord fish – unless we are to go and
buy food for all these people.” For
SEQUENCE (Shorter form) there were about five thousand
“Behold the Bread of Angels, men. And he said to his disciples,
For us pilgrims food, and token “Make them sit down in groups of
Of the promise by Christ spoken, about fifty each.” And they did so,
Children’s meant, to dogs denied. and made them all sit down. And
Shewn in Isaac’s dedication, taking the five loaves and the two
In the manna’s preparation: fish he looked up to heaven, and
In the Paschal immolation,
said a blessing over them. Then Celebrant: Most generous Father,
he broke the loaves and gave them you provide all our needs with
to the disciples to set before the the sublime gift of your Son in the
crowd. And they all ate and were sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.
satisfied. And what was picked up, Receive and grant our prayers
twelve baskets of broken pieces. through him, who lives and reigns
The Gospel of the Lord for ever and ever. Amen.
HOMILY PRAYER OVER THE
NICENE CREED OFFERINGS
PRAYER OF THE FAITHFUL Grant your Church, O Lord, we
pray, the gifts of unity and peace,
Celebrant: In the Holy Eucharist, whose signs are to be seen in
the Father nourishes his people mystery in the offerings we here
with his beloved Son. Let us pray present. Through Christ our Lord.
to our loving father for all our
needs. PREFACE I (Body and Blood)
Response: LORD, HEAR OUR It is truly right and just, our duty
PRAYER. and our salvation, always and
everywhere to give you thanks,
1. Let us pray for our Lord, holy Father, almighty and
Holy Father Pope Leo XIV, our eternal God, through Christ our
Archbishop and all the Bishops, Lord.
Priests and Religious that they
may pattern their hearts to the For at the Last Supper with his
mystery that they celebrate. For Apostles, establishing for the ages
this we pray to the Lord. to come the saving memorial of
the Cross, he offered himself to
2. Let us pray for the peace you as the unblemished Lamb,
of all families in our parish, the acceptable gift of perfect
that the Eucharistic Lord may praise. Nourishing your faithful
heal their hatred, divisions and by this sacred mystery, you make
misunderstandings in their day them holy, so that the human
to day lives. For this we pray to the race, bounded by one world, may
Lord. be enlightened by one faith and
3. Let us pray for the sick, the united by one bond of charity.
suffering and dying, that they may And so, we approach the table
draw strength, consolation and of this wondrous Sacrament, so
healing with the body and blood that, bathed in the sweetness of
of Jesus Christ. For this we pray to your grace, we may pass over
the Lord. to the heavenly realities here
4. Let us pray for those who foreshadowed.
are oppressed by starvation and Therefore, all creatures of heaven
hunger in soul and body, that the and earth sing a new song in
Eucharistic Lord extend his hands adoration, and we, with all the
of mercy to meet their needs. For host of Angels, cry out, and
this we pray to the Lord. without end we acclaim:
All: Holy,
COMMUNION ANTIPHON [Link] NEED REPENTANCE: (Acts
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks 2:) 38 And Peter said to them,
my blood remains in me and I in “Repent, and be baptized every one
him, says the Lord. (Jn 6:57) of you in the name of Jesus Christ
for the forgiveness of your sins; and
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION you shall receive the gift of the Holy
Grant, O Lord, we pray, that we Spirit.
may delight for all eternity in that “To repent is to change one’s
share in your divine life, which is attitude toward self, toward sin,
foreshadowed in the present age toward God and toward Christ.”
by our reception of your precious 2. WE NEED TO ACCEPT THE
Body and Blood. Who live and MESSAGE OF CHRIST: Acts 2:41 So
reign for ever and ever. those who received his word were
REFLECTION baptized, and there were added that
Jesus instituted the communion or day about three thousand souls.
the Lord’s Supper in remembrance “Your greatest message will be
of Him. Though it is a simple spoken by your life, not your lips.”
symbolic celebration, it is a
covenant with the Lord and our 3. WE NEED TO EXAMINE ONE’S
fellow believers in the Holy Church. OWN SELF: 1 Corinthians 11:28
Christ celebrated this only once Let a man examine himself, and so
with His disciples on the eve of eat of the bread and drink of the
Gethsemane, and asked us to do as cup.
a remembrance of Him every day. “There is nothing outside of
There is a small story is said about yourself that can ever enable you to
a hen and a pig going for a morning get better, stronger, richer, quicker
walk. They passed in front of a or smarter. Everything is within.
small hotel, where the menu board Everything exists. Seek nothing
read like this: outside of yourself.”
This morning’s special……….. 4. WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE THE
Omlette BODY OF THE LORD: 1 Corinthians
11:29 For anyone who eats and
Sausage! drinks without discerning the body,
Then the hen said proudly to the eats and drinks judgment upon
pig, “Look, I have come to give a himself.
DONATION to make an Omlette!” “Don’t worry when you are not
the pig interrupted and said “But recognized, but strive to be worthy
I have come to SACRIFICE myself
to make that sausage!” Yes, we can of recognition.”- Abraham Lincon
break bread with an attitude of 5. WE NEED TO WALK IN THE
mere donation or sacrifice. LIGHT OF CHRIST: 1 John 1:7 If
From this beautiful story, let we walk in the light, as he is in the
us ask ourselves what are the light, we have fellowship with one
qualifications we need for the another, and the blood of Jesus his
breaking of Bread. Son, cleanses us from all sin.
Imprimatur : + Peter Machado, Archbishop of Bangalore
Published by: Archdiocesan Liturgical Commission
Paalanaa Bhavana, 5, Nandidurg Road, Jayamahal Extension, Benson Town Post,
Bengaluru 560046.