Corpus Christi

Today is the Feast of Corpus Christi on the calendar of the Catholic Church. We honor the Body and Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ for the very reason that it is through His Precious Body and Blood that we are saved. The Gospel of Matthew spells it out quite clearly: unless the eat His Body and drink His blood you shall not have life within you.

Christ is very emphatic on the point: the Aramaic verb He used for eat translates into 'munch or gnaw'. It caused many to leave the fold the day He uttered it, and He even tells the Apostles, in so many words, that they could leave too if they didn't like it.

What we have here is another great example of who He is: lunatic, liar, or Lord, as St. Thomas Aquinas puts it. Do you have the courage the be in the right column on the issue?