{"id":1477,"date":"2020-06-14T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2020-06-14T07:13:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-14T11:13:19","slug":"6-14-the-feast-of-corpus-christi-the-solemnity-of-the-most-holy-body-and-blood-of-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/?p=1477","title":{"rendered":"6\/14 The Feast of Corpus Christi: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1478\" src=\"http:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rp-300x119.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rp-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rp.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>As we\u2019ve gathered apart united by the Spirit, in our separation we long for the coming time when we can be &#8211; <em>gathered all together in one place<\/em> &#8211; as the apostles were on Pentecost.\u00a0 And in a world divided and enslaved by sin we continue to pray for restoration and change and a \u201cone place\u201d of united healing for all. On this Sunday of the Feast of Corpus Christi \u2013 The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ we celebrate the Real Presence of Jesus in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. \u00a0Saved by the Blood of Jesus we cry out in the words of St. Thomas Aquinas in acknowledgment of this holy mystery:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>O saving Victim opening wide the gate of Heaven to us below, our foes press on from every side, your aid supply, your strength bestow.<\/em><\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>We look forward to celebrating together and receiving the bread of heaven which restores us, let us recall Jesus\u2019 words: \u201cThe bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.\u201d\u00a0 And we pray that this Real Healing Presence and Real Answer to our Real Problems will become manifest and incarnate in our lives and actions, our words and deeds \u2013 that we may recognize and acknowledge His Presence in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar and in the hearts and lives of those around us:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong><em>Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to comfort and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in life of friend and stranger.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we\u2019ve gathered apart united by the Spirit, in our separation we long for the coming time when we can be &#8211; gathered all together in one place &#8211; as the apostles were on Pentecost.\u00a0 And in a world divided and enslaved by sin we continue to pray for restoration and change and a \u201cone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/?p=1477\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">6\/14 The Feast of Corpus Christi: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/standrewsharlem.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}