My Family Prayer Book

2026-06-07 Solemnity of Corpus Christi aka  Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ    Opening Prayer In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Lord Jesus Christ, you gave us the Eucharist as the memorial of your suffering and death. May our worship of this sacrament of your Body and Blood help us to experience the salvation you won for us and the peace of the kingdom where you live with the Father and the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.   Amen.  Practice of Faith from last week Think about how God loved us and how thjta should inform our love for God and one another Reflect on places and moments in your life when God's love has been especially clear to you Consider times when someone demonstrated slowness to anger or abounding love or the kind of encouraging care to which paul exhorts the Corinthians. How did those experiences make you feel? What can you imitate from them?    What is Co...

  Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Corpus Christi Exodus 24:3-8 At Mount Sinai, Moses delivers to the Israelites the laws and regulations - the Torah - that affirms their covenant with God.  The 12 pillars represent the 12 tribes of Israel (sons and grandsons of Jacob aka Israel). The 12 apostles are the new representatives of modern covenant Sprinkling of blood to seal the covenant is a precursor of the crucifixion and death of Christ Psalm 116 Called the psalm of the righteous - it first poses the question of how one can repay God for all his generous gifts then proceeds to answer it by saying, ‘by offering praise and thanksgiving’ Hebrew 9:11-15 The priestly sacrifice of Jewish priest in the temple was a symbol of the one true redemption: the death and resurrection of Christ was the Christ officiated as high priest in a much more magnificent and perfect temple than either the man-made tabernacle or the temple of old.  Just as a Jewish high priest passes through the o...