Sunday, June 22 : Saint Gaudentius of Brescia

When Jesus gave bread and wine devoted to his disciples, he expressed himself as well: “This is my body … This is my blood” (Mt 26,26.28). (…) The bread is necessarily made by many wheat grains reduced to flour kneaded with water; It is completed by cooking on fire. So we see in him with reason the figure of the body of Christ. Because we know that this unique body is made up of the multitude of the whole human race and welded by the fire of the Holy Spirit. Jesus was born indeed from the Holy Spirit; And because he had to accomplish all justice thus, he entered the water of the baptism to consecrate it and he came out of the Jordan, filled with the Holy Spirit which had descended on the form of a dove, according to the testimony of the Gospel: “Jesus, filled with the Holy Spirit, returned from the edges of the Jordan” (LC 4,1). The blood of Christ is a wine from the press of the cross, it is taken from the many grapes of the vine that Jesus has planted himself; and he ferments by his own virtue in the stoneware vessels that are the faithful hearts of those who drink it. This sacrifice of the Savior’s Passover, all of us who come out of the grip of the Pharaoh of Egypt, the Devil, let us receive it with the religious longing of our heart. Thus, the most intimate of our being will be sanctified by our Lord Jesus Christ himself whom we believe present in his sacraments. Its invaluable strength remains for eternity.
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