The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

by Fr. Jess Ty  |  06/22/2025  |  Weekly Reflection

Dear Family of God,

St. John Vianney once said: “There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given is to us.” The Mass, the Eucharist, Jesus’ Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity is the greatest gift God could ever give us on this side of heaven. We got to receive Him every time we participated in Mass during Holy Communion. This is the foretaste of heaven on earth.

The question is, do we believe that it is Jesus that we receive and that He deeply longs to unite with us just as He and Father are one?

Catechism says: Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us, is present in many ways to His Church: in his Word, in his Church’s prayer, “where two or three are gathered in my name,” in the poor, in the sick, and the imprisoned, in the sacraments in which He is the author, in the sacrifice of the Mass, and in the person of the minister. But He is present… most especially in the Eucharistic species. (CCC. 1373).

The mode of Christ’s presence under the Eucharistic species is unique. It raises the Eucharist above all the sacraments as “the perfection of the spiritual life and the end to which all the sacraments tend.” In the most Blessed Sacrament of the Eucharist “the body and blood, together with the soul and divinity, of our Lord Jesus Christ and, therefore, the whole Christ is truly, really, and substantially contained. This presence is called ‘real’—by which is not intended to exclude the other types of presence as if they are not ‘real’ too, but it is presence in the fullest sense: that is to say, it is substantial presence by which Christ, God and Man, makes himself wholly and entirely present.” (CCC.1374). (To understand more the background of REAL PRESENCE, please go to formed.org and watch: “Lectio: The Eucharist” by Dr. Brant Pitre, Session 5.)

May the Blessed Virgin Mary intercede for us to have more faith in Jesus really present in the Eucharist and spend more time in adoration.

Yours in Christ Through Mary Immaculate