THE SOLEMNITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI : THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST, THE EUCHARIST..........

Today, two Sundays after Pentecost and the conclusion of the Easter Season, we as Catholic-Christian Believers in the Paschal Mystery of Jesus the Christ celebrate Corpus Christi, the Memorial of the Body and Blood of Jesus, we share as the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. Why do we set aside an additional Sunday each year to focus in on the Eucharist, when faithful Catholic-Christians participate in the Memorial of the Body and Blood every Sunday since Jesus' Resurrection , two thousand years ago and daily since the 4thCentury of Christianity ? The answer is because our sharing in the breaking of the bread of life and the drinking of the cup of salvation, is not just an empty obligation or rote ritual, that we should ever take for granted, but the renewable opportunity to glorify God and strengthen and sustain ourselves and the community of believers, in the most Blessed Sacrament, the Memorial of Christ's Passion, Death, and Resurrection, by doing what Jesus commanded us to do, "Eat this bread, my Body - and drink this cup, my Blood, in memory of me". May your partaking in the Holy Eucharist which the Second Vatican Council declared is the, "Source and Summit", of our lives always be for you and your families and fellow believers, a renewed opprtunity to grow ever closer to being the Body and Blood of Christ for others..........Peace, Prayers, And Worship, In Our Eucharistic Lord, Fr. Troy

******HAPPY 62ND ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD, TO MSGR. EDWARD J. KAVANAGH, WHO WAS ORDAINED IN ST. MARY'S / ST. KIERAN'S CATHEDRAL IN KILKENNY, IRELAND ON JUNE 6, 1948, FOR THE DIOCESE OF SACRAMENTO. ALL 62 YEARS OF HIS PRIESTLY MINISTRY HAVING OCCURRED AT ST. ROSE'S PARISH, AND ST. PATRICK'S HOME AND SCHOOL, ON FRANKLIN BOULEVARD IN SOUTH SACRAMENTO. HE IS MY CHERISHED FIRST PASTOR, MENTOR, COLLEAGUE, AND FRIEND..........AD MULTOS ANNOS, MSGR. K. !!!!!!!!!!