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Thanks to Deacon Vincent for your Reflections for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi Year C.
1st Reading from the Book of Genesis 14: 18-20.
There are constant echoes of the New Testament in the First Testament. Here we have one where this presentation of bread and wine by the priest Melchisedek. It is a vision of the Sacrifice of the Mass whereby we encounter Christ in an extraordinary manner using the same gifts of bread and wine. Melchisedek offers the gifts in thanksgiving to God Most High for Abram’s victory over his enemies. It is a precursor of the gifts we offer to God the Most High for Christ’s victory over death.
Psalm 110(109): 1-4.
This song continues our connection with the priesthood of Melchisedek. Early Christians applied this song to Jesus, but of course, Jesus was the real thing, Melchisedek a precursor.
2nd Reading from the First Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians 11: 23-26.
This is part of Paul’s treatise on the connection of the Eucharist and the unity of the Community gathered to celebrate the Eucharist. Paul goes back to the institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper. Jesus declaring the bread as his body and the wine as his blood. “As often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.” We are the one bread and the one cup and therefore should always be at one with God and each other at this celebration. It should always be the sign of our oneness with God and each other. We should always remember Jesus’ prayer, “That they shall be One as You and I, Father, are One.”
The Holy Gospel according to Luke 9: 11b-17. 
Luke gives great importance to hospitality. Jesus had welcomed the crowds and had healed and taught them, but time was running out and the day was drawing to a close. The disciples are concerned for the crowd’s welfare, so Jesus tells them to feed the crowd themselves. They are amazed, as they only had a few loaves and two fish, and looking at the crowd the cost to feed them would be exorbitant. Then this amazing incident whereby Jesus takes the loaves and fishes and looking up to heaven blessed them, then started to break them apart and hand them out. Jesus is careful to avoid being crushed in the rush so has them sit down in groups of about fifty, the food is then distributed in an orderly manner. Afterwards they collect twelve baskets of scraps. This is an amazing vision of the Eucharist how Jesus would bless his followers with such an amazing gift as himself. Here he is at the heart of the miracle and in the Eucharist, he is still at the heart of the gifts
Thank you, Jesus, for your wonderful gift to us of Yourself.
Deacon Vincent.
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