07/06/2026

Corpus Christi

This day 80 years ago I made my first Holy Communion. It was a day of great importance to my mother in particular and I remember it not as the beginning of my awareness of the "Real Presence" but as one of the first of the occasions that I brought humiliation to my mother and myself.

At the traditional breakfast that followed the Mass, I was tricked by the boy sitting next to me who on finishing his boiled egg, reversed it in  his egg-cup and told me that he had got a second one and so "Oliver Twist" asked for another one too.

In his gospel St John always refers to the high and the mighty, the learned and the clever as "The Jews" because that is what they were. The leaders of Temple Religion were rich and powerful, studious and intelligent, descendants of Abraham and heirs of the Covenants that had revealed them to be the "Chosen People" as recorded in the Pentateuch.

The Real TRUTH, revealed by the Incarnate WORD, however is that although they had somehow taken a wrong turn they were to become the enactors of the final Sacrifice and thus enable the "Incarnate Real Presence" to reset how we are to attain Salvation by creating and becoming the new way of being within time that is Sacramental  Real Presence and for this they were not to be considered guilt burdened.

IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT forgives The Jews. "Father forgive them for they know not what they do". The Gospel, the Good News that the Incarnation proclaims in his life, death and Resurrection is that we are all forgiven. 

Yet, the Crucifixion seems to be a great crime against Our Father. It happened in real-time, however, because it was the will of the Father that within his creation mankind is free to choose to respond to the LOVE which is IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT and that He accepts our choice and our will as if it were as real as his own. It is the great mystery of our salvation that it is therefore, only as "True Man" that the All Powerful limits himself to  create True Forgiveness.

God knows that I have been beset by personal weakness and sin throughout my life but that in these last forty years I have sometimes been able to access the grace for which Our Saviour died to create. I actually do believe that at the Last Supper he did create an order of Priests to become ministers in the Church founded on St Peter. 

Jesus forgave the "established Church" that was the Temple and led his people onto the new way that condemns no-one but leads us all to the foot of the Cross where in his dying moments he tells us that there is also a Church of Love, a New Holy Family in which all the peoples of the World can find forgiveness for sin and the peace in which to prepare for the end of our being in this world. We are all as guilty as each other but each one of us is also loved and fed to the same degree. In a family there are no favourites.

                                            "Woman behold thy son. Son behold thy mother."