St. Edmund School of Religion

06/07/2026

The Solemnity of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

Every year we celebrate Corpus Christi, one of the most beautiful feasts of the Church. Her is why!

1. Corpus Christi means “Body of Christ.”
The feast celebrates Jesus Christ truly present in the Holy Eucharist, His Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity.

2. It is one of the Church’s most important Eucharistic feasts.
The day is dedicated entirely to honoring the Blessed Sacrament and deepening our love for Jesus in the Eucharist.

3. It began because of a Eucharistic miracle and a saint’s vision.
St. Juliana of Liège promoted the feast after receiving visions that encouraged greater devotion to the Eucharist.

4. The feast was established for the whole Church in 1264.
Pope Urban IV extended the celebration to the universal Church after the Eucharistic Miracle of Bolsena.

5. Catholics believe the Eucharist is truly Jesus.
At Mass, the bread and wine become the Body and Bl00d of Christ, even though they still look like bread and wine.

6. Eucharistic processions are a public witness of faith.
When Catholics carry the Blessed Sacrament through the streets, they proclaim that Christ is Lord of every place and every person.

7. Corpus Christi is a reminder of the Last Supper.
It recalls the moment Jesus gave us the Eucharist and commanded His disciples to continue celebrating it.

8. The feast calls us to Eucharistic reverence.
It invites Catholics to approach Holy Communion with faith, preparation, and gratitude.

9. It reminds us that Jesus remains with us. Through the Eucharist, Christ fulfills His promise: “I am with you always, to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:20).

10. Corpus Christi is not only about adoration but also transformation.
The more we receive Jesus worthily, the more we are called to become like Him in love, mercy, humility, and service.

In simple words, Corpus Christi Sunday is the Church's joyful celebration of the greatest treasure we possess, the Holy Eucharist. It reminds us that Jesus did not leave us alone after His Ascension. He remains with us in every tabernacle, at every Mass, and in every worthy Holy Communion.

06/06/2026

Join us on at St. Edmund Parish on Sunday, June 7 at 11:00am for "The Solemnity of Corpus Christi"

We will gather at the Grotto with the Most Blessed Sacrament for a short procession around church property.

We will conclude our procession in Church for the 11:30AM Eucharist.

Our First Holy Communion Children are asked to come dressed in their Communion outfits to lead the procession.

Please arrive and meet at the Grotto by 1O:45AM. Seating will be available for all in need.

06/03/2026

Day 1 - Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Today, let's pray that we might have hearts that are conformed to Jesus'.

Let's pray that we may have more forgiving hearts - that we may be like Christ in showing unlimited mercy to others every day.

This version of the novena is attributed to Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque. She is most commonly associated with the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

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Here are the prayers for today:
Day 1 - Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

(Audio/Video Version)
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.”

Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of…

(Mention your Intention Here)

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.

O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.” Behold, in your name, I ask the Father for the grace of…

(Mention your Intention Here)

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.

O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away.” Encouraged by your infallible words I now ask for the grace of…

(Mention your Intention Here)

Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.

O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of you, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, your tender Mother and ours.

Amen.

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

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05/04/2026

Today is Monday, 5th week of Easter

DAILY PRAYER
Lord Jesus,
in love you created me and you drew me to yourself.
May I never lose sight of you nor forget your steadfast love and faithfulness. And may I daily dwell upon your word and give you praise in the sanctuary of my heart, You who are my All. Amen

DAILY VERSE (John 14:26)

Alleluia, alleluia.
The Holy Spirit will teach you everything
and remind you of all I told you

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REFLECTION

we see in our Gospel reading that the Holy Spirit’s principal sign is love. The night before he died, Jesus told his friends the deepest truths. He spoke of himself, his Father, and the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit is the love that connects the Father and the Son. From all eternity, he is breathed back and forth between the Father and the Son, and hence he is nothing but love. When therefore he comes to dwell in you and me, he turns us to the path of love. “On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father.”

God has created a dynamic universe, moving restlessly and relentlessly toward a goal, and this goal has been disclosed to us in Christ: the sharing in the love between the Father and the Son. Therefore, if we wish to know the creaturely realm in all of its complexity and multiplicity, in both its coming and going, we must immerse ourselves in the stream of the Spiritus Sanctus.
- BLESSING

May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen

Courtesy of Laudate app, Homily by Bishop Barron & other sources

05/03/2026

Today is the 5th Sunday in Easter

DAILY PRAYER
Lord Jesus,
you fill us with the joy of your saving presence and you give us the hope of everlasting life with the Father in Heaven. Show me the Father that I may know and glorify him more fully. Amen

DAILY VERSE (John 14:6)l

Alleluia, alleluia.
I am the way, the truth and the life, says the Lord;
no one comes to the Father, except through me

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REFLECTION

today in the Last Supper discourse, Jesus reveals the mutual indwelling—the coinherence—of the Father and the Son.

John Donne told us that “no man is an island.” Rather, we are all interconnected. How do we identify ourselves? Almost exclusively through the naming of relationships. Coinherence is indeed the name of the game, at all levels of reality.

And Jesus lays out for us the coinherence that obtains within the very existence of God. “Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?” Though Father and Son are really distinct, they are utterly implicated in each other by a mutual act of love.

Now, the impossibly good news is that Jesus and the Father have invited us to participate in the life that they share, to enter fully into their coinherence: “In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places.” What is the “house” of the Father but his own life? Jesus’s point is that there is infinite room within the expanse of God’s life. The love between the Father and the Son—which is called “the Holy Spirit”—can be penetrated, entered into, participated in.
- BLESSING

May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen

Courtesy of Laudate app, Homily by Bishop Barron & other sources

04/05/2026

Today is Easter Sunday

DAILY PRAYER
Lord Jesus Christ,
you have triumphed over the grave and you have won new life for us.
Give me the eyes of faith to see you in your glory. Help me to draw near to you and to grow in the knowledge of your great love and power. Amen

DAILY VERSE (1 Corinthians 5:7)

Alleluia, alleluia.
Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed;
let us then feast with joy in the Lord.

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REFLECTION

Today, “is the day the LORD has made”: this is the expression of Psalm 118, 24 that we shall be singing throughout Easter time and fills out the celebration of our Christian faith. The Father has resurrected Jesus Christ, His beloved Son, in whom He delights, because He has loved to the point of giving his life for all of us.

Let us live this Easter with plenty of joy. Christ has risen: so let us celebrate it full of joy and love. Death, sin and sadness, have today been defeated by Jesus Christ... and He has opened the doors to a new life, the real life, the life we owe to the grace of the Holy Spirit. Nobody should be sad. Christ is our Peace and our Path forever and ever.

The great sign the Gospel gives us today is that Jesus' tomb is empty. We have to look no more among the dead for He who is alive has risen. And his disciples also realize his tomb is empty. They will see him risen later on; experiencing him alive in a wonderful meeting in faith.

The disciples “saw and believed”; this must also be our aim. Let us renew our paschal faith; that Christ be our Lord in everything we do. Let his Life revitalize ours and let us renew the grace of the baptism we have received; let us become his apostles and disciples; let us be guided by love and announce to all our happiness to believe in Christ; let us be hopeful witnesses of his Resurrection.

- BLESSING

May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen

04/05/2026

04/04/2026

Today is Holy Saturday

DAILY PRAYER
Lord Jesus,
you died that I might live forever in your kingdom of peace and righteousness. Strengthen my faith that I may I know the power of your resurrection and live in the hope of seeing you face to face for ever. Amen

DAILY VERSE
Create a clean heart in me, O God.

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REFLECTION

Today we celebrate the great rest of Holy Saturday. Within the Easter Triduum
we often focus our attention on the Passion or the Resurrection of the Lord, but we easily forget the link between the two events: Holy Saturday. Perhaps this happens because the profound silence of this day is quickly drowned out by the noise of our world. And yet, it is in this silence that the word acquires meaning. The death of Jesus is not symbolic: it is real. He has not only united himself with the living—in his incarnation—but, from the tomb, he has also united himself with the dead.

Yesterday—Good Friday—Jesus completed the work of redemption. Today, in the tomb, He rests. He does not act. He is pure, trusting passivity. He abandons himself into the hands of the Father, knowing that He will be set free.

Christ's descent goes beyond the tomb: he goes down to hell, to the abyss, to the realm of the dead. Like Jonah inside the sea monster, Jesus knows death from within, he fathoms it, just as we too will one day. But Holy Saturday affirms not only that the Son of God has rested among the dead, but also that he has returned from there. The Father has not left him in that realm, but has freed him from its bonds. The monster of death could not hold captive the One whom the Father loves.

And if it could not hold Him, neither will it hold those who have heard his voice: the righteous who rested in death. This is the profound mystery of Holy Saturday, a silence more eloquent than a thousand words. Let us prepare ourselves, in this silence. “Therefore my heart is glad, my soul rejoices; my body also dwells secure” (Psalm 16:9).
- BLESSING

May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen

04/03/2026

Today is Friday of the Passion of the Lord (Good Friday)

DAILY PRAYER
Lord Jesus Christ,
by your death on the cross you have won pardon for us and freedom from the tyranny of sin and death.
May I live in the joy and freedom of your victory over sin and death. Amen

DAILY VERSE (Philippians 2:8-9)

Christ became obedient to the point of death,
even death on a cross.
Because of this, God greatly exalted him
and bestowed on him the name which is above every other name

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REFLECTION

Our Gospel today is St. John’s poignant account of the arrest of Jesus. The setting is the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus has just been betrayed by Judas, seized, arrested, and bound; the ear of the high priest’s slave has been severed; all of Jesus’s disciples have fled.

In a parallel narrative, St. Mark adds this odd detail of the young man running off naked into the night. Like a Renaissance painter who puts contemporary figures into a biblical scene, here Mark places a stand-in for you and me in the scene. The young man is described as “following” Jesus. This, of course, is biblical code for discipleship.

And what is he wearing? The term used in the Greek (sindona) designates the kind of garment worn by the newly baptized. The point is this: to be a baptized member of Christ’s Church is to put oneself in harm’s way.

To be a follower of Jesus is to walk a dangerous path, one sure to upset the powers that be. The shame of this young man is that, at the moment of truth, he fled, leaving his precious baptismal garment in the hands of Jesus’s enemies.

It forces a question on us: What do we do at the moment of truth?
- BLESSING

May the Lord bless us,
protect us from all evil and bring us to everlasting life. Amen

Courtesy of Laudate app, Homily by Bishop Barron & other sources