Blessed Sacrament Cathedral

06/08/2026

Mass for Monday of the 10th Week of Ordinary Time

06/07/2026

06/07/2026

Today for Corpus Christi we ended right where we began on Palm Sunday—in procession at Aquinas Academy. In between then and now we’ve had so many wonderful liturgies and events with baptisms, confirmations, first communion, May crowning, with donut Sundays and our Resurrection Party. It’s been a blessed season, and we are glad so many of you shared it with us.

06/07/2026

Mass for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ.

06/06/2026

June 7, 2026
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
John 6:51-58

When I was a young altar server, I once overheard two very different comments about the Eucharist. One person asked, “Is Father distributing the bread or the wine?” Later, another asked, “Can you go get Jesus from the tabernacle?” Same parish, same Mass, but two very different ways of speaking. I pondered: So, is it bread that we pretend is Jesus? Or is Jesus a tiny white thing in a box? I was utterly confused.

This Feast of Corpus Christi is an excellent time to think about how we should speak about the Eucharist. In today’s Gospel, Jesus declares: “My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.” (John 6:55) His words scandalized his listeners, who feared cannibalism, and even today puzzle many, who reduce them to metaphor. Both miss the truth.

The Church gives us better words that honor Jesus’ words in the Gospel. After the consecration, we do not call it “bread” or “wine.” Nor do we say, “a piece of Jesus” or even “Jesus.” We say: the Eucharist. We say: the Body and Blood of Christ. We say: the Real Presence. We say: the Most Blessed Sacrament. These words safeguard the astonishing reality that Christ himself is truly present, whole and entire, under the appearances of bread and wine.

If we speak well about the Eucharist, we will think more clearly and believe more deeply. And if we believe more deeply, we will adore more truly the One who gives himself to us — not bread, not wine, but Jesus Christ himself, whole and entire.
— Father John Muir
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06/06/2026

06/05/2026

Mass for the memorial of St. Boniface.

06/04/2026

Mass for the 9th Week of Ordinary Time.