--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 6/14/09 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 6/14/09 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2009/06/14/daily-readings-reflection-for-61409#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 6/14/09 Jun 14, 2009 4:00:33 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Reflection on the Daily Readings for 6/14/09 by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/) Scripture: for Feast of Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi). cycle b. Exodus 24:3-8. Psalm 116:12-13.15-16.17-18. Hebres 9:11-15 (John 6:51-52) Mark 14:12-16,22-26. Lectionary # 169: "Corpus Christi" was the traditional name for the present feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Processions are had during the day to pray and honor the presence of the Lord in the Sacrament of the Eucharist. These are pageants especially in Europe and some of the traditional Catholic countries. The readings for cycle B emphasize the covenant, the sacrifice, and the Passover Event that Jesus celebrated with his apostles on the eve of his death. We see the covenant in Exodus and unite ourselves to the people in saying "We will do everything that the Lord has told us." This helps us recall the words of Jesus at the Last Supper, "Do this in remembrance of me." The people repeat the covenantal promise, "All that the Lord has said, we will heed and do." Psalm 116 contains words that make us recall the purpose of the Eucharist, "How shall I make a return to the Lord for all the good he has done for me? The cup of salvation I will take up and I will call upon the name of the Lord...My vows to the Lord I will pay in the presence of all his people." Covenantal language is apparent in this Psalm. In the selection from the Epistle to the Hebrews Jesus is the Paschal Lamb who through his blood offers himself to God as the unblemished Lamb of God. The elements and symbols of sacrifice are clearly seen in this Epistle which centers on the priesthood of Jesus and his being the Paschal Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. The short Alleluia response is from the realism of John: "I am the living bread from heaven, says the Lord; If anyone eats this bread he will live forever." John 6:51-59 contains the most explicit and total gift of Christ in the realism of his giving his Body and Blood for the salvation of the world and the promise of everlasting life.. Our Gospel is the earliest description of the Passover of Christ which is his Last Supper. The Feast of the Passover is linked with the Unleavened Bread showing the act of Thanksgiving for the harvest given by God to the fields of wheat and the Paschal Lamb is united to the Precious Blood as its symbol in the feast that Jesus celebrated on the night before he died. The poetry and song called Lauda Sion come from St. Thomas Aquinas who composed this for the Feast of Corpus Christi together with the Pange Lingua (Sing My Tongue of the Glorious Mystery of Christ's Body and Blood under the sacramental signs). The latter is part of the liturgy for Holy Thursday. Both offer us the mystical touch of poetry the Feast brings out and are resouirces for fruitful meditation and pondering over in a contemplative mode. 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