--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 6/06/10 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 6/06/10 --- [![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/2010/06/06/daily-readings-reflection-for-60610#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 6/06/10 Jun 6, 2010 9:00:21 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Reflection on Today’s Daily Readings by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/) Scripture: Lectionary # 170 for Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of the Lord, Corpus Christi. Genesis 14:18-20. Psalm 110:1.2.3.4. I Corinthians 11:23-26. Luke 9:11-17. Christ is alive for us in the Eucharist. Today's celebration includes processions, benediction, and other para-liturgical ceremonies to capture the joy and thankfulness we have for this gift of God present among us each day. The Eucharist is the summit of the liturgy. To appreciate this wonderful gift of the Presence of the Lord, we need to be baptized and we need to prepare for celebrating and receiving the holy Body and Blood of the Lord. The readings for today are an excellent way of preparing ahead of the Mass for the Eucharist and for receiving Christ in this sacrament. We briefly comment on them. St. Paul is a great pastoral person and he is trying to get the Corinthians fo be reverent and generous with one another in celebrating the sacrament of Christ's Body and Blood. They were making side celebrations more important and were selfish about whom they enjoyed their food and beverages. That is far from what the Eucharist means in the Scriptures and for St. Paul. He is handing on to us what he received from the oral tradition and he gives us the earliest passage on the Eucharist in the New Testament (probably around 57 A.D. some ten to fifteen years before Mark was written). Paul relates this act of love and thanksgiving to the death and the final coming of Christ. He is placing it within the context of what we call the Paschal Mysteries of Christ's life, sufferings, death on a Cross, and resurrection. He does not forget the return of the Lord to God nor his return at the end of time for us. This sacrament for Paul is a personal and communitaran action that enables him and the believing community to have an encounter that is meaningful with Christ. Why do we read from Genesis on this feast? The symbolic actions of a mysterious person named Melchizedek give us the symbolic offerings of bread and wine--which are the elements we use in this sacred sign of Jesus' presence. His name can mean king of justice and that too fits the role of Jesus in God's plan of salvation. The text of Genesis leads us into a Psalm that is messianic for most Christians and possibly for some Jewish scholars. Psalm 110 and Psalm 2 complement each other. Jesus also used it to refer to his relationship to the Father. Symbolic language is important for worship and for the liturgy. The Scriptures themselves often use symbols to help us understand some of the mystery of believing in God and God's Son. They lead us to see the sacraments in a much better manner when we are open to symbolic language. John's Gospel is filled with such language and actions. The six accounts of the multiplication of the loaves also show us how important these symbols are and how they relate to the words that Jesus uses to give us who he is in this sacrament. Matthew and Mark have two multiplications of the loaves and fish; John has one; our Evangelist for today's liturgy has one and that is the focus for this solemnity. Jesus takes the five loaves and the two fishes, raises his eyes to heaven, pronounces a blessing over them, breaks the bread and gives it to his disciples to distribute. We see in these words and actions of Jesus the foretelling of the words that are effective in the Eucharist. On the hillsides of Galilee he feeds those who are hungry for ordinary sustenance; in the sacrament he gives himself for our spiritual nourishment and for our recalling and actuating his intimate connection through love for us. This gift was given for our redemption and was poured out for our healing and salvation. It is an existential contact with the Lord; an encounter with Christ; an agape or total giving in love for us. No one has greater love than the person who lays down his life for another. He did this for all of us. Symbolically the celebrant lifts his eyes to heaven in one of the Eucharistic Prayers (the First Eucharistic Prayer) and Eucharistic Prayers contain the words that are said by Jesus both in the multiplication miracles and in the Passover Meal shared with the apostles. The distribution symbolically calls us to feed the poor but also to be recipients of Jesus himself in the sacrament. Christ comes to us and is alive in our hearts when we participate in the Eucharist. As often as you do this, Jesus tells us, do it in memory of me. Finally, a rabbi from New York on the God Squad program was very enthusiastic about Psalm 34: 9 where it can be translated as "Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good." This expression captures the spirit we try to have when receiving the Lord Jesus. We are called to see how good it is to savor the Lord. True, the word in Hebrew can mean "Consider how good the Lord is," but as the Hebrew commentary says, "literally "taste" a significant word. More effective than theorizing about God's goodness is the test of experience. Only by encountering it in one's life can it be really known." (Soncino Commentary on the Psalms, p.100). We have much to be thankful for in the Eucharist which means Thanksgiving! 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