Corpus Christi Reflection: The Medicine of Immortality

On the feast of Corpus Christi, the Church lifts the Blessed Sacrament out of the tabernacle and carries it into the streets, professing before the world that the Host is truly Jesus. This reflection follows the Mass propers from the Introit's honey from the rock to Christ's blunt words in John, "My flesh is food indeed," and asks how ordinary bread becomes the Body of God. Saint Ignatius of Antioch, writing on his way to martyrdom, called the Eucharist the medicine of immortality, while Saint Ambrose explained to new Christians that the word which formed Christ in the Virgin can change bread into his Body. The episode closes on the Secret's gift of unity: one bread, one Church.

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