CORPUS CHRISTI WEEKEND
June 23-25, 2000
volume 11, no. 112

Special DEVOTIONS to THE BODY AND BLOOD OF JESUS for Corpus Christi Sunday, June 23, 2000

SPECIAL PRAYERS TO THE HOLY EUCHARIST

NOVENA PRAYERS

    I thank You, Jesus, my Divine Redeemer, for coming upon the earth for our sake, and for instituting the adorable Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist in order to remain with us until the end of the world. I thank You for hiding beneath the Eucharistic species Your infinite majesty and beauty, which Your Angels delight to behold, so that I might have courage to approach the throne of Your Mercy.

    I thank You, most loving Jesus, for having made Yourself my food, and for uniting me to Yourself with so much love in this wonderful Sacrament that I may live in You.

    I thank You, my Jesus, for giving Yourself to me in this Blessed Sacrament, and so enriching it with the treasures of Your love that You have no greater gift to give me. I thank you not only for becoming my food but also for offering Yourself as a continual sacrifice to Your Eternal Father for my salvation.

    I thank You, Divine Priest, for offering Yourself as a Sacrifice daily upon our altars in adoration and homage to the Most Blessed Trinity and for making amends for our poor and miserable adorations. I thank You for renewing in this daily Sacrifice the actual Sacrifice of the Cross offered on Calvary, in which You satisfy Divine justice for us poor sinners.

    I thank You, dear Jesus, for having become the priceless Victim to merit for me the fullness of heavenly favors. Awaken in me such confidence in You that their fullness may descend ever more fruitfully upon my soul. I thank You for offering Yourself in thanksgiving to God for all His benefits, spiritual and temporal, which He has bestowed upon me.

    In union with Your offering of Yourself to Your Father in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, I ask for this special favor:

(Mention your request).

    If it be Your holy Will, grant my request. Through You I also hope to receive the grace of perseverance in Your love and faithful service, a holy death, and a happy eternity with You in Heaven. Amen.

Prayer to Christ the High Priest

    Lord Jesus Christ, our great High Priest, by Your Death and Resurrection You revealed Yourself as the mediating Lamb of Sacrifice between the Father and ourselves. You call us to share Your dying and rising in the Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation so that we might unite ourselves in offering Your sacrifice through Your Priesthood in the Eucharist, thus entering into Your Kingdom on earth by becoming Your Holy People.

    Lord Jesus Christ, our great High Priest, grant to us Your Spirit of Love and Life which unites us to Yourself as Victim and Priest so that God's plan of salvation for all people is established within us.

    Lord Jesus Christ, our great High priest, grant to us Your Spirit of Wisdom and Unity which makes us all one in Your Mystical Body, the Church, so that we may be your witnesses in this world.

    Lord Jesus Christ, our great High Priest heal us by Your Cross, renew us by Your Resurrection, sanctify us by Your Holy Spirit, glorify us by Your Kingship, redeem us by Your Priesthood, so that we may be one in You as You are one with Your Father in the Holy Spirit.

    Lord Jesus, gather us all into Your Person-Victim, Priest, King-by the saving Eucharistic Meal You and we offer on the Altar of Sacrifice now and all of our pilgrim days on earth. Then when we are called into Your Kingdom in heaven, may we share with all the Saints the glory of Your love and life which is Yours with the Father and the Holy Spirit for all ages to come without end. Amen.

PRAYER

    O Lord, You have given us this Sacred Banquet, in which Christ is received, the memory of His Passion is renewed, the mind is filled with grace, and a pledge of future glory is given to us.

    V. You have given them Bread from Heaven. R. Containing in itself all sweetness.

    Let us pray. God our Father, for Your glory and our salvation You appointed Jesus Christ eternal High priest. May the people He gained for You by His Blood come to share in the power of His Cross and Resurrection by celebrating His Memorial in this Eucharist, for He lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever. Amen.

    O Jesus, since You have left us a remembrance of Your Passion beneath the veils of this Sacrament, grant us, we pray, so to venerate the Sacred mysteries of Your Body and Blood that we may always enjoy the fruits of Your Redemption, for You live and reign forever. Amen.

THE WORD OF GOD

    "I am the Bread of life. Your ancestors ate manna in the desert, but they died. This is the Bread that comes down from heaven for a man to eat and never die. I Myself am the living Bread come down from Heaven. If anyone eats this Bread He shall live forever; the bread I will give is My Flesh, for the life of the world…

        "If you do not eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink His Blood, you have no life in you. He who feeds on My Flesh and drinks My Blood has life eternal, and I will raise him up on the last day. For My flesh is real food and My Blood real drink.

        "The man who feeds on My Flesh and drinks My Blood remains in Me, and I in him. Just as the Father Who has life sent Me and I have life because of the Father, so the man who feeds on Me will have life because of Me."

    John 6:48-57

        "Jesus took bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it to His disciples. 'Take this and eat it,' He said, 'this is My Body.' Then He took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them. 'All of you must drink from it, He said, 'for this is My Blood, the Blood of the Covenant, to be poured out in behalf of many for the forgiveness of sins' "

    Matthew 26: 26-28

        "Do this in remembrance of Me."

    Luke 22:19

        These devotions taken from Treasury of Novenas, by Reverend Lawrence G. Lovasik, S.V.D., Catholic Book Publishing Co., New York.

June 23-25, 2000
volume 11, no. 112
DEVOTIONS TO THE BLESSED TRINITY

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