[Magdalen] The Adoration Corpus Christi

[ME Michaud]

Roger, this is very helpful.

I come from a tradition where Exposition and Benediction were practiced and
Corpus Christi was celebrated (yea, e'en required).  Have endured my share
of scolding sermons about Maundy Thursday *not* being the birthday of the
Eucharist. And also one memorable service where we were encouraged to sing
"Happy Birthday" to it.
-M, celebrating Evelyn Underhill today (I once described her as my "root
guru," and, since I was in Cambridge at the time, the people I was talking
to knew what I meant)

PS: Sheila, do have a look at youtube for help with the mysteries of
Catholic practice. There are hundreds of videos available

On Thursday, June 15, 2017, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> In the Church of England the official title of the day is now
> "Thanksgiving for the Institution of Holy Communion" which indicates the
> rationale behind the observation. In the Eucharist we are expressing our
> unity as the Church, the mystical Body of Christ, and are united with him
> as we take the elements which are, in some way, for us the Body and Blood
> of Christ. We are identifying with those gathered in that room thousands of
> limes away millenia ago. In God there is no sense of time or distance and
> so, in his presence, we are there with them.
>
> Since Christ has left us this way of uniting with him in a special and
> sacramental way should we not give thanks for this sacrament? To have such
> an observation or feast of thanksgiving on Maundy or Holy Thursday would be
> confusing since we are about to seg into the remembrance of Christ's time
> in the Garden of Gethsemane, leading up to his crucifixion. By moving it
> nine weeks later it can become a free-standing Feast. It is no longer in
> the Easter season or in the days following Pentecost, which themselves have
> been observed as a mini-season of not quite an octave since there are only
> seven days, the eighth being Trinity Sunday.
>
> Roger
>
> On 15/06/2017 06:04, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
>
>> ... so far I've not seen anyone actually say why the 'Holy Day', why the
>> monstrance.  The Monstrance, containing a consecrated host,
>> is revered as the real presence of Jesus by those who participate - the
>> visible and present Christ (corpus Christi/ body of Christ) - to
>> be worshipped, prayed to, and experience at-one-ment.
>>
>> peace
>>
>