"Honor thy Father”
God Himself commands the love and respect we show for our earthly fathers on Father’s Day. On this day we focus in a more intense way on the gratitude and reverence we owe to the men who, committed to marriage and family life, helped to give us life and to raise us. We are thankful in particular for the roles our fathers play in raising us in the Faith and teaching us love for our Heavenly Father by their own witness. May God always bless them as they so richly deserve.
Our celebration of Mass is the perfect way to mark Father’s Day: Jesus’ perfect prayer is offered to His Father and ours accomplished by perfect obedience, through His suffering and death, to the perfect will of the Father. We truly participate in His prayer through the grace of our baptism as we pray the Mass.
"The Living Father sent Me"
Every time we celebrate the Eucharist we receive the Son sent by the Father in Word and Sacrament. At Corpus Christi we focus more intensely on Christ's real and true presence in the Eucharist, unique among the sacraments and thus called "the Most Blessed Sacrament".
Praised be to God.
