June is that awkward month with no female saints on the current calendar, apart from the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, honored on June 13, and the usual BVM Saturday memorials that resume with Ordinary Time (14, 21, 28).

The readings and the solemnity itself speak of the living bread, the Body of Christ; the bread of eternal life and the church in which the many baptized come together as one to share that bread.

In 1993 McDonald's sold its 100 billionth hamburger. Because only two digits fit on their existing signs, it was decided to permanently install the count at McDonald’s as “Over 99 Billion Served.”

A distant cousin of my husban­d was asked to provide testimony for the canonization of Saint Padre Pio, confirming that the Italian priest performed miracles.

Every year at the First Communion liturgy, I bring out the old studio portrait of my First Communion.

Coming together as God’s family, with confidence let us ask the Father’s forgiveness who is full of gentleness and compassion.

You come to me and unite Yourself intimately to me under the form of nourishment. Your Blood now runs in mine, Your Soul, Incarnate God, compenetrates mine, giving courage and support. What miracles! Who would have ever imagined such!

Browse our library for additional Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi), Cycle A material.