Friday, June 8, 2012

Jesus gave us a New Covenant –Pope Benedict XVI



In his homily yesterday evening at the Mass before the Corpus Christi procession Pope Benedict said that Jesus gave us a New Covenant and in the Paschal Mystery offers us salvation.

In the Prayers of the Faithful it was prayed that ‘from the great mystery of the Eucharist may flow the gift of our salvation.’

The Gospel Reading was from Mark 14, 12-16.22-26 ' Jesus says this is my blood, the blood to be poured out for many’.

'I am the living bread which has come down from heaven,says the Lord. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever 'was the Gospel Acclamation.

The Second Reading was from the Letter to the Hebrews 9,11-15.’He brings a new Covenant, as the mediator, so that the people who ere called to an eternal inheritance may actually receive what was promised: his death took place to cancel the sins that infringed the earlier covenant’.

Christ is the mediator of a New Covenant (Hebrews 9,15) established through his Blood, said Pope Benedict,  and purifies ‘our inner self from dead actions so that we do our service to the living God’( Hebrews 9:14)

The communion Antiphon was ‘Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him,says the Lord’.

There were people ,some from abroad, who were there specially for the liturgical celebration for which a  plenary Indulgence is obtained under the usual conditions.-Lionel Andrades

Corpus Christi Celebration Brings Faithful to the Streets of Rome
Benedict XVI Leads Traditional Procession of the Blessed Sacrament
http://www.zenit.org/article-34933?l=english

http://saltandlighttv.org/blog/general/popes-homily-on-the-solemnity-of-corpus-christi#more-36971

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-says-vatican-ii-did-not-reject-eucharistic-adoration-or-processions/

http://www.ewtnnews.com/catholic-news/Vatican.php?id=5595

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