Dear Friends,

This weekend we celebrate the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. In the gospel reading below, Jesus tells us that he is the “bread come down from heaven.” As we receive Jesus in the Eucharist we become what we eat; we become the Body of Christ. Each time we are fed with the Bread of Life, we are brought more closely together as members of the one Body of Christ. Through the Eucharist, we are invited to be transformed and to change the way in which we live our lives.

This weekend, following the 9:30 a.m. Mass, St. Margaret Mary will host a Eucharistic Procession. You are invited to join our parish community as we process around the block of the church to publicly profess, as a Catholic community, our faith in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. We believe Jesus Christ is present in our hearts, our Church, our streets, and our world.

I hope that you have a good weekend.

In Christ’s peace,
Mrs. Katie Walsh

Gospel                                                            Jn 6: 51-58

Jesus said to the Jewish crowds:
“I am the living bread that came down from heaven;
whoever eats this bread will live forever;
and the bread that I will give
is my flesh for the life of the world.”

The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying,
“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
Jesus said to them,
“Amen, amen, I say to you,
unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,
you do not have life within you.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood
has eternal life,
and I will raise him on the last day.
For my flesh is true food,
and my blood is true drink.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood
remains in me and I in him.
Just as the living Father sent me
and I have life because of the Father,
so also the one who feeds on me
will have life because of me.
This is the bread that came down from heaven.
Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died,
whoever eats this bread will live forever.”