The Holy Eucharist
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This life is a journey from creation through redemption to salvation. Along the way, there is an engaging interplay between the things of this world and the things of the next, between the reality in via and that to come in patria, between historical commemoration and anamnetic aspiration.
-Simone Brosig, IN THE SECRET OF THE TRINITY”: EUCHARISTIC DEVOTION IN THE THIRTEENTH-CENTURY SOUTHERN LOW COUNTRIES, pg 4
I love the jagged edge with pollen-loaded stamens hanging down! The amplification of my beloved daffodil in white!
Eucharis amazonica is an evergreen bulbous plant. Native to the Columbian and Peruvian Andes. It has large, heavily scented, often green tinged, white flowers. It is also known as Bethlehem lily, Eucharist lily, Lily of the Amazon, Madonna lily, Star lily, and Star of Bethlehem. Warning: It is suspected that the root may be poisonous.
Amazonica means ‘of or from Amazonia, the Amazon River region in South America’.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
I love the jagged edge with pollen-loaded stamens hanging down! The amplification of my beloved daffodil in white!
Eucharis amazonica is an evergreen bulbous plant. Native to the Columbian and Peruvian Andes. It has large, heavily scented, often green tinged, white flowers. It is also known as Bethlehem lily, Eucharist lily, Lily of the Amazon, Madonna lily, Star lily, and Star of Bethlehem. Warning: It is suspected that the root may be poisonous.
Amazonica means ‘of or from Amazonia, the Amazon River region in South America’.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Deacon leads the procession to the different stations. Candlelight service at St. Kateri Tekakwitha Catholic Church. Yorktown, Virginia. Canon XT with EF 85mm f1.2.
St. Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Church | Washington D.C. | www.saintstephensdc.org
Mass is the Eucharistic celebration in the Latin liturgical rites of the Roman Catholic Church.
St. Johns Cathedral, Valletta, Malta
St. Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Church | Washington D.C. | www.saintstephensdc.org
St. Stephen & the Incarnation Episcopal Church | Washington D.C. | www.saintstephensdc.org
This is the last in the series on the Luminous mysteries of the rosary, The Institution of the Eucharist. The original master is a Flemish artist Joos van Wassenhove. The most important and most perfect work of Joos van Wassenhove (Justus of Ghent) by far is The Institution of the Eucharist (The Communion of the Apostles), painted for the high altar of the Brotherhood of Corpus Domini. The picture was based on a painting by Fra Angelico that Justus may have seen at St Mark's convent in Florence, in which the disciples leave the table to kneel at Christ's feet. Yet, despite this influence, the finished work shows just how far Justus's style remained purely Flemish, virtually untouched by all he had seen during his time in Italy. Several overlays, textures and text was applied digitally from course materials. Now I plan to take all 20 fine art works and put together in a book. Enjoy!
From the Preface for today's feast of Christ the Eternal High Priest:
"For by the anointing of the Holy Spirit you made your Only Begotten Son High Priest of the new and eternal covenant, and by your wondrous design were pleased to decree that his one Priesthood should continue in the Church.
For Christ not only adorns with a royal priesthood the people he has made his own, but with a brother’s kindness he also chooses men to become sharers in his sacred ministry through the laying on of hands.
They are to renew in his name the sacrifice of human redemption, to set before your children the paschal banquet, to lead your holy people in charity, to nourish them with the word and strengthen them with the Sacraments."
Stained glass window from the 'charnel cloister' of the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont in Paris.
"For he is the true and eternal Priest,
who instituted the pattern of an everlasting sacrifice
and was the first to offer himself as the saving Victim,
commanding us to make this offering as his memorial.
As we eat his flesh that was sacrificed for us,
we are made strong,
and, as we drink his Blood that was poured out for us,
we are washed clean."
– from the Preface at Mass this evening.
My homily for the Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper can be read here.
Fresco by the Dominican Blessed Fra Angelico from one of the cells of San Marco in Florence.
"Behold the bread of angels, sent
For pilgrims in their banishment,
The bread for God’s true children meant,
That may not unto dogs be given:
Oft in the olden types foreshowed;
In Isaac on the altar bowed,
And in the ancient paschal food,
And in the manna sent from heaven.
Come then, good shepherd, bread divine,
Still show to us thy mercy sign;
Oh, feed us still, still keep us thine;
So may we see thy glories shine
In fields of immortality;
O thou, the wisest, mightiest, best,
Our present food, our future rest,
Come, make us each thy chosen guest,
Co-heirs of thine, and comrades blest
With saints whose dwelling is with thee.
Amen. Alleluia."
– from the 'Lauda Sion' of St Thomas Aquinas, the Sequence hymn for Corpus Christi.
Stained glass window from Brussels Cathedral.
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"Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God".
Lenny Bruce
This was not a manipulation other than some levels to adjust color and shadows a bit. The biggest manipulation was with my back as I contorted low enough to place the moon at the intersect of the cross.
"In the Corpus Domini procession, we walk with the Risen One on his journey to meet the entire world, as we said. By doing precisely this, we too answer his mandate: "Take, eat... Drink of it, all of you" (Mt 26: 26ff.).
It is not possible to "eat" the Risen One, present under the sign of bread, as if it were a simple piece of bread. To eat this Bread is to communicate, to enter into communion with the person of the living Lord. This communion, this act of "eating", is truly an encounter between two persons, it is allowing our lives to be penetrated by the life of the One who is the Lord, of the One who is my Creator and Redeemer.
The purpose of this communion, of this partaking, is the assimilation of my life with his, my transformation and conformation into he who is living Love. Therefore, this communion implies adoration, it implies the will to follow Christ, to follow the One who goes ahead of us. Adoration and procession thereby make up a single gesture of communion; they answer his mandate: "Take and eat"."
– Benedict XVI.
interior shots from St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury taken during a service to welcome the new Vicar. I was given the chance to take pictures for the service, which was a rare treat!
Photo taken at Annunciation parish in south St. Louis county for a new group forming in St. Louis: www.spiritandtruthstl.org
Picture taken with a D90, strobist-style, with two flashes on stands with umbrellas - one is camera left, about 5 ft. behind the monstrance, on 1/1 power, shot through the brolly. The other is about 10 ft. to the left of the two subjects kneeling in the background, at 1/8 power, bounced off the brolly. Everything was triggered with 'eBay triggers.'
"God, in this wonderful sacrament you left us a memorial of your Passion. Enable us, we ask, so to venerate the sacred mysteries of your Body and Blood, that we may always experience the fruit of your redemption in us. You live and reign with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, forever and ever. Amen."
– Collect composed by St Thomas for today's feast of Corpus Christi.
This painting is in St Dominic's house, also known as the house of Pierre Seilhan in Toulouse.
"The Eucharist is like a beating heart giving life to the mystical Body of the Church, which is a social organisation entirely founded on its spiritual yet tangible bond with Christ. ... Without the Eucharist the Church would simply cease to exist. In fact, it is the Eucharist which renders a human community a mystery of communion, capable of bringing God to the world and the world to God. The Holy Spirit, which transforms the bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ, also transforms those who receive it with faith into limbs of Christ's Body, thus the Church truly is a Sacrament of men's unity, with God and with one another."
- Pope Benedict XVI.
The pews nicely lead the eye to the Tabernacle at the centre of St Aloysius' church in Oxford.
"The Jews started arguing with one another: ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ they said. Jesus replied:
‘I tell you most solemnly,
if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,
you will not have life in you.
Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood
has eternal life,
and I shall raise him up on the last day.
For my flesh is real food
and my blood is real drink.
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood
lives in me
and I live in him.
As I, who am sent by the living Father,
myself draw life from the Father,
so whoever eats me will draw life from me.
This is the bread come down from heaven;
not like the bread our ancestors ate:
they are dead,
but anyone who eats this bread will live for ever.’
He taught this doctrine at Capernaum, in the synagogue."
– John 6:52-59, which is today's Gospel at Mass.
This opus sectile depiction from St James' Episcopal church in Edinburgh shows Christ giving us the Eucharist, and it is nicely combined with an image of Christ as Shepherd. This is rather apt since this coming Sunday is Good Shepherd Sunday.
Pendant la consécration, le servant sonne le carillon et le thuriféraire emploie l'encens quand le prêtre élève l'hostie et le calice.
Bristol Cathedral, Bristol, England. This is a bit of the program for Christmas Eve services on December 24, 1995.
This fresco of the Eucharistic Miracle of at Bolsena was painted by Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael) around one of the two windows in the Stanza di Eliodoro. It was painted between 1512 and 1514.
The fresco depicts a miracle at a mass at Bolsena in 1263. During the celebration of Holy Communion/Eucharist by a priest who doubted the doctrine of transubstantiation, the communion bread began to 'bleed', staining the altar cloth in the shape of a cross. This event has been remembered since through the Feast of Corpus Christi. The Corporal of Bolsena, the piece of stained cloth, is still preserved and venerated. It is kept in a chapel in the Duomo in Orvieto. *
The "Miracle of Bolsena" is one of the traditional beliefs that is considered to be a private revelation by the Roman Catholic Church. Catholics are free to believe in 'private revelations'. They are judged to be in all probability (but not infallibly or with absolute certainty) from God. The faithful are free to believe in them, but there is no obligation to do so.
Room of Heliodorus, Musei Vaticani; July 2019
* See also:
www.flickr.com/photos/justaslice/41217133802/in/photolist...
"Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst"
– John 6:35, which is part of today's Gospel at Mass.
My sermon for today can be read here.
This painting is in the sacristy of the Cathedral in Mdina, Malta.