Sunday Reflection – 21 July – Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
“Christ wished to choose this sacred symbol of human life, which bread is, to make an even more sacred symbol of Himself. He has transubstantitated it but has not taken away its expressive power – rather, He has elevated this expressive power to a new meaning, a higher meaning, a mystical, religious, divine meaning. He has made of it a ladder for an ascent that transcends the natural level.
As a sound becomes a voice and as the voice becomes word, thought, truth – so that sign of the bread has passed from its humble and pious being to signify a mystery, it has become a Sacrament, it has acquired the power to demonstrate the Body of Christ present.”Saint Pope Paul VI (1897-1978)
when Archbishop of Milan from a homily on the Solemnity of Corpus Christi
AnaStpaul 