From the Exodus to the Eucharist
6/3/202615 min
Friends, we’ve come to the great Solemnity of Corpus Christi—a celebration of the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist. Our first reading mentions the “manna” that fed the Israelites in the desert—a mysterious bread from heaven described in the book of Exodus. This is then correlated to the Eucharist, the bread from heaven that Jesus gives us, in our Gospel from the sixth chapter of John. I want to explore four dimensions of this relationship between manna and the Eucharist.
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Robert Barron· Host0:36
Peace be with you, friends. We come this great feast day of Corpus Christi, and I wanna tell you a quick story before I get started. Uh, just, uh, the other day, Father Andrew Marshall, who's a priest from Scotland, was visiting me about a, a particular project, and in the course of our conversation, he said, uh, "You know, I did my studies over in Rome," and we had some mutual friends there. And I said, "Well, what'd you, what'd you write on?" And he said, "Well, I wrote on this whole idea of the Eucharist and manna in, in the church fathers." And I said, "That is the strangest thing," I said, "because this very morning, I was preparing for this homily," because the readings for Corpus Christi, reading one's about the manna in the desert, and then it's correlated to the Eucharist in the New Testament. So I said, "Could you send me [chuckles] that dissertation?" So he did. He sent it electronically. Didn't read every word of it, but I read the section precisely on