Jesus offers Himself as a Victim for us on the altar in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Unbloody Representation of Calvary. Jesus comes to us as Food in His Sacrament of Union when the priest distributes Holy Communion. Jesus stays with us as a Divine Guest in the Tabernacle for Benediction or visits to Him.
The 19th June is the Feast of St. Juliani Falconieri V., Foundress of the Servite Sisters, especially devoted to the Holy Eucharist. On her deathbed in 1341 she was unable to receive the Host, requested It be placed on her heart where by a miracle, It was taken into her body. Although not commemorated in Sunday Masses in the 1962 Missal, we would do well to seek the intercession of St. Juliani Falconieri to improve our own devotion to the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.
Today is Father’s Day wherein we honour our Fathers who gave us life. Where family life is under constant attack from secular forces, pray to the Holy Family, especially St. Joseph, to turn back the evil which threatens to encompass us.