Homily Crowning of the Blessed Mother 5/07/2021 - OLPH School Mass

 

Crowning of the Blessed Mother 5/07/2021 - OLPH School Mass

 

In today’s Gospel the Angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will give birth to Jesus the Son of the Most High.  This morning at OLPH we celebrate the Blessed Mother with our May Procession, Why?  Because she is the mother of our Savior, Jesus. 

 

Mothers are so important, that God chose one, Mary for his Son.  God chose your Mother for you, today, tomorrow, this Sunday & every day thank God for your Mom & for the Blessed Mother, because God chose them for you.

In our Reading from Revelations the woman symbolizes Mary the mother of the Messiah. 

 

The Blessed Mother leads us to her Son Jesus, where our salvation lies.

She leads us to the Eucharist where our spiritual nourishment is, “The Eucharist is the source and the summit of the Church ….” (#1324 CCC)  In the celebration of the Mass, we enter the Last Supper; where the priest through the words of consecration, makes Jesus present under the appearances of the bread & wine.

 

They are changed [the philosophical term is transubstantiation] into the Body & Blood of Jesus, Who is really, fully and substantially present, in THE EUCHARIST. 

 

George Docsi’s grew up [prior to WW II] in Hungary & as a boy growing, he loved dinner… big plates, the maids serving soup; he loved going into the dining room.

 

One evening he went downstairs and the dining room was in an uproar.  A persecution of the Jewish people was taking place in Russia & his grandfather went to the railway station and brought home some Jews.  Men were in skull caps in the living room, mothers nursing babies in the dining room, he threw a fit and yelled, “I want my supper!  I want my supper!  One of the maids saw this & gave him a piece of bread.

 

He threw it on the floor & screamed, “I want my supper!”  His Grandfather entered the dining room at that moment – bent down, picked up the bread, kissed it & gave it to George.”  He ate it.  George Docsi said [later], “… I think there’s a little of my grandfather in me now.”  (Robert Bly in, The Little Book on the Human Shadow p. 41)  Jesus gives His divine kiss at the Consecration and we remember Him most profoundly in the EUCHARIST.

 

Why are the Bread and Wine - changed into His Body and Blood. - Because He said so.  Jesus said, “This is my Body, This is My Blood.”  For a few minutes, in silence, reflect on the GIFT, of Mary the Mother of God your own mother, the terrific teachers you are blessed with here at OLPH and most importantly the wonderful gift of THE EUCHARIST!

 

 

 

May God Be Praised!

 

St. Joseph, pray for us.

Saint Andre Bessette intercede for us.