Monday Message, June 8, 2026
KNOW
Bishop Caggiano has invited all those who were baptized at the Easter Vigil to a special Mass so that he can personally welcome them into the diocesan family. Please share this memo and flyer.
Share this flyer with all your families to encourage them to avoid taking a vacation from learning, prayer, and Mass this summer. Plus, it’s a great reminder for you about where to find the latest Institute innovations. NOTE – LINK UPDATED
Have you ordered your toolkit for the premiere of Bishop Frank Teaches the Faith? If not, click here.
An email will be going to all faith formation families this week. Similar to last year, we will need a confirmation of Safe Environment training for all parents with children enrolled in faith formation. We will copy you on the email as well.
If a parish is using LEAD, the consent and release is built in and parents fill it in once per child as each child is registered. If a parish is using Ministry Platform or OSV, they can use the attached form and it can be printed or done online (preferred). The link is here.
REFLECT
Let’s be honest: Sunday Eucharist is not always the most exciting hour of our week. Sometimes we feel the pressure of going because “we have to”; occasionally we encounter people in church we don’t care for all that much; at times the liturgy seems a little tedious and maybe even boring.
Yesterday, we celebrated the Feast of Corpus Christi. The readings were upsetting invitations to reassess our eucharistic values. Do we celebrate life or do we put up with it? Do we appropriate the self-giving of Jesus or do we focus only on self?
Moses’ sermon in this passage from Deuteronomy is his last-minute instruction to the Israelites as they prepare to enter the promised land. They must remember how the Lord fed them with manna during the wilderness years, how they drank from the flinty rock. Now in the fertile land they must realize that one does not live by bread alone. God’s Word ensures fullness of life.
Paul writes to the divided Corinthians who were making a scandal of the Eucharist. To eat the bread and drink the wine are genuine participation in the body and blood of Christ. Eucharist and pagan ritual are contradictory.
More than likely the passage from John’s Gospel was originally part of the Last Supper narrative. The author has reshaped the passage into the bread-of-life discourse in John 6:35-50. The focus is now on the Eucharist, Jesus as the source of life and nourishment.
As we receive the body and blood of Christ, does the teaching of John make us aware that we are indeed caught up in God’s life? Corpus Christi is that special feast that proclaims: To celebrate Eucharist is to celebrate life.
LAUGH
