June 7th, 2026 (Corpus Christi A)

Dear brothers and sisters,

We know God freed the people of Israel from the slavery of Egypt making them experience the Passover, the passing of God in the Exodus. God in fact passed for them with mighty power opening the red sea making them cross over, as well as making them pass through the desert, a place terrible and dreadful, a palace of venomous snakes and scorpions a thirsty ground without water. God provided for them the water from the rock and the manna, a bread which came down from heaven and which was unknown to them. Jesus Christ says, “I am the true bread coming down from heaven, whoever eats of this bread will live forever, the bread that I give is my flesh for the life of the world.” And adds saying, “In truth, in truth I tell you unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you do not have life in you.” Christ comes to show us today that he fulfills the promises of the exodus. God in the first exodus freed a nation, Israel, bringing them from slavery to freedom. Jesus Christ inaugurates through his body and blood the definitive exodus. Christ has come to save not only a nation, but the whole world, each one of us, everyone who believes, not from the slavery to Egypt but from the real slavery which is sin and death, through which the devil keeps us enslaved all our life long through the fear of death. Christ now makes us pass-over the waters of death and brings all of humanity, all the nations, all of us, not to the promised land but into heaven. Christ opens heaven for us, making us experience eternal life. His body and blood are the true Passover, the true liberation. We can experience this at every eucharist, his victory over our sins, over our death’s, sufferings and fears. Christ wants to be totally united to us to bring us to heaven with him. That’s why we are called to eat his flesh and drink his blood. To be perfectly united to him, to live in our flesh also the Passover, to die with him, to sin and to receive his spirit in us, which gives us real freedom, his same eternal life.

Peace, Fr. Nicholas