LENT vi
AFTER Jesus had died on the cross, his disciples hoped
to keep his body with them as a sacred relic. They shut it in with
stone, they came to embalm it. St. Magdalen was disconsolate that
she could not find it. But Jesus had given his body to them at the
Supper in the form in which he meant them to have it, a form which did
not inolve its being stored on earth. He would continually give it
them from heaven, where he lives. It is a heavenly being he bestows
on us, it is in his heavenly body that he unites us. Lift up your
hearts; by this sacrament you are parts of Christ, and Christ is the heart
of heaven.
