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The Feast of Corpus Christi invites us to put our eyes and our hearts anew on Christ the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the sacrament that, each time it is celebrated, makes the offering of Christ present in obedience to the Father, who is also an offering for us and towards us. It is the sacrament through which Jesus fulfills the promise that he made to his disciples before going up to heaven: “I will be with you always.”

In his address this Sunday, Solemnity of Corpus Christi, Cardinal Juan de la Caridad García, Archbishop of Havana, recalled that Jesus, at the Last Supper, the night he was handed over, instituted the Eucharistic sacrifice of his body and his blood to perpetuate for centuries, until his return, the sacrifice of the cross and entrust to his beloved Spouse, the Church, the memorial of his death and resurrection, sacrament of piety, sign of unity, bond of love, paschal banquet in the that you receive Christ. In this sense, he invited the faithful to attend this mystery “understanding it well and participating piously and actively in sacred action.”

Words and philosophical arguments would not be enough to explain a mystery as great as that of faith in the Resurrection of Christ, the essence of Christianity. All of this constitutes a dogma that originally elicited the most dissimilar reactions, especially within Judaism itself, where it emerged as a new reading of ancient writings. The task of Christianity was acquiring tenacity and urgency of reinterpretation in the face of the challenge of establishing two distinctions that would mark the future of the new faith, neither is it Judaism, nor is it simply philosophy: Christianity. All this, despite the fact that the Jews of the first century understood it as a heretical sect within Judaism. Even today it continues to be seen as a complex phenomenon that involves mistrust, sometimes stigmatized as a retrograde system of thought, but full of many enigmas and questions to be solved.

A year ago, on Holy Trinity Sunday, June 7, 2020, we began this section, which shares the Word of God for the day, followed by a comment and a prayer. We feel happy to have come this far and we propose to continue offering this small and humble service, like a grain of sand, like a drop of water in the sea, for the good of all those who, through these pages, seek the Lord, listen His Word and pray in the silence of the hours and of the days. Our Christian faith in God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, who has manifested himself to us in Jesus Christ, is a consequence of the historical fact of the revelation and incarnation of God, which becomes a patent reality in each one of us when we open our minds and hearts. , without prejudice or limitations, to his truth and his love; when we consciously and consistently receive and live the baptism that identifies us with the crucified and risen Christ; when as a Church, and with the power of her Spirit, we become involved in the commitment to transform the society in which we live; when we do not remain alien or inert in the face of suffering or injustice, looking the other way; when we share the pain and anguish of the brothers and sisters around us, particularly in these difficult times; when we listen to the Father and allow ourselves to be impelled by his Spirit on the path of self-giving and sacrifice that Christ himself walks with us every day.