Vatican City, Jun 14, 2009 / 08:15 am
In his Sunday Angelus address to 15,000 pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict XVI spoke about Corpus Christi, the Body of Christ, as a manifestation of God and proof that God is love.
Benedict XVI began by explaining the “cosmic dimension” of the Solemnity of Corpus Christi.
“It evokes firstly, at least in our hemisphere, this beautiful and fragrant season in which spring gives way to summer, the sun is strong in the sky and in the fields the crops mature,” he said. “The feast days of the Church, as in the Hebrew tradition, are intertwined with the rhythm of the solar year, of sowing and reaping.”
“This is particularly true of today’s solemnity, at the center of which is the bread, fruit of the earth and the heavens. This is why the Eucharistic bread is a visible sign of Him in whom heaven and earth, and God and man, have become one.”
“And this shows that the bond between the seasons and the liturgical year in not merely exterior.”