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Corpus Christi — From Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year
Liturgy of the Hours
June 3- Wednesday Evening Prayer | Divine Office Vespers (St Charles Lwanga and Companions
Jun 4 – Thursday Morning Prayer | Divine Office Lauds
ORDINARY ROMAN CALENDAR
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Second Letter to Timothy 2,8-15.
Beloved: Remember Jesus Christ, raised from the dead, a descendant of David: such is my gospel, for which I am suffering, even to the point of chains, like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained. Therefore, I bear with everything for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they too may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus, together with eternal glory. This saying is trustworthy: If we have died with him we shall also live with him;
if we persevere we shall also reign with him. But if we deny him he will deny us. If we are unfaithful he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself. Remind people of these things and charge them before God to stop disputing about words. This serves no useful purpose since it harms those who listen. Be eager to present yourself as acceptable to God, a workman who causes no disgrace, imparting the word of truth without deviation.
Psalms 25(24),4bc-5ab.8-9.10.14.
Your ways, O LORD, make known to me;
teach me your paths,
guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my savior.
Good and upright is the LORD;
thus he shows sinners the way.
He guides the humble to justice,
he teaches the humble his way.
All the paths of the LORD are kindness and constancy
toward those who keep his covenant and his decrees.
The friendship of the LORD is with those who fear him,
and his covenant, for their instruction.
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 12,28-34.
One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked him, “Which is the first of all the commandments?”
Jesus replied, “The first is this: ‘Hear, O Israel! The Lord our God is Lord alone!
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’
The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
The scribe said to him, “Well said, teacher. You are right in saying, ‘He is One and there is no other than he.’ And ‘to love him with all your heart, with all your understanding, with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself’ is worth more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.” And when Jesus saw that (he) answered with understanding, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And no one dared to ask him any more questions.
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Saint Gertrude of Helfta (1256-1301) – Benedictine nun
Exercise IV, p. 64-65 Spiritual exercises
Strengthen me in your love
O God, my sweetest and most tender love, my mercy, send down upon me from heaven your Holy Ghost, and create in me a new heart and a new spirit (Ez 18:31). By thy holy unction teach me all things; for thee have I chosen out of thousands (Ct 5:10), and I love thee with a love stronger than any other love, more than the love of my own life. Sustain in my soul the life, the energy, and the beauty which come of love and which attract thy love and thy tenderness, All my desire is onto thee. Ah, make me stand in your presence with worship worthy of you. Yes, Jesus, I come to thee whom I have loved, in whom I have believed, to whom I have given my heart. (…)
My dearly beloved Jesus, I desire to follow thee in the rule of love, thanks to which I will be able to renew my life and live it in you. Oh, place my life under the care of thy Holy Spirit so that at all times I may be found eager to obey your commandments. Make my actions conform to yours; strengthen me in your love and in peace. Enclose my senses in the light of your charity, so that you alone teach me, direct me and form me, in the most intimate part of my heart. Absorb my spirit in thy spirit, so powerfully and so deeply that truly I am entirely buried in you, and that in this union with you I leave myself, and that no one, except your love, knows my burial in you. There, may love enclose me under its seal and bindme to you by an indivisible bond. Amen.
Readings
Daily Reading for Thursday, June 4th, 2026 HD
Reflection
Questions for Reflection for June 4, 2026 HD
1962 Missal
Readings & Reflection
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TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS READINGS JUN 04, 2026 – The Meaning of the Word
First Epistle to the Corinthians 11,23-29.
For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, And giving thanks, broke and said: Take ye and eat: This is my body, which shall be delivered for you. This do for the commemoration of me. In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood. This do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me. For as often as you shall eat this bread and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come. Therefore, whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread and drink of the chalice. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord.
Holy Gospel according to Saint John 6,55-58.
He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day. For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed. He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood abideth in me: and I in him. As the living Father hath sent me and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, the same also shall live by me.
Saint Gaudentius of Brescia (?-after 406) – Bishop
Paschal Homily ; CSEL 68, 30
“Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him”
The heavenly sacrifice that Christ instituted is indeed the inheritance bequeathed to us through his new covenant. He left it to us on the night he was delivered up to be crucified as a token of his presence. It is viaticum for our journey, food on our life’s path until we come to it on quitting this world. That is why our Lord said: “Unless you eat my flesh and drink my blood you do not have life within you.”
He wished his deeds of kindness to remain among us and the souls he redeemed by his precious blood always to be made holy in the image of his own Passion. This is why he commanded his faithful disciples, instituted as the first priests of his Church, to celebrate these mysteries of eternal life in perpetuity… Thus all the faithful would have before their eyes day by day a representation of Christ’s Passion. Taking him in our hands, receiving him in our mouths and hearts, we will hold fast to an indelible remembrance of our redemption.
The bread should be made with the flour of innumerable grains of wheat mixed with water and finished off in the fire. Thus we shall find a close likeness of the body of Christ in it for, as we know, he forms a single body with the multitude of humankind brought to completion by the fire of the Holy Spirit… In the same way, the wine of his blood is taken from many grapes – that is to say the fruit of vine he planted – is crushed beneath the press of his cross, poured into the hearts of the faithful and ferments within them by means of his own power.
This is the Passover sacrifice bringing salvation to all those set free from bondage of Egypt and Pharaoh, that is to say the devil. Receive it in union with us with all the eagerness of a pious heart.
Saint of the Day
St. Francis Caracciolo (4 June): What the World Sees as Misfortune is Not Misfortune at All