Even though we have been in Ordinary Time for a couple of weeks, today we change our Sunday Mass color to green. It has been white for Trinity Sunday and Corpus Christi. For the liturgy green is the color of hope and rebirth. It is the same in nature as our environment greens up with new leaves on the trees and crops in the fields. Our readings today get agricultural, too. In our first reading, through the Prophet Ezekiel, the Lord God tells us that ...

Even though we are in Ordinary Time liturgically, we have been celebrating two Solemnities at our Sunday Masses. Last week it was The Most Holy Trinity. This week it is The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, better known in Latin as Corpus Christi. This Solemnity celebrates the fact that we are a Eucharistic people. We celebrate the Eucharist at every Mass. First there is the Liturgy of the Word and then with the presentation and preparation of the gifts we celebrate the Liturgy of the Eucharist. This is a celebration of the Last Supper and the Sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross. Our altar serves as a table and as an altar for sacrifice. In today's readings there is a lot of blood. In our first reading from Exodus, Moses uses blood as ...