Message from Parish Priest
Fr Michael Trainor
6th/7th June 2026 ~ The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)
You Are What You Eat and Drink!
Dear Sisters and Brothers,
This weekend’s feast, the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, is a celebration of ourselves as a parish and church. You might have heard the expression, “We are what we eat”. It becomes a jingle to purchase a certain food. But it is true. “We are what we eat and drink.”
The principal liturgical celebration of every week is our Sunday Eucharist. The physical presence of one another to one another, receiving Jesus in Word and Sacrament, reflects who we are as a parish. In fact, it reflects heaven. When people see how we are with each other at Christ the King, the way we listen to the Sacred Scriptures, respond and physically commune with each other in prayer and song, and then process to the table of the Eucharist to receive the consecrated bread and drink the blessed wine, his real presence, they see the church universal in its local expression.
I am always moved in distributing Holy Communion, either the bread or the cup. I see different hands who receive the bread or take the cup. They are different shapes, ages, textures, old, young, worn, crinkled and smooth. These hands are us—not the same, but different and yet one. This is the essence of our celebration this weekend.
We are a community of disciples who believe in the presence and action of God in our world, that flows out to the world that exudes love and peace upon those suffering and dying. What flows from our Sunday Parish Eucharistic celebration is a gift to the world.
We are the Body and Blood of Jesus to the world. We, too, are like the bread we receive: it has been broken to be shared with others for nourishment. We are like the wine that we imbibe from the cup—poured out to be with those we accompany in their suffering. “We are what we eat and drink”. We, too, are broken and poured out; we are connected to all who are “broken” and suffering in our world. Through our communion with the Body of Christ, we are in communion with every who is a member of the Body of Christ, wherever and however they are in our world.
Your brother,
Michael