Today is the Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. The bishop celebrated Mass at the Cathedral and then took Jesus for a walk around the block. I had the opportunity to play music for this grand affair, and grand it was. The Knights of Columbus were in attendance, escorting The Bishop and Jesus into the church and on the Spatzierengehen.

Oddly enough, I actually listened to The Bishop's sermon. He talked about preparing for events, then cited the "preparations" for the Last Supper which involved the apostles following some random guy into Jerusalem and asking him where the upper room was. My mind wandered at this point. I was thinking that if preparations were so important, then why did Jesus not take greater care with the impending dinner. But maybe he did; it's possible that his front men had the deal setup for the apostles and it just seemed random to them. Makes sense; The Bishop had his entourage plan this event for him.

Merging back into the homiletic stream of pontification, the next thing I heard was how Adam and Eve blew their chance at paradise because they violated God's command not to EAT... of the tree. It seemed that eating was the sin. There were some logical gymnastics after which we learned that since they ATE, the sin was internal, so external things like flinging blood at the crowd didn't wash away the sin. I was fascinated. More scriptural meandering and somehow we were again at the Last Supper, and taking Jesus on a walk around the block with an endorsement from the Cure of Ars.

I don't know. When we prayed that the hungry would be well-fed during the Prayers of the Faithful, it seemed that at least they were avoiding the sin of eating. I'm not arguing that the Body and Blood of Jesus is not Most Holy. I'm just suggesting that the message was possibly not to ensconce a host in gold and take it on a promenade, but rather to sacrifice your own body and blood in the service of those in need.