#thisismybody

Questa sono io .

Voglio mostrarvi le mie cicatrici , i miei segni , le mie smagliature , che per tanto tempo ho odiato e solo adesso ho capito di poter amare .

Magari non si vedranno molto ma segnano buona parte del mio corpo , sono segni che non andranno mai via , che mi ricordano del mio passato .

Smagliature dovute al mio continuo cambio di peso , cicatrici dovute al mio dolore , a cadute che fin da piccola non sapevo sopportare .

Ho capito quanto fosse bello il mio corpo solo qualche tempo fa , quando mi sono resa conto che tutti questi segni creavano un disegno unico , che nessuno può essere come me .

La società ci impone dei canoni estetici che sono innaturali e noi tendiamo a non accettare più ogni nostro " difetto " se così lo si può definire , eppure è proprio ciò che ci differenzia , che ci rende unici al mondo .

È cambiato il mondo , perché non lo posso fare anche io ? Perché non dovrei amare ogni mia singola particolarità ?

Ero riuscita a farmi amare da un uomo , ma io non ne ero in grado . Lui quelli che io definivo difetti li definiva bellezze . Mi sono resa conto di saper amare gli altri , ma adesso tocca a me .

Sunday Reflection – 3 June 2018 – The Solemnity of Corpus Christi

There is a claim that the Adoro Te Devote, our morning offering today, was the prayer that St Thomas Aquinas addressed to Christ as he was dying.   The claim remains doubtful, (in the sense that it is a highly intricate prayer and it would be difficult to write whilst very ill) but the account that his biographer, William of Tocco, gives of the holy Doctor’s last moments of life is, in itself, an extraordinary testimony of Eucharistic devotion and reveals the source of the doctrine that, directly or indirectly, inspired the most beautiful Eucharistic texts of the Latin Church, including the Adoro Te Devote.

“Feeling his strength failing and sensing the nearness of his departure from this world, the holy Doctor, with great devotion, requested the viaticum of the Christian pilgrimage, the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. After the abbot and the monks had brought the Eucharist to him, he prostrated himself on the ground, weak in body but strong in spirit and went, with tears, to meet his Lord. Then, in the presence of the Sacrament of the Body of Christ, as is the custom with every Christian at the moment of death, he was asked if he believed that in that consecrated host was the true Son of God, born of the womb of the Virgin, suspended from the scaffold of the Cross, who died and rose for us on the third day. With a free voice and great devotion, mingled with tears, he replied: “I truly believe and hold as certain that He is true God and true man, Son of God and of the Virgin Mother and I believe with my heart and profess with my lips, that which the priest has asked me of this most Holy Sacrament.” And after some words of devotion (at this point it is believed St Thomas quoted the Adoro), receiving the Sacrament, he exclaimed: “I receive You, price of the Redemption of my soul, for love of which I have studied, watched and worked, I have preached and taught You, I have said nothing against You nor am I obstinate in my opinion, if in some part I have spoken poorly of this Sacrament, I submit all to the correction of the Holy Roman Church, in who obedience, I pass from this life.”

May we also, at the end of life, be able to say the same as St Thomas Aquinas!

Let us be transported to the same climate of expectation and joyful hope as we feel in the Adoro Te Devote with these last words of the Lauda Sion, the Eucharistic hymn/sequence also written by St Thomas Aquinas. (Fr Raneiro Cantalamessa O.F.M. “This is My Body”)

Source of all we have or know, feed and lead us here below. Grant that with Your saints above, Sitting at the feast of love, We may see You face to face.

Amen Alleluia!

Lord Jesus Christ, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, we Adore and Love You!

One Minute Reflection – 6 June – “ This is my body … this is my blood ” – Mark 14: 22,24

One Minute Reflection – 6 June – “Month of the Sacred Heart” – Corpus Christi, The Solemnity of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, Readings: First: Exodus 24: 3-8, Psalm: Psalms 116: 12-13, 15-16, 17-18 (13), Second: Hebrews 9: 11-15, Gospel: Mark 14: 12-16, 22-26 “ This is my body … this is my blood ” – Mark14: 22,24 REFLECTION – “ he lovers of this world display their generosity by…