June 10-11 | Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ
Saturday, June 10
5:00pm Mass of Anticipation
Celebrant: Fr. Harry Tasto
Music: cantor, organ
Sunday, June 11
7:30am Mass
Celebrant: Fr. Joseph Gillespie, OP
Music: cantor, organ
9:30am Mass | ASL Interpreted
Celebrant: Fr. Peter Brandenhoff
Music: cantor, The Basilica Cathedral Choir, organ
Guest Musician: Emily Gerard, Harp; Jill Olson, violin
11:30am Mass
Celebrant: Fr. Daniel Griffith
Music: cantor, contemporary ensemble, piano
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament begins immediately after Mass.
3:00pm Vespers for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ
Celebrant: Fr. Daniel Griffith
Music: The Basilica Schola Cantorum
Benediction concludes the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
5:00pm Mass
Celebrant: Fr. Daniel Griffith
Music: cantor, contemporary ensemble, piano
ACT OF SPIRITUAL COMMUNION
SAINT ALPHONSUS LIGUORI
My Jesus,
I believe that you are truly present in the Most Blessed Sacrament.
I love You above all things and I desire to possess You within my soul.
Since I am unable at this moment to receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart.
I embrace You as being already there, and unite myself wholly to You.
Never permit me to be separated from You.
Amen.
Saint Thomas Aquinas described Spiritual Communion as an ardent desire to receive Jesus in the most holy sacrament and lovingly embrace him at a time or in circumstances when we cannot receive him in Sacramental Communion.