Please read the passage before the homily.
My sisters and brothers,
This feast used to be called the Body of Christ (Corpus Christi). The feast of the Blood of Christ was on another day and considered a lesser feast day. In those days people, the people did not communicate with the Cup; they preferred to look at the Body of Christ rather than receive Christ’s body in the Eucharist. Nowadays the emphasis is on eating and drinking the body and blood of Christ. We have come to understand that the Lord wants us to “take and eat”, to “take and drink”.
Today’s readings speak of the blood of the covenant. God has made a covenant with us and sealed it with God’s blood. If God were to break God’s covenant, then God would pay for it with his life. God ratifies the covenant with God’s own blood as the seal of the covenant. In this covenant, God shares with us God’s own blood, “Take and drink, this is the blood of the covenant for you.”
The covenant is that God wants to be, and is, with us, and that we are with God. God has shared God’s life with us, and we share our life with God. The covenant in God’s blood means that God’s life has divinized our lives and our lives have humanized God. Jesus is both God and Man. God in heaven has shared our life on earth, and we on earth share in God’s life in heaven. The blood of the covenant unites God in heaven with us in earth and unites us on earth with God in heaven.
This is what Passover means. God has passed over to us and we have passed over to God. The blood of the covenant has bridged any gaps between heaven and earth.
In this Passover our time becomes God’s timelessness and God’s timelessness takes on the human dimensions of our time. God calls us to God’s covenant because God wants us to share this covenant with us. We are here, not because we have decided to come, but we have come because God has invited us to come.