Blessed is the Kingdom

Seeking The Kingdom In All Things

Here Comes The Bride

Christ awaits each Sunday for the arrival of his bride. Listen to last week’s gospel and homily here.

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Fr. Christian is the pastor of St. Thomas the Apostle Church in Lenoir City, TN.

Comments

  • mgalbaugh

    My Sacraments professor was the first to introduce me to the spousal, even sexual image/reality of how Christ encounters us in the Eucharist.  When the sacraments topic rolled around in the Why Catholic? series, I tried to share this amazing way of understanding the Eucharist with my group & everyone just looked at me in pie-eyed incredulity, like I had tarantulas crawling out of my nostrils.  Back away slowly from the crazy man…

  • http://www.blessedisthekingdom.com Fr. Christian Mathis

    Yes…it does seem to throw people off when we start using sex to talk about Christ, but there is a long tradition of doing so.