The first reading tells us that death is not God’s plan for us because we are created for life and death is of Satan. Death came as a result of Satan’s envy and if we live truly and in God’s love even if we die physical we will have abundant life in Jesus spiritually. In the second reading, Paul encourages the Corinthians to imitate the generosity of Jesus in their own way of life.

In the first reading we see God speaking through the storm as a way to point to us that He is the Lord of all creation including the storms of the sea and storms of life that threaten our peace. Thus, the book of Job says, “The Lord addressed Job out of the storm and said, who shut within doors the sea, when it burst forth from the womb” “when I made the clouds its garment and thick darkness its swaddling bands, when I set limits for it.” In most parts of the book of Job, there was dialogue between Job and his friends on why innocent and good people like Job suffer and God keeps silent at such situations. Today’s passage presents us with the response of God to Job and his friends and questions where they were when He created the world. God’s response is a direct way of telling us that whatever is in the world is in His hands and the works of His hands which explains why He could speak through the clouds.

The first reading from the prophet Ezekiel tells of the promise of God to restore His chosen people Israel after the Babylonia exile. He says, “I too, will take from the crest of cedar, from its topmost branches tear off a tender shoot, and plant it on a high and lofty mountain on a mountain heights of Israel I will plant it.” The Babylonian exiles are like tender shoot after their exiles experience, God promised that He Himself would place them on a height where birds of every kind shall dwell beneath it. God is saying even though they had disobeyed Me by their actions and lack of faithfulness He would still restore them to a better position and not just bring them back but put them up to a higher level. In the same way, we may lose our way due to our unfaithfulness to God’s love but the moment we finally find our way back to God He restores us and places us in a high place beyond our own imagination. It is equally a way of encouraging us never to give up even when we feel we have lost our bearing. God would always restore us to a high mountain.

The feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ called the Corpus Christi was introduced into the Church’s calendar in 1264 following the vision of an Augustinian nun Juliana of Liège.