RESPONDING TO THE PSALMS – June 2026
A project of the Spirituality Committee of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales
We use the Sunday Responsorial Psalm as a focus for prayer and reflection during the week ahead for yourself or to share with others.
You could note your own thoughts as a possible personal journal.
Our Ordinary Time begins with a celebration of the Body and Blood of Christ which reminds us to reflect on the meaning of the Eucharistic celebration and of what it means for us to live as members of the Body of Christ in the world, the Church, founded on the apostles whose memory ends the month.
The Liturgy guarantees for us the possibility of such an encounter [with the Risen Lord]. For us a vague memory of the Last Supper would do no good. We need to be present at that Supper, to be able to hear his voice, to eat his Body and to drink his Blood. We need Him. In the Eucharist and in all the sacraments we are guaranteed the possibility of encountering the Lord Jesus and of having the power of his Paschal Mystery reach us. The salvific power of the sacrifice of Jesus, his every word, his every gesture, glance, and feeling reaches us through the celebration of the sacraments. I am Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman at the well, the man possessed by demons at Capernaum, the paralytic in the house of Peter, the sinful woman pardoned, the woman afflicted by haemorrhages, the daughter of Jairus, the blind man of Jericho, Zacchaeus, Lazarus, the thief and Peter both pardoned. The Lord Jesus who dies no more, who lives forever with the signs of his Passion continues to pardon us, to heal us, to save us with the power of the sacraments. It is the concrete way, by means of his incarnation, that he loves us. It is the way in which he satisfies his own thirst for us that he had declared from the cross. (Jn 19:28) Pope Francis Desiderio Desideravi – 2022 n.11
Sunday 7 June Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Sunday 14 June 11th Sunday in Ordinary Time
