Just as Holy Thursday and then Corpus Christi focuses our attention on the beauty of Christ's fulfillment of His promise to remain with us --in the Holy Eucharist-- so every Thursday ought to be a day of special prayer (time spent in adoration, Mass, confession of sins, reflection using the works of "eucharistic saints"). And this is the point of this blog: sharing in Communio lived with Christ in the Church among all people. But to the point here, I think any time spent with the Blessed Sacrament "touches eternity, highlighting the relationship between the Eucharistic banquet (the Mass) and the eschatological banquet in the Father's Kingdom (heaven)" (GIRM 281).
In many places where adoration and benediction of the Blessed Sacrament was been done "traditionally" on Fridays, the devotion has now been moved to Thursdays to be in greater connection with the Holy Thursday event of the Paschal Mystery of the Lord.
My advice for today: try to spend some time in front of the Blessed Sacrament, attend Mass, go to confession, pray for the Church.
Consider what Saint Thomas Aquinas has to say about the Body and Blood of Christ from one of his sermons:
Since it was the will of God's only-begotten Son that men should share in his divinity, he assumed our nature in order that by becoming man he might make men gods. Moreover, when he took our flesh he dedicated the whole of its substance to our salvation. He offered his body to God the Father on the altar of the cross as a sacrifice for our reconciliation. He shed his blood for our ransom and purification, so that we might be redeemed from our wretched state of bondage and cleansed from all sin. But to ensure that the memory of so great a gift would abide with us forever, he left his body as food and blood as drink for the faithful to consume in the form of bread and wine.
O precious and wonderful banquet, that brings us salvation and contains all sweetness! Could anything be of more intrinsic value?
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