June 22, 2025

Remembering the Lord in the Way He Asks, Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of the Lord, June 22, 2025

40 minutes

Msgr. Roger J. Landry

National Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs, Auriesville, New York

Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of the Lord, Year C

June 22, 2025

Gen 14:18-20, Ps 110, 1 Cor 11:23-26, Lk 9:11-17

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We mark this year’s celebration of Corpus Christi, the great feast of the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus, in two special ways.

The first is yesterday’s celebration of the centenary of the beatification of the North American Martyrs.

Saint Isaac Jogues, St. Rene Goupil, St. Jean de Lalande, who gave their lives for God on these hallowed grounds, and their five fellow Jesuits who were killed in Ontario, left France to come here not just to bring books of the Bible and the holy words of God. They came not just to bring the works that flow from faith and try to bring education, care for the poor and elderly, medical care and more. They came to bring Christ himself in the Sacraments, especially in the Eucharist. They came not just to baptize individuals but to form communities of faith, Churches, built up by Christ himself in the Holy Eucharist, so that they might be one body, one Spirit in Christ.

The work of the North American martyrs was intensely Eucharistic. They came here essentially to help people enter into the pilgrim Church on earth, and our pilgrimage is a Eucharistic procession in which Christ in the most Blessed Sacrament accompanies us.

We see their Eucharistic love in the way St. Isaac Jogues responded to receiving Holy Communion after his arrival in France. Because he had had his canonical digits amputated in captivity, he couldn’t celebrate Mass according to the rubrics of the day and there were no other priests from whom he could receive. But after 18 months, on Christmas Day, back in France, he was able to receive, he said, that it was then that he could taste the sweetness of his deliverance from captivity, it was then that he began to live again.

We can see their Eucharistic love in the way the faith was passed on to St. Kateri Tekakwitha who was born here ten years after their martyrdom. As soon as she was baptized, she longed to receive Jesus in Holy Communion, and once she did, she sought to receive him every day and spend hours in adoration. She knew by faith the Eucharist is Jesus and she prioritized him. That’s what the missionaries, of course, were hoping for.

And we see it ultimately in why St. Isaac died. He died for wanting to celebrate Mass here. After he escaped to France, he longed to return. He was the only priest in the world who spoke Mohawk. He did return but the first time he came, he came as Ambassador of France protected by the French. He left here a Mass kit so that he wouldn’t have to carry on on a subsequent visit when he would return as a priest to serve the people. In the interim, the Mohawks suffered an influenza and they blamed it on the locked black box he had left, so that when he returned with the donné Jean de la Lande, the tomahawked him to martyrdom. He was killed for wanting to bring the Eucharist here.

And so today we remember that Corpus Christi isn’t merely something to celebrate, but to share. We’re called to be missionaries bringing Christ to others. As priests, sure. As lay people, as much as we can, particularly through inviting people to Mass and making Mass a priority, just like St. Kateri did.

That brings us to the second celebration.

The National Eucharistic Revival

Today is the formal end of the three year National Eucharistic Revival of the Church in the United States. We give thanks for the abundant fruits of the Revival. There were four pillars

To Reinvigorate Worship — In the last three years, Mass attendance, which had been on a seven-decade decline from 74 percent in the 1950s to 16 percent in 2021 climbed back to 24 percent over the last three years. It increased, in other words, by 50 percent during the Revival.

Personal Encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist through Eucharistic adoration, holy hours, Eucharistic processions and more — We’ve seen an explosion of Eucharist adoration across the land, especially among the young. Youth and young adult conferences now feature adoration and those are the highlights of their time together. Last year we had the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, 6500 miles combined, making a Eucharistic benediction over the country. This year there was a pilgrimage from Indianapolis to LA, finishing today, as well as a statewide procession in New Hampshire, another throughout Long Island, another along the coast of California. There have been more Eucharistic Corpus Christi processions in the last three years that most Catholic seniors have seen from the time they were children. We likewise have had many Eucharistic Congresses, like the one held here for the State of New York two years ago, with 8000 in attendance. Like the National Eucharistic Congress last year, with 55,000 in Indianapolis. We give thanks for all of these.

Robust Faith Formation — The bishops called for us to get to know our Eucharistic faith so much better. To realize that the Eucharist is Jesus under sacramental forms. They’ve urged us to pass it on with greater passion in our parishes, in our religious education classes, etc. One of the fruits we’ve seen over this time is a record numbers in recent times of young people wanting to become Catholic. Many college campuses have reported huge numbers of those in OCIA. They’re hungering for God!

Mission — The final pillar was mission, to share our Eucharistic faith with others, and to show the transformational power of the Eucharist in the way we make our lives Eucharistic, giving our own body and blood, our sweat, tears, efforts, money, all we are and have to bring Christ to others and others to Christ. This has received a great jump start during these last three years as we have been asked to invite people back one-by-one, and we see the fruits of the numbers in just the last three years.

While we give God abundant thanks for that progress, we recognize that there’s still so much work to be done.

Yes, we’ve had a 50 percent increase in Mass goers in the US over the last three years coming back from the post-COVID decline, but still three of four Catholics prioritize other things than Jesus on the Lord’s Day.

Yes, we’ve had an explosion of Catholics making time for Jesus in Eucharistic adoration, but most Catholics do not make one hour for Jesus a week.

Yes, we had a huge Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, but even with 60,000, that was still only one of 1,000 of the 60 million Catholics in the US.

And we still have so many who treat Jesus in the Eucharist as a thing rather than as the eternal Son of God and Son of Mary.

There’s still so much work to do.

At a personal level, what impact has the Eucharistic Revival had on you? Where are you today compared to three years ago? Where are you today compared to where God wants you?

Do you prioritize coming to receive Jesus at Mass, not just on Sundays, but as often as you can during the week?

Do you make time for Jesus in adoration, even if that means coming a half hour before Mass to pray or staying after Mass?

Do you make time to celebrate and thank Jesus publicly for the Eucharist, by coming to things like yesterday’s Eucharistic Procession here on these beautiful grounds?

Have you learned the Catholic faith particularly about the Eucharist so that you can pass it on more faithfully to the young people in your family and parishes, so that you can pass it on to co-workers who aren’t Catholic, so that you can attract fallen away Catholics back?

And what type of impact does the Eucharist have in your life. Sometimes Catholics expect so little from receiving Jesus inside. They know if they take two Advil or Tylenol to expect some relief from a headache, but don’t think anything will take place from receiving the eternal Son of God. Does it inspire you to become holy, like the one you receive in Holy Communion? Does it inspire you to do this in memory of him, giving yourself to others in Christ-like love? Does receiving Jesus inspire you to bring Christ to others, like it inspired the North American Martyrs.

The formal end of the Eucharistic Revival is an opportunity for us not just to thank God for the gifts he’s given us, but to commit ourselves to extending the Revival in us and around us. The celebration of Corpus Christi is really not just to be a one-and-done thing each year, but the culmination of truly Eucharistic lives, as we allow Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist to change us.

The readings the Church gives us today are meant to help us appreciate two fundamental things about the Eucharistic Lord Jesus.

The first is that the Eucharist is the summit of salvation history. It wasn’t enough for Jesus to take on our human nature and be born of the Blessed Virgin Mary. It wasn’t enough for Jesus to preach, and heal, and exorcise. It wasn’t enough for him even to suffer, die, rise and ascend. He loved us so much that he gave us himself as our spiritual food, so that we, through, with and in him, might enter into the inner life of the Blessed Trinity, so that we might become one with him and with all those who are united in him.

All of history prepared us for this, from the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden onward: the sacrifice of Abel, the manna in the desert, the Passover Lamb, Jesus’ being born in Bethlehem, literally called House of Bread, and place in a manger, where animals were accustomed to eat. If you go to Mother Angelica’s beautiful Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville Alabama, there’s a Way of the Eucharist, like a Way of the Cross, with 12 different prophetic acts pointing to the Eucharist. If you go to the most beautiful Church in the country dedicated to the Eucharist, St. Jean Baptiste in New York City, you will find nearly 30 stained glass windows pointing to these scenes.

Today the Church gives us two of them. The first is Melchizedek and Abraham in the first reading. The thanksgiving sacrifice of Melchizedek, literally the Righteous King, was of bread and wine. This is obviously a foreshadowing of what Jesus, the true King of Righteousness, would offer, changing both bread and wine into his body and blood. The second is the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fish to feed the vast multitude, which is a foreshadowing of how Jesus has multiplied what he did at the Last Supper to feed us all. Just as in the multiplication Jesus asked the cooperation of the disciples and started with the meager raw materials of a couple fish and a few loaves of bread, so he asks us to cooperate in the Mass, not just providing the work of human hands in preparing bread and wine from his gift of grain and grapes, but ultimately providing ourselves, putting our lives on the paten, so that his gift of himself as Bridegroom and Head might be complemented by our gift as his Bride and Body. All of salvation history, indeed, has pointed to our becoming one with Jesus’ passion, death and resurrection, through the Mass, our entering into holy communion with him, our becoming one body, one spirit in him.

The second thing we learn is that this is the way Jesus wants us to remember him. Every Mass we hear the words, “Do this in memory of me.” He doesn’t just want us to do something, whatever we like. He wants us to do He wants us to celebrate Mass. He literally doubles down on this in today’s second reading when St. Paul recalls Jesus’ words. He tells us, “For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over, took bread, and, after he had given thanks, broke it and said, ‘This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.’” Jesus wants us to remember him by meeting him in the Mass. The Jewish idea of remembrance — zikkaron — does not mean just to recall something from the past, but to actualize the past in the present. When they celebrated the Passover, they were just looking back centuries to ancient Egypt, but they were bringing the Passover into the here and now. When zikkaron was translated into Greek, the first Christians used the word anamnesis, literally not-forgetting. When we use the Memorial Acclamation, we do more than proclaim a fact. That’s why we can no longer use the phrase that was popular before the revision of the missals in 2011 — Christ has died, Christ is Risen, Christ will come again,” because it was just factual. The Memorial acclamation we proclaim is our entrance into the mysteries: “Save us, Savior of the World, for by your Cross and Resurrection, you have set us free;” “We proclaim your death, O Lord, and profess your resurrection, until you come again;” “When we eat this Bread and drink this Cup, we proclaim your death, O Lord, until you come again.” It’s all a conversation with a living Lord. We remember it’s he, here, for us, with us, right now. So when we remember Jesus, we just don’t recall his heroic, saving deeds of yesterday. He wants us to remember him in a way in which we meet him in the present, by this incredible gift of his Real Presence.

That’s why Jesus says, “Do this” in memory of him. He wants to encounter us. And so we have to ask, if we love the Lord Jesus, if we believe in him and everything he’s said and done, can we make him in the Eucharist the true center of our life. I remember as a freshman in college when the reality of Christ’s presence in the Eucharist finally dawned on me in all its beauty, I asked myself whether there was anything I could be doing on a Monday more important than receiving him, receiving God, inside. The answer was obvious. Same for a Tuesday. Same for every day. And I rejoice that I haven’t missed Mass since that day, September 23, 1988, as a layman or as a priest. Similarly, that’s what led me to want to spend time not just praying, but praying before him, as often as I could, in Eucharistic adoration, getting up earlier in order to pray in his presence. That’s ultimately one of the ways that he drew me to be a priest, so that I could make it possible for others to remember Jesus in this way, to receive him, to be with him, to take him out on Eucharistic processions and more. And so in his name I’d like to appeal to you to ask yourself whether you can respond to his self-giving love in the Holy Eucharist in greater ways through coming to Mass during the week, through getting to Church to pray before him in the tabernacle or monstrance, through inviting others to remember Jesus, too, in the way that he specifies.

This is what the Church over the last three years, helped by God from above, has been trying to revive. This is why St. Isaac Jogues, St. Rene Goupil, St. Jean de la Lande left France to come here to give their lives to help the natives learn and live. This is what Jesus is hoping for, as he says to us, “This is my body, given for you!” and “This is the chalice of my blood, the blood of the new and eternal covenant, poured out for you!”

The readings for today’s Mass were:

Reading I

Genesis 14:18-20

In those days, Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine,

and being a priest of God Most High,

he blessed Abram with these words:

“Blessed be Abram by God Most High,

the creator of heaven and earth;

and blessed be God Most High,

who delivered your foes into your hand.”

Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 110:1, 2, 3, 4

R (4b) You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.

The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand

till I make your enemies your footstool.”

R You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.

The scepter of your power the LORD will stretch forth from Zion:

“Rule in the midst of your enemies.”

R You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.

“Yours is princely power in the day of your birth, in holy splendor;

before the daystar, like the dew, I have begotten you.”

R You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.

The LORD has sworn, and he will not repent:

“You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”

R You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.

Reading II

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Brothers and sisters:

I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you,

that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over,

took bread, and, after he had given thanks,

broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you.

Do this in remembrance of me.”

In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying,

“This cup is the new covenant in my blood.

Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup,

you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.

Sequence

Lauda Sion

Laud, O Zion, your salvation,

Laud with hymns of exultation,

Christ, your king and shepherd true:

Bring him all the praise you know,

He is more than you bestow.

Never can you reach his due.

Special theme for glad thanksgiving

Is the quick’ning and the living

Bread today before you set:

From his hands of old partaken,

As we know, by faith unshaken,

Where the Twelve at supper met.

Full and clear ring out your chanting,

Joy nor sweetest grace be wanting,

From your heart let praises burst:

For today the feast is holden,

When the institution olden

Of that supper was rehearsed.

Here the new law’s new oblation,

By the new king’s revelation,

Ends the form of ancient rite:

Now the new the old effaces,

Truth away the shadow chases,

Light dispels the gloom of night.

What he did at supper seated,

Christ ordained to be repeated,

His memorial ne’er to cease:

And his rule for guidance taking,

Bread and wine we hallow, making

Thus our sacrifice of peace.

This the truth each Christian learns,

Bread into his flesh he turns,

To his precious blood the wine:

Sight has fail’d, nor thought conceives,

But a dauntless faith believes,

Resting on a pow’r divine.

Here beneath these signs are hidden

Priceless things to sense forbidden;

Signs, not things are all we see:

Blood is poured and flesh is broken,

Yet in either wondrous token

Christ entire we know to be.

Whoso of this food partakes,

Does not rend the Lord nor breaks;

Christ is whole to all that taste:

Thousands are, as one, receivers,

One, as thousands of believers,

Eats of him who cannot waste.

Bad and good the feast are sharing,

Of what divers dooms preparing,

Endless death, or endless life.

Life to these, to those damnation,

See how like participation

Is with unlike issues rife.

When the sacrament is broken,

Doubt not, but believe ‘tis spoken,

That each sever’d outward token

doth the very whole contain.

Nought the precious gift divides,

Breaking but the sign betides

Jesus still the same abides,

still unbroken does remain.

The shorter form of the sequence begins here.

Lo! the angel’s food is given

To the pilgrim who has striven;

see the children’s bread from heaven,

which on dogs may not be spent.

Truth the ancient types fulfilling,

Isaac bound, a victim willing,

Paschal lamb, its lifeblood spilling,

manna to the fathers sent.

Very bread, good shepherd, tend us,

Jesu, of your love befriend us,

You refresh us, you defend us,

Your eternal goodness send us

In the land of life to see.

You who all things can and know,

Who on earth such food bestow,

Grant us with your saints, though lowest,

Where the heav’nly feast you show,

Fellow heirs and guests to be. Amen. Alleluia.

Alleluia

John 6:51

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven, says the Lord;

whoever eats this bread will live forever.

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel

Luke 9:11b-17

Jesus spoke to the crowds about the kingdom of God,

and he healed those who needed to be cured.

As the day was drawing to a close,

the Twelve approached him and said,

“Dismiss the crowd

so that they can go to the surrounding villages and farms

and find lodging and provisions;

for we are in a deserted place here.”

He said to them, “Give them some food yourselves.”

They replied, “Five loaves and two fish are all we have,

unless we ourselves go and buy food for all these people.”

Now the men there numbered about five thousand.

Then he said to his disciples,

“Have them sit down in groups of about fifty.”

They did so and made them all sit down.

Then taking the five loaves and the two fish,

and looking up to heaven,

he said the blessing over them, broke them,

and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

They all ate and were satisfied.

And when the leftover fragments were picked up,

they filled twelve wicker baskets.

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Remembering the Lord in the Way He Asks, Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of the Lord, June 22, 2025

40 minutes

Msgr. Roger J. Landry

National Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs, Auriesville, New York

Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of the Lord, Year C

June 22, 2025

Gen 14:18-20, Ps 110, 1 Cor 11:23-26, Lk 9:11-17

To listen to an audio recording of today’s homily, please click below:

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The following text guided the homily:

We mark this year’s celebration of Corpus Christi, the great feast of the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus, in two special ways.

The first is yesterday’s celebration of the centenary of the beatification of the North American Martyrs.

That brings us to the second celebration.

The National Eucharistic Revival

Today is the formal end of the three year National Eucharistic Revival of the Church in the United States. We give thanks for the abundant fruits of the Revival. There were four pillars

While we give God abundant thanks for that progress, we recognize that there’s still so much work to be done.

Yes, we’ve had an explosion of Catholics making time for Jesus in Eucharistic adoration, but most Catholics do not make one hour for Jesus a week.

Yes, we had a huge Eucharistic Congress in Indianapolis, but even with 60,000, that was still only one of 1,000 of the 60 million Catholics in the US.

And we still have so many who treat Jesus in the Eucharist as a thing rather than as the eternal Son of God and Son of Mary.

There’s still so much work to do.

At a personal level, what impact has the Eucharistic Revival had on you? Where are you today compared to three years ago? Where are you today compared to where God wants you?

Do you prioritize coming to receive Jesus at Mass, not just on Sundays, but as often as you can during the week?

Do you make time for Jesus in adoration, even if that means coming a half hour before Mass to pray or staying after Mass?

Do you make time to celebrate and thank Jesus publicly for the Eucharist, by coming to things like yesterday’s Eucharistic Procession here on these beautiful grounds?

The readings the Church gives us today are meant to help us appreciate two fundamental things about the Eucharistic Lord Jesus.

The readings for today’s Mass were:

Reading I

Genesis 14:18-20

In those days, Melchizedek, king of Salem, brought out bread and wine,

and being a priest of God Most High,

he blessed Abram with these words:

“Blessed be Abram by God Most High,

the creator of heaven and earth;

and blessed be God Most High,

who delivered your foes into your hand.”

Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 110:1, 2, 3, 4

R (4b) You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.

The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand

till I make your enemies your footstool.”

R You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.

The scepter of your power the LORD will stretch forth from Zion:

“Rule in the midst of your enemies.”

R You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.

“Yours is princely power in the day of your birth, in holy splendor;

before the daystar, like the dew, I have begotten you.”

R You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.

The LORD has sworn, and he will not repent:

“You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.”

R You are a priest for ever, in the line of Melchizedek.

Reading II

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Brothers and sisters:

I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you,

that the Lord Jesus, on the night he was handed over,

took bread, and, after he had given thanks,

broke it and said, “This is my body that is for you.

Do this in remembrance of me.”

In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying,

“This cup is the new covenant in my blood.

Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.”

For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup,

you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes.

Sequence

Lauda Sion

Laud, O Zion, your salvation,

Laud with hymns of exultation,

Christ, your king and shepherd true:

Bring him all the praise you know,

He is more than you bestow.

Never can you reach his due.

Special theme for glad thanksgiving

Is the quick’ning and the living

Bread today before you set:

From his hands of old partaken,

As we know, by faith unshaken,

Where the Twelve at supper met.

Full and clear ring out your chanting,

Joy nor sweetest grace be wanting,

From your heart let praises burst:

For today the feast is holden,

When the institution olden

Of that supper was rehearsed.

Here the new law’s new oblation,

By the new king’s revelation,

Ends the form of ancient rite:

Now the new the old effaces,

Truth away the shadow chases,

Light dispels the gloom of night.

What he did at supper seated,

Christ ordained to be repeated,

His memorial ne’er to cease:

And his rule for guidance taking,

Bread and wine we hallow, making

Thus our sacrifice of peace.

This the truth each Christian learns,

Bread into his flesh he turns,

To his precious blood the wine:

Sight has fail’d, nor thought conceives,

But a dauntless faith believes,

Resting on a pow’r divine.

Here beneath these signs are hidden

Priceless things to sense forbidden;

Signs, not things are all we see:

Blood is poured and flesh is broken,

Yet in either wondrous token

Christ entire we know to be.

Whoso of this food partakes,

Does not rend the Lord nor breaks;

Christ is whole to all that taste:

Thousands are, as one, receivers,

One, as thousands of believers,

Eats of him who cannot waste.

Bad and good the feast are sharing,

Of what divers dooms preparing,

Endless death, or endless life.

Life to these, to those damnation,

See how like participation

Is with unlike issues rife.

When the sacrament is broken,

Doubt not, but believe ‘tis spoken,

That each sever’d outward token

doth the very whole contain.

Nought the precious gift divides,

Breaking but the sign betides

Jesus still the same abides,

still unbroken does remain.

The shorter form of the sequence begins here.

Lo! the angel’s food is given

To the pilgrim who has striven;

see the children’s bread from heaven,

which on dogs may not be spent.

Truth the ancient types fulfilling,

Isaac bound, a victim willing,

Paschal lamb, its lifeblood spilling,

manna to the fathers sent.

Very bread, good shepherd, tend us,

Jesu, of your love befriend us,

You refresh us, you defend us,

Your eternal goodness send us

In the land of life to see.

You who all things can and know,

Who on earth such food bestow,

Grant us with your saints, though lowest,

Where the heav’nly feast you show,

Fellow heirs and guests to be. Amen. Alleluia.

Alleluia

John 6:51

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven, says the Lord;

whoever eats this bread will live forever.

R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel

Luke 9:11b-17

Jesus spoke to the crowds about the kingdom of God,

and he healed those who needed to be cured.

As the day was drawing to a close,

the Twelve approached him and said,

“Dismiss the crowd

so that they can go to the surrounding villages and farms

and find lodging and provisions;

for we are in a deserted place here.”

He said to them, “Give them some food yourselves.”

They replied, “Five loaves and two fish are all we have,

unless we ourselves go and buy food for all these people.”

Now the men there numbered about five thousand.

Then he said to his disciples,

“Have them sit down in groups of about fifty.”

They did so and made them all sit down.

Then taking the five loaves and the two fish,

and looking up to heaven,

he said the blessing over them, broke them,

and gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

They all ate and were satisfied.

And when the leftover fragments were picked up,

they filled twelve wicker baskets.

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