On the feast of Corpus Christi we celebrate the
gift of the Eucharist. It was one of the last actions of Jesus to give us this
nourishment for our life journey, to remember Him and to help us to live out
His teachings in our daily lives.
As Christ’s followers we are all called to change
from within so that we can be part of the building of a Kingdom of love,
justice and peace in this world, so that we ourselves are transformed in some
way. The Eucharist, as Pope Francis says, “is
not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the
weak”. It is a call for all of us to grow and to share with one another
Christ’s message of love and peace. The Eucharist sustains us on this Christian
path and brings us together as sisters and brothers travelling together on this
journey of faith. We should leave this table changed by the encounter, a little
lighter, a little more hopeful and joyful, a little stronger. In a movie I saw
recently there was a line which said ‘the
world will only change as we change’. The Eucharist invites us to this
transformation. Because “in the Eucharist, God comes to us not
from above, but from within. In the Eucharist the whole cosmos gives thanks to God… it is itself an act of
cosmic love... The Eucharist joins heaven and earth; it embraces and penetrates
all creation.” (Pope Francis, Laudato Si).
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