-Last Sunday's homily is available
-This Sunday's Scriptures can be found at www.usccb.org/readings
-check out this weeks LinC letter at www.parishLinCLetter.blogspot.com
-I will be celebrating mass this weekend at 4:00 and 6:00pm on Sunday
Can you stomach this?
We use many idioms regarding consumption and digestion when speaking about learning, listening, and living knowledge and truth. "I'm going to have to chew on that for a while", "I can't stomach one more word from him", "She drank the Kool-Aid on that", "just hold your nose and swallow", "I devoured the novel", that's a subject I could really sink my teeth into", "I've had it up to here", etc.
Our God, apparently in the biblical revelation, has put these two features of faith in human life together from the beginning. If you recall the knowledge of good and evil was a fruit on the tree that Eve just could not resist. The Passover sacrifice, The manna in the desert, and the Word that came forth from the father and took flash among us was laid in a "mangerr" (a feeding trough for animals). And of course in the Gospel today the truth about who Jesus is as the one sent from the father is bread that you must eat in order to truly live.
In our parish we have been called to deepen and widen the communion of the church. This word communion is used in two fundamental ways, the Eucharistic communion (consecrated bread and wine as the body of Christ) and the church communion (the unity of life and love that we share in the body of Christ, the church). These two realities come together in the communion procession of the holy mass, when we process forward as an ecclesial communion/church communion, one body, to receive and consume the Eucharistic communion. We manifest and express this to-layered consume communion by standing and singing as one body until all members have received. So I guess what we eat and how we eat it are two very important aspects of our faith and understanding.
So the truth about our ecclesial communion is received, consumed, and celebrated in the Eucharistic communion. Right? Rite?
