The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
~~~ Proverbs 9: 1-6 ~~~ Psalm 34 ~~~ Eph 5:15-20 ~~~ John 6: 51-58 ~~~
"Taste and see the goodness of the Lord."
The hospitality of the Lord is simple, sincere, and inviting.
Wisdom has set the table, completed the prescribed preparations
and flung open the doors for the guests to arrive.
Come to the feast the table of plenty.
All are invited...all are welcome.
The table of the Lord is set.
"Let whoever is simple turn in here;
to the one who lacks understanding, she says,
Come eat of my food and drink of the wine I have mixed!
Forsake foolishness that you may live;
advance in the way of understanding."
There is no need to have fancy recipes with exotic ingredients
the Lord gives us himself.
He is asking to try to understand as difficult as it is
the He is the Bread of Life.
Whoever eats his flesh and drinks his blood
remains in him and God in him.
"Taste and see the goodness of the Lord."
If we come to God as little children in simplicity
even that which we do not comprehend will be accepted.
God gives us his own body and blood for our eternal nourishment.
Two simple ingredients, bread and wine, transformed during each Mass
into this divine food.
When the drop of water is poured into the chalice of wine,
the celebrant recites very special words that we
do not hear in the pews.
By the mystery of this water and wine,
may we come to share in the divinity of Christ,
who humbles himself to share in our humanity
These beautiful words invite us to share in the divinity with Christ
simply because he came down and shared our humanity.
Christ lowered himself to become human and left
himself as the way to enter into his divinity.
He left himself as the bread of life.
The banquet table set by lady wisdom represents the banquet
table we have at the altar.
God himself has prepared the simple meal
the ingredients are pure all natural
all himself.
I defer to the beautiful words from St. Thomas Aquinas...
"Material food first changes into the one who eats it,
and then, as a
consequence,
restores to him lost strength and increases his vitality.
Spiritual food, on the other hand,
changes
the person who eats it into itself.
Thus
the effect proper to this Sacrament
is the conversion of a man into Christ,
so
that he may no longer live, but Christ lives in him..."
This bread which we eat is designed to transform us into
Christ, though not for us to become a god.
We are to become transformed through consuming the
Body and Blood of Christ so that he may live
more fully in us.
When we recieve Eucharist we become life the source.
Are you aware that each time you recieve Eucharist
you also are joined to Christ in the real sense of the words.
When we recieve Eucharist our 'Amen' is confirming
our allowing Christ to abide in us.
Our 'Amen' is our surrendering to the
transformation of our soul.
If we are truly transformed then our actions should
likewise be a reflection of that transformation.
This tranformation in order to be authentic must be carried
out of the church and into the real world.
This week Lord, when I am faced with the challenges
of every day life help me to respond through your
living within my soul.
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