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Emoke Greschik
greschem at gmail.com
2019. Jún. 23., V, 12:37:01 CEST
> The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
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> Luke 9:11B-17
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> *Friends, our Gospel today tells about the feeding of the five thousand.
> Jesus instructs the crowd to recline, and they do so on the grass. Taking
> the loaves and dried fish, Jesus makes a meal that satisfies the enormous
> crowd. They are hungry, tired, worn out from their exertions, and Jesus
> gives them sustenance for the day. For Thomas Aquinas, the great metaphor
> for the Eucharist is sustenance, food for the journey. The Eucharist is
> daily food, sustenance for the journey, nourishment to get us through the
> day to day. How effective would we be if we never ate, or ate only on
> special occasions and in a festive environment? Not very. So, in the
> spiritual life, we must eat and drink or we will not have strength. Is this
> just meant in some vague symbolic way? No, rather in a vividly analogical
> way. For just as the body needs physical nourishment, the spirit needs
> spiritual nourishment, and there is no getting around this law. “Well, it’s
> no big deal if I stay away from Mass and refrain from receiving Communion.”
> Think again!*
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