The Eucharist is a gift and a mystery, one we have been longing for this spring in light of the pandemic fasting we have been living.
Sacraments are always about the coming together of the spiritual and the physical: visible signs that point us to an invisible reality. It seems like an abstract idea, but it has really practical application. God feeds our hearts and our bodies. One is not above the other. The life that comes from the Eucharist is both physical, in that it nourishes us, and spiritual in that it offers us grace.
Long before Jesus walked on the earth, Moses reminds us, God offered manna in the desert even while He reminded us we do not live on bread alone. While we have hungered for the Eucharist, and gathering together, God has also been showing up in the prayers and meals of our domestic churches, in our forgiveness and our washing.
While we long for the Sacraments, our experience of them can give us eyes to see sacramental reality where we are until we can celebrate together again.
Prayer: For a hunger for the Sacraments that allows us to see God showing up in our ordinary lives, we pray to the Lord.
Jesus, you have loved us by your Body and Blood, that we might taste and see how faithful you are. Eternal life is the continuation of what we taste, see and celebrate now. May we look for you now and always. Amen.
Reflection: CCCB
Taken from the Facebook page of Roman Catholic Diocese of Calgary
