Simple things can become the occasion of our encounter with Christ: bread and wine, gathering in friendship, turning to God in prayer, the beauty of nature. We experience the healing and nourishing love of Christ in these simple things.
Christ’s message and example of unity are things we all need to experience, especially as we go through a very divisive time in our country’s history. God has a record of feeding his people, beginning with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, through Moses and the prophets, to Jesus and the Eucharist, and in the lives and works of good people down through the centuries connecting us in the Spirit of Christ.
The Eucharist should not simply be spiritualized, not just relegated to a church service or a personal communion, divorced from any connection with the real world. Jesus would not have wanted that of his disciples.
The real challenge for us is to bring about the unity that the Eucharist proclaims. It’s about making the changes we need to make to bring about a more just and equal society. Jesus gives us the Eucharist as our model for unity and food for our journey. May we all partake of the Spirit of Christ, and may that Spirit continue to show us the way.
“Because the loaf of bread is one, we, though many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.” (1 Cor 10:17)
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