Eucharist   (August 2005)

Contributed by Deacon Luke Hally.  It is from a course on “Sacraments” taught by Fr. Michael Humes, during Deacon Luke’s studies December 1, 1979.  This was presented by Deacon Luke during the Eucharist lectures in February 2005.

 

  

“He was old, tired, and sweaty pushing his home-made cart down the alley stopping now and then to poke around in somebody’s garbage.  I wanted to tell him about Eucharist but the look in his eyes and the despair in his face, the hopelessness of somebody else’s life and his cart told me to forget it.  So I smiled, said ‘Hi’, and gave him Eucharist.

 

She lived alone, her husband dead, her family dying and she talked at you, not to you.  Words, endless words spewed out so I listened and gave her Eucharist.

 

Downtown is nice; lights change from red to green and back again, flashing blues, pinks and oranges.  I gulped the in and said, “Thank you Father”, and made them Eucharist.

 

I laughed at myself and said “You with all your sin and all your selfishness, I forgive you, I accept you, I love you”.  It is so nice and necessary to give yourself Eucharist.

 

My Father, when will we learn you cannot talk Eucharist?  You cannot philosophize about it, sometimes you cry it, and often you sing it.  Sometimes it’s wild peace then crying hurt often humiliating and never deserved.  You see Eucharist in another’s eyes, give it in another’s hand held tight and squeeze it in an embrace.  You cause Eucharist in the middle of a busy day speaking in another’s ear.  Listen to it, for a person who really wants to talk.  For Eucharist is as simple as being on time and as profound as sympathy.  I give you my supper, I give you my sustenance, I give you my life, I give you me, I give you Eucharist.

 

 

Related links on Eucharist

 

http://www.osv.com/eucharist/yearresources.asp

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05572c.htm

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/special_features/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_20030417_ecclesia_eucharistia_en.html

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05584a.htm

http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/Sacraments/Eucharist.asp

http://yearoftheeucharist.com/

 

Eucharist Art

http://biblia.com/jesusart/eucharist.htm

http://www.catholicqanda.com/Mass.html

http://www.therealpresence.org/eucharst/mir/lanciano.html

http://eucharist.pray-with-the-heart.org/

http://www.secondexodus.com/html/catholicdefinitions/eucharist.htm

 

 

Bible Quotes on Eucharist

http://members.aol.com/saint35/1-a.htm

http://www.kingofpeace.org/resources/annotatedeucharist.pdf

http://www.bringyou.to/apologetics/a57.htm