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Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ Lk 9/11-17 |
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| Background: The gospel today is of course Eucharistic in its intent. While the story happened before the last supper, it became part of the Gospel after the last supper and for the early Christians it was an allusion to the last supper. It connected the ordinary food that God serves us at our regular meals, the extraordinary food Jesus served at the multiplication of the loaves, and the supernatural food of the Eucharist. The point is that there is a continuity between a family supper and the Eucharist. Both refer to one another. Both tell us something about each other. The Eucharist invades our home and sanctifies our regular meals. And our regular meals illumine the Eucharist as a family and community feast. |
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Story: Remember the
two little kids who (as they would later tell the story) "almost drowned" in the
storm on the lake last week? After their father had brought them ashore, what did he do?
Well, of course, he gave them something to eat. Now their father was not much of a cook
and their mother had gone shopping with their big sister. So he didn't know quite what to
give them to eat. What would you like to eat, he asked them. Ice cream, said the little
boy. Chocolate ice cream said the little girl. With chocolate sauce, the little boy
insisted. And whipped cream the little girl added. And raspberries, the little boy
finished their litany of wants. Well, the father wasn't even very good at making chocolate
ice cream sundaes with raspberries and chocolate
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