Has our experience of quarantine somehow made us more conscious or more intentional about celebrating the symbols in the ritual we call Mass? Has the online sight of the altar and the sacred space (temporarily out of reach) deepened our desire to participate in the liturgy and to participate perhaps more intentionally than we might have done in the past?
While many people of faith focus on being united with Christ in the reception of holy Communion, there is another important aspect to the deep and profound meaning of communion. As we are united with Christ, so we are also united with each other. Our life’s task is to become ever more the one body of Christ that our baptism and each reception of holy Communion calls us to become.
We are anticipating a return to the real thing. Will that return find us more attention, more intentional, more grateful, more generous in the way we celebrate the Eucharist? There is no audience in the liturgy. We are all called to be active participants and members of one another in the one body of Christ.
--Judith Kubicki
Image source: Parable of the Ten Virgins, Cathedral of Saints Maurice and Catherine, Magdeburger, Germany (1207), https://cwshier.com/2017/06/09/germanys-first-gothic-cathedral-magdeburger-dom/#jp-carousel-1379
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