In a homily to neophytes who were about to receive communion, St. Augustine said, Be what you see, and receive what you are. That is the real imperative within the Eucharist. What Jesus wanted to give us at the last supper was not just his presence and God’s forgiveness under the species of bread and wine, but that same reality in the faces, hands, and bodies of those who partake of that bread and wine. At a Eucharist, we, not just the bread and wine, are meant to change.
--Fr. Ron Rolheiser,
April 16, 2025
Image source: Eucharist love feast, Petrus and Marcellinus Catacomb (end of 3rd century), https://allthegifts.org/2021/08/07/part-5-the-eucharist-and-the-early-church/
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