20th Sunday in ordinary time year B 17-08-15
Theme: Eucharist
in my life.
1st Reading
Proverb 9:1-6 A Banquet prepared by God.
2nd Reading Ephesians 5:15-20 By being open
to God.
Gospel John 6:51-58 Jesus is the living bread.
Olden time going to school we used to carry Tiffin.
I remember half way I used to open and see what mom has
given me for that day.
People going to work also carry Tiffin and share while eating in the lunch
interval.
This is a nice way of becoming used to life.
Life is a journey and we require sustenance life you
meals.
We have a custom when we are on a journey we usually
eat in the train.
It is quite common to share some of the food with the
fellow travelers though we might not know them.
Jesus knew we require food for our life so he has taken care of us by
sharing his own life with us.
Often I feel Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament is sharing
his life with us.
He waits for us and wants to share all he has with us.
We see people visiting the church and paying tribute
and seeking Jesus assistance when they pass the church for work.
I remember a small story told to me during the
catechism class.
There is an incident about a person, who used to visit or bow his head in
front of the church.
The man used to say, “Jesus I have come to visit you”. And go to
work.
This used to go on for almost whole of his working
days.
One day he became very ill and was about to die and his
wife went to the parish priest seeking him to bring viaticum.
The priest came to the man with the blessed species.
As soon as he entered the house he could hear Jesus
telling him “John Jesus has come to see you”.
We know such things will happen only when we have
faith.
We often would like to know what sort of life we would
be having when this earthly sojourn is over.
This can be answered only in faith.
Jesus came to us to reveal this to us and he in fact
has enabled us to experience it by giving us his own body and blood in the
Eucharist.
We celebrate Eucharist everyday, more over as
Christians who come to church every Sunday clad in finery to be part of that
glorious life.
Every time we participate in his life death and
resurrection in the Eucharist we proclaim his love for each one of us.
When we declare the mystery of faith, saying dying you
destroyed our death, raising you restored our life, Lord Jesus come in glory.
What a beautiful acclamation of belief?
Do we realize the value and splendor of such an
acclamation!!!!!!
Our life is a mystery.
The conception in the womb of a mother happens when two
people unite in love to create a person.
When we unite ourselves with Jesus at the Eucharist, he
gives himself fully for us to live our everyday life meaningfully.
Often we become so insensitive to this union of Jesus.
He invites us to be part of him.
He tells us unless I eat the flesh and drink the blood I
have no life in him.
What an invitation, a challenge, and a reality between
two people.
I our country the respect for Eucharist is still quite
normal.
But we cannot be self complacent.
This reality is slowly loosing its grandeur.
Foreign influence is catching up and many people do not
feel the need to attend Eucharist..
The grace that we receive has to be used meaningfully.
When we lovingly and faithfully participate in the
Eucharist the transformation takes place.
In our behavior there will be a marked change.
our interaction with the people we meet will show we
have some extraordinary grace in us.
Our behavior will be different from the ordinary.
Today when we have heard all three readings they invite
us to be aware of God’s presence in Jesus in our lives.
Let us be grateful to Jesus for this wonderful gift of
the Eucharist to us.
It is not easy, in this modern age when there is
competition for every thing.
We have to be really like Jesus thinking about the
other first than ourselves.
The selfishness will have to be sacrificed on alter of
service.
Wishing all my readers and co-travelers in faith a very
happy Sunday
Yours ever in the divine word,
Fr. Juze Vaz svd
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