My dear Friends,
Praise to You Lord Jesus Christ – Our Bread of Life!
I would like to congratulate Holy Cross staff and students for a job well done this year. Each one of us have shared our talents and abilities – our vocation to learn, to teach and to put into action the love that God gave us. It is what we do so well, to nurture, to care and to love our students and one another.
As Christians, we are called to live like Jesus – to love God and our neighbor – to do this with all the giftedness we have. Saint Paul emphasized that living one’s vocation, or calling, involves practicing charity towards others, which includes selflessness, gentleness and patience. He urges believers to “live in a manner worthy of the call you have received, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, and bearing with one another through love.” (Ephesians 4:2) Hence, we are all meant to live fully and joyfully with God, our family and our community.
This weekend we celebrate the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ or Corpus Christi. The Eucharist is the answer of Jesus to any forms of hunger in the world. Jesus offered Himself to us to become our food, our Bread and our nourishment. The Body of {Jesus} Christ (The Eucharist) is the Perfect Gift, for Jesus gives Himself totally to us. Only in Jesus we find that ultimate satisfaction, absolute fulfillment and supreme completeness of our longing for forgiveness, admiration, acceptance and love. The Eucharist nourishes us and gives us strength which we need to do what is demanded from us on a day to day basis.
Let us pray that we may respond to the invitation of Jesus to receive Him and share Him as Bread and food to nourish others. As St. Thomas said, that the Eucharist is “the source and the summit of Christian life” (Vatican II). The Eucharist is all about sharing in God’s love, and grace here and now. The Eucharist is “seeing and tasting how good the Lord is” (Psalm 34: 8) in our daily lives. It is God’s Loving and Gracious Presence in our midst. AMEN
God Loves You!
~ Fr. NEIL