Lk. 9: 11B-17
“He grinds you to whiteness. He kneads you until you are pliant; And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God’s sacred feast. (Khalil Gibran)
Have you ever experienced brokenness in your life? What is your attitude towards your brokenness?
Today we keep the feast of Corpus Christi. A day wherein we remember and thank the unconditional love of Jesus. The Eucharist is the greatest sign of God’s love for us. Our God is a God who wanted to be with us always. In the Old Testament, we see Israelites along with the Ten Commandments used to keep the bread of the presence in the Ark of the Covenant; it a was a reminder for them that God is always with them. In the New Testament, we have ‘Emmanuel’ – God with us. Christ instituted the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist to be present with us always and to become spiritual nourishment in our earthly sojourn that we may be with him forever.
In today’s gospel, we see Jesus feeding the five thousand from five loaves and two fish. “Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, raised his eyes to heaven and said the blessing over them, and then He broke them and handed them to His disciples to distribute among the crowd.” Jesus became a Eucharist, when He allowed himself to be broken and shared himself with us. When we allow ourselves to be broken, then we will be graced to live the spirituality of the Holy Eucharist.
Most beautiful moments in my vocational journey are those where in I could pour out my inner self to my spiritual fathers especially in my moments of brokenness. Once it happened that, I went to my spiritual father with a grief-stricken heart and anger towards God’s will. I felt utter helplessness. I shared everything with my spiritual father. At the end, he asked how I was feeling? I told him that everything was collapsing around me; I always prayed that God’s will be done in my life. But I never thought I would have to pay a big prize for that… then my spiritual father told me that it was not the end… It was a new beginning…Tomorrow when someone comes to you with a broken heart you could understand him/her better because now you know what does it means to be broken and Christ will work through you…
When we allow ourselves to be broken, we become Eucharist. The sacred bread for God’s sacred feast. Then he will share our life with others as a great blessing even beyond our imagination, just like he becomes part of millions through the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist and fill our life with the hope of eternity…