Solemn Opening, Evening Benediction

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This is Congress Cassettes tape EC1, the opening Eucharistic celebration for the 41st International
 
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Eucharistic Congress. The tape opens with the greeting by John Cardinal Kroll. The celebrant
 
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and homilist for the celebration is James Cardinal Knox, the papal legate.
 
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Your Eminence, Cardinal Knox, and my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, it is a privilege
 
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and honor to welcome to this Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, the personal representative
 
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of the successor of St. Peter, who bears the name of St. Paul.
 
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His Eminence Cardinal Knox comes to Philadelphia,
 
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the city of brotherly love, as the legate of His Holiness
 
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Pope Paul VI to the 41st International Eucharistic
 
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Congress.
 
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The choice of Cardinal Knox as papal legate to this Congress, to this Assembly, is most
 
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pleasing and uniquely fitting.
 
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No individual today can match the various dimensions which his eminence brings to the
 
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Congress as a papal legate.
 
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He is the president of the Permanent Committee
 
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for International Eucharistic Congresses.
 
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As a native Australian who served
 
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as apostolic delegate to British Africa, Burma, and Ceylon,
 
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and as inter nuncio to India, and as a member of the papal
 
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curia in Rome, he reflects admirably
 
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the international dimensions of the Congress.
 
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As Archbishop of Melbourne, he was
 
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the host for the last International Eucharistic
 
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Congress.
 
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As a member of the Papal Curia, he
 
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is the prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Sacraments
 
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and Divine Worship and deals directly
 
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with the Eucharist as a sacrament and sacrifice.
 
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It was he who encouraged us in recommending the Congress
 
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theme, the Eucharist and the Hungers of the Human Family.
 
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It is appropriate that we welcome Cardinal Knox
 
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in this cathedral, the spiritual center of the archdiocese,
 
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which hosts the Congress.
 
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The cornerstone of this cathedral
 
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was laid by Blessed John Newman, fourth Bishop of Philadelphia,
 
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who was the first to establish the 40 hours
 
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Eucharistic devotion on a diocesan basis
 
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in the United States.
 
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The chapel alongside this cathedral
 
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bears the title Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament.
 
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The central panel of the stained glass
 
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at the rear of the sanctuary depicts the foreshadowing
 
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of the Eucharist in the sacrifice of Melchizedek,
 
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the promise of the Eucharist by Jesus,
 
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and the institution of the Eucharist
 
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by our Lord at the Last Supper.
 
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The prelate who presided in this cathedral for over 33 years,
 
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the late Cardinal Dougherty, was the papal legate
 
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to the 33rd International Eucharistic Congress
 
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in Manila in 1937 in the land where
 
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he had begun his ministry as a bishop a quarter
 
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of a century before.
 
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We are deeply and sincerely grateful to His Holiness
 
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Pope Paul VI for appointing Cardinal Knox
 
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as his personal representative.
 
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And we are grateful to your eminence
 
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for accepting the commission as papal legate.
 
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We welcome you as the representative
 
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of the vicar of Christ, Christ of whose body the church we
 
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are fortunate to be members, and Christ whose body and blood
 
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in the blessed sacrament binds us together in true communion
 
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with our brothers and sisters of the human family
 
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and enable us to communicate to others the light he revealed,
 
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the love he lived.
 
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Your Eminence, welcome to Philadelphia
 
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and to the 41st International Eucharistic Congress.
 
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The Remnants of Cardinal Kroll, Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
 
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May I convey the expression of my heartfelt gratitude for the welcome you have accorded
 
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me today as Legate of His Holiness Pope Paul VI.
 
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It is a great honour and a joy for me to be associated with the 41st International Eucharistic
 
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Congress in this way. I am aware of the wonderful effort that your Eminence, the
 
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Board of Governors and all your collaborators in this venture have made
 
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to glorify our Divine Lord in the Eucharistic mystery. When I was received
 
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by the Holy Father last Wednesday, he charged me specifically to express his
 
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thanks for the intense work carried out for the Congress.
 
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Thank them, he said, in my name and in the name of Christ.
 
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And as your eminence is aware, as a token, a tangible sign of this esteem and appreciation,
 
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His Holiness has entrusted to me this chalice to be given to your eminence for your Cathedral
 
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Church of St. Peter and Paul.
 
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The Holy Father also gave me a document signed personally indicating the significance of
 
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the gift.
 
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This chalice was made of platinum and presented to Pope Pius VI at the time of American independence.
 
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I have much joy in presenting it to your eminence.
 
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The chalice, as I have said, is made of platinum and was made and presented at the time of
 
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American independence.
 
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It now bears two inscriptions, the one recalling the gift by Charles III of Naples to Pope
 
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Pius VI, and another, recalling the occasion of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress
 
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and this gift to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for the Cathedral Church.
 
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The Permanent Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses also expresses its
 
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deep appreciation to Your Eminence and to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia for undertaking
 
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to host the 41st International Eucharistic Congress and for preparing for this world
 
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event so thoroughly.
 
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The sacred congregation of the Sacraments and Divine Worship would have me express deep
 
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appreciation for the effort made in this Congress to reveal the great riches contained in the
 
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renewed liturgy.
 
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It is my conviction that no effort has been spared here in Philadelphia to organize the
 
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41st International Eucharistic Congress according to the mind of the Second Vatican Council
 
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and in conformity with the recent documents of the Holy See.
 
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The instruction on the worship of the Eucharistic mystery of 25 May 1967 clearly affirmed that
 
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the purpose of a Eucharistic Congress is to deepen our faith and love of the Blessed Eucharist,
 
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Christ's inestimable gift and the ultimate expression of His love for us.
 
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This purpose is achieved, we are told, through prayer and reflection, Eucharistic adoration
 
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and solemn processions.
 
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But the Church emphasises that all these forms of devotion find their climax in this Mass,
 
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since, as the Second Vatican Council declares, the Eucharistic sacrifice is the source and
 
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the summit of the whole of the Church's worship and of the Christian life.
 
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The intense year of preparation for this event in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and throughout
 
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the Church in this country is the greatest guarantee of the fruitfulness of the Congress.
 
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I would like to commend particularly the effort made to arrange adoration in every church
 
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in the United States of America on August 4, Clergy and Religious Day, to pray for vocations.
 
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In order to associate myself as closely as possible with the 41st International Eucharistic
 
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Congress, the Holy Father will celebrate the Eucharistic sacrifice next Sunday at Bolsena,
 
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not far from Rome, the site of the Eucharistic miracle which led to the institution of the
 
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Feast of Corpus Christi.
 
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In many parts of the world this will find an echo in the hearts of the faithful who,
 
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conscious of the spiritual importance of this event, join in fervent prayer for its success.
 
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May we who are privileged to be here in Philadelphia this occasion do our part as generously as
 
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possible.
 
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Let us pray.
 
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Father of everlasting goodness, our origin and guide, be close to us and hear the prayers
 
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of all who praise you.
 
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Forgive our sins and restore us to life.
 
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Keep us safe in your love.
 
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Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in
 
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the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
 
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Amen.
 
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The whole Israelite community grumbled
 
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against Moses and Aaron.
 
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The Israelites said to them, would
 
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that we had died at the Lord's hand in the land of Egypt
 
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as we sat by our flesh pots and ate our fill of bread.
 
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But you had to lead us into this desert
 
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to make the whole community die of famine.
 
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Then the Lord said to Moses, I will now rain down
 
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bread from heaven for you.
 
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Each day, the people are to go out and gather
 
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their daily portion.
 
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Thus will I test them to see whether they
 
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follow my instructions or not.
 
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I have heard the grumbling of the Israelites.
 
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Tell them, in the evening, twilight, you shall eat flesh.
 
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And in the morning, you shall have your fill of bread,
 
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so that you may know that I, the Lord, am your God.
 
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In the evening, quail came up and covered the camp.
 
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In the morning, a dew lay all about the camp.
 
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And when the dew evaporated, there
 
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on the surface of the desert were fine flakes,
 
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like hoarfrost on the ground.
 
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On seeing it, the Israelites asked each other, what is this?
 
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For they did not know what it was.
 
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But Moses told them, this is the bread which the Lord has
 
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given you to eat.
 
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This is the word of the Lord.
 
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Thanks be to God.
 
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Our second reading today is from the letter
 
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of Paul to the Ephesians.
 
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I declare and solemnly attest in the Lord that you must no longer live as the pagans
 
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do, their minds empty.
 
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That is not what you learned when you learned Christ.
 
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I am supposing, of course, that he has been preached and taught to you in accord with
 
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the truth that is in Jesus, namely,
 
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that you must lay aside your former way of life
 
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and the old self, which deteriorates
 
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through illusion and desire, and acquire a fresh, spiritual way
 
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of thinking.
 
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You must put on that new man created
 
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in God's image, whose justice and holiness are
 
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born of truth.
 
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And this is the word of the Lord.
 
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Amen.
 
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The Lord be with you.
 
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And also with you.
 
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A reading from the holy gospel according to John.
 
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Glory to you, Lord.
 
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When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were at the place where Jesus
 
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had multiplied the bread, they too embarked in boats to Capernaum, looking for Jesus.
 
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When they found him on the other side of the lake, they said to him,
 
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Rabbi, when did you come here?
 
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Jesus answered them, I assure you, you are not looking for me because you have seen signs,
 
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But because you have eaten your fill of the loaves,
 
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you should not be working for perishable food,
 
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but for food that remains unto life eternal.
 
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Food which the Son of Man will give you,
 
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it is on him that the Father has set his seal.
 
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At this they said to him,
 
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what must we do to perform the works of God?
 
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Jesus replied, this is the work of God,
 
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have faith in the one whom he sent.
 
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So that we can put faith in you, they asked him,
 
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What signs are you going to perform for us?
 
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What is the work you do?
 
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Our ancestors had manna in the desert,
 
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according to scripture.
 
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He gave them bread from the heavens to eat.
 
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Jesus said to them,
 
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I solemnly assure you it was not Moses who gave you bread from the heavens.
 
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It is my Father who gives you heavenly bread.
 
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God's bread comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.
 
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Sir, give us this bread always, they besought him.
 
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Jesus explained, I myself am the bread of life.
 
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No one who comes to me shall ever be hungry.
 
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No one who believes in me shall ever thirst.
 
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This is the gospel of the Lord.
 
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Lord.
 
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Blessed are you, Lord Jesus Christ.
 
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Alleluia, alleluia.
 
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On the 26th of March 1975, Pope Paul VI, turning his thoughts to the 41st International Eucharistic
 
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Congress, declared,
 
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By its very international character, this Eucharistic Congress is an event of worldwide
 
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importance.
 
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For many parts of the world, men and women will assemble to honor the mischief of Christ
 
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in His Eucharistic sacrifice and presence, and to proclaim His Lordship.
 
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The Holy Father added,
 
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They will open their hearts with new sensitivity and fresh concern to the many urgent needs
 
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of their brethren, the just aspirations and legitimate anxieties of mankind.
 
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His Holiness concluded saying,
 
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All these hungers of the human family, the Eucharistic Congress will offer with confidence
 
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and loving faith.
 
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the only, the perfect solution.
 
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Jesus himself who said,
 
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I am the bread of life.
 
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He who comes to me will never be hungry
 
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and he who believes in me will never thirst.
 
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The liturgy of the word of this 18th Sunday of the year
 
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enables us in this inaugural celebration
 
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of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress
 
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to reflect on some of the marvelous figures,
 
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the manna and the feeding of the 5,000,
 
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which foretold this supreme gift
 
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that comes to us from the heart of Christ.
 
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The first reading of this Sunday from the Book of Exodus
 
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describes how Almighty God fed the Israelites
 
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in the desert with manna.
 
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This signal gift is extolled in today's responsorial psalm.
 
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He rained manna upon them and gave them heavenly bread.
 
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The manna was heavenly food supplied by God in a moment of grave need.
 
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It sustained the people of Israel during their pilgrimage to the Promised Land.
 
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It met the varied needs of all the people.
 
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it remained as a symbol of God's providential care of Israel. It is a
 
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figure of the Blessed Eucharist, the true bread from heaven which Christ would
 
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give to His Church. In the divine office for the solemnity of the body and the
 
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blood of Christ, the Church gives us in the mid-morning reading these words from
 
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the Book of Wisdom. You nourished your people with food of angels and furnished them with
 
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bread from heaven, ready to hand, untoiled for, endowed with all delights and conforming
 
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to every taste. Hereto then the manner is seen by the Church as the figure of the Eucharist,
 
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the true bread from heaven, serving the need of each one,
 
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and sowing in each the seeds of immortality.
 
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No matter how great and varied the needs of each
 
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of the faithful, the Eucharist can meet them all,
 
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and remains the inexhaustible source of life and holiness
 
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that will reach its climax in eternal life.
 
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Both the manna in the desert and the multiplication of the loaves and fishes in a desert place
 
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near the Sea of Galilee were divine interventions to meet the material needs of God's people.
 
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In both these cases there was danger of ignoring the significance of these actions and concentrating
 
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on the material benefits that accrued from them.
 
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That is why Jesus said clearly to the people that followed him in Capernaum,
 
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You are not looking for me because you have seen signs,
 
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but because you have eaten your fill of the loaves.
 
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You should not be working for the perishable food,
 
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but for the food that remains to life eternal,
 
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food which the Son of Man will give you.
 
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We too must take Christ's admonition to heart.
 
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We cannot really appreciate this great gift of the Eucharist if we are so engrossed in
 
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the transient affairs of this life that we cannot raise our minds to higher things, to
 
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values that endure forever.
 
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Cardinal Newman did not hesitate to say that the comforts of life are the main cause of
 
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our want of love of God.
 
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Enlisting these comforts, he adds, a smooth and easy life,
 
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an uninterrupted enjoyment of the goods of providence,
 
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full meals, soft raiment, well-furnished homes,
 
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the pleasures of sense, the feeling of security,
 
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the consciousness of wealth.
 
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These and the like, if we are not careful,
 
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choke up all the avenues of the soul
 
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through which the light and breath of heaven come to us.
 
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And he concludes, we must at least at seasons
 
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defraud ourselves of nature if we would not
 
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be defrauded of grace.
 
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Moreover, our Lord's divine teaching and the bread of life
 
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cannot benefit us if we lack the condition required
 
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by Christ of the people of Galilee, who
 
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asked, what must we do to perform the works of God?
 
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This is the work of God, Jesus replied,
 
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have faith in the one he has sent.
 
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Let us, therefore, implore the grace of a deep faith in Christ
 
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and in his gift of love.
 
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May we firmly believe that the blessed Eucharist
 
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will serve the needs of each of us,
 
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transforming itself into what each one wishes.
 
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May it be our spiritual sustenance
 
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in our earthly pilgrimage and the pledge of eternal life.
 
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With such faith, we can be sure that the Eucharist,
 
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the center and summit of all the sacraments,
 
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will enable us to respond to the invitation contained
 
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in the second reading from St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians,
 
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put on the new man that has been created in God's image.
 
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Here again, we have the theme of a Eucharistic Congress,
 
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the new man.
 
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These words evoke the theme of the 38th International
 
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Eucharistic Congress held in Bombay in December 1964.
 
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May they sustain us effectively in our efforts
 
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to lay aside our former way of life
 
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and the old self, which deteriorates
 
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through illusion and desire and acquire
 
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a fresh spiritual way of thinking.
 
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The spiritual development of the Congress theme,
 
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The Eucharist and the hungers of the human family
 
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will enable us to achieve this.
 
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As we examine each of these hungers,
 
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may we progressively put aside illusions
 
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and become convinced that Christ is
 
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the solution of all difficulties.
 
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And if we ask why the world in its tribulation and unhappiness
 
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has not tried this solution, may we be obliged to ask ourselves,
 
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have we Christians really tried this solution?
 
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Have we shown that this solution is effective in our lives?
 
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Only in the measure that we do so
 
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can we become a cogent sign to the world
 
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that Christ is indeed the solution of all difficulties.
 
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We are privileged to share in the celebration of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress.
 
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We must be conscious that we do so in the name of the whole Church.
 
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During these days of grace, therefore, let us be open to the divine teaching that comes
 
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to us through the liturgy of the Word, so that we may be united with Christ and with
 
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each other in the Eucharistic sacrifice and in the sacrament of His love.
 
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Finally, in the words of His Holiness Pope Paul, may Mary, the mother of Jesus and the
 
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mother of His Church, obtain the grace for all men to recognize that her Son, who is
 
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the Messiah, the Son of the living God, is indeed the true bread of life, who alone can
 
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and satisfy the hungers of the human family.
 
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In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
 
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This is the end of side one.
 
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To hear side two, turn the cassette over now.

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Lord, bless the labors of our Holy Father, Pope Paul, bishops, priests, and deacons.
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Direct their works towards leading your people to the promised land, we pray to the Lord.
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Give us civil leaders in your image to serve and govern with your justice and holiness,
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we pray to the Lord.
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Renew us with the truth that is in Jesus.
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To be faithful in teaching our youth the wonders you have wrought, we pray to the Lord.
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Inspire a fresh spiritual way of thinking in us.
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Move us to share your gifts with the homeless, the hungry, the abandoned, we pray to the
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Lord.
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Provide the sick with the food of life eternal that remains unto life.
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Take into your kingdom everyone who has eaten this bread, we pray to the Lord.
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During this Eucharistic Congress, set your seal upon us in the heavenly bread to be a
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sign for the life of the world, we pray to the Lord.
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Father in heaven, you have made us for yourself.
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Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.
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this longing through Jesus, the Bread of Life, so that we may witness to Him who alone satisfies
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the hungers of the human family. By the power of your Spirit, lead us to the heavenly table,
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where we may feast on the vision of your glory forever and ever.
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Father, accept this offering from your whole family.
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Grant us your peace in this life.
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Save us from final damnation and count us among those who have chosen.
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Bless and approve our offering.
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May it be acceptable to you,
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the offering in spirit and in truth,
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Let it be come for us the glory and love of Jesus Christ, your only Son, our Lord.
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The day before he suffered, he took the bread in his sacred hands, and looking up to heaven, to you, his Almighty Father, he gave you thanks and praise.
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He broke the bread, gave it to his disciples, and said,
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Take this, all of you, and believe it.
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This is my body, which will be given up for you.
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When the supper was ended, he took to God.
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Again he gave thanks and praise, gave the cup to his disciples and said,
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take this all you do and regret from it.
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This is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and the lasting covenant.
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It will be shed for you and for all men so that sins may be forgiven.
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Do this in memory of me.
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Come give to us, O saving Lord, the bread of life to eat.
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As when the shepherd calls his sheep, they know and heed his voice.
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So when you know your family's gone, we follow and rejoice.
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You satisfy a hungry heart with gift of finest wheat.
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Come give to us, O saving Lord, the bread of life to eat.
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It's joyful news, we sing to you, of praise and gratitude,
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that you should count us worthy, Lord, to share this empty due.
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You satisfy the hungry heart with gift of finest wheat.
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Come, give to us, O saving Lord, the bread of life to eat.
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He's got the love we bless and share, the love of Christ
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our Lord.
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Do not, my love, for love declare our oneness in the Lord.
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You satisfy the hungry heart with gift of kindness free.
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Come give to us, O saving Lord, the bread of life to eat.
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The mystery of your presence, Lord, the world, O God, can tell.
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O the world, and the country, from day in our hearts to tell.
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You satisfy the hungry heart with milk of pious wheat.
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How can you also take in love the bread of life to eat?
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You give yourself to us, O Lord, and sell the flesh of sin
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to serve each other in your name in truth and charity.
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The
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following are excerpts from the evening benediction service of the 41st
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International Eucharistic Congress. The homilist is John Cardinal Kroll.
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My beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, the 41st International
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Eucharistic Congress, which we begin today, marks the special passage of the
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Lord among us. These are the words of the Holy Father, Pope Paul VI. Last
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month, in his message to the American bishops on the occasion of the
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Bicentennial of American Independence, the Holy Father wrote,
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We ask that your people be constantly invited to a deeper realization of the centrality of the
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Eucharist in their lives. The Pope called this emphasis especially important in
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this year of the Eucharistic Congress. And so on this day as we open the 41st
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International Eucharistic Congress, I ask you my beloved brothers and sisters, in
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In the name of Jesus Christ, realize that the Eucharist is and must be at the center of your lives as followers of Christ.
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Realize that it is through the Eucharist that you will be able to satisfy the hungers of the human family.
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Realize that this procession, this day, this Congress, marks the special passage
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of the Lord among us. In our spiritual pilgrimage through life, Jesus has never
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been closer to us as pilgrim people than he is now. This is the time of special
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grace, a time of special opportunity. It's a time of special grace because it
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prompts us to reaffirm in a public manner our faith in God in a world which
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has forgotten him, our faith in Jesus Christ in a world which has ignored him,
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Our faith in the Eucharist in a world which so often has neglected or taken
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for granted this most magnificent gift of God to the human family. Such a
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public reaffirmation of faith in Jesus in the Eucharist is helpful to us in
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appreciating Christ's love for us. He loved us so much that he gave his life
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for us that we might live forever with him. He loved us so much that the night
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before he died he took bread and wine and said, this is my body which will be
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given up for you. This is the cup of my blood." He loved us so much that he made
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it possible for this spiritual nourishment to be shared with all his
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followers throughout the ages. Because he ordained his apostles priests and gave
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them the power to fulfill his command, do this in remembrance of me. He loved us so
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much that he made it possible for us to gather in his sacramental presence today.
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The word Eucharist means thanksgiving. There's no better way in which we can
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thank God for his goodness to us than through the perfect gift which his son
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Jesus Christ offered once for all on Calvary but which is represented in
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every Mass which is offered on every altar, in every church, in every age. Today we gratefully
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reaffirm the truths which we appreciate so deeply, that the Mass, the liturgy of the
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Eucharist, is the representation of the sacrifice of Christ, that Jesus is truly present in
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the Eucharist, that Jesus comes to us in the Eucharist when we receive Holy
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Communion in order to give us the spiritual nourishment of his own life
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and to communicate to us the capacity to live with him in heavenly glory. But
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today is not only a time of special grace in which we reaffirm our
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appreciation of the Eucharist. It is also the time of special opportunity in which
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we are called to live, to live the Eucharist. While earlier councils of the
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Church had clearly defined the truth about the Eucharist so that we might
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appreciate and understand it more deeply, the Second Vatican Council, with its pastoral
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emphasis, has challenged us to live the Eucharist more fruitfully.
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The theme of this Congress, the Eucharist and the hungers of the human family, carries
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the message not only that Jesus is the bread of life, but that he satisfies the
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spiritual hunger of the human family, but also that we, the followers of Christ,
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must extend compassion, the compassion of Jesus to all who are troubled and lonely,
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the love of Jesus to all who are poor and needy, the message of Jesus to all
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who are searching for life's meaning. We praise Jesus in the Eucharist by
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singing, you satisfy the hungry hearts. We must also serve Jesus in the Eucharist
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by helping to alleviate the hungers of the human family.
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In his decree on the ministry and life of priests,
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the Second Vatican Council has stated in the capsule form
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a truth which applies to all of us, priests and laity.
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The council said,
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While priests are uniting themselves with the act of Christ, the priest, they are offering
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their whole selves every day to God.
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While being nourished by the body of Christ, their hearts are sharing in a love of Him
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who gives Himself as food for His faithful ones.
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How do we unite ourselves with Jesus in offering our whole selves every day to God?
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How do we join with Jesus in attempting to satisfy the hungers of the human family?
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We can respond to both questions in four words.
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Live what you receive.
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Live what you receive.
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Let your thoughts be the thoughts of Christ.
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Let your words be the words of Christ.
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Let your action be the acts of Christ.
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Let your motives in all that you do, think, or say, or do, be the love of Christ.
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Live what you receive.
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In this way, you will offer to the human family the opportunities to satisfy the many hungers,
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hunger for God, because those who see lives of such virtue and of such firm conviction
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and of such unselfish service are bound to ask why.
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In their own search for life's meaning, there are many who will find in your truly meaningful
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lives of loving service of God and of neighbor the most eloquent sermon to which they will
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ever be exposed. They will see in your lives a reflection of heaven, and they will be prompted
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to lift their own eyes to see that we have not here a lasting city, but are destined
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to look forever upon the face of God. You will help to satisfy the hunger for bread,
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because who among you could feast at the table of the Lord and deny admission to the banquet
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of life to brothers and sisters of the human family, who among you could be nourished by
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the fruits of Christ's sacrifice while refusing to make a sacrifice of your own.
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As God miraculously provided manna in the desert and as Jesus miraculously multiplied
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loaves and fishes, we have an obligation to show and offer individualistic and selfish
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world the moral miracle of unselfish caring and sharing.
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You will help satisfy the hunger for freedom and justice because your lives will show that
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true liberty comes freely conforming ourselves to God's will, free of the slavery of sin
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and free of the pressures of peers or of the powerful.
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Your lives will show that hunger and thirst for justice, which Jesus called blessed and
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which he promised would be satisfied.
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As those who have been nourished by the very life of Christ himself, you are already recipients
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of that divine act of making all things right, the act called justification and the gift
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called grace.
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You are also the recipients of a special sensitivity to render to each member of the human family
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his or her due, so that your lives ought to be marked
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by a moral integrity which surrenders to no temptation,
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to corruption, and which burns with righteous indignation
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at any oppression of God's most beloved sons and daughters,
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the poor, the afflicted, the helpless, the orphaned,
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and in our age especially, the innocent unborn.
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All these members of the human family,
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our brothers and sisters, have a right to life,
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a right to dignity, a right to truth,
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a right to know about God and about the heavenly home
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He has prepared for those who know, love, and serve Him.
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Our love for God is false if it does not include the members of his family, the human family.
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Our reception of the Eucharist is fruitless if Christ's sacrifice is not carried out in our own lives.
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You will help to satisfy the hunger for spirit because your lives will show the effects of motives
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which are more than merely human, and the effects of a joy which can only be divine.
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The word spirit comes from the Latin word for breath.
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We say that where there is life, there is breath.
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And where there is spiritual vitality and enthusiasm, there is present the breath of the spirit.
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the Spirit and your joyous, Spirit-filled lives can help to satisfy a profound hunger
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in our world.
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You will help to satisfy the hunger for truth because you will be attempting to communicate
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to others Jesus, whom you have received, who is the way, the truth, and the life.
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You will help to satisfy the hunger for understanding, because in lives transformed by Christ you
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will manifest to an often hurried and harried world the message of Jesus,
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"'Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you.'"
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You will help to satisfy the hunger for peace, because no peace treaty in history has had
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more profound effects than a new covenant declared by Jesus at the Last Supper.
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You can help to communicate this peace in Christ by showing in your own lives the love
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and forgiveness of Jesus, by helping all to become reconciled to God and with each other,
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by working for a world in which brotherly love, not destructive violence, becomes the
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solution to problems and tensions. May this Eucharistic Congress and may our
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lives help to make Philadelphia in fact what it is in name, a city of brotherly
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love, a model of that peace for which the world hungers. Finally you will help to
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satisfy the hunger for Jesus, the bread of life, as you approach the table of the
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Lord more frequently, as you bring the members of your own families with you to
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receive Holy Communion in love and unity, and as you bring the entire human family
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the message that it is not by bread alone that man lives, but that
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the bread of life, Jesus himself, is needed on our spiritual journey to our
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eternal home. All of us on the parkway tonight are pilgrims on the same spiritual journey.
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We grow weary and we grow hungry on this journey, but there are moments when we see our goal
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with special clarity. There are moments when our steps are charged with new energy. This
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This is just such a moment because, as our Holy Father has said, it marks the special
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passage of the Lord among us.
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As we look upon Jesus in the Eucharist this evening, we pray for ourselves and for all
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on the journey through life to eternity.
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Come, give to us, O saving Lord, the bread of life to eat.
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help us to satisfy the hungers of the human family.
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Lord, we are thirsty, give us to drink.
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Lord, we are suffering.
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Strengthen our faith.
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Kyrie eleison.
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Send us your spirit, O Lord, and renew the face of the earth.
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Kyrie eleison.
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Leave us in the way of truth, O Lord, and show us your mercy. Kyrie eleison.