Military Personnel Eucharist

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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, peace be with you.
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my brothers and sisters in Christ.
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Today on this feast of the transfiguration of our Lord,
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we gather together to thank God for his many blessings
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on the men and women of the military family of the United
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States.
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In this mass, we entrust once again to his fatherly care
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the many thousands of our brothers and sisters
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who have given their lives for their country
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across the span of 200 years of America's history.
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We pray for the men and women who today serve in the Army,
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the Navy, the Air Force, and the Veterans Administration,
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that they may be strong and courageous
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in the defense of peace in the world,
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and that they may see their true role
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in the service of their neighbors.
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We pray for the future of our beloved nation,
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that it may be blessed with peace and tranquility,
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and never cease its commitment
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to the cause of liberty and justice for all.
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As we celebrate the feast
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of this miraculous manifestation
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of the divine sonship of Jesus our Lord
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on this first Friday of August,
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we come in a special way
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to give honor and worship to his sacred heart.
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At the conclusion of this Mass,
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we shall consecrate all the military family
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to the heart of Jesus.
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During this liturgy therefore,
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Let us pray to our Heavenly Father
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that through the loving heart of his Son,
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we may be united to him and to each other
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in love and harmony and peace.
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And now, as we prepare to celebrate
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the mystery of Christ's love,
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let us recall our sins with sincerity and sorrow.
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Lord Jesus, you feed us with your most holy body and blood. Lord, have mercy.
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Lord Jesus, you nourish your faithful who hunger for your gift of love. Christ, have mercy.
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Lord Jesus, you strengthen our faith in the mystery of your Eucharistic presence.
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presence. Lord have mercy. May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins,
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and bring us to everlasting life. A reading from the book of the Prophet
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Daniel. As Daniel watched, thrones were set up and the Ancient One took his
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throne. His clothing was snow bright and the hair on his head as white as wool.
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His throne was flames of fire with wheels of burning fire. A surging stream
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of fire flowed out from where he sat. Thousands upon thousands were ministering
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to him and myriads upon myriads attended him. The court was convened and the books
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were opened. As the visions during the night continued, I saw one like a son of
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man coming on the clouds of heaven. When he reached the ancient one and was
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presented before him, he received dominion, glory, and kingship. Nations and
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peoples of every language serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that
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It shall not be taken away.
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His kingdom shall not be destroyed.
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This is the word of the Lord.
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Praise be to God.
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The Lord is king, the most high over all the earth.
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The Lord is King, the Most High, over all the earth.
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The Lord is King, let the earth rejoice.
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Let the many hearts be glad.
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Clouds and darkness are round about him.
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Justice and judgment are the foundation of his throne.
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The Lord is King, the Most High, over all the earth.
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The mountains melt like wax before the Lord,
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before the Lord of all the earth.
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The heavens proclaim His justice,
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and all people see His glory.
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The Lord is King, the Most High, over all the earth.
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Because you, O Lord, are the Most High over all the earth,
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exalted far above all gods.
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The Lord is King, the Most High, over all the earth.
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A reading from the second word of Peter.
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It was not by way of cleverly concocted myths
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that we taught you about the coming in power of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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for we were eyewitnesses of His sovereign majesty.
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He received glory and praise from God the Father
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when the unique declaration came to Him
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out of the majestic splendor,
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This is my beloved Son, on whom my favor rests.
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We ourselves heard this said from Heaven
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while we were in His company on the holy mountain.
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Besides, we possess the same prophetic message
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as something altogether reliable.
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Keep your attention closely fixed on it,
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as you would on a lamp shining in a dark place,
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until the first streaks of dawn appear
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and the morning star rises in your hearts.
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This is the word of the Lord.
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Thanks be to God.
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Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.
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my son, my beloved, in whom is all my delight, listen to him.
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Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
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The Lord be with you.
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A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.
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Jesus took Peter, James, and his brother John,
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and led them up on a high mountain by themselves.
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He was transfigured before their eyes.
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His face became as dazzling as the sun,
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his clothes as radiant as light.
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Suddenly, Moses and Elijah appeared to them,
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conversing with him.
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Upon this, Peter said to Jesus,
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Lord, how good it is for us to be here.
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With your permission, I will erect three booths here,
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one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.
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He was still speaking when suddenly
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a bright cloud overshadowed them.
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Out of the cloud came a voice which said,
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this is my beloved son on whom my favor rests. Listen to him. When they heard this
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the disciples fell forward on the ground overcome with fear. Jesus came forward,
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came toward them and laying his hand on them said, get up, do not be afraid. When
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they looked up they did not see anyone but Jesus. As they were coming down the
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mountainside Jesus commanded them do not tell anyone of the vision until the Son
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of Man rises from the dead. This is the gospel of the Lord.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
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Your Eminence Cardinal Cook, Your Eminence Cardinal Aponte, my brother bishops, my brother
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priests, devoted religious, and dearly beloved in Christ, St. Thomas Aquinas, the angelic
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Doctor, concisely expresses the striking thought that the Holy Eucharist produces in each one
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of us the same effect as the Incarnation produced with respect to mankind in general.
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as by coming visibly into the world Jesus conferred upon the world the life
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of grace, so also coming sacramentally into man he causes the life of grace. As
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St. John says, he who eats me will live because of me. It is a striking thought.
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for immediately it reduces the whole vast work of the redemption of the human
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race to the terms of your redemption and my redemption. It underscores the
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abiding personal concern of Jesus Christ for you and for me. It brings to a focus
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his understanding of each one of us. The gift of Jesus Christ in the whole
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Eucharist is the gift of himself, the second person of the most blessed
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Trinity made man, body and blood, soul and divinity. What this total giving of
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self really means is so difficult for us to comprehend, for his is a divine action comparable
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in profundity to the innermost relations of the Blessed Trinity.
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In the thought-provoking words of one distinguished modern theologian, as God gives his entire
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nature in the eternal generation of the Word and the aspiration of the Holy Spirit, as
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God willed to give himself in person in the incarnation of the Word, so Jesus has wished
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to give himself in person in the Eucharist.
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When our Lord was about to deprive us of his sensible presence, he wished to leave himself
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to us in person under the Eucharistic veils.
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Loving us as he did, he could not bend down any lower towards us, toward the lowliest,
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the poorest, and the most wretched.
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There was no way by which he could unite himself or give himself more completely to each one
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of us.
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Should it surprise us, therefore, that in the Holy Eucharist, each one of us, in the
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particular circumstances in which we find ourselves, in joy or in sorrow, in success
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or in failure, each one of us will find the answer to our hunger for understanding, yours
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and mine.
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For is not the Holy Eucharist, as Pope Paul VI says, the sacrament of the permanency of
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Christ, who now lives in the eternal glory of the Father, in our time, in our
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history, and in our earthly pilgrimage. And is not the Holy Eucharist, as the
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same pontiff says, Christ for each of us, clothed precisely by the species of bread,
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to let himself be known as accommodating and ready to satisfy our hunger, to make
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himself wanted, and to be approached, received, and to be assimilated with
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himself. Jesus Christ our Lord, present in the Holy Eucharist, is the same person
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who once was born in the stable in Bethlehem, who worked in a carpenter's shop in Nazareth,
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who trudged through country fields and city streets in Palestine, who preached on the slope
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of a hill in Galilee and from the prow of a boat on the lake of Genezareth, who sweated blood amid
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the agony of Gethsemane and died the death of crucifixion on Golgotha. He is the incarnate
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Son of God, truly human in nature as He is divine in nature. It is precisely
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because He is like unto us in all things save sin that He knows and cares and
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understands. Read the gospel pages, my brothers and sisters. Study the life of
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Jesus Christ upon earth. Did he ever show unconcern for the troubled and the
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suffering? Did he ever refuse to listen? Did he ever answer brusquely or
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impatiently or offensively? Did he ever deny the plea of someone in need? Did he ever berate
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a timid soul? Was he ever harsh or unkind? Did he ever bear a grudge? Was there ever
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for any bitterness in his speech,
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or vindictiveness in his acts?
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Did he ever show by what he said or what he did
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that he lacked sympathy and compassion
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and kindness and considerateness and understanding?
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Though hard on himself, remember the cold of Bethlehem,
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the hunger of the desert, the agony of Gethsemane,
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the ignominy of Golgotha, though hardened himself,
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was he not always mild and gentle towards others?
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Was there ever any penitent sinner whom he refused to pardon?
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When some ridiculed his teaching and termed him an imposter
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and called him a blasphemer and shouted for his death
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nailed him to a cross, did he ever answer in anger? Did he ever harbor revenge? Father,
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forgive them for they know not what they do. He taught his followers to love their enemies
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and to do good to those who hated them.
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He told them not to judge or condemn, but always to forgive.
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He bade them feed the hungry, and give drink to the thirsty,
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and to welcome the stranger, and to clothe the naked,
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and to come to the sick, and to visit the imprisoned.
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Could he not command these things because he himself,
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by what he thought and said and did,
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was a model whom they could follow?
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Understanding, did you ever reflect upon the parable
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of the prodigal son and upon the parable of the shepherd
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who left the 99 sheep to go out in search of the one
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had strayed away. Understanding, the centurion came to Jesus with the plea,
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my servant is ill. The lepers stood afar off and begged that they be made clean.
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The poor blind beggar of Jericho kept crying out, Jesus son of David have pity
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on me, and because in the goodness and generosity and tenderness of his heart
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he understood. Jesus healed them all.
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Understanding, do you remember how one of the rulers of the synagogue named Jairus
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fell down at the feet of Jesus and besought him much, my daughter is at the
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point of death. And because Jesus Christ understood a father's grief, he went down
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to his home and took his daughter by the hand and raised her from the dead.
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Understanding, do you remember how sympathetically Jesus Christ listened to Mary of Bethany?
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Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
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He himself wept at the tomb of his friend Lazarus, and because Jesus understood the
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sorrow of Martha and Mary he brought their brother back to life. Understanding.
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Do you remember how pitifully the widow of Nahum was weeping as her only son was
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being carried to the grave? And because Jesus Christ understood the heart
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sickness of that poor mother, he not only commanded the boy, young man I say to
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thee arise, but with delicate gentleness and infinite thoughtfulness he took the
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boy by the hand and he gave him to his mother. The sick and the diseased, the
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the crippled, and the maimed, and the troubled,
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and the whole flock to him,
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because they knew he understood.
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Little children ran after him,
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so that he might throw his arms about them and bless them,
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because they knew that he understood.
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His mother Mary pointed out to him the embarrassment at the wedding feast when the wine supply had failed because she knew that he understood.
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The woman troubled for twelve years with an issue of blood pushed her way through the jostling crowd that she might touch the hem of his garment because she knew that he understood.
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He always understood, but it was not only the sorrows and burdens of men and women and children that Jesus Christ understood,
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he understood their joys as well. That is why he loved to visit with Martha and Mary and Lazarus and Bethany.
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That is why he shared their moments of happiness with the newly married couple at Cana.
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That is why he honored the publicans Zacchaeus and Jericho by entering into his house in order to dine with him.
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Jesus loved people.
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He had a reverent sense of the dignity of all persons
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because he understood that every human being is an image of God and so valuable in his sight
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that he would shed the last drop of his precious blood on Calvary to redeem him.
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He appreciated the strengths and the weaknesses of every individual,
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and so he dealt with every individual on a personal basis. He drew to the faith
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the Samaritan woman at the well of Sikar, promising her, the water that I will
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give shall become a fountain of water springing up into life everlasting. He
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rescued the woman taken in adultery, granted her forgiveness because of a
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repentant love and then set her free. Go and sin no more. He looked with such compassion
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upon Peter after his denial that the apostle went out and wept bitterly. The strong, manly,
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rough, impetuous fisherman. He called to Judas, friend, and taught the whole world the lesson
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that it is never too late to try to save a human soul. It is this same Jesus, dearly
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beloved brothers and sisters who is present in the Holy Eucharist. Jesus
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Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. True, he is present in his
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glorified body, but it is still the second person of the Blessed Trinity
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made man, body and blood, soul and divinity, who remains with us under the
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appearance of bread and wine, there is only one Jesus Christ. Today men and
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women and children all over the world hunger for understanding. I hear them
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plead. I want to be appreciated as a human person. I want to be treated as the
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work of God's creative hand. I want to be esteemed as a child of God. I need to be
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wanted, to be loved. I need someone who will defend me from injustice and
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and protect me from hatred.
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I need someone who will not become angry at me.
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My failure is no vindictive because of my sins.
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I need someone who is concerned with me as an individual.
 
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I need someone to whom I can speak and in whom I can trust.
 
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The starving millions, the indigent, the destitute, the beggared, cry out to Jesus Christ in the
 
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Holy Eucharist, do you understand my poverty?
 
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Jesus points to a manger and a stable.
 
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And he reminds them,
 
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foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests.
 
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But the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.
 
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The forgotten and the abandoned, the shirins in apartments whom no one ever visits, the
 
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men and women on the fringe of society in chronic hospitals and public institutions,
 
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the elderly who live only on memories, all these cry out to Jesus Christ in the Holy
 
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Christ, do you understand my loneliness?" Jesus points to an olive garden where no
 
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one could watch even one hour with him, where his desolation was so overpowering
 
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that he pleaded with his father to let the chalice be taken away from him, and
 
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and where moments later his closest followers fled from him in terror,
 
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while one of his chosen friends planted upon his lips a kiss of betrayal.
 
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The harassed and the deprived and the disadvantaged and the cheated
 
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and the victimized and the persecuted, cry out to Jesus in the Holy Eucharist,
 
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do you understand the injustice that I must bear and the hatred that I must
 
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face, the misinterpretations of my motives and the misconstruings of my
 
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words. Jesus points to the Sanhedrin where false witnesses testified against
 
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him, to the court of Herod where he was made a fool of, and to the judgment seat
 
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of Pilate where he was scourged. And he reminds them how his sublimest
 
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teachings were ridiculed and the miraculous works by which he alleviated
 
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suffering and need were ascribed to the devil. Do you understand my suffering and
 
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pain and anguish? Cry out the sick and the diseased and the crippled and the
 
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infirm. Jesus points to a hill of skulls under a blackened sky, to tattered flesh,
 
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thorn-wounded forehead, nail-pierced hands, blood-spattered body, and the gaping hole
 
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in his side, open by a soldier's spear.
 
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Understand, his invitation in the Holy Eucharist is as open and as pressing
 
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today as it was 2,000 years ago. He says again and again to you and to me, it is I. Do not
 
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be afraid. Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will refresh you."
 
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Understand, why do you think that he instituted the Holy Eucharist? Why do you think that
 
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Why do you think that he gave us this sacrament in such a personal way?
 
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Was it not that he might unite himself with individuals in communion and become one body with them?
 
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that he might become man in each man by taking the human nature of each into union with his own?
 
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And is it possible for our human minds to conceive of any action more understanding than this?
 
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But, my brothers and sisters, there is another aspect of the subject, the Eucharist and the
 
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hunger for understanding, that calls for our brief reflection this afternoon.
 
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It is an astounding thought, and yet it is true, that when Jesus abides in us, in the
 
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Holy Eucharist in some mysterious and miraculous way, we are transformed into Him.
 
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This is no new doctrine.
 
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This is no exaggerated concept.
 
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It is to be found in the writings of many of the great fathers and doctors of the Church
 
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and has been taught constantly by the Magisterium of the Church over the centuries.
 
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With scholarly insight, an outstanding modern theologian has discussed several patristic
 
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passages on this point.
 
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Treating of St. John Chrysostom, for example, and his comments upon the words of St. Paul,
 
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is not the bread we break as sharing in the body of Christ.
 
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Taimans de Peron describes how this father of the Church
 
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pointed out that Saint Paul was not satisfied
 
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with his explanation of the union between Christ
 
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and the Christian until he had affirmed
 
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that in Holy Communion, the Christian becomes
 
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the body of Christ.
 
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Why, asks St. John Chrysostom, does St. Paul use the word communicatio and not participatio?
 
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The reason is that he wished to express a more intimate degree of union.
 
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Even when he uses the word communicatio, which supposes a distinction of persons between
 
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him who communicates and him who receives the communication, St. Paul is at pains to
 
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attenuate this distinction, adding immediately, we are all one bread, one body.
 
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As if he were to say, why speak of communication or communion?
 
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We are the same body.
 
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So what is the bread we eat?
 
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It is the body of Christ.
 
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And those who communicate become the body of Christ.
 
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Not several bodies, but one body.
 
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Just as bread is compounded of many grains in such a way
 
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that their union obliterates their individual differences,
 
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So too with us, we are united one with the other,
 
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all united in Christ because all are nourished
 
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by the same body.
 
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With even greater vigor of expression,
 
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Saint John Chrysostom thus describes
 
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our transformation in Christ.
 
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He says, we are the body which we receive.
 
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Dearly beloved, because of our union with Christ in the Holy Eucharist, we must let
 
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Christ live in us.
 
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For me to live is Christ, said Paul.
 
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attitudes and our actions, the things that we think and say and do must be
 
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conformed to him because he lives in us. It is not enough to imitate Christ.
 
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Rather, we must let Christ live and act in us in such ways that we can one day
 
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day say with St. Paul, it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.
 
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In concrete, practical terms of day-to-day living, this means that we must feed the hungry
 
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and give drink to the thirsty, and visit the lonely, and console the sorrowing, and counsel
 
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the doubting, because this is what he did.
 
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He went about doing good.
 
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In a word, we must love with patience and kindness, without jealousy or boastfulness,
 
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without arrogance or rudeness, without stubbornness or irritableness or resentfulness.
 
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We must never cease trying to satiate the great hunger of modern man for understanding.
 
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We must be alive to modern man's yearning to be appreciated as a human person, to be
 
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treated as a work of God's creative hand, to be esteemed as a child of God, to be wanted
 
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and to be loved, to be defended from injustice and protected from hatred, to be accepted
 
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in spite of his failures and transgressions.
 
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Like Jesus Christ, we must give ourselves to modern man as persons to whom he can speak
 
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and in whom he can trust.
 
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all of this precisely because in the Holy Eucharist we become one body with Jesus Christ
 
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who assimilates us to himself.
 
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Oh how desperate is the need today that we love and understand one another and ourselves
 
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too.
 
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in the context of our becoming one body with the Eucharistic Christ.
 
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Thomas Merton's memorable statement is no exaggeration.
 
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He wrote,
 
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The whole problem of our time is the problem of love.
 
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How are we going to recover the ability to love ourselves and to love one another?
 
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The reason why we hate one another and fear one another
 
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is that we secretly or openly hate and fear our own selves.
 
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And we hate ourselves because the depths of our being
 
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are a chaos of frustration and spiritual misery.
 
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lonely and helpless
 
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we cannot be at peace with others
 
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because we are not at peace with ourselves
 
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and we cannot be at peace with ourselves because we are not at
 
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peace with God. It is important to make
 
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clear however that this living of Christ in our day-to-day lives
 
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because we have become his body in the Holy Eucharist. This sympathetic response
 
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by us, united with the Eucharist to Christ, to the hunger of modern man for
 
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understanding, all of this implies an ecclesial dimension too. The Second
 
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Vatican Council urges bishops to exert themselves constantly to have the
 
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faithful know and live the Paschal mystery more deeply through the Eucharist
 
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and thus become a firmly knit body in the solidarity of Christ's love.
 
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It is substantially the same thought that Thomas Merton expresses in this way.
 
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We must always remember that we are not sanctified as isolated units,
 
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but as members of the living organism, the Church.
 
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we are sanctified as members of one of another. The growth of each individual
 
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person in Christ-like virtue contributes all the more the Christ-likeness of the
 
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whole Church. It is therefore not only a question of individual imitating the
 
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divine Redeemer and thus perfecting their own lives, but above all of Christ
 
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living more and more perfectly in his Church,
 
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by virtue of the fact that his Spirit takes fuller and deeper possession of all its individual members,
 
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uniting them all perfectly to one another and to himself.
 
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My dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
 
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to summarize and to conclude,
 
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The Holy Eucharist is the living answer to mankind's hunger for understanding,
 
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and this chiefly for two reasons.
 
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First, present in the Holy Eucharist is the loving, compassionate,
 
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consoling, sympathetic, encouraging, understanding Christ.
 
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And secondly, through our oneness with Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist,
 
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Through our becoming him because he assimilates us to himself,
 
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our brothers and sisters in our day must find in us also
 
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the living answer to their hunger for understanding.
 
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Somewhere, I once happened upon the text of an old
 
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and unidentified manuscript that seems especially pertinent
 
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to our reflections this afternoon on the Eucharist
 
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and the hunger for understanding.
 
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The title of the manuscript is this.
 
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This is my friend.
 
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Let me tell you how I made his acquaintance.
 
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I had heard much of him, but took no heed.
 
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He sent daily gifts and presents, but I never thanked him.
 
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He often seemed to want my friendship, but I remained cold.
 
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I was homeless and wretched and starving and in peril every hour, and he offered me shelter
 
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and comfort and food and safety, but I was ungrateful still.
 
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At last he crossed my path and with tears in his eyes,
 
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he besought me saying, come and abide with me.
 
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Let me tell you how he treats me now.
 
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He supplies all my wants.
 
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He gives me more than I dare ask.
 
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He anticipates my every need.
 
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He begs me to ask for more.
 
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He never reminds me of my past ingratitude.
 
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He never rebukes me for my past follies.
 
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Let me tell you further what I think of him.
 
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He is as good as he is great.
 
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His love is as ardent as it is true.
 
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He is as lavish of his promises as he is faithful in keeping them.
 
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He is as jealous of my love as he is deserving of it.
 
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I am in all things his detour, but he bids me call him friend.
 
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It is this friend, the Eucharistic Christ, who answers the hunger of mankind for understanding.
 
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Truly, he who comes to me shall not hunger.
 
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It is the Eucharist of Christ who has satisfied the empty soul
 
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and has filled the hungry soul with good things.
 
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God love you.
 
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♪♪
 
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From the very first days of his pontificate, our beloved Holy Father, Pope Paul VI, has
 
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spoken of the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus as a noble and worthy form of that
 
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authentic piety which today, particularly after the decrees of the Second Vatican Council,
 
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we should foster towards the person of Jesus Christ.
 
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In the sacred heart is symbolized the love of God for all mankind, and it is this love
 
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which saves us and which gives us the strength to work for the salvation of the whole world.
 
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It is most fitting that during this Eucharistic Congress, the military family should consecrate
 
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itself to the love of our divine Lord as it is symbolized in his sacred heart.
 
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It was a soldier's lance which pierced the human heart of Christ, and we are all challenged
 
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to put on the breastplate of salvation and take up arms against the evils of sin and
 
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prejudice and selfishness in our world.
 
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May this dedication bring us many graces from the bountiful heart of Christ, and may we
 
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all become more dedicated in our ministry and in our lives to the divine love of Jesus
 
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as it is symbolized in his sacred heart.
 
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And now I ask you to unite yourself with the members of the military family in this act
 
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of consecration.
 
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Our Father in Heaven, out of merciful love for the human race, you sent your only Son
 
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to be our brother, our Savior, and our King.
 
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Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit, you became man in the womb of the Blessed Virgin
 
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Mary, that you might love your brothers and sisters with a human heart.
 
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Out of obedience to your father and out of love for us, you made the supreme sacrifice
 
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of your life, teaching us by that act that there is no greater love than to lay down
 
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one's life for one's friends and foes alike.
 
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After your death on Calvary, you will that your sacred heart be opened by the lance of
 
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a Roman soldier.
 
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From your pierced heart there flowed blood and water, symbols of the outpouring of the
 
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Holy Spirit, of the sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist, and of the birth of the
 
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Church.
 
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Lord Jesus, men and women of the military family everywhere realize only too well the
 
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many times your gentle and humble heart has been pierced by the lance of war, of hatred,
 
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of violence. We know that the great desire of your heart is for unity, salvation, and
 
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peace. This is our desire as well. We want to be of one heart and one mind with your
 
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heart and your mind. We desire to help you expiate the sins of selfishness, disobedience,
 
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obedience and sensuality, which are the causes of war.
 
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Therefore, today, we the bishops and priests
 
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of the military vicariate of the United States of America,
 
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united with representatives of military vicariates
 
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from around the world, trustfully
 
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consecrate ourselves without reserve
 
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to your Eucharistic heart here present
 
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in the blessed sacrament.
 
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Likewise, we dedicate to your loving heart
 
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all the men and women of the military services
 
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you have so confidently confided to our spiritual care.
 
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In a special way, we consecrate to your merciful heart
 
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all wounded veterans and their families.
 
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Oh, loving master, we ask you to reward those who
 
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have made the supreme sacrifice.
 
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Aid the victims of war and violence.
 
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Bring about the release of prisoners of war.
 
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Help those suffering from militant atheism.
 
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Save the lives of the innocent unborn
 
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against whom a merciless war has been declared.
 
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Mary, Queen of Peace, we entrust to your sorrowful
 
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and immaculate heart the fulfillment of this covenant
 
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to which the peace of the world has been entrusted.
 
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To your motherly heart, we also consecrate our hearts,
 
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asking in return to enkindle in them
 
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a deeper, more personal love
 
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for the heart of your divine son, the Prince of Peace.
 
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Saint Joseph, patron of the church,
 
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friend of the sacred heart, intercede for us
 
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that like you we may carry out our duties
 
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in a spirit of faith, live in hope and love,
 
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and thus obtain the grace of a happy death.
 
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Sacred heart of Jesus, we put our trust in you.
 
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Eucharistic heart of Jesus, thy kingdom come.
 
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Immaculate heart of Mary, pray for us.
 
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Glory be to the Father, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
 
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as it was in the beginning, is now,
 
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never shall be world without end. Amen.
 
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Thank you.
 
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I think it's this one here, John.
 
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All right.
 
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Thank you.
 
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♪♪
 
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For he who lives in God's grace
 
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Has forever faith to praise
 
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For Pergamum's endless bliss
 
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Above the fruited plain
 
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America! America! God shed his grace on thee.
 
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And crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea.