At the moment our spiritual lives feel a little empty. It’s rather like the feeling we have when we come into church on Holy Thursday and Good Friday and we see the opened and empty tabernacle, the Blessed Sacrament having been removed. We feel the emptiness of a world that spurns its Saviour. At this moment we feel the same lack of the Eucharist but in a heightened way. But, rather like at the end of the Easter Vigil, the Blessed Sacrament will return and will bring us, relief because the living Lord is once more present among us; the emptiness will be filled with new life. It will not be too long, we hope and pray, until we will be able to receive Holy Communion again. Today’s feast reminds us that the great gift of the Eucharist is a holy mystery. It reminds us that Jesus is always present in ways beyond our understanding. Jesus was present with the Father and the Holy Spirit at the creation of the universe. He is present with the angels and saints in heaven. He is always present to us, and most especially so, in the Blessed Sacrament. Today, we thank God for the gift of the Eucharist, and we ask Him to help us to have a deeper reverence for, and a deeper awareness of our need of, this great and wonderful sacrament of spiritual nourishment.
…You make them holy!
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