We begin the Triduum a time in which we will
witness the unusual transition of Jesus Christ from life to life.
Today, we are in the Upper Room.The
greatest importance of this meeting is
bread. Jesus takes in His hands the bread says
the blessing and prays, breaks
the bread and says this is my Body, which will be given up for you.
In this way, the bread became bread for the
disciples.
Is the bread not the basic staple? It is
obvious for all. The same bread was also present in the earthly life of Jesus.
After forty days of fasting, we remember Satan
proposed to Jesus to transform the rocks into bread.
In another place we see how Jesus multiplied a
few loaves of bread and fed a few thousand people.
Today, in the Upper Room from bread, Jesus does the same.
Since then, everyday, during the mass, Christ
through the hands of the priest transforms the bread. Multiplies it in order to
feed all people and His body is then present with us on earth.
Bread became mystery of love.
Bread became mystery of accomplishment. Why?
Today, Christ does not just break and give us
bread. He does not just preach the commandments and teach us. Today, like in
all His life we see Him in the ministry of washing the feet.
Christ not only speaks about love but He does
this. One who loves... wants to be always close and a loving person and in this
sign of bread He stays with us.
We see that this bread unusual bread, has
three dimensions:
--The mystery of love.
--The mystery of accomplishment.
--The mystery of presence.
St. Albert Chmielowski says beautiful words: "we should be good like bread." For this reason, everybody who will be hungry
can break this bread and be happy and feel satisfied.
With this message of today we must go out of
our Upper Room. Christ gives us His body to transform our life and added for us
the strength to be better disciples.
As we reach for bread daily food invite others
that they may have the chance to reach for love from our heart.
As the
bread is available without limitations, so our service should be available for
all. But we must remember, bread should taste and smell fresh and so our love
should always be fresh, such as bread is nutritious our service must be real
help and added encouragement and a reason to live for other people.
How do we do this?
If we do not feed of the bread of life fresh
consecrated bread our love will be stale our life will be stale and our helpfulness
will be rejected.
For this reason, Christ gives us His heavenly
body.
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