Eucharistic Humility

On the upper east side of Manhattan, a grandly ornamented Italian classical revival church stands majestically among the high rises around it and watches over the nonstop hustle and bustle of Lexington Avenue. Beneath its renaissance-style dome, this 117-year-old structure houses as its centerpiece a six-foot-tall monstrance to display the Blessed Sacrament to the people seeking refuge and communion inside.

Today, the Catholic bishops of the United States are seeking to come to terms with the reality that the treasure of treasures promised by Christ himself to enter into the lives of his beloved believers with his very own Body and Blood has often been neglected by the Catholics of this country. While the topic is too lengthy for this post to treat completely, not for some time has the secular world heard so much about this Sacrament – if also in a way that is not surprising, contextualized in the American sacrament: politics.

Jesus, knowing the risk of coming into material elements first in the Incarnation and now to us under forms of bread and wine, judged that the possibility of this neglect was outweighed by his desire to be with his beloved disciples. The weight of that humility has ever been too much for mortal minds to bear, and the understanding of the gift of his life in us has drawn controversy from departing disciples in the bread of life discourse contained in John’s Gospel, St. Paul's admonition of worthy Eucharistic reception, and of course in our present day.

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If we just evolved randomly, wouldn't that just be torture?

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