Mother of the Most Holy Eucharist, Pray For Us!: Saint Anselm, Tuesday, April 21, 2020

J.M.J.

From A Place For Everybody by Archbishop Mieczysław Mokrzycki (Krakow: Znak Publishing House: 2013)

THE HOLY FATHER (Pope JOhn Paul II) WAS CASTING A GREAT INVISIBLE NET OF GOOD

John Paul II has often said that the Church lives through the Eucharist.  His last message was about the Eucharist.  The last words are, after all, a testament.  The words:  “Ecclesia de Eucharistia”!  are the Pope’s testament.  The Pope began or finished the Eucharist at a common table.  There was something else.  Just as Christ gives Himself in the Eucharist, explains Archbishop Krajewski, so the Holy Father, after each meal, asked the sisters to pass everything that was left to others, especially those who were on duty.  They brought these gifts from the Papal table to their homes, invited family members and friends, celebrated – also at the table – joyful moments.  I myself often participated in this gift.  How great invisible net of good was the Holy Father casting!  It was a real celebration of God’s kindness and love; the same as then on Holy Thursday during the dinner with a dozen priests.  Like every day during breakfast, lunch, dinner.  Like every day during the morning Eucharist, which he also shared with the invited guests.

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