Is the celebration of the Eucharist a private devotion for you?

​It seems that somehow many have come to the conclusion that receiving the Body and Blood of Christ is a private devotion. It is not.  Celebrating the Body and Blood of Christ this Sunday, we give special attention to what the Eucharist is all about.  It is the opportunity to come to know that it is a communal event.  It involves the assembly gathered, the presider, the Holy Scripture proclaimed and the Body and Blood of Christ under the forms of bread and wine. Together with all of these in mind, we become the presence of Christ on earth.
 
St. Theresa of Avila tells us that “Christ has no Body now but yours.”  We are the hands, the feet, the eyes of Christ in the world.  St. Augustine tells us that we become what we receive.  We become Christ in the world.  It is never just ‘me and Jesus.”  It is all of us together becoming Christ in the world.  Working together we can care for needs of others.  We will feed, as Jesus did and do whatever is necessary for people to have a life that reveals to them the great love God has for all humanity through this son, Jesus Christ; through us.