As I scaled up to Charles Mound, the highest point of elevation in the state of Illinois, yesterday, I thought about how the Eucharist is the source and the summit of Christian Life, as we are drawn to God, and sent forth from God in this feast at Mass.
The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ gives us reason to rejoice, because they are signs of the covenant by which we enter into relationship with God.
As Father Hurlbert so insightfully shared in his homily, God established this covenant first with Abraham, then put into laws in the time of Moses, and then made it Eternal and brought it into flesh in Jesus.
God has come so close to us. And we so rejoice and give thanks to God, walking with Him, like the Psalmist, all our days.
What a beautiful scene it was to join a group of people processing with the Body of Christ in a canopy-covered monstrance walking around the blocks near St. Odilo Parish in Berwyn this afternoon. It shows us how we encounter Christ in the Eucharist and are transformed to be His Body, and then we carry His Presence into the world by living holy.
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