THE MYSTERY OF THE EUCHARIST IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH (Part-4)

Our Holy Mother Church wisely, lovingly, and caringly ‘obligates’ her children to do: gather each Sunday and on other special days for holy Mass and receive Holy Communion. For as our Bishops remind us: we are a family and the Eucharist is our Family Meal and no family is complete if anyone is missing from the family table! Here’s how they said it: [As] Pope Saint John Paul II reminded us: “[The] promise of Christ [“I am with you always, to the end of the age” [Matthew 28:20]] never ceases to resound in the Church as the fertile secret of her life and the wellspring of her hope. As the day of Resurrection, Sunday is not only the remembrance of a past event: it is a celebration of the living presence of the Risen Lord in the midst of his own people.” … [But] the pandemic has forced us to stay physically distant from one another and, for a time, to view the celebration of the Mass on a television or computer screen. Many of the faithful appear to have had their faith and their desire for the Eucharist strengthened by such a long separation. (To be continued…)