The Bread of Life Resides in You

Many murmur, "This saying is hard; who can accept it?" If we approach Christianity from our own presuppositions we completely miss the fact, as Pope Benedict XVI writes, that "being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction." We are to look beyond the saying to the Say-er. This is what it means to "be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ." "Decide today whom you will serve"- your own ideas and preconceptions, or "the Lord." Father Peter John Cameron, O.P.
The Divine is above any thing, idea, or experience of the earthly world. By this I mean, that in a moment in which one experiences something that is insightful, resulting in joy or discovery, or revelation or even greater, true love, one has begun to move upward towards the Divine. What was lost by Original Sin is in part being regained. That is what Jesus the Bread of Life brings to us. That is why the Eucharist was in the center of life for Padre Pio. He spent very early hours of the day or still night (he got up at 2.30 am) to get ready for his daily Mass and later the rest of the day was actually another preparation for a new Eucharist the next day. Once he said that the world could do without the Sun for a while but could not exist even a single day without the Holy Mass! Give thanks when you return to your pew that God has chosen to have Christ reside in you, making you an Ark, a Temple, the Holiest of Holys. Allow His Grace to permeate every fiber of your being so that in all you do, you do for the Greater Glory of God. Then every day you are living as Christ lives. Don't murmur, don't fall for the voices of the world, hear the voice of the one who John says "In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent His only Son into the world so that we might have life through Him (The Eucharist). In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that He loved us and sent his son for expiation for our sins.