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In 2014, I am facilitating a 12-week interactive online course in contemplative prayer and action for priests with Saint Luke Institute. Please visit SLIconnect.org to learn more: https://www.sliconnect.org/product/living-god-program-contemplative-life-2/
In 2014, I am facilitating a 12-week interactive online course in contemplative prayer and action for priests with Saint Luke Institute. Please visit SLIconnect.org to learn more: https://www.sliconnect.org/product/living-god-program-contemplative-life-2/
Tuesday of the 3rd
Week of Easter
Mepkin Abbey
May 6, 2014
CHILDHOOD BREAD ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Seems like only yesterday I was in elementary
school and I was running into the house yelling,
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“Mom I’m
home … and I’m starved”
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Every Monday & Thursday, it would be the
wafting of warm loaves of homemade bread that had my mouth watering as I hit
the front steps
GOSPEL BREAD ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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My sister, brother and I all ate and had our
fill, just as the crowds did in the scene preceding today’s Gospel
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We too were deeply satisfied … and, I might add,
we were also starving again before supper
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“Eat this
bread and never be hungry” wasn’t in my experience, at least as it seemed
on the surface of things
APPLICATION +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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For our insatiable hunger to be satisfied – as
in “Mom, give us this bread always” –
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My mother had to repeat the multiplication of
the loaves over and over again
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And, she did every Monday and Thursday
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The days of my mother’s bread baking have long
ended, but the hunger within me continues
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As does the multiplication of the loaves
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It continues because my mother’s bread was a
sign of something so much deeper
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It was for a love and communion that were deeply
satisfying
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A love you could “come home to” anytime
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A love you wanted
to come home to
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A love whose only hunger is a desire to become
what you have been fed, to satisfy the hunger of others
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And because she is no longer with us, it is a
love that is stronger than death itself
CONCLUSION +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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I realize now that my mother’s bread was a gift
of God straight from heaven
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A gift that makes it easy for me to believe
Jesus is the Bread of Life who
satisfies our every hunger
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Nourished on it, may we, in countless ways, now give
each other and the world this Bread always
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