BCL Newsletter
A heart filled with love has no room for hate.
CORPUS CHRISTI June 5th & 6th 2021
Jesus prepares a place for us on earth, because the Eucharist is the beating heart of the Church. It gives her birth and rebirth; it gathers her together and gives her strength. But the Eucharist also prepares us for a place on high, in eternity, for it is the Bread of heaven. Jesus in the Eucharist comes down from heaven. The Eucharist is the Bread of things to come; even now, it grants us a foretaste of future infinitely greater glory than all we can hope for or imagine. It is the bread that satisfies our greatest expectations and feeds our finest dreams. The Eucharist is, in a word, the pledge of eternal life – not simply a promise but a pledge, a concrete anticipation of what awaits us there.
The Eucharist is our ‘reservation’ for the heavenly banquet; it is Jesus Himself, as food for our journey towards eternal life and happiness. As in today’s Gospel Jesus ask us to prepare for the celebration. Where does Jesus ask us to prepare to celebrate the Eucharist – He wants us to look for places untouched by love, untouched by hope. Jesus wants us to bring people from the highways and the byways. The Lord calls us, like the disciples, to prepare for His coming not by keeping our distance but by entering our neighbourhood.
The Gospel of today ends by telling us that the disciples:
“after singing a hymn, they went out”
At the end of Mass, we too will go out; we will go forth with Jesus, and we with Him will pass through the roads and streets of our countryside and towns. Jesus wants to dwell among you. He wants to be part of your lives, to enter your houses and to offer his liberating mercy, his blessing and his consolation.
Let us open our doors and hearts to Him and say:
Come, Lord, and visit us.
We welcome you into our hearts and our families
We thank You because you have prepared for us
The Food of Life and a place in Your Kingdom.
Make us active in preparing Your Way,
Joyous in bring You, who are life, to others,
And thus to bring fraternity, justice and peace
To all we meet, giving glory to You.
Amen
Anniversaries Occurring At This Time
Dave Swan, High Street
Maureen Gannon, Shralee
Statia Maher, Rathkyle
Gerry Callinan, Moate St.
Eileen Holohan, Kilmacar and Waterford 1st Anniversary
Statia Maher, Rathkyle
Died Recently - Requiescat in Pace
Thomas Delaney, Lower Finnan
Patricia Lawlor (nee Phelan) formerly of Bridge St
Nora Feehan (nee Conry) Esker.
