Thursday, September 19, 2024
Theme: “Building Unity and Peace in the Church and Society”
Text: 1 Corinthians 10:16-17
16. The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? 17. Since there is one bread, we who are many form one body; for we all partake of the one bread.
Let us remember:
This text highlights the uselessness of divisions and conflicts within the Church. Indeed, it mentions the principle of association coupled with communion to achieve peace, understanding, true love, salvation. The table of the Lord brings us together wherever we come from to become “ONE”. Each participant in the Lord's Supper associates himself with the other participants through Jesus, the bread. At the Lord's table, there is no leader, no slave, no race, no size, no rank and grade. We eat one body. While we Christians are many, but we become only one bread and one body, around the supper. The Lord's Supper represents a network of Christians interconnected by Jesus the bread. When we eat the bread, each organism ingests the same bread; which makes us similar in our belly, our faith, equidistant (our distance from Jesus is identical). We share the same life, the same experience, the same aspiration, the same expectation, the same bread. The bread of the Lord's Supper gives us the same identity; it confirms our belonging to the same divine root. In short, the Holy Communion is a strong symbol of unity and peace since it gives each member of the Church the opportunity to remember with gratitude the life and all the work accomplished by Jesus on the cross. Excellent Thursday. Amen
Alain Louz.-
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