Break This-For Me

Each Sunday we watch as he is broken apart. The priest raises his hands high so we can’t miss the tearing apart of the host. But only when I read Pope Francis’ homily for the Solemnity we celebrate today, Corpus Christi, did I realize the priest is recreating the breaking of the body of Christ on the cross. Obeying that long ago instruction: Do this in remembrance of me. Take the bread, give thanks and break it. Take the chalice, give thanks and share it.