This is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival

by Robert Barron

willing of the good of the other as other. To love is really to want what is good for someone else and then to act on that desire.

whole of the scriptural story, though contained in a wide variety of texts written at different times for different purposes, can be seen as a coherent narrative of God’s attempt to restore the fallen creation, to reestablish the joy of the banquet.

he is wrapped in swaddling clothes and then laid “in a manger,” the place where the animals eat (Luke 2:7). What Luke is signaling here is that Jesus had come to be food for a hungry world.

whole world would be gathered to God. Here, the story of the multiplication of the loaves and fish comes to mind.

they became the distributors of grace.

It is never enough simply to eat and drink the Body and Blood of Jesus; one must become a bearer of the power that one has received. The meal always conduces to the mission.

As the disciples come ashore, they see that Jesus is doing something altogether in character: he is hosting a meal for them. “They saw a charcoal fire there, with fish on it, and bread. . . . Jesus said to them, ‘Come and have breakfast’”

structure of the measurable universe. Therefore, when these gifts are brought forward,

This means that, for Christian faith, God is a family of love, a sharing of life, a breathing in and breathing out, a looking toward another.

And this means that he can be neither grasped nor avoided, neither controlled nor ignored.