In the humble signs of bread and wine, changed into
his body and blood, Christ walks beside us as our strength and our food for the
journey, and he enables us to become, for everyone, witnesses of hope. If, in
the presence of this mystery, reason experiences its limits, the heart,
enlightened by the grace of the Holy Spirit, clearly sees the response that is
demanded, and bows low in adoration and unbounded love.
Let us make our own the words of Saint Thomas
Aquinas, an eminent theologian and an impassioned poet of Christ in the
Eucharist, and turn in hope to the contemplation of that goal to which our
hearts aspire in their thirst for joy and peace:
Bone pastor, panis vere,
Iesu, nostri miserere...
Come then, good Shepherd,
bread divine,
Still show to us thy mercy
sign;
Oh, feed us, still keep us
thine;
So we may see thy glories
shine
in fields of immortality.
O thou,
the wisest, mightiest, best,
Our
present food, our future rest,
Come,
make us each thy chosen guest,
Co-heirs
of thine, and comrades blest
With
saints whose dwelling is with thee.
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