Remember how the Israelites grumbled during their desert journey
- there being no bread? And how they later rejoiced when they received manna
from heaven to satisfy their physical desires??
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Recall that it wasn’t
too long after this food was showered upon them that they complained about
seeing “nothing before us but this manna” and longing to have the food they
enjoyed while in Egypt - meat,
cucumbers, melons, leeks onions and garlic they enjoyed in Egypt? (Numbers
11:4-6)
The Jews began to take this manna for granted. Instead of its arrival reminding them of the magnificence
of the God who provided it to them and Who was delivering them from their Egyptian
slave masters, they complained about what food they did not have. They
preferred nourishment for their stomachs, rather than their physical and spiritual freedom.
Are we Catholics much different from
our Jewish ancestors in the way we treat and respond to the Eucharistic manna –
the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity – that our Loving Lord offers us each day?
Have we become so causal about our
Eucharistic Lord and our undeserved participation at the heavenly banquet that
we have forgotten Who it is Who chooses to unite Himself physically with the
sinful creatures we are?
Do we believe there is nothing
else on this earth Which can be more satisfying or worthwhile than to
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Are we joyful, humble fleshly
ciboria radiating the Love of the Lord within us to those about us?
The honest answer - not in the manner fitting the Gift we
receive.
What do you think?
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