Revisiting Wednesday - Scurry to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament

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 Here is what I am sharing this week:


Scurry to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament

(Originally posted February 10, 2015)

Bet you have had a similar experience. You are reading a passage from Scripture – one that you have read many times in the past. Suddenly from the page leaps an insight that had heretofore escaped your grasp.

I had just such an experience early Monday morning when I filled in for an Adorer who was stranded some distance from our Chapel due to a significant snow storm.

Let me set forth the familiar words of Mark’s Gospel (Mk 6:53-56) that prompts this post and reflection:

“After making the crossing to the other side of the sea,
Jesus and his disciples came to land at Gennesaret
and tied up there.
As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him.
They scurried about the surrounding country
and began to bring in the sick on mats
to wherever they heard he was.
Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered,
they laid the sick in the marketplaces
and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak;
and as many as touched it were healed.”

(From the Revised Standard Version, emphasis added)

(Basilica at Notre Dame)

The great tragedy of our times is the fact that so few Catholics believe that Jesus is really, truly and substantially present here with us in the Most Blessed Sacrament, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity – the same Jesus the people in Mark’s Gospel immediately recognized and approached with expectant faith.