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Let Jesus Christ feed the hungers of your life, Pope Francis says on Corpus Christi

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20 June 2022
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In Christ: Pope Francis gives his blessing from the window of his studio overlooking St Peter's Square at the Vatican, after praying the Angelus with people gathered in the square. Photo: CNS

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THE Feast of Corpus Christi is a time for Christians to remember that God will meet their basic needs to eat and to be filled with the joy and amazement of receiving loving nourishment from Jesus Christ, Pope Francis said Sunday.

At the same time, the pope emphasised, the Eucharist must also move Christians to action.

“We can evaluate our Eucharistic adoration when we take care of our neighbour like Jesus does,” the Pope said Sunday before the recitation of the Angelus at St Peter’s Square in Rome.

“There is hunger for food around us, but also for companionship; there is hunger for consolation, friendship, good humor; there is hunger for attention, there is hunger to be evangelised.

“We find this in the Eucharistic bread — the attention of Christ to our needs and the invitation to do the same toward those who are beside us. We need to eat and feed others.”

The Pope’s remarks reflected on Sunday’s Gospel reading, the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes from the Gospel of Luke. 

The Pope linked the reading to the institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper.

The Eucharist was like “the destination of a journey along which Jesus had prefigured through several signs, above all the multiplication of the loaves narrated in the Gospel of today’s liturgy.”

The Pontiff reflected on the manner of the miracle when Jesus fed so many who lacked food.

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“The miracle of the loaves and fishes does not happen in a spectacular way, but almost secretly, like the wedding at Cana — the bread increases as it passes from hand to hand. And as the crowd eats, they realise that Jesus is taking care of everything,” Pope Francis said. 

“This is the Lord present in the Eucharist. He calls us to be citizens of Heaven, but at the same time he takes into account the journey we have to face here on earth.

“If I have hardly any bread in my sack, he knows and takes care of it himself.”

The Pope connected the tangible needs of food with the intangible needs of humankind.

“Sometimes there is the risk of confining the Eucharist to a vague, distant dimension, perhaps bright and perfumed with incense, but rather distant from the straits of everyday life. In reality, the Lord takes all our needs to heart, beginning with the most basic,” he said. 

“In the Eucharist, everyone can experience this loving and concrete attention of the Lord.

“Those who receive the Body and Blood of Christ with faith not only eat, but are satisfied. To eat and to be satisfied: These are two basic necessities that are satisfied in the Eucharist.

“The crowd is satisfied because of the abundance of food and also because of the joy and amazement of having received it from Jesus!”

Jesus Christ’s self-giving presence is key to understanding the Eucharist, the Pope said.

“We certainly need to nourish ourselves, but we also need to be satisfied, to know that the nourishment is given to us out of love. In the Body and Blood of Christ, we find his presence, his life given for each of us. He not only gives us help to go forward, but he gives us himself — he makes himself our traveling companion, he enters into our affairs, he visits us when we are lonely, giving us back a sense of enthusiasm,” he said.

“This satisfies us, when the Lord gives meaning to our life, our obscurities, our doubts; he sees the meaning, and this meaning that the Lord gives satisfies us.

Everyone is looking for the presence of the Lord, because “in the warmth of his presence, our lives change.

“Without him, everything would truly be grey.

“Adoring the Body and Blood of Christ, let us ask him with our heart: ‘Lord, give me that daily bread to go forward, Lord, satisfy me with your presence!’”  

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