by Edward Foley, OFM Cap<\/em><\/p>\nOne of my personal challenges
\nabout preaching at Old Saint Pat\u2019s
\nis that I am not here every week,
\nand like other preachers move around from Mass to Mass \u2026
\nLast week the 8:00, this week the 11:15, next week in LA.
\nThe fun is that I get to celebrate with assemblies,
\ndifferent teams of ministers of hospitality and musicians.
\nA downside from my perspective, however,
\nis that each homily ends up being sort of a discrete adventure,
\noften without the possibility of referencing
\nsome previously made point.
\nThis is especially true these special feasts after Pentecost \u2013
\nlast week Trinity, this week of the Body and Blood of Christ,
\neach of which have distinctive readings
\nout of sync with the lectionary cycle.<\/p>\n
Last week I suggested that the Feast of the Trinity
\ncould be considered \u201ca feast of ideas.\u201d
\nThis is a designation that some theologians use
\nto distinguish those feasts
\nthat do not have some historical basis
\nsuch as Christmas, or Good Friday
\nor what David Tracy calls \u201cthe Christian fact.\u201d<\/p>\n
Feasts of saints also have an historical anchor
\nlike the feast of Patrick \u2026 we know he lived and died.<\/p>\n
Which is why feasts like that of St. Christopher
\nwere removed from the calendar after Vatican II
\nbecause there was no evidence
\nthat the Christ-bearer ever actually lived.<\/p>\n
Now you might be saying to yourself,
\n\u201cNow just a minute Padre,
\nyou seemed to have overlooked the gospel
\nwhich proves that the feast of the Body and Blood
\nIs NOT a feast of ideas \u2026 but an historical remembrance
\nof Jesus actually saying
\n\u2018This is my body \u2026 this is my blood!\u2019
\nSo the feast is not \u201cidea\u201d based \u2026 but history-based.\u201d<\/p>\n
And therein lies the mystery of this feast.
\nAnd also the danger of bad theology \u2026 even heresy.
\nFor if we hold that this is essentially an historical feast
\nwe could similarly assert
\nthat when we go to communion
\nwe receive the historical body of Jesus,
\nhis natural flesh and blood born of Mary.
\nWhich is not the teaching of the Church.<\/p>\n
A few years ago, I read a powerful, dark and brooding novel,
\nThe Buried Giant, <\/em>by Nobel prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro,
\nset in mythical post-Arthurian England.
\nCentral to the narrative is some form of amnesia
\nthat has enveloped the British countryside
\nand all its inhabitants,
\nboth Saxons and Britons,
\nwho live in a foggy peace with each other.<\/p>\nBesides the amnesiatic fog,
\nthe novel follows Wistan, a young Saxon warrior,
\nand the Briton Gawain, an aging knight
\nand nephew of the long dead king Arthur.<\/p>\n
Wistan and Gawain are respectful yet mortal enemies,
\nnot fighting over some beautiful woman but an aging dragon,
\nwhom Merlin enchanted years ago
\nafter Arthur\u2019s bloody conquest of the Saxons.<\/p>\n
The dragon\u2019s breath is the fog that induces this societal amnesia,
\ndampening the memories of hatred and slaughter,
\nrivalry and division,
\nthat grew out of Arthur\u2019s bloody conquest of the Saxons.<\/p>\n
And so there was a Camelot of sorts,
\nbut more a camelotic ruse,
\nand once the dragon is slain
\nmemory returns \u2026<\/p>\n
A memory that will once again feed a smoldering anger
\nbetween Britons and Saxons
\nand lead to war.<\/p>\n
Memory is the buried giant here,
\nand when it raises its fiendish head,
\npersonal division and societal chaos ensue.<\/p>\n
The revelation here is that the death of the dragon,
\nthe lifting of the fog,
\ndid not create the hatred and division,
\nrather it revealed it \u2026 in all of its destructive ugliness.
\nFrom time to time we witness the lifting of an amnesiatic fog.
\nRecently those have included the #MeToo movement,
\nexposing the destructive ugliness
\nof sexual harassment of women.<\/p>\n
The \u201cNeverAgain movement\u201d begun by the survivors
\nof the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
\nhas helped lift the boomerang fog
\nthat induces national amnesia
\na few weeks after one more school mass shooting.<\/p>\n
And then this last week
\nwe witness an apparently Ambien-assisted tweet
\nby a high profile television celebrity.
\nDid not create, but revealed again
\nthe vile and abhorrent racism
\nthat yet courses through our national body.<\/p>\n
All fog lifting, however, does not pull away the veil,
\nonly on the abhorrent or obscene.<\/p>\n
One could suggest, for example, that the recent wedding
\nof the now Duke and Duchess of Suffolk
\nnot only lifted the veil that sometimes shrouds
\nthe very diverse, even racially mixed British population,<\/p>\n
But also that Meghan Markle may not be the first royal
\nof African Ancestry,
\na first that seems to go to the 18th<\/sup> century \u2013
\nQueen Charlotte, wife of King George III.<\/p>\nOn a smaller scale I find the best contributions
\nfrom \u201cStorycorps\u201d\u00a0 or \u201cThis I believe\u201d
\nor the long-running Harry Porterfield feature
\n\u201cSomeone You Should Know\u201d
\n(featured on Chicago CBS Television Station Channel 2).<\/em><\/p>\nAs welcome veil-lifters,
\nlight-shedders,
\nand laser pointers
\nto the good, the gracious, and the generous
\nthat surrounds us each day in bountiful and beautiful ways<\/p>\n
What is always staring is in the face
\nis not always clear,
\nis not always even perceptible,
\nuntil someone \u2026 for good or for ill \u2026
\ndisperses the fog and lifts the veil.
\nI have taken this excursus into
\nthe work of Nobel prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro,
\nracist tweets and royal weddings,
\nbecause of their fog-dispersing
\nand veil-lifting power
\nto teach us something important
\nabout today\u2019s gospel,
\nabout today\u2019s feast,
\nabout the very act of communion,
\nand thus about Christian life.<\/p>\n
It is true that three of our Gospels \u2013 Mark, Matthew, and Luke \u2013
\nhave Jesus identifying the bread with his body
\nand the wine with his blood \u2026<\/p>\n
But it seems to me that those were fog-lifting,
\nveil-rending,
\nmystery-dispersing words
\nattempting to provide clarity for his disciples
\nabout the schooling he had provided them
\nover the previous three years
\nas his earthly life was clearly and precipitously
\ncoming to a close.<\/p>\n
In selecting, mentoring, and sometimes chiding his disciples,
\nit is clear that Jesus has been concerned
\nabout their moral and spiritual and social development
\nin standing with the poor and the marginalized,
\nthe contaminated and the sick,
\nthe widows and the orphans.<\/p>\n
It is also clear, in his rejection of empty ritualism,
\nthat Jesus was not overly concerned about rubrics,
\nand he did not put the letter of the law
\nahead of the good of God\u2019s people.
\nThus he had no problem with healing people on the Sabbath.<\/p>\n
Thus in these famous words about body and blood,
\nJesus is not teaching his disciples how to say Mass
\nor giving them a doctrinal lesson on transubstantiation.<\/p>\n
Rather, as I imagine it,
\nJesus is saying to his disciples something like:
\n\u201cFor the past three years you have feasted on me,
\nyou have devoured my teaching,
\ndined on my Word,
\nbasked in the glow in my intimacy with my Father,
\ndrunk too much wine at that wedding feast,
\nand been nourished by the power of healing.<\/p>\n
You have eaten me up and sometimes spit me out.<\/p>\n
In case you haven\u2019t noticed it,
\nthe authorities are hunting for me
\nand soon I will go the way of John the Baptist,
\ndecapitated or crucified \u2026 one way or the other,
\nI will be gone.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/eucharist-daniel-bonnell.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
Eucharist, Daniel Bonnel, 2011<\/em><\/p>\nAnd who will carry on this ministry,
\nwho will announce good news to the captives?
\nHeal the sick?
\nProtect the children?
\nOffer respect to the divorced and the outlier?<\/p>\n
In a phrase, who will be my body in the world?<\/p>\n
If you eat this bread \u2026 which I now identify as my real self,
\nthen you too become my real self,
\nfor this bread is my body \u2026 and if you eat it
\nyou commit yourself to being my body as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut there\u2019s a catch.\u201d Jesus continues. \u201cIf you want to be my body,
\nit is not about prestige or privilege,
\nabout apostolic honor or clerical pride \u2026
\nFor if you want to be my body in the world
\nYou have to drink of the cup.<\/p>\n
It is a cup of joy and a cup of blood,
\na cup of blessing and a cup of sacrifice,
\na cup of dying and one of rising.<\/p>\n
Drinking of this cup is drinking of the covenant in my blood,
\nthe blood that will soon drain out of my earthly body.
\nIf you drink of the cup
\nyou enter a life of sacrifice \u2026
\nwhich is the only way you can truly be my body in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
From the horrors of the death camps during World War II
\ncomes the story of a small group of Christian prisoners,
\nforbidden to worship, as were their Jewish sisters and brothers.
\nBut one night, as their Jewish friends kept the guards busy,
\nthe Christians huddled together.<\/p>\n
The pastor began:\u00a0 \u201cThis meal reminds us of the torture, the death and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He asked us to remember him by repeating this action in the spirit of fellowship. The bread which we do not have today, but which is present in the spirit of Jesus, is the body which he gave for humanity. The fact that we have none represents very well the lack of bread and the hunger of so many millions of human beings. When Christ distributed bread among his disciples and when he fed the people he revealed the will of God that we should have bread and be bread for each other.<\/p>\n
The wine which we do not have today is his blood present in the light of our faith. Christ poured it out for us to move us toward freedom in the long march for justice. Christ made all persons of one blood:\u00a0 the blood of Christ represents our dreams of a unified humanity, of a just society without difference of race or class.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pastor then held out his empty hands to the person on his right and left, and others around the circle did the same; as he placed his hand over theirs he boldly exclaimed:\u00a0 \u201cTake, eat, this is my body which is given for you, do this in remembrance of me. Take, drink this is the blood of Christ which was shed to seal the new covenant of God with humanity.\u201d Then they raised each other\u2019s hands to their mouths, kissing the scarred and bony flesh of their fellow prisoners, and so received the body and blood of Christ, and returned to prison life with new hope, and awareness of the presence of Christ that lived in and through them.<\/p>\n
Soon most of us will join a wondrous procession.
\nAccept the bread and affirm it as the body of Christ.
\nDrink from the cup and affirm it as blood of Christ.<\/p>\n
But that is not the only procession we need this day.
\nFor if it is an authentic feast of the Body and Blood of Christ,
\nwe need a second communion procession
\nout the door,
\ninto our city streets, neighborhoods, workplaces,
\nschools, shopping malls and homes,
\nbecoming fresh flesh and blood incarnations
\nof the living bread for which the world hungers \u2013
\nthrough sacrificial living
\nfor which we were baptized.<\/p>\n
In the words of St. Theresa,
\n\u201cChrist has no body now but yours \u2026.\u201d
\nBut ours.
\nLet us, as St. Augustine urged us,
\nbecome what we eat,
\nand do so in the sacrificial spirit of what we drink
\nthrough Christ our Lord.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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