I have great admiration for St. Carlo (Not declared saint yet by the church, but I personally prefer to call him that way!!) He had great devotion and admiration for Eucharist. He worked hard focused on collecting Eucharistic miracles!
Thieves had entered a little church at night and broke open the tabernacle, took away the ciborium, and spilled the communion all around! In the morning when devotees saw the communion on the floor, they were shocked and reported the same to the priest in charge! He with a lot of fear and devotion collected them back and placed them properly. The bishop, (I think it was late bishop Thomas of Trichy diocese) quickly came to the spot and consoled the people and finally celebrated a mass among them. In which he preached, "the body of Christ is spilled all over; in the slums and villages, on streets and dirty places! The body of Christ is thrown on the streets when the poor are uncared" and so on...
Every person next to you is an embodiment of the same God who lives in you!
If you cannot see the human needs around, your god is blind!
If you detest the smell of the poor, your god is poor!
If you do not extend a helping hand, your god is lame!
If you cannot be warm to the depressed, your god is a nut!
If you cannot be compassionate to the suffering one your god is useless!
That you have no love for the people around you but can do summersault in Eucharistic devotion or lift yourself 5 ft from the ground in deep meditation, your god may be powerful and influential but is worthless!
In fact "your god" is not God!
Very Challenging.
ReplyDeleteI think the feast points to the fact that our God is real and he is not in the air, but dwelling among us in the form of our neighbours.
ReplyDeleteThank you Suvakkin
DeleteEye opener Fr.u are absolutely on dot if we are not able to see and feel the sufferingarond us.. We should See Christ all-around us. That is true celebration of Corpus Christi
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