Homily for the 20th Sunday of Ordinary Time, August 18, 2024
Today marks the fourth Sunday of a vital lesson on the Eucharist in which we are led to consider the natural human resistance to what the Father intends to do for us in the Eucharist, by offering us the flesh and blood of his Son Jesus. To this end, it would be profitable to open our minds and hearts to what Jesus feeds us, first, at the table of God’s Word by imagining what our world would be like without the Eucharist, without feeding on the flesh and blood of our Lord. It would be a world run by human beings but in which God is absent. It would be a wounded, cr