Bread for the Journey

Just as manna was the bread for the Israelites on their journey to the Promised Land, so the Eucharist is the bread for our journey to heaven. The Eucharist is our daily bread, our sustenance, and our source of every grace and blessing. As Pope Francis highlighted in a homily on Corpus Christi in 2021: “To celebrate the Eucharist, we need first to recognize our thirst for God, to sense our need for him, to long for his presence and love, to realize that we cannot go it alone, but need the Food and Drink of eternal life to sustain us on our journey” (Corpus Christi, June 6, 2021).

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