Eucharistic Generosity
by Jeanne Heiberg
Who doesn’t like food? We need food and we enjoy the taste of food—all kinds. Jesus knew this when he fed 5,000 men and their families stranded in the hills of Judea. Rather than send the people away to find food on their own, he increased five loaves and two fish so that there was enough to feed everyone.
This event is so significant that all four Evangelists include it in their Gospels (Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:31-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:5-15). My favorite account is the one we find in John’s Gospel because it is of a child, like your students, who provides the loaves and fish with his eucharistic generosity.
Jan 17
Idea of the Month: January
A Chain of Intentionsby Jami Burns
Catechist Jami Burns uses a “prayer chain” to teach her eighth grade students the power of prayer. Thanks to Jami for sharing this wonderful idea and congratulations to her for winning $100 as the January Idea of the Month winner.
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Jan 10
Bits of Wisdom: Grateful and Gracious
by Cullen SchippeAs a lad (well over half a century ago) I loved Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. The sanctuary clouded with incense, the jingling bells, the familiar Latin melodies, the priest holding high the magnificent monstrance: All came together for a moment of adoration that I considered the pinnacle of Eucharistic devotion.
Yet, as time went on, I realized that should I nestle all my Eucharistic spirituality into moments like those, I would be having the same reaction the disciples had on the mount of the Transfiguration. After their awesome vision, those disciples were prohibited from building tents and spending their days in adoration. Instead they were sent down the mountain.
I learned that giving in to the temptation to stay on my personal Mount Tabor put me at risk of missing (as Paul Harvey used to say) “the rest of the story.”
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