I was cleaning out my office
yesterday...getting ready for a new class to begin. It is a bit of a
ritual, clearing off and re-organizing my bookshelves, de-cluttering my desk
drawers and desktop. I suppose that what I am doing ritually with the
STUFF in my office I am hoping has a counterpart in my brain!
In the cleaning I found these
quotes* I apparently gathered for an RCIA reflection on the
Eucharist...seems to fit nicely with today's Gospel, Mark
6:34-44.
It's bad. You don't know what to do when
you've got five children standing around crying for something to eat and you
don't know where to get it and you don't know which way to start to get
it. I just get nervous or something'.
---Kentucky miner's wife
There are so many hungry people that God cannot
appear to them except in the form of bread.
--
-Gandhi
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see
one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally
arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought it--or even
kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your hands
meeting his across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot or
suffer a lot--or die a little, even.
---Daniel Berrigan
May I see the power of bread
May I have the courage and
caritas
to be a part of satisfying,
and nourishing, and sustaining
Make of me a Homo-Eucharisticus**
*upon a google search I found these quotes
appearing together as part of a reflection on LOAVES AND FISHES, by artist John
August Swanson, whose talent I admire very much
**term stolen, I believe, from Gil Baillie…who
perhaps gleaned it from Gregory Dix
