“Do this in memory of me!” There are many less people in church today than when I was a child. Many go to church looking for entertainment. We are like sick people who do not know enough to go to the doctor. Why go to the doctor"it is probably boring.
The hell that Solzenitsyn experienced in the horrors of the totalitarianism concentration camps of Siberia and the crisis in modern society is because people have forgotten God.
People do not come to church because of spiritual amnesia"either they have forgotten about God or they have forgotten what the Mass is.
We are here today to say that God has not forgotten about us. He still loves us: “Even though a mother might be capable of forgetting her child, I shall never forget you. Your face is carved in the palms of my hands.”
We are here to say to the world, God has not forgotten us"His cry is like the stirring lyrics of the song that says: “The only thing I ask is that you remember me as loving you.”
“Do this in memory of me.” Do what? Take bread and say: “This is my body…” His love is present to feed us. Happy are we if, like those first Christians, we too can say that we recognize Him in the breaking of the bread, that we do this in memory of Him and of His love.
If Mass is a chore, a burden, a boring exercise, the problem is perhaps that we have forgotten how to pray. If we have first closed our chamber door to pray to our Father in secret, if we have knelt next to our child's crib and taught that child to call God our Father, if each day of the week is punctuated by time and space for God in prayer; then, and only then, will we truly be able to enter into the mystery, to be absorbed in the Eucharist. Then it will all make sense.
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