EUCHARIST: BREAD FROM HEAVEN
When I was still a child, every morning mother would
always buy bread with coffee for early refreshments. When we woke up the bread
and coffee is already set at the table. There are many kinds of bread, but my
mother would always buy brown bread. We have also what we called loaf bread;
this bread is usually eaten with butter inside and a glass of juice. We have
also bread which is one of my favorite also during childhood,” bagong bayan”. There
are many kinds of bread: pan de coco, mammon, torta, siopao, pan de leche,
supas, but ang pinakasikat na bread in the Philippines is Pandesal. All of these
are Pan! Pan! Pan! Pan! We ate this bread because it satisfies our stomach.
However, today my dear friends we will receive the
bread from heaven. What is this bread from heaven? The Eucharistic celebration
today makes this bread into a reality. During communion in the celebration of
the mass, we will taste and eat this bread from heaven. This is Jesus Christ. The
host that we receive in the Eucharistic celebration is Jesus Christ, the bread
from heaven. How is this possible? It becomes possible during the consecration
of the bread and wine in the mass.
The council
of Trent in the 16th century believed that the whole Christ (Body
and Blood and the whole of Him) is really and substantially present in the Eucharist.
The Eucharist contains Jesus Christ in the fullness of his divinity and completeness
of his humanity. The whole substance of bread and wine is replaced by Jesus
Christ.
Many scientists in the past studied the” host” in
the celebration of the Eucharist to satisfy their doubts. We cannot deny that
there are many people today who do not believe about it. Lucky as I am, I met
one of them during one of our retreats, in the person of Dr. Ricardo Castanon. He
was an atheist for almost 20 years of his life. Out of curiosity he studied the
belief of the Catholic Church that the bread (the host that we received in the
mass) is really the body and blood of Christ. He spent more time in research
using the knowledge that he has as a doctor to prove that it is not true. However,
the result is astounding; the host in the Eucharistic celebration is really
body and blood of a human person. The consecrated hosts remain fresh despite of
age. Science cannot explain about it, since normal bread can only last for two
weeks. It was also found out that the host is really a fresh flesh of human
person from the left ventricle of a human heart. We
know that the left ventricle is
one of four chambers of the heart. It is located in the bottom left portion of
the heart below the left atrium, separated by the mitral valve. The
research also shows that the wine in the mass becomes human blood of type AB. It
also remains fresh which science cannot explain it since when blood is extracted
into the body can only last for 15 minutes. It is really true because the
research also says that the DNA has no similarities until today.
If these researches prove that the bread that we ate
during the Eucharistic celebration is really Jesus Christ, what shall we do
about it? My dear friends, I admonish you to take the communion seriously. It is
really Jesus that we received. Allow it to sink into the bottom of your soul.
May this Holy
Communion nourishes our soul and make us a holy people of God. Believe in Jesus
Christ who is really present in the Eucharist. He is the bread from heaven and
whoever ate this bread will live forever. Amen.
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