This past week at our penultimate GIFT session of the season, Fr. Scott Detisch spoke on the “Eucharistic Truth of Our Story as Catholics.” Click play below to listen to an audio recording of his talk.

Notes from his talk can be found on the table in the narthex. A summary of Fr. Scott’s presentation follows below. As we look to the end of the three-year National Eucharistic Revival on June 8, let’s use this summary as a reflection.

Fr. Scott reminded us that the key Eucharistic actions of Jesus – TAKE, BLESS, BREAK, GIVE – define Jesus’ whole storyline. Therefore, these actions of Eucharist are to reveal the meaning and mission of our life stories as well.

• TAKE – We receive the loving grace that God brings to us in all aspects of our lives.
• BLESS – We become filled with gratitude for all aspects of our lives.
• BREAK – We enter into our own brokenness and find oneness with Christ.
• GIVE – We offer to others what God has offered us.

Our life in its entirety is God’s greatest gift to us. We can’t rewrite it; it is what it is. God is with us through all of it. We place the gift of our whole life, brokenness included, on the altar with the gifts of bread and wine, so it can be claimed and transformed in Christ’s brokenness. When we consume the Eucharist, we then become nourishment for God’s People.

As a response to your reflection, we invite you to find the bulletin board of butterflies in the hallway near the restrooms. Write on one of the butterflies something in your own life or something in the world around you that you hope can be transformed. Then place this intention on the altar in the weeks ahead, asking Jesus to transform it; ask Jesus, too, how you might help in the transformation.