So how do we honor the living Jesus we are privileged to stand before, we are humbled to receive here in this Eucharist? How do we best live out the truth we celebrate here? Let us all decide to take Jesus with us when we leave here, and live our lives as if he is with us always, as he is. Make decisions to safeguard your health and the health of others by the choices you make. Make choices to honor his presence in the poor you encounter, in the broken and marginalized you meet, in the lonely and the outcasts around us, in the unborn whose lives are as precious as anyone.
Jesus has no hands but yours, Jesus reaches out in your love and care. Be his hands, be his heart for all those who need him in their lives. If you are humbled to be in his presence, how can you not go out and do all you can to make someone’s life better this day? We begin our celebration in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In his name, as we have all signed ourselves this day, we go forth from here to lift up, to comfort, to heal where we can. We do this because we carry Jesus with us. Honor him today and everyday in the way you live out this truth.
May we become like the gift of the young boy, who offered his five loaves and two fish and be the small beginning Jesus uses to feed all those who come to him who are hungry. Jesus fed the multitude because they were hungry, not because they were worthy. Jesus fed them because they needed nourishment, not because they merited his gift. We, the most unworthy servants, should go from here with the greatest gift of his presence to begin to change everyone we meet. We are called to do no less than this.