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is very different from that of the disciples. The Disciples approach Jesus Archbishop Speaks.... with a practical economic advice, “Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding villages and countryside for lodging and provisions. For we are in a desolate place here.” (Luke 9:12) The model of the EUCHARIST – GOD’S SELF-OFFERING disciples is ‘You feed yourself’. Jesus however, has a different model, AS FOOD AND THE FEEDER “You give them something to eat” (Luke 9:13). When they find it humanly impossible to feed a crowd of five thousand with five loaves of bread and two fish, Jesus steps in to demonstrate his model: ‘God feeds His People’. Dear brothers and sisters in the Risen Lord, In the individualist and consumerist society that we live in, we We continue to be gripped by the shock of the recent murder of st operate by the economic model of the disciples: ‘You feed yourself’. over 350 fellow Christians during the Easter Sunday Mass on 21 April, The scandalous disparity between the rich and the poor is an offshoot in our neighbouring country of Sri Lanka. As videos and images of the of this current economic manthra, where each one is supposed to bombing sites, the mass funerals,the blood stained chapel floors and care only for his or her own sustenance. In stark contrast, Jesus invites the testimonies of survivors continue to circulate among mainstream us to participate in His model. He invites us to participate in God’s and social media, we feel grieved by the loss of innocent lives in this mission of feeding his children. Therefore, in as much Eucharist is the cruel act of terrorism. While we wish that those responsible be brought participation in God’s providential sustenance of his starving children, to justice, our hearts reach out to the grieving families, communities it is also an invitation to participate in his mission of feeding the starving and parishes. We pray for the repose of the souls departed and for world. peace in Sri Lanka. At the opening Mass for Bolivia’s National Eucharistic congress held We continue our reflections on the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist in 2015, Pope Francis stressed the model of Jesus, he said: “The in this year of the Archdiocesan Eucharistic Synod. This month, we are Eucharist is a missionary sacrament; it calls people to give all they are called to reflect on the theme, ‘Eucharist as Spiritual Food’. My brothers and have to God, seek his blessing and then take his love to the world. and sisters, the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist is fundamentally Obeying Jesus’ command to “do this in memory of me”, demands food.This dimension of the Holy Eucharist seems to be often overlooked exchange, encounter and a genuine solidarity. It demands the logic of in the intricacies of our Eucharistic theologies. love.” The very first image that Jesus used to explain the significance of The spiritual and physical sustenance that we derive from God’s his Eucharist is the Old Testament reference to manna, the food that self-offering as the food and the feeder in the Eucharist, invites us to nourished the starving Israelites during their journey through the desert participate in God’s mission of sustaining the world. This participation (Exodus 16). Using this Old Testament paradigm, Jesus stresses the demands us to move from the logic of our consumeristic world to the fact that His flesh is given “for the life of the world” in the Eucharist model of love. (John 6). For Jesus, the Holy Eucharist is the new manna, the “true bread from heaven” that is intended to sustain His starving Church on May our celebration of the Eucharistic synod and our daily its journey through the desert of our times. Through the Eucharist, God nourishment in the Eucharist enable us to emulate the model of Mary, continues to feed his starving children. our Blessed mother, who participated in God’s self-offering to feed the world with the fruit of her womb. Mahatma Gandhi once said, “If God were to appear to starving people, he wouldn’t dare appear in any form other than food”. The With prayerful wishes, most inspiring aspect of the Eucharist is the fact that in the Eucharist, God continues to offer Himself as food and as the feeder. 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