“Receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
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The Mass of the Blessed Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ was celebrated on Sunday, June 6, in the Notre-Dame church, by Father François Lecrux, vicar of the parish of Saint-Jean du Bocage. To commemorate the presence of Jesus Christ in the sacrament of the Eucharist. Click to see photos
“God gives himself as food”, recalls Father François Lecrux. It is the conversion of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ during the Eucharist. In other words: transubstantiation. “By the Eucharist, it is the Life that is given to us. » In the Gospel according to Saint John, Jesus says: “If you do not eat the flesh of the Son of man, and if you do not drink his blood, you do not have the life in you. “ The question is then this: “Do you want to receive Jesus in the Eucharist? “ The answer must leave man to his free will. Why ? ” It’s him [le Seigneur] who in the beginning created man and left him to his council ” (The Ecclesiasticus, chapter 15).
To grow faith
Then, Father François addressed a triple message to the assembly. First of all to children. “Communicating in the body and blood of Christ is to increase faith after baptism. “ In other words, the more you receive, the more you become what you receive. The song of communion confirms this:
Become what you receive,
Become the body of Christ.
Become what you receive,
You are the body of Christ
The Holy Spirit
Father François turns to the 2 confirmers. “Through the Eucharist you will receive strength. That of the Holy Spirit. “ Nevertheless, he warns: “You will not receive superpowers like superheroes. Purely human powers of domination, of power. No. But powers to act like Christ. Not just for yourself but for those around you and for others. ”
The inner man
“The Eucharist is a gift of life that we receive from God”, launches Father François in the direction of the official personalities. “But that requires personal buy-in. “ It is said in The Church in the world of this time (chapter 15): “Human dignity therefore requires him to act according to a conscious and free choice, moved and determined by personal conviction and not under the sole effect of instinctive impulses or external constraint. ” Now God is not an external constraint. “The interior man”, of which Saint Paul speaks, allows himself to be freely renewed from day to day, “In order to bring it to its perfection in Christ”. Father François then noted that: “All the victims, especially those we are commemorating on this day of June 6, have as their main cause the madness of the men who wanted to transform the world from the outside. From their vision of power. By claiming to act for humanity. But in the end, destroying it. Because we want to configure it in our own image, taking ourselves for God. “
“Apart from the Judeo-Christian revelation, we cannot claim to save men”, concludes Father François.
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