… here is the Word of God to all men and women of goodwill...
"When the layer of dew lifted, there on the surface of the desert was something fine...
"That, is the food which God has given you to eat..."
… here is the Teaching of God to Mankind, here is what God has done of Himself for each one of us, an eternal offer ...
... here is what we should be for God and for our neighbors ...
...an instrument of His Love, Peace and Brotherly Love.
If we are the temple of the Holy Spirit,
the home of God,
then we must shine,
God must be shown through us,
through our faces, eyes, actions.
Let God be free within us,
free to act within us,
let Him be free within,
let's not put limits in our heart,
let's not outline areas in our heart,
let Him be free to come into every pore of our skin, into each little and hidden meander of our heart,
let's not hold anything for our self,
because that coin that we jealously keep hidden
and secret will be multiplied by Him,
that little space in our heart that we believe is rightfully ours will become a vast territory
and will be just for us,
that thing to which we do not want to give up
and to which we are bound by slavery,
will be undone,
and we will be set free,
our mind free,
our body, our soul and our spirit free.
So, let's deny ourselves,
let us give ourselves to Him fully.
Let's intensely wish to be one with Him and
we will also be one with our brothers and sisters,
we will become bread to nourish the needing,
we will become bread to nourish the world,
we will become bread of life, bread of love,
bread of charity, bread of solidarity,
bread of support, bread of justice,
we will become good bread for all,
nourishing bread,
fragrant bread
just like Him.
And as He nourishes us, we will nourish
as He takes care of us, we will take care
as He loves us, we will love,
as He comforts us, we will confort,
as He offered Himself,
we will offer ourselves to the Father.
Let's give our bodies and our souls to God alone,
so that He will make of us a masterpiece of Grace,
a masterpiece of Love,
because infinitely sweet is the Lord.
... and granular, as fine as hoarfrost on the ground. As soon as the Israelites saw this, they said to one another, "What is that?" not knowing what it was. "That", Moses told them, "is the food which God has given you to eat. These are God's orders: Each of you must collect as much as he needs to eat -- a homer per head for each person in his tent." The Israelities did this. They collected it, some more, some less. When they measured out what they had collected by the homer, no one who had collected more had too much, no one who had collected less had too little. Each had collected as much as he needed to eat. (Exodus 16.16-18) |
That is the bread that makes us one,
it is the bread that
makes us bread
one for the other.
"What is that?"
Let us ask in amazement
every time we eat this bread.
Every time we get close to Eucharist
every time we hold it in our hands,
we raise it high
we contemplate it
we adore it,
we look at it.
Every time we take it to the altar:
"What is that, my Lord?"
... and every time we will make this
question, we will hear,
deeply within us the answer
that Moses gave to the Israelites
"That, is the food which God has given you to eat"
That is the nourishment.
It is what your soul desires most,
what your soul longs for,
and nourishes your body as well,
Each of us can have as much as we want,
a homer for each,
No one will have too much
no one will have too less,
but everybody will be satisfied.
This is the mystery of God's Love.
This is what we will have in
the promised life, yes, but we
can have it right now.
Right in this life.
Right now we can have God within us
enough to be one with God.
So, each of us eat of that bread
because
"That, is the food which God has given us to eat"
… if we will become bread, send O Lord from Heaven Food to spare …
Send us your Holy Spirit O Lord
send Him over all the Earth,
send us the most fragrant bread from Heaven,
so that it can be broken for the needing.
Send us, O Lord, a rainfall of bread as you have sent
long ago manna to the Israelites.
Form, O Lord, in your womb, good bread for us,
Shape, O Lord, in your womb, bread for all Mankind,
send us your Consecrated, O Lord
a rainfall of brothers and sisters to be broken as bread for the neighbors and become bread to all.
O Lord, we need that bread,
we need Shepherds,
shaped in your womb,
shaped in You,
for You and with You,
we need shepherds forged at Your school.
O Lord, in Your infinite Goodness,
do not leave us like sheep without a shepherd.
We need You to teach us to become bread for the others,
as You have done.
send Him over all the Earth,
send us the most fragrant bread from Heaven,
so that it can be broken for the needing.
Send us, O Lord, a rainfall of bread as you have sent
long ago manna to the Israelites.
Form, O Lord, in your womb, good bread for us,
Shape, O Lord, in your womb, bread for all Mankind,
send us your Consecrated, O Lord
a rainfall of brothers and sisters to be broken as bread for the neighbors and become bread to all.
O Lord, we need that bread,
we need Shepherds,
shaped in your womb,
shaped in You,
for You and with You,
we need shepherds forged at Your school.
O Lord, in Your infinite Goodness,
do not leave us like sheep without a shepherd.
We need You to teach us to become bread for the others,
as You have done.
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