Eucharist
For more information on first communion classes,
call Director of Religious Education Remy Baluyut at (323) 256-6242.
How does the Eucharist
help us become the Body of Christ?
We gather together in worship, not to
"refuel" lives devoid of grace, but because we need to
celebrate all the grace-filled moments of our lives, which are so
easily overlooked or ignored.
We gather at Eucharist to be challenged to deeper
awareness of what God is doing in our lives, in this world, all week
long.
We have to keep remembering to ask the questions:
“Who is at the table? Who is around the table?” as well as
the question, “Who is on the table?”
The Catechism of the Catholic Church quotes a
moving passage in which St. Augustine relates the Body of Christ in the
Eucharist (on the altar) to the Body of Christ that is the Church (at
and around the altar).
Says Augustine at the turn of the fifth century:
“If you are the body and members of Christ, then it is your
sacrament which is placed on the table of the Lord; it is your
sacrament that you receive.
To that which you are, you respond:
‘Amen’ (‘Yes, it is true!’), and by responding
to it you assent to it. For you hear the words ‘The Body of
Christ,’ and respond ‘Amen.’ Be then a member of the
Body of Christ that your Amen may be true.”
