Eucharistic Corner

   Dear brothers and sisters. During this year in which, with the Diocese of Bridgeport, we pursue a Eucharistic Renewal, every month we will have one bulletin with more information regarding the sacrament of the Eucharist, center of the life of the Church. A section will be a teaching of the Magisterium, and another one will be a story of a saint related to the Eucharist. We hope they will be of use for all.

The all-encompassing effect of eucharistic worship

   Christianity’s new worship includes and transfigures every aspect of life: “Whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Cor 10:31). Christians, in all their actions, are called to offer true worship to God. Here the intrinsically eucharistic nature of Christian life begins to take shape. The Eucharist, since it embraces the concrete, everyday existence of the believer, makes possible, day by day, the progressive transfiguration of all those called by grace to reflect the image of the Son of God (cf. Rom 8:29ff.). There is nothing authentically human – our thoughts and affections, our words and deeds – that does not find in the sacrament of the Eucharist the form it needs to be lived to the full. Here we can see the full human import of the radical newness brought by Christ in the Eucharist: the worship of God in our lives cannot be relegated to something private and individual, but tends by its nature to permeate every aspect of our existence. Worship pleasing to God thus becomes a new way of living our whole life, each particular moment of which is lifted up, since it is lived as part of a relationship with Christ and as an offering to God. The glory of God is the living man (cf. 1 Cor 10:31). And the life of man is the vision of God. (Pope Benedict XVI, Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis, 71).

Saint Claire of Assisi and the Saracens