What I Do to the Least of These, I Do to Him

      The following is a quote from Mike Aquilina’s book, Fire of God’s Love: 120 Reflections on the Eucharist, p. x, xi): “The Eucharistic kingdom of Christ has arrived, for Jesus reigns in the sacrament. But Saint John Chrysostom urged his fourth-century congregations to hasten the day when that reality was no longer invisible, but abundantly evident everywhere—in city streets and beside rural roadways. Preaching on the Gospel of Matthew, he said, ‘Do you wish to honor the body of Christ? Do not ignore Him when He is naked. Do not pay him homage in the temple clad in silk only then to neglect him outside where He suffers cold and nakedness. He who said, ‘This is My body’ is the same One who said: ‘You saw Me hungry and you gave Me no food’, and ‘Whatever you did to the least of My brothers you did also to me’ . . . What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices, when He is dying of hunger? Start by satisfying His hunger, and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well’”

          I am very well aware that there is nothing I can do to earn a place at the Eucharistic table—The Table of Grace—but I am also very well aware that it is impossible to reconcile my (or your) indifference to the fact that He is “hungry and naked” while I am feasting at this Feast of Grace.

          You think about this—

         

         

"This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He has sent" (John 6:29 NASB).