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Eucharist in the Time of Corona
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January 30, 2022Yesterday’s Gospel passage (Lk. 4:21-30) and today’s (Mk. 5:1-20) have a pattern in common: Jesus says or does intense good, there’s brief recognition of that, disruption results because things don’t just remain the same, and major rejection flows from that disruption. We’ve experienced times of intense good. Examples might include, discovering our own relationship with God; really listening as someone grapples with facing their truth; welcoming the rejected; being part of a faith community that purposefully makes a fundamental change; bringing peace in a situation of conflict, and more. We’ve also experienced that the intense good disrupts the way things have been. And we’ve experienced the rejection that often follows.Being a Eucharistic people, we have a pattern that helps us focus on the intense good and the new life, even when awash with disruption and rejection:
- Choosing to truly enter in; showing up fully from our core
- Hearing the Good News intently, with an openness that lets us change personally and communally
- Offering ourselves, what we have, who we are – to the God who can change it all
- Worshipping Mystery, including Mystery at work in the intense good and its results
- Being raised up, broken, shared out
- Choosing to be in communion with God and with all who approach God
- Being sent forth; to allow the Holy Spirit to work through us for the good of others.
For further reflection:What have been times of intense good in your life? What disruption flowed from those times? How did you handle the rejection that followed, and what have you learned from that? How did you celebrate the fruits of the intense good?