The Eucharist is the Incarnated word, the scripture which we have all become is the judgement of the world, and it begins from us who are the household of His Spirit (1 Pet 4: 17).
But, this judgement is not a negative one, it is a verb, it is work, it is love and it is entirely immersed in His mercy. We only experience this work, either as a judgement than of mercy, in proportion to our lack of faith and humility, than of the reality of our sins and insufficiency.
This judgement or mercy -as the case may be- happens this way: once we receive Him - in awareness or not - we become like a Sink (that beautifully analysed in the study of Thermodynamics) , a dumping space for the world’s garbage. Or, like dipped towels that absorb water, we acquire the capacity to cure the world’s ill by absorbing them, so doing making up ‘what is lacking in His suffering’ through this absorption (Col 1: 24).
Unlike Thermodynamics Sinks, we go beyond converting and recycling our sins and the sins of the entire world. By faithfully fulfilling our daily duties, we develop the means - through Him, with Him and in Him- to expiate all sins committed, to purify every good badly done and to supply for enormous works omitted out of neglects. Welcome to Redemption where nothing is wasted. What wonders we shall see on judgement day, when those who do next to nothing are awarded an ultimate glory!
While the Eucharist does not eliminate the trials of life, it mitigates and leverages their negative effects through the merits of Christ’s sufferings. Whatever we may be going through now could have been worse without the Eucharistic effect . How would we have handled it, we who dread the present grave circumstances?
He says: ‘'Come to Me all you who labour and are overburdened and I will give you rest'(Mt 11: 28). That statement finds an ultimate truth within the Eucharistic livelihood .
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