{"id":1439,"date":"2012-06-21T15:14:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T19:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/thecc\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2012-06-21T15:17:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T19:17:35","slug":"commitment-to-the-poor-one-of-the-fruits-of-eucharistic-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/2012\/06\/21\/commitment-to-the-poor-one-of-the-fruits-of-eucharistic-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Commitment to the Poor:  One of The Fruits of Eucharistic Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/thecc\/files\/2012\/06\/Eucharist.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1444\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.nd.edu\/thecc\/files\/2012\/06\/Eucharist-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>This morning, I was at a talk given by Jen and Brian Suehs-Vassel entitled: &#8220;The Fruits of Eucharistic Celebration.&#8221; \u00a0The talk was part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/liturgy.nd.edu\/education-formation\/liturgy-symposium\/2012-symposium\/\">Center for Liturgy&#8217;s Summer Symposium<\/a>, &#8220;The Eucharist: \u00a0Become What You Receive, Receive What You Are.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0Using the wonderful imagery of the disciples encountering Christ on the road to Emmaus and this leading them to return to Jerusalem out of love, they asked if we are Christbearers in our own lives. \u00a0Do we bear Christ to the world with love? <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was an excellent talk, and as often happens, it connected with something I read recently in \u00a0a book on Catholic giving that Bishop McManus co-wrote in 1987. \u00a0It was background reading for a report on Catholic giving that I am working on, and at the end of the book, Bishop McManus highlights a conversation he had with a Protestant minister that struck him because the Protestant minister showed an awareness of the reciprocity inherent in the sacrament of Eucharist that many Catholics miss. \u00a0Here is the\u00a0excerpt:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At the end of our conversation,\u00a0Reverend\u00a0Murphy gently remarked, &#8216;I long have wondered why Roman Catholics haven&#8217;t associated their stewardship with the Eucharist. \u00a0It has surprised me to hear Catholic priests speak about &#8216;taking up a collection&#8217; at Mass. \u00a0In the Roman Catholic tradition, Eucharist is central and celebrated often, several times every Sunday. \u00a0Giving to the Lord and receiving from the Lord&#8211;or the other way around&#8211;this reciprocity, this exchange of gifts, is at the heart of the Eucharist.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>I [Bishop McManus] gulped and thanked him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Receiving and giving&#8230;an economy of gift. \u00a0This is what Eucharist calls us to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do we bear Christ to the poor?&#8221; \u00a0Quoting St. John of Chrysostom, Jen and Brian noted how this holy man viewed his giving to the poor as a small means of giving back to Christ for the gift that Christ gave of himself each day in the Eucharist. \u00a0This is one of the fruits of Eucharistic celebration&#8211;\u00a0commitment\u00a0to the poor. \u00a0Not out of a sense of duty, but out of love and thanksgiving that we are able to give, as we have been given.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I was at a talk given by Jen and Brian Suehs-Vassel entitled: &#8220;The Fruits of Eucharistic Celebration.&#8221; \u00a0The talk was part of the\u00a0Center for Liturgy&#8217;s Summer Symposium, &#8220;The Eucharist: \u00a0Become What You Receive, Receive What You Are.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0Using the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/2012\/06\/21\/commitment-to-the-poor-one-of-the-fruits-of-eucharistic-celebration\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1439"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1439\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/thecc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}