Thursday Healing Moment

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The word "Eucharist" means literally "act of thanksgiving." To celebrate the Eucharist and to live a Eucharistic life has everything to do with gratitude. Living Eucharistically is living life as a gift, a gift for which one is grateful. But gratitude is not the most obvious response to life, certainly not when we experience life as a series of losses! Still, the great mystery we celebrate in the Eucharist and live in a Eucharistic life is precisely that through mourning our losses we come to know life as a gift.

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~ Henri J.M. Nouwen, With Burning Hearts: A Meditation on the Eucharistic Life.

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Readings

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First Maccabees 2:15-29 • Psalms 50:1-2, 5-6, 14-15 • Luke 9:41-44.

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