This has got bad news written all over it. If you have ever seen “Chernobyl,” “Godzilla,” or “The Simpsons,” you know that radiation is silent. You don’t feel anything, and it can change you. Similarly, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is just like that, only it gives you life and doesn’t kill you. When we go to adoration, it is silent. We don’t feel anything, but it is super effective. The radiating love of Jesus Christ is there, and we are receiving his love in adoration. The gospel for this Sunday is so beautiful because Jesus reveals himself to the disciples in the breaking of the bread. Jesus Christ reveals himself at every Eucharist. If we want to be close to Jesus and receive that radiating love, then we can go to him in the Eucharist. This is just a hot take. Right now, there is no better way to be loved by Jesus Christ than in the Eucharist.
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We Need Both
Watching food shows can be frustrating, you can see the food, but you can’t taste it, and it never truly satisfies.
In this Sunday’s Gospel, the disciples on the road to Emmaus experience something similar. Their hearts burn as Jesus opens the Scriptures, but they don’t fully recognize Him until the breaking of the bread.
That’s the invitation for us. We don’t just study Jesus, we receive Him. Scripture and the sacraments go together, and when they do, we encounter Him fully.
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SEEK 2024
I get asked very often by people who are slightly older than me. “Father Tim, where are all the young people? They’re not coming to mass. They’re not growing in their relationship with the Lord. They don’t believe in anything.” A bit of that is valid, but most of it is false. Me and Spirit Juice and 24,000 of our closest friends were at a conference called SEEK, which was incredible. Twenty-four thousand young people…
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Spiritual Nostalgia
Spiritual nostalgia. It is so real. It is wanting to experience your feelings again during that amazing God moment. It’s wanting to experience again that feeling you had when the Cubs won the World Series. In the gospel for the Sunday, Jesus takes Peter, James, and John up the mountain and reveals his glory. They feel they experience the realness of Jesus’ divinity, but then they go down the hill, and Jesus seems to have…
