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Year Two - NOURISHED

The second year will be concentrating on the Liturgy of the Eucharist, the second part of the Mass. The gifts of bread and wine become the Body and Blood of Christ. And, as we receive, we are transformed becoming the Body of Christ. Some of the questions for us to reflect upon will be the following: As individuals and as a community, do we know that we encounter and receive Jesus – body and blood, soul and divinity? How can we as individuals, as family, and as parish better teach and articulate to others these fundamental aspects of our faith? How do we prepare ourselves to receive? Do we genuinely seek and promote full, conscious, and active participation in Mass, or do we remain content as a Church with passive observers only? How can we as a parish more enthusiastically celebrate these mysteries by raising our voices in prayer and song to give thanks? Do we humbly stand in awe and reverence of what our God has done and is doing for us?

Living Eucharist

is a diocesan pastoral initiative begun by the Most Rev. Robert N. Lynch, Bishop of St. Petersburg, to foster a deeper experience and understanding of Eucharist - to paraphrase St. Augustine: "we are called to be what we receive." This catechesis continues with the implementation of the new translation of the Mass.