Believing is Seeing

                                                       by    Sr. Catherine Marie Michael












​Believing is Seeing

We humbly offer the work of our hands,
Rough grains of wheat baked into tender bread,
Plump grapes picked off the vines and aged into velvety wine.
He does not destroy what we see and taste,
And bids us to taste and see, to trust Him who cannot deceive,
That what He has elevated and made new, into living manna from heaven,
Is His Body and Blood, that death could not defeat.

He, who laid down His life out of love for His friends,
Feeds all who gratefully accept His saving mission,
Those who seek to rest in Him from whom all goodness flows.
And so, we are blessed, whose eyes do not see, yet believe,
With His mighty presence within, which touches and ennobles us,
To be His handiwork, the sons, and daughters of God,
Who grow to make visible, His divine nature.

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Sacred Scripture References:
Psalm 34: 8 “Taste and see that the Lord is good…”
John 6: 35-36 “I am the bread of life…
John 6: 53-58 “…unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man…”
John 15:13-16 “Greater love has no one…”
Matthew 28: 18-19 “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me…”
Matthew 11:28 “Come to me all you who are weary…”
John 7: 38 “…rivers of living water will flow from within them.”
John 20: 29 “… blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
Ephesians: 2:10 “For we are His handiwork…”
2Peter 1: 4 “…you may become partakers of the divine nature…”
Isaiah 40: 31 “…they will run and not grow weary…”
2Corinthians 6: 18 “For I will be a Father to you…”
Other references: CCC1701; O’Connor, The Hidden Manna, A Theology of the Eucharist, 2 nd ed.

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