Corpus Christi – Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a; 1 Corinthians 10:16-17; John 6:51-58
We all know the stories, don’t we? The hero’s quest across seven mountains and seven rivers to find the “living water” that promises eternal life. It sounds like a fairy tale, something to be set aside with childhood things.
But then, life happens. When loss touches our world, or we feel our own fragility, that desperate search for something that truly gives life becomes the most important quest of all.
This isn’t just a fairy tale theme. Think of the Israelites, who journeyed for forty years through a “great and terrible wilderness” for the Promised Land. Their quest was a real, life-and-death struggle. The hero’s journey was filled with peril.
And us? We can walk into any Catholic church and receive the very source of that life—the Eucharist—with such ease. What they searched for across deserts and mountains, we are given freely. Let’s not receive this incredible gift, the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, without wonder. It is the treasure at the end of the quest, offered to us right at the altar.
