Our Lord has in the desert feeding the people the form as a figure of the Holy Eucharist. We are in this very deeply and embarrassing, one can say, Now, what one may call the vital, you know, processes of life. We this morning, when we wake, those two of us who attended, we just live in waves, slowly, and so the peace is famous. See here later in the Prophet, One was called to David's seat, and he brings this example of the poor man who was waisting a little down, but on his logs came, and then comes the rich man and takes it away, and presents it to a guest, for one can eat it, and David is happy.

[01:29]

but fought by a reaction of this, which rather than make them tell the same, and assume you're still, you are less than. For there is a word of stance in old scripture, the very common grace, and it is meant for us all. They be tremendously important. They need everything we do as Christians, in the sacraments and in the announcing of the Word of God and its realization. You are not this man. And especially when it comes to reconsidering the incarnation of the Word of God, it's becoming man in Jesus Christ our Lord. You are this man. And that is, for us, that is the first step of our salvation, to recognize that we are this man, that we are in God.

[02:36]

And as the first basis, the foundation of that, is laid for us in baptism. In baptism we become this man, by dying with him, and by rising with him. He creates us anew, creates a new manner in us, and this manner gives, creates the image of our Lord Jesus Christ. We need hope in other times to back that. This everybody realizes at the beginning, which transcendent star of the human possibility. It is very obviously what we call a Messiah. It is a creative intervention of God's messenger, who brings us forth as his children, children of the heavenly Father, manifest under the new fabric of brethren and of sisters in Christ, the world made man.

[03:49]

Birth is the beginning, the cycle of birth is and is the beginning. In our own hearts this beginning has its key of reflection, and it is the act of faith. Wouldn't it be so beautiful for a Christian to consider in the beginning, before even more consider the act of faith? Not so much as something that is imposed upon us, as a law which he had us understand, but as an act which is a new birth, a new beginning, an act of faith in which the Word of God is begun in us. Faith always, in every act of faith, has in itself the power, the newness of the Resurrection. But then there is another fact. and that is the act of feeding on knowledge.

[04:53]

Trisumpona lupi, we call it today, says, the good things of what we have created, thus good things that can be fed, give away the knowledge. And that is the statement of the whole universe. And there again, this act of feeding, is something which will transcend the possibility of the individual. Feeling is the answer to hunger. Hunger is a manifestation of a great need that man himself cannot fulfill in and through instinct. The act of hunger is, as we see it in the Lost Home, belongs to those who live in the desert and in the desert realize that they are thrown as it were simply upon the honor, that it is their freedom.

[05:57]

And so it's again an act of divine mercy which then leads us, which raises us. Thus this past year I had the wonderful opportunity to watch a host that were being engaged in a home or a clinic, to watch the act of raising. Children are a new beginning in the family. They are a new God. They represent in their very presence, they are pictures of the resurrection. To their very presence they are stories of faith, faith in the Resurrection. But then they come, with their needs, and then begin the unending work of the Father and of the Mother, of feeding, of raising, giving their time, giving their love, giving their work, their strength, to this one time.

[07:11]

But a beautiful thing it is also, that's a little picture of that, to see, and become an observant still, or used to observe it a few weeks ago. With feeling manifest, the birds are not there. When they feel the fish, all the way, the beach wide open, all the way it's open. It has always been unending, absolute, restless, never-ending, never-interrupted process of feeling, what a labor goes into growth, into the phenomenon of growth. And we should remember that by feeling, by being born, and being born into the God, is associated and it is for us as Christians included in the act of praying.

[08:17]

Then once God has made His beginning with us, then He continues to be our the one who feeds us, the one who raises us. So often in life we are exposed to this temptation and we come to the point where we think From now on, we can stand on our own feet. From now on, we can do it ourselves. Now we are independent. Now we are mature. Now we make our own decisions, and now we take our own way. The great danger for us, as Christians, even and especially in the manner of religion, to think now we have achieved. There, the act of feeding is always constantly.

[09:23]

We rely on God's power in us, on Christ who takes the bread, and who gives thanks, and who breaks the bread, and who gives it to every one of us individually. That act of feeding is for us the manifestation of the virtue of charity. Charity feeds, and charity sustains. Faith is the beginning. Charity is the continuation. Charity is a dividing force in our time. And then, in the end, in August, the act of maturity. We see that now. We see on one side how, especially in this year, we let us pass here and on.

[10:28]

The grasp of God-watching will perform an anxious leap, constantly lifting our eyes, then a long another drop away from above, to feed the thoughts, to make them expand. That is the blissful, beautiful, inner, deep spiritual aspect of the life of the Father, that He is the One we all have patience as this, and awaits this process of feeding. It's a deed of mercy, the misery of the world. I have mercy on the world. But they are responsible, and we see that already now, when we watch the creeds, the tomatoes, the bushes, there are, there's the fruit is coming.

[11:34]

And the fruit is coming, then another garden begins. And there is the keep. What was the covation that we sailed there, haunted keep. What you feed, there to me ought to keep. Keep it, it ought to help. which preserves poor something. One can say which preserves and leads to the consummation. In our human circumstances, we think that it's reckless, miskeeping, it's fatiguing. And this preserving poor and as a human, the consummation And it's our cause to hold as that path before us. And in our religious, Christian identity with nature, we strive through the act of faith to enter into that process of rebirth, of dying and rising with Christ.

[12:48]

If, through the act of receiving as fisting, and, for example, this morning, the heavenly meal of the Eucharist, Holy Communion, we feel restored in the energies which the day in labor has wrought, and have been kept in the unity and in the security of divine charity, then, from there, On this chart of our renewedness, we look then forward to the consummation, and that is, look for it, the last of it. Again, an act of divine grace. Look on whom we have seen after his resurrection, ascending into heaven, and look on whose presence in the veil of the sacrament, the experience in the Eucharistic meal, in that we expect on the cloud of heaven come again.

[13:56]

And then what is for us as Christians this act of consummation? It is that inner surrender to the Church. Judgment is consummation. Judgement is for us who believe, and for us who try to live in the bond of peace. Judgement then is for us, the last human, the entering into the communion of saints. They are the fruits of our maturity. They understand the eternal, what we call, fruition. so that Christ Christ Jesus of Nazareth used the sunlight in the midst of the sun, watching the crops growing. And when we are looking forward to the harvest, which is the earthly picture of the Last Supper, when we look forward to the harvest, let us, I think, ourselves, with these three days,

[15:07]

how to meet the absolute existential path of our not only our human existence, most in our existence of Christ. Let us thank God for the miracle of sacrifice. Let us thank God for the daily militant of the multiplication of Lord's and the experience in the continuous everyday new receiving of the Eucharist, the celebration of the Eucharistic banquet. And let us then in this This faith and this charity ought to be for us the sure foundation of the act of hope that God may keep us to the day when we surrender ourselves and our children in the hands of this merciful person.

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