4 May 2017
(School Mass)
For the past couple of months we’ve been thinking about a new
lunch menu for school. And everybody was
asked what kind of food they like; what kind of food do they really, really,
really want for lunch—what makes their mouth water. And so we heard: macaroni and cheese, fried
chicken, salisbury steak, chocolate milk, broccoli . . . I’m just kidding,
nobody said broccoli.
It’s good to know what fills our appetite. And, you know, we have an appetite for
people, too. There’re just some people
who we love to spend time with, or we love to be around them. They inspire us; they make us laugh; they
love us and they care about us. We want
to be around them because they fill us up; they satisfy us.
And, you know, that’s how Jesus wants us to approach
him. He wants us to crave him, at least
as much as we crave macaroni and cheese.
And he wants us to love being with him, at least as much as we love
being with our friends. He wants to fill
our appetite. And he has quite a feast
for us!
After all, Jesus gives us the words of Sacred Scripture to “chew
on,” to investigate, to dive into. That
helps to satisfy our thirst for truth and knowledge. And he gives us the Eucharist to “chew on;”
and he wants us to savor that and to enjoy it.
The Eucharist helps to satisfy our hunger to really know that God is
with us, always.
We humans have a big appetite, and we know we want. Sometimes fried chicken and chocolate milk
satisfies us. Sometimes playing a game
of basketball with friends satisfies us.
But we humans have an even bigger appetite than all that. And that’s where God comes in. And that’s a reason why we come to the Altar
of God: to be fed, to be filled up with God’s goodness, so our appetite for
heaven can start to be satisfied.
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