Fr. Christopher Grief distributes Holy Communion at his Mass of Ordination on May 20, 2023 at St. Thomas More Parish in Paducah. ELIZABETH WONG BARNSTEAD | WKC
Source & Summit: The Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
(The faithful) taking part in the Eucharistic sacrifice, which is the source and summit of the whole Christian life, offer the Divine Victim to God, and themselves along with it. –The Second Vatican Council fathers in Lumen Gentium, #11
Source & Summit is a new feature of The Western Kentucky Catholic online, celebrating the National Eucharistic Revival: Year of The Parish. Intended to help Catholics of our parishes to probe the riches of our liturgical year and celebrate the liturgy well, the column will always start with the Bible readings for the Mass of the Day to help us reflect on, and help to “unpack” and expand our experiences at liturgy into the domestic church (the home) and the workplace. Sunday reflections will be based on the Lord’s Day, the Liturgy, the Eucharist, and, occasionally, community.
Sunday, August 27, 2023:
Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/082723.cfm
Isaiah 22: 19—23
Psalm 138: 1—3, 6— 8
Romans 11:33—36
Matthew 16:13—20
Let us sit down soon to eat
with all those who haven’t eaten,
let us spread our great tablecloths,
put salt in the lakes of the world,
set up planetary bakeries,
tables with strawberries in snow,
and a plate like the moon itself
from which we will all eat.
For now I ask no more
than the justice of eating.
-Pablo Neruda
To learn more about the Diocese of Owensboro’s celebration of the National Eucharistic Revival, visit https://owensborodiocese.org/eucharistic-revival/.
