Our Daily Bread column allows us to share timely engagement with events in our world today from a eucharistic perspective. This article creatively raises the question, “In the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, ‘who is my neighbor?’” The COVID 19 pandemic has provided a new context to contemplate the Christian metaphor of the body of Christ. […]
Author: James Menkhaus
Eucharistic Spirituality · May / June 2020
Poetic Contemplation: Trees as a Model of a Sacramental Reality
Mary Oliver’s poem When I Am Among the Trees offers an insight into being derived from an encounter with trees. How might her insights be applied to your eucharistic spirituality? When I Am Among the Trees – Mary Oliver When I am among the trees, Especially the willows and the honey locust, Equally the beech, […]
Eucharist: Living & Evangelizing · March / April 2020
Scars of Brokenness and Transformation
How can our wounds help us to become more Christ-like? When Jesus appears to the disciples during the coda of Luke’s Gospel they are rightfully shocked at his unpredictable presence. Following his death and fearing persecution, Jesus’ followers were hiding when a form appeared in their midst. Clarifying that he was not an apparition or phantom, Jesus […]