Jesus gave his Body and Blood so we could share in his life. How does participating in the eucharistic celebration make you feel more alive?

Opinion polls have become the thermometers of our society. With them we take the temperature of the body politic and find out what is ailing us as a community. Like a thermometer, the polls are not a cure of any kind. They simply report a result, and only by taking the right action does this information have any usefulness.

Last year I suffered one of the worst burdens of my life: I developed COVID-related vertigo. As soon as I got sick with cold and flu-like symptoms, but before I tested positive, my ears also started to hurt.

My friend Shannon did her first Ironman triathlon a few years back. She’d been doing triathlons for more than a decade, but this was the first one anywhere near that long. It’s a 2.4-mile swim, followed by a 112-mile bike, and then a 26.2-mile run.

It is in remembering our relationship to God that we keep our faith alive. We look to the renewal of that relationship.

Could a body broken and blood spilled 2,000 years ago restore my own damaged life?