Does your faith in Jesus and participation in the Eucharist make a difference in your everyday “way of life”? How do you “accompany” Jesus each day?

Let’s get mystical. Mystical is what Catholics are, what Christian faith requires us to be. We eat God. We share in the life of God. This makes us eligible to live with God forever. Sound incredible? Inscrutable? Unnerving? Ready to walk away?

Master, to whom would we go? You have the words of real life, eternal life. We’ve committed ourselves, confident that you are the Holy One of God.

In daily life, most choices do not present themselves as “Am I going to serve the one God or not?” or “Am I going to stick with Jesus or walk away from him?” We just read them as ordinary choices, unrelated to our spiritual life.

That we may grow in holiness, we ask God for forgiveness.

What kind of Messiah, what kind of “Holy One of God” was this whose flesh must be eaten and who would have to die for those who believe in him to have eternal life?

The betrayal of Judas is replayed in our lives when we choose to walk with the Master no more. —Roland J. Faley, T.O.R., The Bible Today, March/April 2012