Soul Food

I am reflecting today, as I ride on the number 446 bus to the green line, from which I get off in El Segundo to work.

I am reflecting on the importance of consecration. This is not something to take lightly. I was once a Catholic going through the motions of my faith, but always longing to do, well actually to be more. I say be more because, as I heard yesterday, it is not what we do for God it is what we are. After all what can I, a creature, who had to be taught to tie my own shoes, posssibly have to offer God. What would the Creator need from me

Through consecration I more deeply acknowledge that fact. The fact that I am His creature, and so an attitude of humility is called for. After all, if God Himself came to us and humbled Himself by taking human form and be born from woman in order to show us who He is then, should I not practice the same humility to show Him who I am -- nothing more than his creation. (As if he does not know).

I am created and thus dependent on the creator for the very air I breathe and the ability to take a breath. So, I chose consecration to Our Blessed Mother the conduit through which God entered this life. I found the consecration of St’ Louis de Montefort. This consecration calls for an annual renewal. I believe John Paul II made this consecration renewal a daily practice. I do not pretend to have his humility, nor his heart for our Lord. I am not a priest. I cannot preside over the consecration of the bread and wine into the body and blood of our Lord and savior, our soul food – the Holy Eucharist.

And so while I cannot take communion today, I am actually late for work in this penultimate week for me on this job, I can mediate on it, say the rosary and do the daily readings ,and hear a homily all from a website.

Soul food. I shall like to mediate on the idea of the Eucharist as soul food. My soul encased in my body goes up to the priest or Eucharistic minister. It is the body and mind that are the vehicle through which Jesus, through faith, carries the soul to it’s nourishment.

We would have perished without His humility and that of Our Blessed Mother

copyright 2009 Fred Celio