Our words might seem to offer so little to those whom we love. Yet because they are spoken in Christ, because they are taken up into the sound, clarity and truth of his voice, they have their effect.

How can Christians, any people of good will, put their focus on protecting liberty rather than life?

The Israelites are quite like us. They intend to offer a response that is steadfast but their own humanity, under the siege of sin, fails them.

Through us, as through the Virgin, Christ intends to touch and transform creation, to bless it and to make it holy.

Through the mystery of this sacrament Jesus reveals something inherent about himself and about our life in him.

Jesus does not magically feed us. He feeds us through fellowship, through the identity and love that flow from it.