Broken bodies

At the Fraction, when the priest breaks the consecrated host at the Mass...do we remember the broken members of Christ's mystical body? Those suffering from famine, war, displacement? Do we think of those suffering at their spiritual Calvaries--from despair, loneliness, fear? Perhaps they are in our family, in our classroom, on our streets. Perhaps we are ourselves suffering.

Let us ask Our Lady for eyes to see--to see as she saw. To see the deep unity between the wounds of Christ and the wounds of his mystical body, the poorest of the poor. And at every Mass we will remember to ask Our Lord to guard and guide those who are broken and breaking today.