Eucharist-Drops

As a station of the lecture-series on the better knowing of the Eucharist, DR. Lajos Dolhai, member of the International Theological Committee held a teaching on a prayer occasion. He collected a few thoughts to freshen up our souls, like the drops of a rain in July.

“Think of the Solar System, brothers and sisters. In the middle of the home system of our planet we can find the Sun. It is surrounded by four giant planets, the Jupiter, the Saturn, the Uranus, and the Neptune, as well as by five dwarf planets. Many smaller heavenly bodies can be found around it. This is somehow similar to the sacramental order of salvation, too. The Eucharist is the centre of our sacramental life, the other six sacraments surround it, like planets.”

“We are inclined to put an equal sign between the sacraments. Wrongly, we think that the merit of all is the same, the only difference between them is that they transmit the grace of God to us in different life situations. We tend to forget that besides the similarities there are big differences among the sacraments, too. They also have a ranking order. The highest sacrament is the Eucharist. The other sacraments play an intermediary role in the grace of God, and the Eucharist itself contains the creator and the source of the grace.”

“Almost all of us had the experience, how good is to find a spring during an excursion on a hot summer day, or if someone gives refreshing water while we are working hard… May God grant us that we long for the eucharistic spring, and hear the words of God: “'Let anyone who is thirsty come to me! Let anyone who believes in me come and drink!”

“The celebration of the Eucharist creates the Church. Where the Eucharist is celebrated, there the Church is born as a local community of Christ-believers”

“The Church is not a non-profit civil organisation, but a spiritual community originating in the Eucharist. Where the Eucharist is celebrated, the Church is there.”

“It was during World War II that a Catholic priest and a Jewish rabbi were prisoners in the same cell in a Nazi prison. They had time; they spoke about a lot of things. One time the Catholic priest told the rabbi, that how wonderful it is that the Jews faithfully kept the Sabbath even in difficult times, during the persecution. The wise rabbi responded: Most reverend father, us keeping the Sabbath is not the point, but that keeping it kept is in the faith of our ancestors.”

“The Eucharist is the zenith of the Christian initiation.”

“The first communion is the crowning of the process of the Christian initiation.”

“The Eucharist is the most perfect realization of the Church.”

Photo: Marcsi Ambrus

IEC Secretariat