Is there mere coincidence to the fact that both the Mystical Supper and Pentecost took place in the same upper room on Mount Zion? In this more than mere coincidence we have become both Christ and Church, and for this we sing and pray and cry out: O Christ God, how wondrous are thy ways!

Christ came into the world that we might have life and have it abundantly (Jn. 10:10). There is life in the celebration of the liturgy, in the revelation of the Eucharist, that True Bread which comes down from heaven and without which there is no life in us (Jn. 6:35-51), the only life that endures even death itself and lives–quick, before you die, taste the resurrected life! There is abundant life, for the more we worthily partake of the holy mysteries of Christ's death and ever-life, the more the Holy Spirit of God comes to dwell within us and fill us to overflowing: "Out of his [one] heart shall flow [myriad] rivers of living water" (Jn. 7:38-9). How small the morsel of the Eucharist, and yet how immense its power to change everything: we who are dust of the galaxies are invited, in Christ, to be filled with all the fullness of God, the very meaning of life! And for this we sing: Glory to thee, our God, glory to thee!

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