Homily : November 19

by daniel couper

Texts for Week 33 of Ordinary Time, Year C

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Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation.  Through your goodness we have this bread to offer, which earth has given and human hands have made.  It will become for us the bread of life.  Blessed be God forever.

I beg your forgiveness as I say this prayer out of its proper context.  Though many of you never hear it, it is nonetheless the first words uttered by the one who presides.  In just a few words, it puts forth the beauty of the reality that occurs at this table.  The earth gives forth, we work within it, and God transforms our efforts into mysteries that we could never conceive on our own.