Sahara

I read once somewhere about the people traveling from one location in Sahara desert to the other, and when they car broke down, they were found dead several days later. They died of dehydration, though they forgot that they had enough water to survive in the radiator of their car...


This true story was a base and starting point for my Corpus Christi homily yesterday. How many of us resemble those poor people who died of thirst, though the water was in their reach?

We live in despair, lose hope, get ourselves in all sorts of troubles and problems, we feel abandoned by God and everybody else, we feel lonely and disheartened, we die of spiritual thirst, we try to live parallel lives in the Church as tracks of the railroad, without any intersections with Christ and His saving power. We come to the Church on Sundays to pray to God, feeling He never listens or bothers to answer. We feel helpless, confused, left alone...

And yet the Living Water is right there at our disposal. It is not radiator anymore. It is a tabernacle with the mystery of the Eucharist inside. The tabernacle and Jesus Himelf at our disposal under the disguise of the consecrated Bread.

If only we had faith in the mystery of the Most Holy Eucharist! If only we believed that Jesus is here, Emmanuel, if only we set our lives on the base of His presence, we would live totally different lives...

The first Psalm in the Book of Psalms speaks about a righteous man who is like a tree planted at the creeks of flowing water. Looking at the picture of Divine Mercy, these creeks are the rays of water and blood streaming for the Sacred Heart of Jesus. They stand for the Sacrament of the Reconciliation and the Sacrament of the Eucharist.

Happy are you if you are wise enough to plant yourself in between these two creeks of Divine Mercy, coming to the confession often and receiving the Holy Communion in the state of sanctifying grace always. You will never die of thirst, no matter how dry spiritually you may feel or through whatever dark night you are passing at this time of your life. Stay there in between of those creeks of water, continue coming to Merciful Jesus in the confessional, never give up, come to Holy Communion, come for private visitation of Jesu in the solitude of the tabernacle. Even if you feel He is not there, He does not listen. Stay there till this hard period passes...

To the contrary, those who think they can build their Christian lives without Christ, I feel sorry for them. They look just the same as those poor chaps in Sahara desert. The Living Water is right there, yet they can't see it. At the end their souls die of thirst....