Thursday, April 2 : Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe

“We are one bread, one body”, the Apostle adds: “all of us who partake of one bread” (1 Cor 10:17). To ask this at the moment of sacrifice, we have the very salutary example of our Savior who wanted us to ask, in commemorating his death, what he himself, the true Priest, asked for us by saying, at the hour of dying: “Holy Father, keep them in your name, those whom you have given me, that they may be one like us. » And he adds shortly after: “I do not pray to you only for these, but for all those who will believe in me through their word; that all may be one like you, Father, you are in me and I in you; that they also may be one in us, so that the world may believe that it is you who sent me” (Jn 17:11.20-21). So when we offer the body and blood of Christ, we are asking for what he asked for us when it pleased him to offer himself for us. Indeed, reread the Gospel, and you will find that our Redeemer, as soon as he finished this prayer, entered the garden where the hands of the Jews seized him. And it was precisely after the Last Supper, during which he gave his disciples the sacrament of his body and blood, that the Savior prayed this prayer for those who believed in him. Thus he showed us that what we must ask above all at the moment of the sacrifice is what he, Supreme Pontiff, deigned to ask at the hour when he instituted this sacrifice. Now, what we ask for, that is to say our unity in the Father and the Son, we receive through the unity of spiritual grace which the Holy Apostle commands us to guard carefully, saying: “Bear with one another in love, be careful to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace” (Eph 4:2-3).

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