Newsletter 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) 12th October, 2025

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GOSPEL REFLECTION

When Jesus healed ten lepers only one came back to give Him thanks for the miracle of a clean body.  How deeply the “other nine” wounded His heart.  Jesus said: “Were not all ten made whole, where are the other nine?”  Ten people were healed of leprosy but only one returned to give Him thanks. Every Sunday Jesus performs a far greater miracle for us.  He gives us Himself – the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the ‘greatest’ gift God gave us because it is Our Lord Himself.  When we receive the gift of the Eucharist, we receive everything.  There is no more God can give.  All His Love, all His Life, etc… The Eucharist, therefore, is a much greater gift than being healed of leprosy.  Therefore, we need to thank Our Lord for the Eucharist even more than those ten who needed to thank Him for being healed of leprosy.  The Eucharist meant thanksgiving. The Eucharist only came about through Our Lord’s Sacrifice on the Cross.  He gave all of Himself on Calvary so that we may receive all of Himself in Holy Communion.  And yet how often are we like the “other nine” who failed to be thankful for this Sacrament of Love.  Here we have perpetual adoration, one way we can give thanks to Him is by coming back during the week to visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament.  When we do this, we not only give Him thanks, but we also make up for the “other nine” who never think of visiting Him at all.  After the Last Supper Jesus went to the Garden to pray.  When He began to pray, He started to sweat blood because He realized that the gift of the Holy Eucharist that He had just given mankind on Holy Thursday night would be appreciated by so few and rejected by so many. He saw down through the ages how many would walk away from His Eucharistic Love and not even bother to come to Mass.  He saw where in the many tabernacles of the world He would be left alone and forgotten.  He saw how few would believe in His Real Presence and fewer still would respond to His appeal to be loved day and night in the Blessed Sacrament.  He saw how much people would live their lives as if He were not here.  In the Garden, Scripture says that: “His heart was filled with sorrow to the point of death” (Mt 26:38).   He called on His Apostles to comfort Him, but they preferred to sleep because it was in the middle of the night.  Today Jesus calls out to you, “Could you not watch one hour with Me?” (Mt 26:40).  For perpetual adoration to continue all that is needed is for each one of us to give Our Lord just one hour a week.  Of particular note are those who get up in the middle of the night to be with Jesus.  There are 4 people who each do at least 3 hours a week in the middle of the night.  There are 7 people who each do 2 hours a week in the middle of the night.  Some of those have been doing that since the beginning – over 17 years.  One young woman does at least 2 Holy Hours, 6 nights a week.  Every week we should give time to thank God for giving us Himself in the Eucharist which the Church calls, “the Sacrament of Love.”  If we were to thank God for the Eucharist, at every moment, with all our heart, we would need longer than eternity to thank Him sufficiently.