Today we celebrate the solemnity of the most Holy Body and Blood of Christ that is the ‘Eucharist’.  Jesus chose the time of Passover to fulfill what he had announced at Capernaum – giving his disciples his body and his blood. Jesus’ passing over to his Father by his death and resurrection, the new Passover, is anticipated in the last Supper and celebrated in the Lord’s Supper, which fulfills the Jewish Passover and anticipates the final Passover of the Church in the glory of God’s kingdom. This is the significant meal of Jesus. In this meal Jesus identifies the bread as his body and the cup as his blood.  And so when he commands his disciples to eat his flesh and drink his blood, he invites us to take his life into the very center of our being. That life that he offers is the very life of God himself. Jesus’ death on the cross, his gift of his body and blood in the supper, and his promise to dine again with his disciples when the kingdom of God comes in all its fullness are inseparably linked. He also instructed his disciples to ‘’do this in remembrance of me.’’ These words establish each celebration of the Lord’s Supper or Eucharist as a ‘’remembrance’’ of Jesus’ atoning death, his resurrection and his promise to return again. Our celebration of the Lord’s Supper anticipates the final day when the Lord Jesus will feast anew with his disciples in the heavenly marriage feast of the lamb and his bride. When we receive the body and blood of Christ from the Lord’s table we unite ourselves to Jesus Christ. We receive healing, pardon and rest for our souls. Do we ‘celebrate’ the Eucharist knowing that it enables us to be firmly rooted in the love of Christ?