While at Franny, I joined this absolutely wonderful household (its a faith based group of the same gender that get together to pray and bond together), it was called Love of the Lamb. Its funny how you can be in a household for such a long period of time and still not quite understand everything.
This past week when teaching my students I realized that I still had so much to learn. We were talking about the Good Shepherd and how he feeds his sheep. Most of the students understood how Jesus feeds His sheep through the Eucharist, but it is so much more than that. Their pure amazement that Jesus feeds us through every sacrament, even made me think if I knew this information. Which I did, but a reminder can never ever hurt.
The Lord feeds us in so many ways, in Baptism we are given the grace to make us part of God's Family. Confession gives us grace to overcome our sins. Confirmations gives us the gifts of the Holy Spirit to live as Catholics. Holy Orders allows for priests to be able to feed our souls. Marriage gives us the grace to help one another be faithful to God and to get each other to heaven. Anointing of the sick gives us grace to unify ourselves with Christ. Isn't that beautiful? I never thought of the Lord feeding us through all the sacraments, yet its so beautiful.
When I was at Fran, I really individually focused on the Lamb and the suffering of the Lamb, the sacrificial part of the Lamb, rather than looking to the whole imagery and beauty of the Lamb and what all it means. I should have looked past this all and dove in more, seen what the Lord wanted from His sheep. To show me how he wanted to feed me, and how he still wants to feed me on a daily basis. It is now my turn to take the step and 'eat the food'--go to daily mass, confession as much as possible, truly live out the sacraments.
Its my turn to be fed.
The Good Shepherd feeds his sheep, are you willing to be fed through all the sacraments as well?
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