September 15
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 1
Eucharist: God's Love as Nourishment
in Jesus Christ
"When we work hard, we must eat well. What a joy, that you can recieve Holy Communion often! It's our life and support in this life - Receive Communion often, and Jesus will change you into himself."
Father Peter Julian Eymard
September 22
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 2
Eucharist: God's Love as Reconciliation
in Jesus Christ
"Our celebration of the Eucharist, sign of the Covenant between God and the human race remains, in a sense, incomplete as long as we who are baptized are divided by hate or separated from one another."
Rule of Life #38, Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament
September 29
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 3
Eucharist: God's Love as Transformation
in Jesus Christ
"We combine prayer and work in order that the entire world may be totally transformed into people of God, the Body of the Lord and the temple of the Holy Spirit."
Rule of Life #34, Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament
October 6
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Session 4
Eucharist: God's Love as Abiding Presence
in Jesus Christ
"The Lord, having loved those who were his own, loved them to the end. Knowing that the hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father, in the course of a meal he washed their feet and gave them the commandment of love. In order to leave them a pledge of this love, in order never to depart from his own and make them sharers in his Passover, he instituted the Eucharist as the memorial of his death and resurrection, and commanded his apostles to celebrate it until his return...." CCC 1337
October 13
7:00pm - 8:30pm**
Session 5
Eucharist: God's Love as Mission
in Jesus Christ
"Attentive to the cry of the poor and their distress, we can discover in every instance of injustice a call of Christ to share in his mission of announcing good news to the poor and proclaiming liberty to captives."
Rule of Life #37, Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament
**As we end the Life in the Eucharist program, we will recognize the gift of our hands: hands raised in prayer and praise to God, the author of life and the giver of every blessing; hands open to receiving Christ's body and blood in Holy Communion that we might be Christ to the world around us; hands blessed by the Spirit to serve the needs of our brothers and sister.
**An anointing of the hands will be offered at this session, which will extend the end time to 8:30pm.