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Living Eucharist is a diocesan wide initiative begun in 2007 with the introduction and promulgation of Bishop Robert Lynch’s Pastoral Letter, Living Eucharist: Gathered, Nourished, Sent to foster a deeper understanding and experience of Eucharist.
In this process, we will plant and nourish the SEEDS of faith in our parishes, schools, families, and individuals:
Across the diocese, parishes, groups, and individuals have taken the time to read, study, and reflect on the Pastoral Letter over these past three years to grow in appreciation for this sublime gift of Eucharist and to grow in these five key areas in which the Pastoral Letter speaks and challenges its readers.
One way parishes have responded to this initiative is by taking steps to foster full, conscious, and active participation in their Sunday Masses. Other parishes have worked to become more of an evangelizing parish committed to reaching out to fallen away Catholics or to those who have never heard of Jesus.
Another way parishes have responded to the initiative is through working to develop and/or strengthen existing ministries that reach out to the poor and marginalized, or, Ministries of Mercy. Examples of Ministries of Mercy would be working with the homeless, feeding the hungry, consoling the bereaved, visiting the homebound, or taking care of the sick.
As Catholics, we gather each Sunday as a community with our own life issues, and stories, wounds and hurts, celebrations and joys to encounter Christ in which we meet four ways: people gathered in Jesus’ name, the Word of God proclaimed, the priest, and in Eucharist. In this encounter we are nourished, formed and transformed. Finally, with the close of the Mass we are sent forth to bring the Good News, to bring Jesus, and be Jesus to the world.
