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Gospel Reflection – Friday, May 9, 2025
When I was a child, I remember that after receiving Communion, my father would make me kneel and practically close my eyes. It was the moment—Jesus was inside me. It was time to ask for every possible grace, to confess my sins, and to promise I’d stop lying, always obey my parents, do my homework, and stop fighting with my siblings. More than a dialogue, it was a monologue where I just kept asking and asking and asking.
But the truth is that receiving Communion is something deeper. To receive Communion is to enter into communion. Communion with Jesus can certainly be a time to bring Him who we are, but maybe even more importantly, it’s the moment when we accept Him—His goals, His ideals, His life—as our own. By receiving Him, we allow His life to become part of ours. That’s why we can say He dwells in us. Communion leads to a deep unity of life.
And here’s where, inevitably, communion with Jesus leads us to communion with others. It cannot be otherwise. There’s no room for a closed intimacy between “just Jesus and me.” Communion is a moment of unity—with Jesus and with our brothers and sisters. With those present at the Eucharist, and also with those who didn’t come, who are outside, or far away. Because the Eucharist becomes a living sign of the Kingdom. Receiving Jesus makes us brothers and sisters. No one is left out. We become God’s family—a family open to all of humanity, especially to those who suffer most, those on the margins, the excluded. They come first—so that no one is left out.
When I receive Communion, I can’t put my needs or my problems first. Receiving Jesus brings me into communion with the whole “us”—the human family, the sons and daughters of God. In that moment, the proclamation of the Kingdom becomes urgent in my life—shaping my words and my actions. After leaving the Eucharist, after receiving Communion, I am committed—to the Kingdom, to justice, to fraternity. Just like Jesus was.