Catholics Could Be Alive – if they believe this…

Many Catholics are dead.
I don’t mean that they have died.
They have a pulse. They breathe. The appear alive.
But they are spiritually lifeless.
They live to exist, rather than using their existence to live.

Our Lord said to the early church in Sardis, “You have the reputation of being alive, but you are dead” (See Rev 3:1).

The situation is far worse today than in first century Sardis.

We constantly consume.
Information, news, gossip, entertainment, podcasts, social media, pornography, packaged and canned food…
name it, we consume it.

Most of what we consume is dead.
Yes, it sustains our existence…
but it does not give us life.

I want to be alive, full of vitality, strength, honor, meaning, purpose—life.

No more living for the weekend.
No more “getting to beer-thirty.”
I want to die for that which I live.
I want to die living for Life.

Our Lord said something peculiar: “I am the living bread.”
He is not referring to “dead bread.”
He calls Himself living bread; bread that is alive and living.
He promises that if you “eat this bread you will live.”
You will be alive.

What Catholics call The Eucharist is in blunt terms the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ, veiled by what appears to be bread.

We have heard and learned that this is Jesus’ crucified flesh and blood.
Unfortunately, people confuse the Body that has died, with a Body that is dead.

While it is good that many Catholics believe by faith that what appears to be bread is actually Jesus’ Body and Blood, unfortunately, many reduce this Body to being a dead, murdered, sacrificed body.

The Lord, however, says, “I am living bread.”
He has been crucified… but also glorified.
We received a Body that has been executed, but also resurrected.

To be alive is to believe in the promise of the Savior who guarantees that “If you eat Me you will live.”
But He warns us that “There are some of you who do not believe.”

Belief is as important as reception.

Some receive, but do not believe.
Some appear to be alive but are dead.

Jesus promises that the person who receives His Body and Blood lives in Him, and He in them.
They are alive.

Believe and receive.
Believe that He is alive and receiving Him, He will be alive in you.