When you were a child, you
needed someone else to feed you. As an adult, you have learned to feed yourself.
The same rings true when it comes to your spiritual life, especially your attendance at Sunday Eucharist.
There are many adult Catholics who believe they need to be fed spiritually by somebody else every Sunday. Since that expected help doesn’t always come, you will need to take immediate action to save your own spiritual life when it doesn't! When it comes to spirituality, whatever you do, don’t just sit there and starve to death! Get up, stand on your own two feet and learn to feed yourself!
Start by focusing on the pulpit where you can wallow in the Word. Read the Scripture readings, re-read the readings, study the readings and pay focused attention to them when they are read at Mass. This is the best way to survive a disappointing homily. When it comes to feeding others spiritually, some preachers just don't know how to "cook!" Don't go hungry because of their shortcomings! Don't give up! Get up and feed on the Word! Feed on it!
Next, turn your attention
to the altar and deliberately and consciously choose to “feed on” the Body and
Blood of Jesus in the Eucharist, your "bread and drink for the journey and strength for the trip" so that you will have the courage and strength to carry out the Word that you have hopefully just wallowed in!
Think of the Sunday Eucharist as the place where you are given spiritual direction from the Word of God announced from the pulpit and the nourishment you will need to live it out in the coming week shared from the altar. Whatever you do, take charge of your own personal spiritual growth. For your own good, don't go hungry! Learn to feed yourself spiritually - at the pulpit and at the altar!
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