New Year’s Eve

 Only in the Eucharist

It is New Year's Eve. 

Do you want to look back or forward?

It all depends. 

Where have you been and where are you going?

On New Year's Eve we straddle the past and the future. 

Memories become mixed with dreams. 

Tears with Hope. 

Laughter with Sighs. 

The faces of those we have known come to mind while we wait to meet those yet to come. 

And as the years go by and time moves on we look back tonight. 

 We see the mistakes we have made, the wounds we have caused and the hearts that We have broken. 

We see The people we have overlooked and failed to reach out to. 

We see friends with whom we grew up,  people We have met.  

We see the people who have loved us and whom We have loved

We see all of these people and many are here but most are gone, moved on and 

somewhere else in life or no longer in this world. 

How can we go back and say we are sorry?

How can we show how grateful we are? 

How can we say we love them? 

How do we let them know?

Only In the Eucharist!

Only in the Eucharist can we go back. 

For In the Eucharist there is no time or space. 

The past and the present and the future are all here together in one heavenly moment!

Only in the Eucharist can we go back and say we are sorry for the things we have 

done and the people we have hurt.

Only in the Eucharist can we reach out to those we overlooked and did not notice who 

were hungry and lonely and lost. 

Only in the Eucharist can we say I love you to all those who are no longer around or 

have gone before us. 

 For only the Eucharist can bring together all those whom time and distance and the 

years have separated. 

Only in the Eucharist can we reach out and go back and make peace and share love 

with all those people whom we have embraced, touched, rubbed elbows, cried and hurt and loved.

And only in the Eucharist can we go forward with Hope for a better year. 

With Hope that Love is stronger than death and that it is truly Love and Love alone that causes the human heart to beat.  

For in the Eucharist Hope, Love, Peace, and Forgiveness becomes flesh and dwells among us. 

It is only in the Eucharist that the past can be healed, we can live in peace today 

 and have hope for tomorrow.