What Animates Our Life?

17Apr25 (25Thursday). This is an AI generated summary, enjoy if anyone reads this… On this Holy Thursday, we reflect on the Passover and the Eucharist as the spiritual food that sustains us on our journey toward heaven. Like the Israelites who ate in haste, we too live as people in flight—not made for this world, but for the promised land. The priesthood and the Eucharist, both instituted by Christ, remind us that leadership is about service, not power. We see this echoed in the Marine tradition of “leaders eat last,” where those in authority care for their people before themselves. Though it’s not always lived perfectly, the principle is clear: charity must animate all we do. The washing of the feet calls us back to that core of Christian service—to feed, to lead, and to love, even when it costs us.