 
Pope John Paul II continues his meditations on the Eucharist during his most recent Wednesday Audience as he emphasizes how the Eucharist opens to the future of God and how this miraculous mystery of the Holy Eucharist - manna from Heaven - provides everlasting life.
"For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup,
you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes"
(1 Corinthians 11,26).
  This past Wednesday, His Holiness John Paul II spoke to approximately 50.000 faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square. He continued his meditations
on the Eucharist showing us how "the communion with Christ which we are now living as pilgrims and travellers along the paths of history, anticipates that supreme encounter of the day in which 'we shall be like Him, for we
shall see Him as He is'." The Eucharist, he continued, "is an anticipation of the kingdom of God's horizon of glorious light." Recalling St. Paul, the Pope stressed that "the Eucharistic
supper is associated with the final coming of the Lord: 'As often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes'." St. John, continued the Pope,
when he says that whoever eats of this bread "will live for ever," gives us to understand that "eternal life" is "the same divine life that surpasses the frontiers of time."
The Holy Father also added that "The Eucharist, being communion with Christ, is, therefore,
participation in the life of God who is eternal and triumphs over death." The Sovereign Pontiff encouraged Christians not to neglect "this encounter, this banquet which Christ prepares for us in His love. May our sharing in it be most worthy and joyful!" For the Holy Father's Wednesday Address, see THE VICAR OF CHRIST SPEAKS
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SUNDAY'S LITURGY:
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First Reading: Jeremiah 31: 7-9
Psalms: Psalm 126: 1-6
Second Reading: Hebrews 5: 1-6
Gospel Reading: Mark 10: 46-52
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