Please read the passage before the homily.
My sisters and brothers,
Do you believe that Jesus was in heaven before his conception in the womb of his mother? Do you believe that Jesus ascended to heaven after his resurrection?
Do you believe that Jesus is God and man? Do you believe that Jesus is one with all people through his conception in the womb of his mother? Do you believe that through our baptism we share in the divinity of Christ and that he shares our human nature?
Do you believe that through the ministry of Christ we and all other Christians are made one with Christ and each other?
Do you believe that many grains make one bread and that many grapes make one wine. Do you also believe that our many altars make just one Lord’s table and that all the breads all the wines on these tables make up only one body and one blood of Christ?
Do you believe that all of us, strengthened with the Body and Blood of Christ, make up in Christ one body and one spirit? Do you believe that “the body is one yet has many parts and that these many parts of the body, for all their differences, make up no more than one body. (1 Cor. 12:12)?
Do you believe that all of us are only one Church and the only Christ who is in heaven in his glory and on earth in his Church with all other people.
Is this a hard saying? If God’s creation is easy to believe, why is it not also easy to believe in our oneness together with the rest of the world in Christ and, and to believe in the truth of the Eucharist? We who are the body of Christ receive the body of Christ and become more so the body of Christ.