Please read the passage before the commentary.
Think in terms of a banquet. A large group of people, five thousand, sitting in an orderly fashion, a hundred groups of fifty people. Think of the menu, fish from the Sea of Galilee and Bread from the breadbasket of the Holy Land. Think of the host pronouncing blessings of God and on the food. A great quantity of food, a great number of people, and a large amount of food left over. What a banquet!
Think more. Who fed whom? We call Jesus the Son of God. We recognize his presence in the Eucharist, under the forms of bread and wine. This answers the question who.
Whom did Jesus feed? You say 5000 men. Think larger. He fed his people in that place. He feeds us, and he continues to feed us. We, the Body of Christ, feed on the Body of Christ, and become more so the Body of Christ.
Yes. We are the Body of Christ, holy and sacred. Bread and wine hide the Body and Blood of Christ, but we believe it is Body and Blood of Christ. Skin and bones hide the Body of Christ that we are, yet we must believe that we are the Body and Blood of Christ.
If Jesus under the form or bread and wine is worthy of adoration, then we likewise are worthy of great reverence because Christ has made us into his Body and Blood, has made us to be Christ himself.
This is the mystery we celebrate in today’s feast. We celebrate mysteries, we do not solve them or prove them. You tell me that you cannot prove that bread and wine become the body and bloods of Christ, but that you believe it. I tell you that you yourselves have become the body and blood of Christ although I cannot prove it. Yet you must believe that you are also the Body and Blood of the Lord.
Think about a banquet, in the deserted place. Think about the banquet, here in this sacred place.