Jesus in the Eucharist
February 2027
1 Cor 10:16-17: "The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because the loaf of bread is one, we, though many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf"
This month we will focus on visible communion. Jesus in the Eucharist is the sacrament of our unity with God and among us as His Body.
Jesus in the Eucharist: The Eucharist is not simply the moment when Christ becomes sacramentally present; it is Jesus giving himself completely so that we might become one with him and, in him, one with one another.
At the heart of the Eucharist is Jesus’s passion: Jesus who, on the Cross, experienced the apparent abandonment of the Father and gave himself nevertheless, loving to the very end. In the Eucharist, this same self-emptying love continues. Jesus gives his Body and Blood without reserve, teaching us that communion with God necessarily becomes a life of self-giving love toward others.
Thus, receiving the Eucharist means becoming Eucharistic. We cannot receive Jesus’s gift and remain closed within ourselves. The Eucharist calls us to make ourselves one with every person, to enter into another’s situation, joys, sufferings, hopes, and wounds, and to love Jesus in that person. The neighbor is not an interruption to our relationship with God; love of the neighbor is precisely where our union with God becomes concrete.
This is why the Eucharist and the New Commandment: “Love one another as I have loved you,” (Jn 13:34) belong together. The Eucharist nourishes the kind of love that makes possible the presence of Jesus among his disciples: “Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them” (Mt 18:20). The Eucharistic Christ creates a people who can become, in Lubich’s characteristic expression, “one soul and one heart.”
In this sense, the Eucharist is both source and summit of unity: Christ gives himself to us, we receive him, and then we allow his same life of self-giving love to pass through us into our relationships. The ultimate fruit of Eucharistic communion is therefore not simply that I am united to Christ, but that Christ unites us to one another and makes us his living presence in the world.
MONTHLY GATHERING:
Thursday, February 18, 2027
7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Located in the Main Church
The speaker will be Fr. David Michael Moses
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Fr. David Michael Moses
Fr. David Michael Moses is a priest of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston whose remarkable story combines an extraordinary intellectual journey, a deep love for the priesthood, and a passion for helping people encounter Jesus Christ personally.
A native of Houston, Texas, Fr. David Michael began college at the remarkable age of 14. By the time he was 18, he had been accepted into several law schools and appeared destined for a career in law. Yet God was leading him in another direction. Responding to a call to the priesthood, Fr. David Michael surrendered his plans to the Lord and entered seminary. He was ordained a priest in 2019 at the age of 25.
Today, Fr. David Michael serves as Pastor of Christ Our Light in Navasota and St. Stanislaus in Anderson, Texas. Through his preaching and ministry, he has become known for communicating the Catholic faith with clarity, enthusiasm, humor, and a contagious love for Christ.
His preaching on the Holy Eucharist has reached audiences far beyond his own parish communities. His Eucharistic preaching has even been highlighted by Fr. Leo Patalinghug, internationally recognized for his dynamic preaching and Eucharistic evangelization. Fr. David Michael has a particular gift for making the mystery of the Eucharist immediate and personal, not simply something Catholics believe, but Someone whom we encounter.
This Eucharistic encounter opens onto the very heart of Christian life: participation in the life of the Trinity. As Bishop Brendan Leahy has emphasized in his reflection on the spirituality of communion, the Eucharist is not merely Christ coming to us; it draws us into Christ’s own relationship with the Father, in the Holy Spirit. In receiving the Son, we are invited to live the life of divine love that exists eternally between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
This is at the heart of the Embers Project: to move from knowing about Jesus to living His life. The Eucharist makes this possible in a uniquely profound way. Christ gives Himself to us so that His life can become our life, His love can become our love, and His communion with the Father can become the pattern of our own existence. What we receive at the altar is therefore not simply nourishment for our individual spiritual lives; we are being drawn into a communion of love that is meant to transform our relationships, our families, our parish, and ultimately the world.
Fr. David Michael is also a gifted musician and songwriter. Through his music and his celebrated “Concerts for Life,” he has helped raise more than one million dollars to assist women facing crisis pregnancies, bringing together evangelization, the defense of human life, and concrete service to those in need.
He is the founder of the Pilgrim Rosary, an initiative dedicated to spreading devotion to the Rosary and encouraging Catholics to make prayer part of their daily lives. Through social media and other online platforms, Fr. David Michael has developed an extraordinary following of more than two million people, sharing stories from priestly life, reflections on the faith, and the joy of following Christ.
Whether through the Eucharist, preaching, music, the Rosary, or the digital world, Fr. David Michael’s mission is ultimately the same: to help people discover that Jesus Christ is alive and that He desires not merely to be admired or worshiped from a distance, but to share His very life with us.
For the Embers Project, Fr. David Michael Moses will lead us into the mystery of Jesus in the Eucharist, and into the astonishing invitation contained within every Mass and every Holy Communion: to receive Christ, to be transformed by Christ, and to enter ever more deeply into the life of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.