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To the Editor:
Having recently completed treatment (chemo and radiation therapy simultaneously) for tonsil cancer at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, I was too ill to write to you for the feast of Corpus Christi. I hope you will still be able to consider this letter for publication.
Holy Mother Church teaches us “The Eucharist is God.” St. John tells us that “God is Love,” and St. Paul tells us that “Love is patient; love is kind. Love is not jealous, it does not put on airs. Love is never rude, it is not self-seeking it is not prone to anger; neither does it brood over injuries, Love does not rejoice in what is wrong but rejoices with the truth. There is no limit to love’s forbearance, to its trust. its hope, its power to endure. Love never fails.” God and love are one; they are synonymous.
The life of the Church stems from God. Our faith is as strong as is our love and devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist. If that is weak, the Church is weakened. Today, more than ever, the world needs to know its Savior’s Presence, and as Catholics we need to be evermore grateful for the Gift of the Eucharist, Corpus Christi, Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ.
May Catholics emulate and adore “this great Sacrament of Love” with reverence and love, recalling St. Paul’s words “we live by faith, not by sight.”
Rosaria Incantalupo
Staten Island
