Our Eucharistic Center

At the heart of the Church is not an idea, a program, or a strategy — it is a Person: Jesus Christ, present to us in the Eucharist. The Eucharist is not only what we receive on Sunday; it is the center around which all of Christian life turns. From this center, every mission begins, and to this center, every mission returns. Source, and Summit.

When we come together as lay Catholics to share life, we aren’t just forming social groups or hobby clubs. We are learning to live the Eucharist we receive: offering ourselves to God and one another, learning to sacrifice in love, and being strengthened for the mission of daily life. This is why community is not optional — communion is who we are, because the Eucharist is who He is.

The renewal the Church longs for will not come from better marketing or more efficient parish structuring, or even discrete formation programs. It will come when we as ordinary Catholics rediscover the Eucharist as the center of our lives and our relationships. When Christ in the Eucharist becomes the beating heart of our parishes and communities, the Church will again be unmistakably alive. And our social halls become evangelistic ground zero.