A poem by John Mulholland reflecting on the mystery of the Eucharist — how understanding only came when the bread was broken after the Resurrection.
How could we know your meaning Lord?
How understand your strange command?
Yet it was you who told us this,
You whom we'd come to love and trust
And know to be the Lord.
How could we eat your flesh and drink your blood
When you were there amongst us living still?
An understanding only came,
And came but dimly then,
When cruel men had slain you on a cross
Leaving us all bewildered and afraid.
Only when you returned, and walked with us,
And broke the bread, did revelation truly come –
A revelation for all time and for the world.
John Mulholland 29 October 2020