Referring to John 6:51-58, I talked about how easy and convenient for us to be with Jesus in the Eucharist at the 11:30 a.m. Sunday Mass on June 7, 2026 at Catholic Institute of Technology at Castel Gandolfo outside Rome.

Text of the homily

The world hawks convenience like Google’s presentation did last weekend for its AI-assisted searches. But what does this access give us? Does this nourish us?

In John 6, Jesus tells us the answers, “Do not work for food that perishes but for the food that endures for eternal life.” The food that perishes today is the fleeting pleasures accessible with a click, a tap or a swipe.

But this solemnity of Corpus Christi reveals another convenience often overlooked: communion with Jesus can be, should be, is and will be easy.

The simple act of eating and drinking at Mass brings God into our lives, our beings. Easy. How convenient is that?! We live out Jesus’ desire in Revelations: “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, [then] I will enter his house and dine with him, and he with me.”

This ease of receiving Jesus points to our future realities of the resurrection of the body and heaven. In the Gospel, Jesus tells the crowd, “Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.”

 In our glorified, resurrected bodies, we live forever because the fullness of the Trinity’s love and power flows through us.

This simple liturgical action of eating and drinking reminds us of our accessibility to Jesus. In loving us, Jesus asks us to develop and profit from this convenient access with the spiritual tools and graces at our disposal.

We adore Him in his Eucharistic presence as we yearn to be with Him. In Ignatian meditation over Scripture, we talk and share with Jesus what is in our hearts as we do with close friends. If we are burdened with sins, we remove them with regular Confessions to clean and strengthen our hearts for Jesus. In every Mass, we place our needs, hurts, hopes and desires on the paten so through the Holy Spirit, they are transformed in Jesus to be sources of grace for others.

Truly, our enthusiasm and readiness in helping others intensify when we benefit from Jesus’ ease and convenience in giving Himself to us. The Eucharist indeed gives us Jesus’ hopes, desires, energy and strength to announce and demonstrate the Father’s love for all.

United in the Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, we can say with St. Paul, “Because the loaf of bread is one, we, though many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf.”

Thus, all these practices, personal and communal, train us to easily receive and share with Jesus. One day, we will realize that we can turn to Jesus faster than a click, a tap or a swipe.