The Eucharist Is My Anchor in the Stormy Seas of College
For a college student, stability is a myth, a memory of childhood.
Every year, college students move into a different dorm/house, friendships are often rocky, relationships come and go, classes and teachers only last for a semester, and schedules are temporary.
Throw in the constant struggle of internships, changing majors and attempting to plan for post-college life, and stability becomes a foreign concept.
Thus it is only a matter of time until students come face-to-face with this crisis of stability, as they search for something they can grasp in the tumultuous whirlwind of collegiate life.
Like everyone, college students desire stability during this transient phase of life.
In their search for stability, students resort to sometimes unhealthy forms, clinging to that which they believe they can control in an attempt to provide the stability that the heart longs for.
In an ever-changing world, what remains constant?
The cynic, quoting Benjamin Franklin, will say that the only two constants are “death and taxes.”
While those are certainly true, the Church presents a third constant: Christ’s Presence in the Eucharist.
Two thousand years ago, Christ gave the Church the greatest gift: his Body and Blood.
Since that moment, priests and bishops have celebrated the Mass and uttered the same words that Christ said in the Upper Room, “Take this, all of you, and eat of it, for this is my body.”
This reality has not changed and will not change.
The Eucharist is and will always be constant.
At every moment, every day, priests around the world consecrate bread and wine, and it becomes the Body and Blood of God himself.
What a gift, what an opportunity — to be able to receive God every single day.
