227 Do You Know About the Eucharist?
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Speaker 1: I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst. But I told you that although you have seen me, you do not believe. You are listening to Scripture for your inner outcasts. It's April 22nd, 2026. Wednesday of the third week of Easter. I'll be providing the reflection for today's episode. My name is Elizabeth and I'm the producer and host of Scripture for Your Inner Outcasts. This week, in the gospel readings, we are working through the Bread of Life discourse in the Gospel of John chapter six. In today's gospel, it begins, Jesus said to the crowds, I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst. But I told you that although you have seen me, you do not believe. John chapter six always gets me so excited. So in today's episode, we're going to talk about the Eucharist and the relationship between the Eucharist and you inner outcasts of the internal system that you are a part of. In other words, the exiled parts, we would say in internal family systems. So as Catholic Christians, we believe that the Eucharist is not just a symbol, but it actually is the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus. And we believe that during mass, the priest is given the power through the Holy Spirit, through apostolic succession, to actually make the substance of ordinary bread turn into the body, blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus without changing the accidents.
Speaker 1: And the reason he can do that is because Jesus did it at the Last Supper. And then he passed that authority on to the 12 apostles, who passed it on through apostolic succession to every priest who exists today. Now everything I just said Is some standard catechetical knowledge. And if you've grown up Catholic or if you've recently gone through Osseo, you've probably heard that explanation of the Eucharist before. But if I may speak to the exiled parts in the internal systems that are listening to this podcast right now, you exiles, you're most likely very young when protector parts in your system took over because they learned behavior from the authority figures in your life, most likely your parents, and they banished you to the subconscious of your system for the purpose of protecting your entire system because you didn't have the help and the resources or the emotional maturity at the time to process whatever strong emotions and strong burdens you were faced with. So if you exiled parts or exiled at an age before you went through catechism, before you received your first communion, before you learned about the Eucharist, then it's likely that this passage that the Bread of Life discourse, that even going to mass itself seems really foreign or weird or maybe even bad to you. It might feel incomprehensible because if you were, say, one year old when you were exiled in your system and then the rest of your system, the rest of your parts learned about Jesus in the Eucharist when you were, say, six years old.
Speaker 1: Then you little one year old part, little exile, part, you would not understand what the Eucharist is. You would not understand who it is. And so when you hear things like this, if your managers allow you to hear things, it might seem totally strange and totally incomprehensible. And that might be because you have not had an experience, either intellectual or emotional, of Jesus. Maybe thus far, your experience of Jesus is limited to your relationship with your caregivers at the time of your exile. And so you might have an image of God in your head that is very different from who Jesus, from who God actually is. And so I just offer this message to you, inner outcasts right now to tell you that there is someone named Jesus, that not only does he want to get to know you, he wants to physically feed you with his own body. As strange and incomprehensible as that may sound, and in doing so, he emotionally and spiritually feeds you as well. Souls and hearts offers a three hour course which includes internal family systems, experiential exercises all about reconciliation and the Eucharist. You can find it linked in the description below. With that, we'll end with our invocations. Our Lady, our mother, Untier of knots. Pray for us. Saint Joseph, pray for us. Saint John the Baptist pray for us.
