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Dear brothers and sisters,

For many people, religion is something obsolete that no longer has much to say to the world of the 21st century. We, those of us who over the years have failed to adequately present Jesus' message and connect with many people's search for meaning, bear no responsibility for this way of thinking.

It is paradoxical that, in a hyperconnected society, more and more people feel alone, abandoned, and experiencing fragile and unstable communication. In a society with a high degree of development and a level that far exceeds what is necessary for life, more and more people experience emptiness, loss of hope, and disenchantment in their lives.

Jesus cannot have become obsolete, because this society still needs him. He is not a figure from the past to be studied in textbooks. He is a living person who fulfills his promise every Sunday to remain with us every day until the end of time.

Because at that Last Supper, with the signs of bread and wine, He promised that wherever He was remembered, He would continue to be present so that our lives would never be empty. He nourishes the soul and fills life with meaning. Just as He fed a multitude on that mountain, He continues to nourish us today in every Eucharist, so that His person enters us as food enters the bloodstream, and we cannot help but see life with His eyes, feel it with His heart, and think about it with His criteria.

Nourishing ourselves day by day on Jesus fills our hearts with peace, heals and reconciles us, and moves us to love as He did. This cannot become obsolete. Jesus is still necessary to give affection to the world, to experience the love, closeness, forgiveness, and generosity He bequeathed to us in His encounters with people.

On this Corpus Christi Sunday, Jesus continues to be the manifestation of God, the presence of a friend, nourishment that fills, love that gives itself and bears fruit. Don't forget that He will always be waiting for you in that hidden sanctuary to listen to you and connect you to life. Let us be patient, let us feel, let us live.

Happy Sunday!

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