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10/24/26 Tomorrow Bread · Omnia Christus

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  SPEAKER_00: Victor Franker is an Austrian psychologist who survived Auschwitz.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wrote a beautiful book that I highly recommend called Man's Search for Meaning.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in his experiences in the concentration camps in which his wife
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  SPEAKER_00: and parents were killed,
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  SPEAKER_00: He found that people can survive almost anything if they have meaning.
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  SPEAKER_00: He went on to start a school of psychology called Logotherapy,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is based on meaning, helping people to find meaning.
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  SPEAKER_00: He found as a psychologist that if people had meaning in their lives,
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  SPEAKER_00: they could live and they could survive.
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  SPEAKER_00: And without meaning, they could not.
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  SPEAKER_00: They would die.
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  SPEAKER_00: People in the concentration camp,
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  SPEAKER_00: seemingly healthy, who lost The will to live, the lost meaning.
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  SPEAKER_00: They just died, their bodies just shut down.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we're reflecting on the Our Father.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Our Father is a beautiful prayer, a nice prayer, the prayer that Jesus Christ gave us.
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  SPEAKER_00: But why do we have the Our Father in the Mass?
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  SPEAKER_00: And specifically, why do we have the Our Father right before communion, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: As we enter into a communion, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: As we prepare ourselves to receive the body of Christ.
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  SPEAKER_00: I do have the Our Father right there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's because the Our Father has always been seen since the early church as
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  SPEAKER_00: a Eucharistic prayer, as a prayer that's pointing towards the Eucharist.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this for the fathers is specifically because of the Greek word epiosios.
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  SPEAKER_00: Epiosios is a word that only occurs in the Our Father.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of a neologism.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what they call a word that's kind of a one-off.
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  SPEAKER_00: They have found it, you know, in one other place in Greek literature, but hardly anywhere.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so it's translated, give us this day our daily bread.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's not a wrong translation.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what it does seem to point to.
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  SPEAKER_00: Epiusios is referring to substance, osea in Greek, which means substance.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's our being.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what we need to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Epiusios is sort of super substance.
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  SPEAKER_00: Give us our super substantial bread.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you could say give us our necessary bread, the bread that we need for today.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the fathers of the church saw this as a reference to the Eucharist.
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  SPEAKER_00: They said the Eucharist is our Epiusion bread, it's our super substantial bread.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they even saw Epiusius as pointing to that which is most important,
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  SPEAKER_00: that which is most substantial, that which lasts forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: In other words, the Eucharist, the bread that is the Eucharist, the bread that is Christ's body.
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  SPEAKER_00: They even would say, give us today, tomorrow's bread, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Give us the bread of eternity.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the way that they thought about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the way they thought about those words.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's why from very early on,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Our Father was incorporated into the liturgy and was placed right before
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  SPEAKER_00: the communion rite,
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  SPEAKER_00: precisely as a preparation to receive communion,
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  SPEAKER_00: asking Jesus to come to us,
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  SPEAKER_00: asking him to come to us, to give us that bread, which sustains us.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so today,
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  SPEAKER_00: as we continue on with this Eucharist,
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  SPEAKER_00: as we enter into This Eucharist, let us make that prayer of the fathers our own.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let us ask Christ to come to us, to give us the bread that we need.
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  SPEAKER_00: As we're talking about at the beginning, what we need is meaning, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: We need purpose in our lives.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what Christ offers.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what Christ comes to give us.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what his presence is.
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  SPEAKER_00: His presence is meaning and purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: That which is most fundamental,
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  SPEAKER_00: that which will sustain us, the very low, And the very life of God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let us ask the Lord today to give us his flesh.
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  SPEAKER_00: To give us the bread that is not only for today, but also for eternity.