Here at St. Ignatius Hall, the sixty-some Jesuits do not concelebrate at our daily community Mass. Rather, we attend Mass.

This proved quite a change for me who was accustomed to celebrate Mass daily, often by myself. I was living the tradition of some great priests who would find a way to celebrate Mass even in a hotel room when they were on business.

Now I find that receiving Communion has its own powerful Presence. In the middle of the last century, we had prayer books with special ways to honor the Lord. I  still recite to myself the Anima Christi, from habit, I suppose.

But mainly I just stay with the deeply affective conviction that the Lord God has come to me in Person. I do not know any way more powerful to thank Jesus Christ for what He has done and is doing for each and all of us.