Bread and Wine for War and Peace (Readings for the Solemnity of Christ’s Body & Blood)

In preparation for next Sunday’s commemoration of the Solemnity of Christ’s Body and Blood, here is my “translation” of the day’s sacred texts including its special sequence, “Lauda Sion.” Please read the originals yourselves to see what they might suggest by way of practical application. To me, they say something about priesthood, its perversions, and rejection by Jesus. More universally, they call me to think revolutionary thoughts about throwing off ALL inherited structures responsible, as they are, for war and impending omnicide. As Marx taught, any criticism worth its salt begins with religion. 

GN 14: 18-20
  
 Melchizedek fed Abram,
 Bread and wine.
 Assuring the patriarch 
 Of God’s favor 
 In his mid-east wars,
 Provided the sheik 
 Gave the priest
 A tenth of all he possessed.
  
 PS 110: 1-4
  
 Subsequent clergy 
 In Melchizedek’s line
 Have done the same 
 For kings who tithe
 Promising them
 Enemies become footstools
 Forever and ever!
  
  
 I COR 11: 23-26
  
 Jesus
 Like that gnarly pastor,
 Served bread and wine too
 But for God’s peace
 Not Melchizedek’s war.
 Those who shared
 His simple meal
 Were to re-member the Christ
 And make his presence real
 As Prince of Peace.
  
 Sequence Lauda Sion
  
 Yes, Melchizedek’s offering
 Is turned upside-down
 By the priesthood’s
 Severest critic.
 Who feeds both
 Kings and shepherds.
 Apostles and us
 Uniting all 
 And replacing 
 Antique class-warfare
 And our own
 Damnable understandings
 Of Eucharist
 With a picnic of peace
 So that wheat and grape
 Might become 
 OUR flesh and blood,
 To afterwards incarnate 
 Christ’s own body
 To complete his work
 On earth.
  
 LK 9: 11B-17
 
 So what's the point
 Of this parable's tale
 (Ironically chosen
 By Melchizedek's sons)
 If not to say
 What Eucharist's for
 To feed the hungry
 Towards peace not war.
 No Melchizedek
 No miracle 
 No market
 No priesthood
 No transubstantiation's
 Required here.
 “Do it yourselves” 
 Jesus told his friends
 (And us).
 And that’s just 
 What the apostles
 (And a little boy) 
 Did
 To everyone’s satisfaction
 With lots left-over! 
 Let those with ears to hear . . .