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Hoc est enim corpus meum.
He serves Mass every Sunday. Mostly no one comes. He breaks the bread and pours the wine and says the words: bread and wine become flesh and blood of Christ. A weekly miracle, expected, unwitnessed.
Hic est enim calix.
He does what he can. He brings an X-ray or holds a scared boy's hand or finds a grenade pin: prays for the broken bodies to live, for skill in bloody hands: for the living, for the dying, for the dead. He asks for daily miracles.
Ite, missa est.
Miracles happen, whether or not they're witnessed.