The Prayer, alluding to our Baptism, when He implanted in us a love of His Name (which means “to save”) beseeches God to foster andthen to protect “what is good.” What is “good?” It is to “foster” the “new life” in Christ Jesus begun at Baptism (Epistle); “dead to sin” is its negative side; “alive to God” is its positive. To “protect” and to nourish this Life is the object of the Eucharist, which is its food.
A hunger for the Divine Life and “Goodness” is universal to all times and places, as prefigured in the Gospel, “Can anyone fill them in the wilderness” of life, where the mind hungers for Truth, the will and heart hunger for Love? At the altar of sacrifice God will not “allow the hopes of anyone to be in vain” (Secret). Only at the altar of the Sacrament are we really “filled” (Postcommunion).
The 26th June is the feast of SS John and Paul Mm., whose names are mentioned in the Canon of the Mass, brothers, who gave their lives for the Faith in the V Century, and are buried on the Coelian Hill in Rome. Although not commemorated in the 1962 rubrics of the Mass, we ought to pray to these Saints for strength to face down the evil world, flesh and devil.