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Posted: Wed Aug 29th, 2007 02:15 am |
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| I have been making a special effort to focus on the Eucharist when I receive it, and not be distracted by the movement of the line or noises around me. I am very aware as I go back to my seat that I have consumed the Body of the Lord. It is said that the host is the "Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity" of the Lord. Does this mean that we are consuming not only the flesh and blood, but also the mission on earth of Christ, the miracles, the teachings, the unending love and mercy? They all become a part of us? By partaking of that little host, we are partaking of his ministry from the Incarnation until the Cross?
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David W. Emery
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Posted: Wed Aug 29th, 2007 09:12 am |
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Does this mean that we are consuming not only the flesh and blood, but also the mission on earth of Christ, the miracles, the teachings, the unending love and mercy? They all become a part of us?
Not directly. We receive Christ himself in the Eucharist. His miracles and teachings are not Christ himself, but things he did.
However, through Christ and the graces we receive in receiving him, we are enabled to receive his miracles and teachings and make them part of our own lives. And as we are configured to Christ in the depths of our souls — as we “become Christ” in our mystical union with him — it can be said that we partake of his mission and ministry. In this way, for example, we can say, with St. Paul, “in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church” (Colossians 1:24), thus identifying our own sufferings with the passion of Christ and becoming, as it were, fellow workers with him in his redemption of mankind (cf. 1 Corinthians 3:9).
David
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