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30 July 2008 - 28 תמוז 5768 by Huw
Take a lesson in Eucharist from the Daily Episcopalian:
Christian economics works this way:
We call a small portion of bread and a sip of wine God – Christ’s flesh and blood – spiritual things to which we are called. And we consume them. Because we know deep down we become what we consume.
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Roots of Christian Mysticism: Texts from Patristic Era with Commentary by Oliver Clement
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A People\’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) by Howard Zinn
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In like spirit, Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann remarked that the common proverb “you are what you eat” takes on even more of a truth and profundity perhaps not originally intended when considered in the context of the eucharist.
I love that comment in “For the Life of the World”, I think.- one of the more profound statements about Eucharist.
I forget which saint described the Eucharist as “the meal that consumes us”