Like love, the Eucharist does not need to be understood or explained, it needs only to be touched. In the Eucharist, as in love, the main thing is that we are held.
Perhaps the most useful image of how the Eucharist functions is the image of a mother holding a frightened, tired and tense child. In the Eucharist God functions as a mother. God picks us up; frightened, tired, helpless, complaining, discouraged and protesting children, and holds us to her heart until the tension subsides and peace and strength flow into us
... There is in an embrace something beyond what can be explained biologically or psychologically. Power is transmitted through love that goes beyond rational understanding.
That is why after Jesus had spent all his words he left us the Eucharist.
--Forgotten Among the Lilies by Ronald Rolheiser, O.M.I.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Before Bed
More Eucharistic awesomeness. Happy Advent! I'll be back with reflections soon!
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