http://journey2myself.org/archives/responsibilities/ reading, writing, exploring Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:00:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://journey2myself.org/archives/responsibilities/comment-page-1/#comment-5848 Liz Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:15:31 +0000 http://journey2myself.org/?p=116#comment-5848 As usual - you've expanded my horizons again! I'm going to have find this book and read more. As usual – you’ve expanded my horizons again! I’m going to have find this book and read more.

]]> http://journey2myself.org/archives/responsibilities/comment-page-1/#comment-5830 Susan Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:30:14 +0000 http://journey2myself.org/?p=116#comment-5830 What came to mind when I read your comment about the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist is this passage from Michael Himes' book, "The Mystery of Faith." He writes: "If this bread [which becomes the Eucharist] can become the body of Christ, why not all that other bread? If this wine can become the blood of Chirst, why not all wine? If bread grown from soil and nurtured by sunlight and watered by rain, if grapes tended by wine-dressers and grown with the help fo sun and soil and rain, can become the presence of Christ, then why not the sun, the soil and the rain? Why not the vine, why not the wheat? In fact, if this tiny fragment of the material world can be transformed into the fullness of the presence of Christ, and therefore the fullness of the presence of God in human terms, then why not the whole material universe? And that is, or course, precisely the point." The desinty the Eucharist reveals to us, he continues, is "the transformation of the universe into the presence of God, so that God may be everything in everything." What came to mind when I read your comment about the presence of Jesus in the Eucharist is this passage from Michael Himes’ book, “The Mystery of Faith.” He writes: “If this bread [which becomes the Eucharist] can become the body of Christ, why not all that other bread? If this wine can become the blood of Chirst, why not all wine? If bread grown from soil and nurtured by sunlight and watered by rain, if grapes tended by wine-dressers and grown with the help fo sun and soil and rain, can become the presence of Christ, then why not the sun, the soil and the rain? Why not the vine, why not the wheat? In fact, if this tiny fragment of the material world can be transformed into the fullness of the presence of Christ, and therefore the fullness of the presence of God in human terms, then why not the whole material universe? And that is, or course, precisely the point.” The desinty the Eucharist reveals to us, he continues, is “the transformation of the universe into the presence of God, so that God may be everything in everything.”

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