Many thanks, William,
Holy Week, Easter and Eastertide, open up such vistas from the Liturgy.
I also feel as you say, “I will never feel I have mastered John 6.!”
And then openings like the link, The Catholic Treasure Chest, lead us on.
No wonder the Holy Father is urging on, “Pope Asks Catholics to Give a Soul to the Internet
Warns Against Divisive Aspect of Digital World
The Pope stated this Saturday in an audience in Paul VI Hall with participants in a national conference on "Digital Witnesses: Faces and Languages in the Cross-Media Age," an initiative promoted by the Italian bishops' conference.
"Without fear we want to set out upon the digital sea embracing the unrestricted navigation with the same passion that for 2,000 years has steered the barque of the Church," he said.
Amen, Alleluia.
Donald
----- Forwarded Message ----
From: William
Sent: Sun, 25 April, 2010 14:16:45
Subject: Re: The Catholic Treasure Chest - John 6
Dear Donald,
Thank you for the link to The Catholic Treasure Chest (where do you find all these resources!) The truth of the Eucharist is powerfully reasoned, with arguments securing the christoIogical 'unity', "denying the "True Presence" denies the incarnation and humanity of Jesus Christ". I confess to struggling with this argumentative style (perhaps it is that I like to understand it for myself), but there needs to be someone doing this: it certainly reinforces my understanding and belief... I will never feel that I have mastered John 6!
(The Holy Spirit draws us) ever deeper into these mysteries!
In Our Risen Lord,
William
----- Original Message -----
From: Donald
To: William
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 5:23 AM
Subject: Re: The Eucharist is the Key to all mysteries
Dear William,
Thank you.
Your help keeps me to focus even within the abundance on offer.
For the moment not yet grappled with this treasure "John Chapter Six"
http://www.thecatholictreasurechest.com/john.htm
In Dno,
Donald
To: Dom Donald Nunraw <
Sent: Sat, 24 April, 2010 19:48:26
Subject: The Eucharist is the Key to all mysteries
Dear Father Donald,
IT WOULD SEEM impossible, did we not know it to be true, that ...His love should choose to give us the unity of His birth and death and resurrection, always taking place at the heart of the world, from sunrise to sunset, and all life, and all love, always radiating from it.
I have received so much delight in the reflection by Caryll Houselander, and especially the 'unity' described in the second sentence which sheds a wonderfully bright light for me! All through this last week, as the Gospel readings have taken us step by step through Jesus' discourse, I have been looking for the clearest explanation of the discourse as a whole, typing up my 'research' so that I can enjoy it all the more. This little amalgam comes from a commentary written by Dom R R Russell OSB Downside Abbey and it rests on the 'unity' so central to Caryll Houselander's wonderful reflection!
The Incarnation, ‘the Word made flesh’, finds completion in the redemptive gift of the Eucharist (‘my flesh for the life of the world… eat my flesh’). At the same time, it is only in faith in Christ, the living bread come down from heaven to give life to the world, that the Eucharist makes sense. The whole mystery will be revealed at the Ascension of the Son of man, when he enters into the fullness of the Spirit even in his body, which becomes the overflowing source of risen life for the world. Such is the heavenly food and drink. The Ascension, making a heavenly reality of Jesus’ presence, is essential for the Christian understanding of the Eucharist, which contains the three great mysteries of the Son of Man: Incarnation, Redemption, Ascension.
How blessed we are to be able to enter upon such mystery... the Eucharist is the key to all the mysteries!
With my love in Our Risen Lord,
William
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