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Eucharist
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We offer the world and ourselves to God. But we do it in Christ and in remembrance of Him. We do it in Christ because He has already offered all that is to be offered to God. He has performed once and for all this Eucharist and nothing has been left unoffered. In him was Life-and this Life of all of us, He gave to God. The Church is all those who have been accepted into the eucharistic life of Christ. And we do it in remembrance of Him because, as we offer again and again our life and our world
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― For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
― For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
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Are you saying that truth, goodness, and beauty are to be found in books? But they are from God - aren't they to be found in the Mass? In the Eucharist?
Yes, the Mass and the Eucharist are where God allows us to touch those transcendentals, indeed to touch and consume Himself, but in books - in music, in art, in the life well-lived - when we have an earnest desire to know and to love the human person, that is where we give those gifts back to God.
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