Nick Anderson’s Reviews > This is My Body: A Call to Eucharistic Revival > Status Update

“people could see their pain as simply dumb suffering, the offscourings of an indifferent universe. Or they could see it through the lens provided by the sacrificial death of Jesus, appreciating it as the means by which God is drawing them closer to himself. Suffering, once joined to the cross of Jesus, can become a vehicle for the reformation of the sinful self, the turning of the soul in the direction of love.”

“But the true king, the true emperor of the world, is born in a cave outside of a forgotten town on the verge of Caesar's domain. Too weak even to raise his head, he is wrapped in swaddling clothes and then laid ‘in a manger,’ the place where the animals eat (Luke 2:7). What Luke is signaling here is that Jesus had come to be food for a hungry world.”