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SuzanneMD
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We who love our Lord and embrace Him and are in turn Embraced by Him in the Holy Eucharist, Which Is Jesus’ Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, are standing firmly and safely far above and beyond the abyss. But those who don’t embrace Christ are at risk of realizing, upon their eventual death, that they are holding on to nothing and standing on nothing and therefore if they don’t reach out to God they risk falling eternally in the abyss… Now I can see that Everyone and Everything Is held up by the Holy Eucharist, Who Is our Lord and Creator! I’m praying for my Protestant friends to understand Who the Holy Eucharist Is and therefore Who His Church Is, Inseparable!
Towards this end, I found and love this lecture.
LECTURE BY H.E. CARDINAL RATZINGER
AT THE BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE OF THE REGION OF CAMPANIA
IN BENEVENTO (ITALY) ON THE TOPIC:
“EUCHARIST, COMMUNION AND SOLIDARITY”
Sunday 2 June 2002
Excerpt (adapted): …The word “Communion” refers …to the Eucharistic centre of the Church, the understanding of the Church as the most intimate place of the encounter between Jesus and mankind, in His act of giving Himself to us.
The Church is not born as a simple federation of communities. Her birth begins with the One Bread, with the One Lord and from Him from the beginning and everywhere, the One Body which derives from the One Bread. She becomes One not through a centralized government but through a common Centre open to all, …from a single Lord, Who forms Her by means of the One Bread into One Body. Because of this, Her Unity has a greater depth than that which any other human union could ever achieve. Precisely when the Eucharist is understood in the intimacy of the union of each person with the Lord, it becomes also a social sacrament to the highest degree.
Towards this end, I found and love this lecture.
LECTURE BY H.E. CARDINAL RATZINGER
AT THE BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE OF THE REGION OF CAMPANIA
IN BENEVENTO (ITALY) ON THE TOPIC:
“EUCHARIST, COMMUNION AND SOLIDARITY”
Sunday 2 June 2002
Excerpt (adapted): …The word “Communion” refers …to the Eucharistic centre of the Church, the understanding of the Church as the most intimate place of the encounter between Jesus and mankind, in His act of giving Himself to us.
The Church is not born as a simple federation of communities. Her birth begins with the One Bread, with the One Lord and from Him from the beginning and everywhere, the One Body which derives from the One Bread. She becomes One not through a centralized government but through a common Centre open to all, …from a single Lord, Who forms Her by means of the One Bread into One Body. Because of this, Her Unity has a greater depth than that which any other human union could ever achieve. Precisely when the Eucharist is understood in the intimacy of the union of each person with the Lord, it becomes also a social sacrament to the highest degree.
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