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"Our contemplation is a worship that anticipates the vision and the praise of heaven. Though we hardly feel anything of the kind, we must realise that the meditation ehich prolongs our Mass and Communion is also a mysterious reproduction on earth of the great chorus of adoratin that goes up even now in heaven before God. " |
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From the Cover
This book is a series of moving and resonant meditations on Christianity and Christ himself living in unity with men of good will. The Living Bread is a lasting exposition of the central truth of the Eucharist as the sacrament of love. This is no dull doctrinal compendium but a powerful document of the spirit asserting the unmistakable relevance of eternal truth to the present moment.
"The whole problem of our time is the problem of love. how are we going to recover the ability to love ourselves and to love one another?...We cannot be at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we cannot be at peace withourselves because we are not at peace with God...Modern dictatorships display everywhere a deliberate and calculated hatred for human nature as such. the techniques of degradation used in concentration camps and in staged trials are too familiar in our time. They have one purpose: to defile the human person...Passive and desparing, we allow ourselves to sink back into the inert mass of human objects that only exist to be manipulated by dicators, or by the great anonymous powers that rule the world of business...To find God one must first be free...To conquer the forces of death and dispair, we must unite ourselves mystically to Christ who has overcome death and who brings us life and hope...This book is not a defence of a doctrine, but a meditation on sacred mystery."
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"This is the first time I had been struck by such a feeling of spirituality in anyone who professed Christianity." - The Dalai Lama
Contents
Prologue
- Unto The End
Christ's love for us
Our responce - Do This In Memory of Me
The Christian sacrifice
Worship
Atonement
Agape - Behold I Am With You
The real presence
Sacremental contemplation
The soul of Christ in the Eucharist - I Am The Way
Our journey to God
The bread of God
Communion and its effects - O Sacrum Convivium
Come to the marriage feast!
The Eucharist and the church
"I have called you friends"
The new comandment
Towards the Parousia
