#communion

There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk. ↗

— M. F. K. Fisher

#bread #broken #communion #drunk #more

It became obvious why Catholics had built such beautiful cathedrals and churches throughout the world. Not as gathering or meeting places for Christians. But as a home for Jesus Himself in the Blessed Sacrament. Cathedrals house Jesus. Christians merely come and visit Him. The cathedrals and churches architecturally prepare our souls for the beauty of the Eucharist. ↗

— Allen R. Hunt

#cathedrals #catholicism #christ #christianity #churches

Q: Why do I love thee, O Night? A: Because you know I will never answer. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#answer #answers #communication #communion #enigma

Since both the departed saints and we ourselves are in Christ, we share with them in the 'communion of saints.' They are still our brothers and sisters in Christ. When we celebrate the Eucharist they are there with us, along with the angels and archangels. Why then should we not pray for and with them? The reason the Reformers and their successors did their best to outlaw praying for the dead was because that had been so bound up with the notion of purgatory and the need to get people out of it as soon as possible. Once we rule out purgatory, I see no reason why we should not pray for and with the dead and every reason why we should - not that they will get out of purgatory but that they will be refreshed and filled with God's joy and peace. Love passes into prayer; we still love them; why not hold them, in that love, before God? ↗

— N.T. Wright

#communion-of-saints #paradise #prayer #praying-for-the-dead #purgatory

It is tradition in Ireland that you're given money for your first communion. ↗

— Roma Downey

#first #given #ireland #money #tradition

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self. ↗

— Ted Hughes

#being #communion #connection #deeper #fishing

Jesus didn't say, 'Blessed are those who care for the poor.' He said, 'Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.' It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#broken #care #communion #deeper #deeply

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#communion #community #god #important #important thing

No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray, temptation can never master us. The first step downward in the average soul is the giving up of the practice of prayer, the breaking of the circuit with divinity, and the proclamation of one’s owns self sufficiency. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#faith #god #independence #prayer #self-sufficiency

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery? ↗

— John Fiske

#communion #day #drink #eat #feeling