tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4711387822362164164.post5879948076226265737..comments2023-04-02T08:06:55.131-04:00Comments on Perfect Joy: Why Do We Say Christ Is Hidden In the Eucharist?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4711387822362164164.post-86204016605712382512008-12-20T23:50:00.000-05:002008-12-20T23:50:00.000-05:00We came back into the Catholic Church during the e...We came back into the Catholic Church during the end of the Year of the Eucharist. I LOVE the Eucharist! A new experience of Jesus as my personal Savior was wonderful and joyous back in 1974, but I "lost His Church" somewhere along the line, and to be back in Her Arms is the ultimate "high" and "Perfect Joy" this side of Heaven!Joyful Catholichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16763631591924925063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4711387822362164164.post-42227269428915730862008-07-21T11:37:00.000-04:002008-07-21T11:37:00.000-04:00Our the biblical truth of our Eucharistic Lord was...Our the biblical truth of our Eucharistic Lord was central in bringing my family and I (protestant minister for some 20 years) into the Catholic Church.<BR/><BR/>A sign and an action both, not merely symbol only - yes, and thank God for Him.<BR/><BR/>May your day be blessed with perfect joy. ::thrive! OAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4711387822362164164.post-67183012943440420772008-07-17T16:06:00.000-04:002008-07-17T16:06:00.000-04:00But a sacrament is essentially a visible sign of a...<I>But a sacrament is essentially a visible sign of an invisible reality; it's not meant to hide anything - it's meant to reveal. </I><BR/><BR/>Exactly! That is the whole purpose of creation itself, the Incarnation, the Church, the Eucharist: God in the process of revealing and communicating – literally giving - Himself to us. And He is infinite - there is no end to discovery of God in and through the Eucharist. Through it we enter Him, and He enters us, more and more forever.<BR/><BR/><I> A sage once told me that a spiritual mystery is not a problem to be solved; rather it's a pool to dive into.</I><BR/><BR/>And God is the ultimate pool, the great Sea of Existence without end, that we are to dive into, and He into us, in and through Christ in the Eucharist. The Eucharist is the doorway into God, into the new creation, into glorified, restored Reality itself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4711387822362164164.post-83537947146388612432008-07-17T08:14:00.000-04:002008-07-17T08:14:00.000-04:00When we seek to dissect spiritual mystery with wor...<I>When we seek to dissect spiritual mystery with words we risk confusing the reality.</I><BR/><BR/>This is something I need to remember.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com