Wednesday, June 17, 2020

By eating the Body of Christ (Henri Nouwen)


   Whenever we come together around the table, take bread, bless it, break it, and give it to one another saying, The Body of Christ, we know that Jesus is among us.  He is among us not as a vague memory of a person who lived long ago but as a real, life-giving presence that transforms us.  By eating the Body of Christ, we become the living Christ and we are enabled to discover our own chosenness and blessedness, acknowledge our brokenness, and trust that all we live we live for others.  Thus we, like Jesus himself, become food for the world. 

--Henri Nouwen, Bread for the Journey      

Image source: Salvador Dalí, The Sacrament of the Last Supper (1955), https://www.artsy.net/artwork/salvador-dali-the-sacrament-of-the-last-supper

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