Being for every man the touchstone of faith and love, the Eucharist, like the Cross, divided minds as soon as it was announced. Nothing engages a man as much as does the Eucharist.
The man who partakes
in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of
love. He becomes, as it were, Godlike,
but regardless of the strength he derives from it, his free will remains. We
are always free to disown this immense grace, to abuse it. The Greatest Love may be betrayed. Fed on the Living Bread, we nevertheless
conceal a part of ourselves which longs for swine’s food.
The Eucharist engages
us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper
recesses of our being. All our
potentialities are called upon to warrant the protection and fulfillment of
this pact.
--François Mauriac, Holy
Thursday: An Intimate Remembrance
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