Being for every man the touchstone of faith
and love, the Eucharist, like death on the Cross, divided the 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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