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Any who have truly tasted and been satisfied with the
heavenly bread – which is the very reality of the Risen Christ – knows that
there is nothing else like it, nor any substitute for it; it is true spiritual
nourishment, to give us the spiritual energy we need to do spiritually,
charitably motivated things, for love of God – in helping him to build his
Kingdom of Peace and Joy!
And since it is the very Holy
Spirit of God that brings about the transubstantiation
of the bread and wine into Christ’s own flesh and blood, it is his life
within us too that is fortified and strengthened by reception of the great
Sacrament of Life. Therefore, as St. Paul tells the Ephesians, we ought not to grieve the Holy Spirit of
God with which we were sealed for the day of redemption – all things that
are not of the spirit: bitterness, fury,
anger, shouting and reviling must be removed from our midst along with all
malice – substituting rather kindness, compassion and forgiveness towards one
another.
If
we do not live “by the Spirit” and “in the Spirit,” then
the Communion we participate in – the eating of the One Loaf that is still
being multiplied day after day, year after year, century after century – is a lie – and we are no better than
the pagans and all malcontents.
Taste
and see the goodness of the Lord, dear brothers and sisters,
and then let it affect everything about how you live your life! And it will
also qualify you for your everlasting inheritance forever with God!
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