{"id":4330,"date":"2020-05-01T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4330"},"modified":"2020-05-01T00:04:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T22:04:16","slug":"how-wonderful-this-communion-in-which-turns-the-whole-universe-into-one-single-large-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=4330","title":{"rendered":"HOW WONDERFUL THIS COMMUNION IN WHICH TURNS THE WHOLE UNIVERSE INTO ONE SINGLE, LARGE FAMILY"},"content":{"rendered":"

“He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in him.” \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(John 6: 56)<\/p>\n

What a beautiful image of communion today\u2019s Gospel (John 6:52-59) <\/strong>gives us! What we eat becomes totally a part of our being. Jesus is the Bread of Life who nourishes his people through a communion of becoming one physically and in every other sense. Communion of living in each other.<\/p>\n

Saint Eugene reflects on communion in a reflection on the Feast of All Saints:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/strong><\/em>One of the thoughts that strikes me most about our holy religion is the thought of its catholicity; in my mind\u2019s eye I scan the whole wide world and everywhere it numbers people as brothers [and sisters], it would not be easy to find any part of the inhabited globe where the fact of being a child of Jesus Christ and his Church would not assure the Christian of a welcome as an envoy of the Lord and not meet with an abundance of tender care flowing from the most ardent charity and poured forth in the name of him in whom all hearts who have seen the light are joined together….<\/strong><\/p>\n

How wonderful this communion in which turns the whole universe into one single, large family whose interests are common, needs are similar, helps are mutual<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Bread of Life is broken for others, so we remember that our communion with Jesus contains the element of being broken for others – something that the pandemic makes us urgently aware of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in him.” \u00a0(John 6: 56) What a beautiful image of communion today\u2019s Gospel (John 6:52-59) gives us! What we eat becomes totally a part of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}