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SUMMARY:St. Columban/Thanksgiving
DESCRIPTION:THE GIFT OF HIMSELF\nFrom “The Reed of God” by Caryll Houselander 5\n◊◊◊\nOn the night before He died Christ took bread into His hands\, blessed and\nbroke it\, and gave it to His disciples\, saying: “This is my Body.” The Blessed\nSacrament is Christ\, the whole Christ. He was giving us Himself… Yet\, in giving\nHimself to the world\, He deliberately chose to emphasize the body. Why? The\nbody is\, for us\, the means by which we can give ourselves wholly. We say: “God\,\nmy thoughts are with you\,” or “My soul goes with you.” And we know that\, though\nsomething of ourself is with the traveler\, essentially we remain separate from\nhim… But when we give our body willingly to another as the means of deliberate\nself-donation\, then our union with the other is complete… \nWe surrender our intimacy\, the secret of ourselves\, with the giving of our\nbody; and we cannot give it without our will\, our thoughts\, our minds\, and our\nsouls. Christ surrendered the secret of Himself to each one of us when He gave us\nHis Body. In Holy Communion this surrender of the secret of Himself goes on.\n“With desire\,” He said\, “have I desired this hour.” The hour when He was to\nconsecrate bread\, in order that not only to the whole race would He give His Spirit\,\nbut to each individual\, the gift of Himself. He had longed for it – that is what the\nphrase means; longed for the moment when He would give us the Body that Mary\nhad given to Him in Communion. He waited thirty-three years in time for the Last\nSupper; two thousand years for me… \nHe gave Himself through His body from the beginning to the end in tears\, in\nsweat\, in weariness; with spoken words\, with glances of love; walking the dusty\nroads\, visiting the homes of His friends and His enemies; in the gift of His blood.\nThe part that the pain and privation of His body played in our redemption we\nknow and meditate often: the poverty\, the toil\, the fasting\, the crucifixion. We\nthink less often of the joy that should be ours through Christ’s body… No one ever\nenjoyed life as he did. He gathered up the color\, sound\, touch\, meaning of\neverything about him and united it all to the exquisite sensitiveness\, the most pure\ncapacity for delight. \nMost people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love\, how not\nonly does everything in heaven and earth become new\, but the lover himself\nbecomes new. It is literally like the sap rising in the tree\, putting forth new green\nshoots of life. The capacity for joy is doubled\, the awareness of beauty sharpened\,\nthe power to do and enjoy creative work increased immeasurably. The heart is\nenlarged\, there is more sympathy\, more warmth\, in it than ever before. The lover’s\nmind is vibrant with his new life\, every sense quickened; and while his blood races\,\nan immense power of tenderness makes him so much the ruler and master of all\nthis passion of joy\, that he is able to bestow it on another with such restraint\, such\ngentleness\, that however frail she is\, she can receive it… \nChrist on earth was a human being in love. His love gave life to all loves. He\nwas love itself. He infused his life with all the grace of its outward and inward\njoyfulness\, with all its poetry and song\, with all its gaiety and laughter and grace.\nWith His body He united Himself to the world… It is not in making our flesh\nunfeeling that we hallow God’s name on earth but in offering it to God burning\nwith the flame of life. Everything can be put into the fire that Christ came to kindle;\nand whether it be the bitter wood of sorrow or the substance of joy\, it will burn\nupwards with the same splendor of light. \n5 The Reed of God\, NY 1944\, 84-87\, 90.
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