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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:From the treatise “On Prayer” by \nORIGEN \n◊◊◊ \n[Jesus] says\, “My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the \nbread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world”. \nThe true bread is He who nourishes the true Man\, made in the image of God; \nand the one who has been nourished by it will come to be in the likeness of Him \nwho Created him. And what is more nourishing to the soul than the Word\, or \nwhat is more honorable than the Wisdom of God to the mind that holds it? What \nmore rightly corresponds to a rational nature than truth? \nBut if someone objects to this and says that He would not have taught us \nto ask for “daily bread” if He meant something else\, let him hear that even in the \nGospel according to John sometimes He speaks about it as though it were \nsomething other than Himself\, and sometimes as though He were Himself \n“bread.” An example of the first is\, “Moses gave you bread from heaven\, not the \ntrue bread\, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven”. An example \nof referring it to Himself is what he says to those who said to him\, “Give us this \nbread always”: “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger\, \nand he who believes in me shall never thirst”. \nNow all food is called “bread” in Scripture\, as is clear from what is written \nabout Moses\, “For forty days I neither ate bread nor drank water”. How \nmanifold and varying\, then\, is the nourishing Word\, since not everyone can be \nnourished by the solid and vigorous food of divine teachings. That is why\, when \nHe wishes to offer food for an athlete\, suitable for the more perfect\, He says\, \n“The bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh”\, and a little \nfurther on\, “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood\, you \nhave no life in you..”. This is the “True food”\, the “flesh” of Christ… \nJust as the corporeal bread distributed to the body of the person to be \nnourished goes into his being\, so also “the living bread which came down from \nheaven” and is distributed to the mind and the soul gives a share in its own \npower to the person who provides himself food from it. And thus the bread we \nask will be “daily” in the sense that it will be “for our being.” \nMoreover\, just as the person nourished becomes empowered in differing \nways according to the quality of the food…so also it follows that the Word of God \nis given either as milk suitable for children or as vegetables fit for the sick or as \nmeat special for those taking part in the contests. And the different ones\, each \nnourished in proportion to how he places himself in the power of the Word\, are \nable to do different things and become different kinds of people. \nTherefore\, “daily bread\,” that is\, “bread for being\,” is what corresponds \nmost closely with a rational nature and is akin to Being itself. It procures at one \ntime health\, vigor\, and strength to the soul; and since the Word of God is \nimmortal\, it shares its own immortality with the one who eats it.
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