The Eucharist is the abrupt, radical way of putting the axis of God back at the center of our being. Thus, for this sharing, the whole of reality condensed into bread, aligns itself with our Center.
Consciousness places God, the entire universe within us,
In return, through Consciousness, we always become what we are internally.
The Eucharist, sharing the ‘fruit of the Earth’,
Integration takes place,
In Consciousness and represents, completes, each time, each moment, unification.
Together, in solitude, in prayer,
Through bread, through Consciousness, which becomes enlightened,
The Consciousness that enlightens,
By breathing: each time, reach the final point.
Consciousness, after the sanctification of the living.
Blesses every moment,
With breath, it baptizes, again and again,
With love, it floods the one who receives it.
©FJ Dec 2023
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« Eucharist » means thanks – Greek ευχαριστώ. Are you saying this of a thankful heart or of the ritual?
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The ritual.
But I’m considering it with a thankful heart…
Is there another word that would be more appropriate, then ?
(thanks for the instant Monday morning Greek insight…I expected something much more off-putting when I witched on the computer this morning..
(and it gives me something to say to students…)
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Not, necessarily more appropriate. Communion would be the alternative.
Ευχαριστώ is when you thank someone on your own behalf.
Ευχαριστούμε if you are thanking someone on behalf of a number of persons.
Ευχαριστίες means « thanks » as a noun.
Ευχαριστία is the direct equivalent of Eucharist.
I am just constantly surprised when you reference ritual. I am unsure if it suggests a certain « attachment »…
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I’d say it points to a certain fatigue …
That of attachment to non attachment.
Which is a form of a lack of spiritual depths.
Sacraments (rituals) are gateways to sacredness.
Thinking i am ‘beyond’ gateways has started to sound more like proud ignorance and pernicious attachment to self than anything else.
Inner pivoting has allowed such a shift in the approach.
What others perceive and understand has stopped being an issue.
I refuse to be held hostage of other people’s attachments and lack of depth in their understanding of rituals.
In other words…it s not because they get things on a certain level that I need to remain trapped in that same layer.
The true practice of ‘beyond’ may start here.
Unexpected…to say the least.
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My problem is that I do not regard rituals gateways. Just empty formalities that enforce conformity. A form of religious despotism.
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I’m not considering them as being imposed on me by anyone.
If this were the case, I’d agree with you.
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Every gesture can be ritualised.
The lightening of a candle, burning of incense…
Bowing while praying the Jesus prayer…
Still, sacraments they can be regarded as gifts, facilitators…in which case staying away from them is a sanction applied by ourselves to ourselves…
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If we go as far as saying every repetitive action is a ritual, the term becomes lost in a reductio ad absurdam.
I would say a gesture is a ritual only if so intended.
My question is the necessity. If unnecessary, accept the structure they represent?
Mind, one oerson’s necessity may be another’s irrelevance.
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Or, even, « person’s »…
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Necessity: speaking the language of the soul.
Our profound nature resonating in this world.
Rituals as a vortex…a hand finding a hand.
Attention is key. Not everything can be ‘ritualised.’
The calling is always the same, yet always personal.
In th e midst or irrelevance, grace is a necessity.
A vital one.
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