#communion

The deepest of level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless ... beyond speech ... beyond concept. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#integration #unity #communication

[According to 1348 theorists, poisoning of Christian water by Jews was the cause of Black Death.] Even the poison used to contaminate the Christian water supply was described in meticulous detail. It was "about the size of an egg," except when it was the "size of a nut" or a "large nut," "a fist" or "two fists"- and it came packaged in "a leather pouch," except when it was packaged in "linen cloth," "a rag," or a "paper coronet"; and the poison was variously made from lizards, frogs, and spiders- when it was not made from the hearts of Christians and from Holy Communion wafers. ↗

— John Kelly

#plague #theory #death

No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray, temptation can never master us. The first step downward in the average soul is the giving up of the practice of prayer, the breaking of the circuit with divinity, and the proclamation of one’s owns self sufficiency. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#faith #god #independence #prayer #self-sufficiency

Faith is not knowledge of an object but communion with it. ↗

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

#faith #faith

The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the Church into the dimension of the Kingdom. We use the word 'dimension' because it seems the best way to indicate the manner of our sacramental entrance into the risen life of Christ. Color transparencies 'come alive' when viewed in three dimensions instead of two. The presence of the added dimension allows us to see much better the actual reality of what has been photographed. In very much the same way, though of course any analogy is condemned to fail, our entrance into the presence of Christ is an entrance into a fourth dimension which allows us to see the ultimate reality of life. It is not an escape from the world, rather it is the arrival at a vantage point from which we can see more deeply into the reality of the world. ↗

— Alexander Schmemann

#eucharist #kingdom-of-god #reality #sacrament #truth

Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#communion #just #marriage #out #remembering

Wisdom is a sacred communion. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#communion #sacred

Men who hold a theory of the Church which excludes from communion those whom they admit to have the Spirit of Christ simply proclaim that their theory is in flat contradiction to the spiritual fact. ↗

— Roland Allen

#christ #church #communion #contradiction #excludes

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer. ↗

— William Ames

#arises #bears #between #communion #double

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#communion #effect #ideas #images #minds