Tell me, if anyone gave you gold dust, would you not with all precaution keep it fast, being on your guard against losing any of it, and suffering loss? How much more cautiously then will you observe that not a crumb falls from you of what is more precious than gold and precious stones. St.Continue reading “What is more precious than gold and precious stones”
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On receiving the Eucharist frequently
If you could see how many daggers, spears, and arrows are aimed at you every moment, you would be glad to come to the sacrament as often as you can. The only reason we go about so securely and heedlessly is that we neither imagine nor believe that we are in the flesh, in theContinue reading “On receiving the Eucharist frequently”
Love (iii)
Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin.But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack From my first entrance in,Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning If I lacked anything. “A guest,” I answered, “worthy to be here”: Love said, “You shall be he.”“I, the unkind, ungrateful? Ah, my dear, IContinue reading “Love (iii)”
St. Justin Martyr on the Eucharist
We call this food Eucharist, and no one else is permitted to partake of it, except one who believes our teaching to be true and who has been washed in the washing which is for the remission of sins and for regeneration and is thereby living as Christ enjoined. For not as common bread norContinue reading “St. Justin Martyr on the Eucharist”
One is the Table
One is the table that is prepared for rich and poor alike. And though a person may be rich, yet to this table the rich can give nothing. And should another be poor, this one shall have no less honor because of poverty in regard to the things which here belong to all. For thisContinue reading “One is the Table”
I nourish myself with a life sacrificed for me.
When I nourish myself, I am always eating a being which I have killed or which I have at least prevented from living. I eat an animal which has been killed for me, my life being preferred to its life. I eat something which would have engendered life or sustained the life of another livingContinue reading “I nourish myself with a life sacrificed for me.”
Locus Communis 