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Påsketiden 2022: Jeg er livets brød (2)

Dearest daughter, contemplate the marvelous state of the soul who receives this bread of life, this food of angels, as she ought. When she receives this sacrament she lives in me and I in her. Just as the fish is in the sea and the sea is in the fish, so am I in the soul and the soul in me, the sea of peace. Grace lives in such a soul because, having received this bread of life in grace, she lives in grace. Read more

Påsketiden 2022: Jeg er livets brød (1)

What you see on God’s altar, you’ve already observed during the night that has now ended. But you’ve heard nothing about just what it might be, or what it might mean, or what great thing it might be said to symbolize. For what you see is simply bread and a cup – this is the information your eyes report. But your faith demands far subtler insight: the bread is Christ’s body, the cup is Christ’s blood. Faith can grasp the fundamentals quickly, succinctly, yet it hungers for a fuller account of the matter. As the prophet says, «Unless you believe, you will not understand.» [Is. 7.9; Septuagint] So you can say to me, «You urged us to believe; now explain, so we can understand.» Read more

Fastetiden 2022: Ikke av brød alene (6)

By «the heart» (Ps 22,15) of Christ one understands sacred Scripture, which manifests the heart of Christ. For this heart was closed before the passion, because Scripture was dark; but [Scripture] is open after the passion, because the disciples now read it with understanding, and see how the prophecies are to be interpreted. 

(St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Psalm 22:15)