Jesus said to him: Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with thy whole heart,
and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole
mind. - Matt 22:37
"There is
something to be done on our side. The
wheat must be ground into bread, the wine must be pressed out of the grape,
before we can give our Lord the opportunity to work His miracle of
Transubstantiation.
The offertory first, man stretching out his hands to
God;
then the consecration, God accepting and transforming man's gift.
We must come to meet
Him, come to meet Him
early in the morning, when sleep has smoothed away for us the memories of
yesterday, and no cares have yet assailed us to disturb the equilibrium of our
lives. We must hand over the direction of our lives to Him, if we are to
know what it means to live an ordered life, heart-whole and mind-whole in a
world like ours.
Then we can go to Communion."
From
The Window in the Wall, Reflections
on the Holy Eucharist
by
Ronald Knox (Sheed & Ward: 1956) - pg 51-52.
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