“It would seem impossible, did we not
know it to be true, that God could abide with us always, in littleness
and humility even more extreme than infancy. …Yet this is so. Every day, every hour, Christ is born
on the altar in the hands of the priest.
Christ is lifted up and sacrificed;
Christ is buried in the tomb of the human heart and Christ rises from the tomb
to be the life of the world through His Communion with men. …
This is the Host-life. …In the Host He is our Life on earth today.
… The Host-life is not something new or different from the Christ-life that we
know already. It is the very core of it … the life
which Christ Himself is living in the world now. It is His choice of how to live His
life among us today. … It alone can restore humanity to happiness … one thing
only … supernatural life, beginning secretly in each individual heart; just as
Incarnate Love began secretly on earth in the heart of Mary. It is one thing only, the birth of
the Infant Christ in us, Incarnate
Love. …
Carry Christ everywhere
in your hearts. Make your
souls monstrances, and
go into places where Our Lord has never been adored in the Host, where the
monstrance has never been lifted up.”
Caryll
Houselander
The
Passion of the Infant Christ
(Chapter Ten – The Host
Life)
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