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The Last Supper
The Word:
During
the meal, Jesus took and blessed the bread, broke it and gave it
to his disciples: "Take, eat. This is my body."
Taking the cup and thanking God he gave it to them:
'Drink this, all of you. This is my blood,
God's new covenant poured out for many people for the forgiveness
of sins. I'll not be drinking wine from this cup again until that
new day when I'll drink with you in the kingdom of my Father."
Mat 26:-29
Behold, each day he humbles
himself as when he came from the royal throne into the Virgin's
womb; each day he himself comes to us, appearing humbly; each day
he comes down from the bosom of the Father, upon the altar, in the
hands of a priest.
As he revealed himself to the holy apostles in true flesh, so he
reveals himself to us now in sacred bread. And as they saw only
his flesh by an insight of their flesh, yet believed that He was
God as they contemplated him with their spiritual eyes, let us,
as we see bread and wine with our bodily eyes, see and firmly believe
that they are his most holy body and blood, living and true. And
in this way the Lord is always with his faithful, as he himself
says: Behold I am with you until the end of the age.
Admonitions
1.
Place your mind before
the mirror of eternity!
Place your soul in the brilliance of glory!
Place your heart in the figure of the divine substance!
and transform your entire being into the image
of the Godhead itself through contemplation.
So that you too may feel
what his friends feel
as they taste the hidden sweetness
that God himself has reserved from the beginning
for those who love him.
Letter III to Saint Agnes of Prague.
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Scripture
quotations from the New Testament taken from THE
MESSAGE. Copyright © by Eugene Peterson 1993, 1994,
1995. Used with the very kind permission of the NayPress
Publishing Group.
- Quotations
from St Clare mainly from Regis Armstrong OFM Cap Clare,
the Early Documents.
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Quotations
from St Francis mainly from Regis Armstrong OFM Cap
Francis, the Early Documents I
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The Illustrations
of the Way of the Passion are icons from our public
chapel, designed and painted at Ty Main Duw
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