Mind and heart. Flesh and spirit. Seen and unseen. Natural and spiritual. It would seem we are always dealing with dualities in this life of ours. Perhaps that is why Jesus gave himself to us in both bread and wine, his body and blood.
St. Thomas tells us that the spiritual food of communion is given to us to make us divine. A mere mortal is capable of divinity! It's no wonder devotion to the Eucharist has spread throughout the church down through the centuries. What greater calling can we have than divinity? Yet, after years of receiving, why are we still so terribly mortal, fallible, sinful?
Divinization requires purification and a total surrender to Jesus. It is not so hard as it is constant. Once we become habitually conscious of Jesus, we enter into a realm of union with him we never dreamt possible. And that is when heaven begins here on earth.
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