Long before you, mother, or I was born, the death of Christ was celebrated in the Eucharist. And it will be celebrated long after we have died. During our few years of conscious participation in the Eucharist, our lives and deaths become part of this ongoing proclamation of the life and death of Christ. Therefore I dare to say that every time I celebrate the Eucharist and every time you receive the body and blood of Christ, we remember not only Christ's death but also her death, because it was precisely through the Eucharist that she was so intimately united with him. This
( Henri J.M. Nouwen )
[ A Letter of Consolation ]
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