tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20318294.post4686113300013929874..comments2023-10-28T06:49:17.434+00:00Comments on O cuniculi! Ubi lexicon Latinum posui?: Passive Professors and Holy ConvivialityWarwickensishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01310450226153796760noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20318294.post-27575097228608565302010-06-08T14:54:11.719+00:002010-06-08T14:54:11.719+00:00Of late, from an always very good blog, this has b...Of late, from an always very good blog, this has become a very special one, each post leading deeper than the one before into things that are nearly (or even absolutely) impossible to speak. This post surely comes to such a place, and, yet more strikingly, leads one (certainly me) to meditate on this very inexpressibility.<br /><br />In the Eucharist, we are transported to a realm where our perception of time or tense, of activity or passivity, even of "is" and "is not" become irrelevant. We see bread, we see wine, but we encounter a living presence of what was once, though briefly, the most shaking demonstration of death that ever was; and we are in the present, and so is He in His presence, but the present is not in this moment distinguishable from the past in which He died, or from the eternal future in which He shall ever reign.<br /><br />We receive what we cannot obtain save by the sovereign will and gift of God, and yet, though passive, we receive by active taking, and, though our own strength cannot obtain, yet if we do not take, if we are not active in our passivity, we do not receive.<br /><br />Herein we touch Mystery at which human language and thought can only point, but never can comprehend. Thank you for stirring me to think in this diection.<br /><br />edpoetreaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11613032927883843078noreply@blogger.com