“The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the Church into the dimension of the Kingdom. We use the word 'dimension' because it seems the best way to indicate the manner of our sacramental entrance into the risen life of Christ. Color transparencies 'come alive' when viewed in three dimensions instead of two. The presence of the added dimension allows us to see much better the actual reality of what has been photographed. In very much the same way, though of course any analogy is condemned to fail, our entrance into the presence of Christ is an entrance into a fourth dimension which allows us to see the ultimate reality of life. It is not an escape from the world, rather it is the arrival at a vantage point from which we can see more deeply into the reality of the world.” RealityTruthCommunionKingdom Of GodEucharistSacrament Book:For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy Source: For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
“The Purpose of the Eucharist lies not in the change of the bread and wine, but in the partaking of Christ, who has become our food, our life, the manifestation of the Church as the body of Christ. This is why the gifts themselves never became in the Orthodox East an object of special reverence, contemplation, and adoration, and likewise an object of special theological 'problematics': how, when, in what manner their change is accomplished.” JesusWorshipCommunionSacramentsEucharistEucharistic AdorationLord S Supper Book:The Eucharist: Sacrament of the Kingdom Source: The Eucharist: Sacrament of the Kingdom
“For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is dead, it is life that has died and it must be kept in refrigerators like a corpse.” ThinkingWorldDyingSourceEatingDiedCommunionCorpsesRefrigeratorsSource Of Life Book:For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy Source: For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
