“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
“Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something more than to maintain bodily functions. People may not understand what that 'something more' is, but they nonetheless desire to celebrate it. They are still hungry and thirsty for sacramental life.” PeopleMayStillsDesireCenturyEatingFunctionHungryTreatedCelebrateReverenceSecularismThirstyUtilitarianBodily Functions Author:Alexander Schmemann
