As the body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ. For in one spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.(1Corinthians 12:12-13 New American Bible translation)
We’ve all heard this one before, right? We’ve read it, we’ve heard homilies and sermons on what it means and how it applies to our lives. However, we will never truly be able to understand it ourselves until we understand that there exists a spiritual realm, that “we are spiritual beings having a human experience” as Pierre Tielhard de Chardin said. I believe that a lack of understanding of this spiritual realm is the reason it is so difficult for Catholics and non-Catholics alike to understand what we mean by the True Presence of Christ, but I’ll leave that for another day. Continue reading
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