Different views not always the same picture.

Blessings be upon us all.

EUCHARIST

Thou art thyself both he who offers and he who is offered, he who receives and he who is distributed.

                                                                 LITURGY OF ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

Welcome my brothers and sisters. I do hope that you had a good weekend. I took my sons last night to one of our priests house, for their last confirmation lesson. So their are going to be - God willing - confirmed into the Christian Church.

Below is some art I painted over this weekend. Or was it Friday. No mind.

Good day to you where ever you are, from me here in England on a bright sunny Monday morning.

Christ is present and active, in various ways, in the entire Eucharistic celebration. It is the same Lord who through the proclaimed word invites his people to his table, who through his minister presides at that table, and who gives himself sacramentally in the Body and Blood of his paschal sacrifice. It is the Lord present at the right hand of the Father, and therefore transcending the sacramental order, who thus offers to his Church, in the eucharistic signs, the special gift of himself.
  The sacramental Body and Blood of the Saviour are present as and offering to the believer awaiting his welcome. When this offering is met b faith, a lifegiving encounter results. Through faith Christ`s presence - which does not depend on the individual`s faith in order to be the Lord`s real gift of himself to his Church - becomes no longer just a presence for the believer, but also a presence with him. Thus, in considering the mystery of the eucharistic presence, we must recognize both the sacramental sign of Christ`s presence and the personal relationship between Christ and the faithful which arises from that presence.

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    The Lamb of God is broken and distributed,
    Which being broken yet is not divided,
    Being ever eaten never is consumed,
    But sanctifies those that partake.
                       LITURGY OF ST JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

It is a sunny day here in the south of England. Wherever you are my brothers and sisters, I wish you well and for the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit to be with us now and always.

Your brother in christ and of Buddha and all the saints, Peter.