All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion.
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Why did Our Blessed Lord use bread and wine as the elements of this Memorial? First of all, because no two substances in nature better symbolize unity than bread and wine. As bread is made from a multiplicity of grains of wheat, and wine is made from a multiplicity of grapes, so the many who believe are one in Christ. Second, no two substances in nature have to suffer more to become what they are than bread and wine. Wheat has to pass through the rigors of winter, be ground beneath the Calvary of a mill, and then subjected to purging fire before it can become bread. Grapes in their turn must be subjected to the Gethsemane of a wine press and have their life crushed from them to become wine. Thus, do they symbolize the Passion and Sufferings of Christ, and the condition of Salvation, for Our Lord said unless we die to ourselves we cannot live in Him. A third reason is that there are no two substances in nature which have more traditionally nourished man than bread and wine. In bringing these elements to the altar, men are equivalently bringing themselves. When bread and wine are taken or consumed, they are changed into man's body and blood. But when He took bread and wine, He changed them into Himself.
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The density of your destiny is the product of the mass of your visions and the volume your impacts occupy!
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The mass of your visions depends on the size of your dreams and distance they can cover within a given period of your life.
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For Mercier, it was the ceremony of the mass that eased his soul: the sweetish smoke trailing from the censer, the ringing of the bell, the Latin incantations of the priest. In Warsaw, he attended early mass, at a small church near the apartment, once or twice a month, confessing to his vocational sins – duplicity, for example – in the oblique forms provided by Catholic protocol. He’d grown up an untroubled believer, but the war had put an end to that. What God could permit such misery and slaughter? But, in time, he had found consolation in a God beyond understanding and prayed for those he’d lost, for those he loved, and for an end to evil in the world.” ― Alan Furst, The Spies of Warsaw
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Your dreams are like the cement. If you water it with actions, it becomes a hard concrete mass. But if you leave it exposed and unwatered, the air will easily blow it away!
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La massa aizzata si forma in vista di una meta velocemente raggiungibile. La meta le è nota, precisamente designata e vicina. Essa persegue il suo scopo, è impossibile distoglierla. Propone di uccidere e sa chi ucciderà. Con determinazione senza confronto essa persegue il suo scopo, basta far sapere chi dovrebbe perire perché una massa si formi. La sua concentrazione sull'uccidere è del tutto particolare: nessun'altra la supera in intensità. Ognuno vuol parteciparvi, ognuno colpisce. Per poter vibrare il proprio colpo, ciascuno si fa dappresso alla vittima. Se non può colpire, vuole almeno vedere gli altri che colpiscono. Sembra che tutte le braccia siano una sola creatura. Ma le braccia che colpiscono hanno maggior valore e peso. […] Un'importante ragione della rapida crescita della massa aizzata è l'assenza di pericolo nell'impresa. Non c'è pericolo perché la superiorità della massa è schiacciante. La vittima non può nuocere. Fugge o è legata. Non può colpire; inerme, è soltanto una vittima. È stata messa a disposizione per essere soppressa. Per la sua morte nessuno deve temere sanzioni. L'omicidio autorizzato compensa di tutti gli omicidi cui si deve rinunciare, di tutti quelli che farebbero temere pesanti punizioni.
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