In light of the post on commun(ion/al) yesterday, I thought that this latest essay by Sara Miles in NPR's This I Believe series was amazing. The essay, called "Strangers Bring Us Closer to God" is about the power of the Eucharistic experience to transform her worldview and mode of living in the world. (Interesting when praxis/experience leads and transforms our belief which then transforms our praxis experience....)
A few excerpts:
That first communion knocked me upside-down. Faith turned out not to be abstract at all, but material and physical. I’d thought Christianity meant angels and trinities and being good. Instead, I discovered a religion rooted in the most ordinary yet subversive practice: a dinner table where everyone is welcome, where the despised and outcasts are honored.
But I learned that hunger can lead to more life—that by sharing real food I’d find communion with the most unlikely people; that by eating a piece of bread I’d experience myself as part of one body. This I believe: that by opening ourselves to strangers, we will taste God.
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