We continue our exploration of Abbot Vonier's highly instructive text, "A Key to the Doctrine of the Eucharist:"
"The Catholic has never found it difficult to see the fitness of Christ's concluding words when He announced the mystery of His Flesh and Blood to be eaten and drunk by man: "The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life." We find in this utterance the very thing that is dear to us: the profound difference between the natural order and the sacramental order. It is the cherished aim of Christian writers to extol the spiritual, the immaterial,character of the Eucharistic sacrament; and all through Christian literature there flows this double current, the one of faith in the reality of the divine Thing that is contained in the sacrament, and the other of delight in its absolute other-worldliness. The sacramental sphere is an unknown world with a well-known inhabitant."
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us.
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