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Continuous Communion
by Ed Hays on Nov. 25, 2009
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Printer-friendly versionSend to friendPDF versionLife is perpetual communion. First, you are constantly in communion with your feelings, thoughts, and yourself. Further, you are endlessly in communion with others in conscious and unconscious ways. You are also in living communion with the created world in which you are immersed, even if you, like most of us, view creation simply as stage scenery for our little human dramas.
Finally, you are in unrelenting communion, even if you are unaware of it, with God and the Spirit of God. Life is constant Holy Communion because the world was created to be cosmic Communion between God and every creature and entity in the world. This communion flows from life as a seamless unity of every person, creature, plant, animal and star. Holy Communion is more than simply another religious ritual; it is the model for and the definition of all life. So ask yourself, “Am I self-excommunicated?”
Mend my malfunctioning mind,
addicted to isolated alienation viewed
as different, separate from others,
so I can live in Holy Communion.
From A Book of Wonders by Ed Hays
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Prayer action suggestion:
Do something to mend the broken Communion around us: feed the poor, listen to the sorrowing, bring peace where there is war.
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I would most certainly enjoy receiving Fr. Hays' reflection. I have read numerous books he wrote.
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I have joined several online
I have joined several online groups mostly in some form of art. I get to talk to people from around the world - India, Australia, Europe and Canada. It makes one feel like the world is close and people are close. With the emphasis on going green we are starting to think how we interact with nature here and around the world. I think these things are helping us learn to commune with all as more valid, more necessary to us than ever before. Technology and science are leading us to Holy Communion. God gives us brains to discover what has been right in front of us all along. Thanks for your meditation. Your columns here really make me think.
Fr. Hays, That is a wonderful
Fr. Hays,
That is a wonderful meditation, thank you!
Indeed, the Mass of the
Indeed, the Mass of the Universe is everywhere and always being celebrated in the Eucharistic commission of all life to serve other life. It's for us to wake up to the communion of nature in the instance of divine presence.
The "Naturalis Sacramentum Ordinis" is life's universal celebration of transformation into the conscious presence of the divine. Representational eucharist has been so institutionally crafted and alienated from the natural that humankind has lost its sense of divine presence and implication in Universal Eucharist.
Intentional Symbiosis is the reflective human response to Eucharistic implication—what is nature's pattern and God's plan. www.evolution101.org
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