Daily Meditation: Becoming the Living Christ

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Tuesday July 17, 2012    Becoming the Living Christ   Whenever we come together around the table, take bread, bless it, break it, and give it to one another saying:  "The Body of Christ," we know that Jesus is among us.  He is among us not as a vague memory of a person who lived long ago but as a real, life-giving presence that transforms us.  By eating the Body of Christ, we become the living Christ and we are enabled to discover our own chosenness and blessedness, acknowledge our brokenness, and trust that all we live we live for others.  Thus we, like Jesus himself, become food for the world.     Comment on this Daily Meditation.   Visit our website for inspiration, resources, news, events, community. Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Photo by V. Dobson.

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