Daily Meditation: Thursday, April 12, 2001

Christian Communion recalls the last supper Jesus took with …

04/12/2001

Christian Communion recalls the last supper Jesus took with his disciples when he gave them bread and wine saying, 'This is my body... This is my blood.' Bread and wine are the symbols of the two cosmic principles: masculine and feminine. That is why the Catholic Church makes a mistake when it gives communion to the faithful under the species of bread alone, the masculine principle, and neglects the feminine principle, wine. You will say that it is not very important since Communion is a symbolic act; the host the priest puts in the ciborium can very well represent both the body and blood of Christ. Well, no, on the contrary; we have to consider all aspects of a symbolic act in order to penetrate its precise sense. The important thing is not for the believers to swallow a host or a piece of bread and take a sip of wine. On the practical level, this will change nothing. It is the symbol that is important and that must be understood. If its representation mutilates the symbol, then our understanding of it will also be mutilated.