[lit-ideas] Re: St. Patrick
- From: carol kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2015 19:01:23 -0700
Someone's been hitting the bourbon. Yes, I have, but another someone who's
imagination is ignited by firewater. Mine mind is happily dulled. but I've
been wearing green all day. Tonight I'm in orange. Equal time for all
gnostics.
ck
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 6:35 PM, Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I trust everyone either wore green or drank green beer in honor and
> appreciation of our own St. Patrick, he who help ensure that the Irish
> would become a "priest-ridden race." Having once been a true and
> devoutly dubious believer of Holy Mother the Church, I am now fascinated by
> the attraction of rituals and beliefs that are NOW for the most part alien
> to our culture -- no, not alien, but extraneous to -- outside the life
> experiences of the believers. I'm talking especially of the belief in a
> magic priesthood capable of such miracles as changing a piece of bread into
> the "essence" of God, of course, this is believed despite the fact that the
> bread still retained the accidents of bread and still tasted like
> (unleavened) bread even though it was now the real true essence of God's
> body and thus of God himself -- the host was now the real, true body of
> God. And the same priest could and would turn wine into the essence of God
> -- (it would become the real, true blood of Christ -- of God. The essence
> of bread turned into the essence of Christ's flesh, and the wine turned
> into essence of Christ's blood -- BUT each was God in his totality. One
> didn't need to receive both species to participate in the sacrament of Holy
> Communion. They were each individually the essence of God and also together
> they were the whole essence of God. I don't know how many essences of God
> there can be at any one time, but there you are. What happened to the
> essence of What puzzled my adolescent philosophical mind was: "What is
> the essence of God?" Isn't he the essence of essence? The one essence
> that incorporates all essences. Isn't it all just God? Isn't that just
> all that God is -- essence itself or, isn't God the"isself". St. Patrick
> chased the snakes out of Ireland so that it would be safe for God to just
> walk along and sing a song side my side with us all.
>
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