Hidden worlds
Part 3: Take and eat
And this illustration can suffice: to those who don’t know, to talk of a banquet in bread and wine is to obscure the truth – to cast a veil over the reality. Yes, you understand that it is a reference to communion, but the reference means nothing, because the symbols mean nothing, because the reality means nothing. And it is wearying to think of the time and effort that it would take to find meaning in it – so let me be distracted by some new toy or pastime in the material world. But to those who understand, removing the cloth from the bread and wine is like removing the bandages from your eyes after cataract surgery, or like the lead weight being removed from your heart when the fears we dreaded turned out to be unfounded. Such a banquet is food for the soul and we shall never be hungry.
So, there we are: a hidden world, that everyone knows about, but many never visit it because they see no value in it. Yet for those who enter the world of faith, it is life in all its fullness.
Spiritual Devotion 