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things I need more of in my life:
- priestly activities (ritual, mainly). I'm dying without a weekly celebration of the Eucharist tbh?
but, on the same token I want to develop some liturgical materials that are drawn to closer animist tendencies...
what if "this" in "this is my body" refers to Every Thing? The bread, the baker, the grain, the water, the roots, the soil, the microbiome, the atmosphere, the Sun... It's all the body of Christ
I'm having an easier time unpacking my own tradition by looking at it from an outside perspective.
the Eucharist is of the nature of puja, in that it is a sacrifice of thanksgiving with elements offered to a divine presence, but it's more like, the consecration of the bread and wine instantiate the living presence of our teacher and his shakti within the ritual container (i.e., prana pratistha)
in consenting to receive this Presence by eating it, our living intimacy with Every Thing is renewed