The Wedding Feast of the Lamb: Eros, the Body, and the Eucharist
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§33. The Assumption of the Flesh [“encharnement”]Close §33. The Assumption of the Flesh [“encharnement”]Close
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§34. The Viaticum §34. The Viaticum
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§35. The Rapture of the Wedding Feast §35. The Rapture of the Wedding Feast
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§36. Abiding [“manence”] §36. Abiding [“manence”]
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Abstract
This chapter argues that mystic body of the Church should not be opposed to the true body of the eucharistic sacrament; it is its manifestation as well as its perfect expression. The unreserved bodily plunge offered on the day of the Last Supper (“Take; this is my body” [Mark 14:22]), and later shared by the disciples at Emmaus after the Son has disappeared into invisibility (“Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from their sight” [Luke 24:31]), is present all the more in that it is a letting go and very far from the kind of consciousness that it is a gift, which might destroy its donation. He plunges in bodily [literally, in French, “the body lost”], just as one forgets oneself and lives as another when there is a task ahead or the body is to be constructed. This is exemplified in the narrative of the washing of the disciples' feet, which is placed there to establish the community through the eucharist.
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