Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Consummation; Being

Thus a certain consummation was reached and a meeting of extremes. And just as physical love is the centre of our life as men and women, so the Holy Mass is the centre of our life as Christians.... The Mass and the Eucharist are not only the centre of Christian worship, they are also the very centre of Christian merrymaking.... as Calvary was the necessary consummation of Christ's life, so the Eucharist is the necessary consummation of our life in Him.

Eric Gill, Autobiography

For ultimately (and what is 'ultimately' but 'firstly'? For ultimately doesn't mean last in time but that which remains after all extraneous and irrelevant matters have been eliminated) ... a good house is simply a house; a bad house hardly a house at all. And the less a thing is good the less it is anything. The more you deprive a thing of what is proper to it, the more you deprive it of being.

Eric Gill, Autobiography

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