Daily Meditation: Deepening the Passage of Baptism

DAILY MEDITATION

Deepening the Passage of Baptism

October 12

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In and through the celebration of the Eucharist, Jesus' death and resurrection become a reality for us here and now. As we eat and drink from the Body and Blood of Christ, our mortal bodies become united with the risen Christ. Thus our deaths, like Jesus' death, means not destruction but passage to new life.

In this way the Eucharist deepens and strengthens in us the passage that we first made through baptism. The Eucharist is the sacrament that allows us to appropriate fully our baptismal grace.

For further reflection...

"But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all humans." - I Corinthians 15: 12, 19 (NIV)

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Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Scripture chosen by L. Yeskoo.

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