TRINITY xxi
THIS sacrament is not a special part of our religion,
it is just our religion, sacramentally enacted. It is whatever Christ is,
and Christ is everything to Christian men. In particular, he is the supreme
bond between us. Everyone of you communicating is bound to his neighbour
by this, that the Christ who lives in one, lives in the other. You care
for your fellow Christian as you would care for Christ, and that in you
which does the caring is also Christ. Christ in each cares for Christ in
all when we communicate together. The same bond unites us with the saints
in paradise, who make up by far the greater part of Christ’s people, and
with our departed friends who may not yet be in paradise, but for whom
we care, and for whom we pray.
