The broken Bread as food for new life.
As we go to Church -to the Holy Mass - at one moment the Priest shows us the host and he goes on to break the bread and then he says: "look at the broken bread (we have decided) it's the Body of Christ, given into our hands". Our conviction and the "frame of act" leads us to see "the broken bread" as the "Body of Christ" (named Sacrament).
The "Body of Christ" is offered to all of us and some are willing to receive the "Body of Christ" into their hand. The "Body of Christ" is also well known as "the Bread for the Life of the World" (but only if "given into our hands").
There is an offer and there is a reception and it is supposed, what is offered is received (the identity of what is given and what is received / the giver and the receptionist have the same view or the event, of the object at hand).
But for today (Corpus Christi -Day) it's animating (and somehow important) to meditate
what is at stake (but this meditation is not easy).
The Body (we speak about) is broken (like the bread). Sure it is broken in order to share it - but in every case: a broken body is dead. We have in mind and we speak about the dead-broken Body of Jesus Christ. We take it for granted: His atomic, mental, social and spiritual Ego has disappeared, has given up to keep together all his events as part of an own personality. The soul (as the total summary of all personal events) is un-bodied (has lost
the embodiment). The Person as composed by atoms, by mental sparks, by social relations and by spiritual lightnings has been forced to break, to give up his hold-together-work on the level of his human epiphany - it remains a broken body (you are dust and ...).
As we look back at the broken-dead body, we realise: past is his temporal Ego-life (He was once the man Jesus of Nazareth, called the Prophet; the one, who's life-story we know as written down by the 4 Gospels). But as his future (in the view of today as we look at the dead-broken body) we see a history of his effectiveness (Christianity since the Apostle Paul until today). The temporal Body-Life of once in time, but now broken-dead, is seen as a source of new Events. How is this possible ?
The OFFER:
Every temporal human Ego-Body-Life is an offer. If the body is broken, the keep-together Ego has disappeared; the effectiveness of the once known Ego is reduced, in danger, because the clarifying epiphany (the deeds) is no more. JvN and today the Priest are eager tho tell us: take and eat, take and drink. They understand the Body (with all his events stored in it) as a seed, as food... on the way into the fullness of Life for all.
The RECEPTION:
The offer in order to get into effectiveness depends on an receptionist. He may accept the narrated story of the late Ego. He may compose a new picture of all the given memories. This is deference, reverence.
But in the Church - for the Church and for her message to be clearly effective into the future - this is not enough. The Receptionist is asked to do more!
a) He'She has to take the Body and all what is stored in it (symbolised in the broken Bread)
in his/her hand and to give him a resurrection - it means - a new temporal Ego-Body, a new bodily epiphany of all he was representing once, an embodiment. The implication is to give him (to the late Ego) the own body as a possibility of a new bodily existence for him (you in me and I in you! Identity exchange).
b) As she/he takes the broken body in her/his hand, she/he takes up the constructive responsibility of all his events (words and deeds) he has once performed.
c) The receptionist is not alone. Together with all who receive the "Body of Christ", all the receptionists are called to form a special corporation, to unite into a social Body.
The RESULT:
What once has disappeared (JvN) may be rescued by an "alter Ego", who accepts the famous offer and gives as a receptionist to the late Ego new time and space, now bodily power, an embodiment to go on with his message at once and let come up all what once has happened in his life.
The receptionist is the Artist, who gives the once-Person an effective new epiphany of
the once declared intention. This Art-Work is an ongoing redemption-process. This is why the receiver says: AMEN to the broken body (accepting his deaf) in order to give him a new bodily epiphany, embodiment.
In this Church-Event we recognise the power of the Holy Spirit to change a normal event
(a person) into a spiritual Reality-Event - into the resurrection of Jesus Christ - until today the "Bread for the Life of the World".
