eating beauty

There is an antithesis between the Forbidden Fruit and the Eucharist and it has ascendency and practicality in our daily lives. One way of eating destroys the beauty of the world and the beloved; the other preserves it.

In lust and greed we see beauty and then consume it to our, and its, destruction.

But Christ gives Himself that we might consume Him and then be able to look to Him with unveiled faces. In the light of His Beauty, we know and celebrate the beauty of all things, and together we commune with and glorify the eternally, truly Beautiful.

This has ascendency in our lives because we have to choose one way of eating beauty or the other. There is no third option. To abdicate the choice, or to be ignorant of it, is to choose the Forbidden Fruit.

And there is only beauty in the world to eat. Nothing else. God does not give us less than Himself.

This has practical application in our lives because eating beauty eucharistically ushers in the eschaton. That doesn’t sound very practical, does it? How about this. Eating beauty eucharistically reveals to us that everything is Gift. There is nothing more beautiful than Gift. There is nothing more practical than thanksgiving.