Catholic Respiration

Catholic Respiration

The Eucharist is Catholic breathing and breath:
   both noun and verb.

Inhale -- God enters.
Exhale -- Help me decrease
Inhale -- that You may increase.

Voluntary but required
   Unconscious but needed
Difficult but always present

We receive to act.
   We breathe to move.
As oxygen runs through our veins and replenishes us
   So too does the Eucharist.

Stop breathing and die.
   Stop Eucharisting and wither.

Life blood, life force, life giving, Life Giver, life after death, death into
   LIFE.

Foretaste but wonder; mystery but reality; universal but here.

Openness and more openness.
Vulnerability into transparency.

Let it be You who lives in me.

I need you Lord, like my brain and body needs
   Oxygen.

Eucharist is Oxygen.

-- Written before the Eucharist
-- Monday, June 29, 2009