Emphasis Preaching Journal
Walter J. Burghardt, S.J. commenting...
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Walter J. Burghardt, S.J. commenting on the eucharist wrote in Sir, We Would Like To See Jesus, "The early Christian writers, the so-called Fathers of the Church, had a remarkable insight. They saw in the eucharist the consummation, completion, of the incarnation. What the physical body of Christ began in Bethlehem, the sacramental body of Christ completes at the altar: the oneness of men and women with God and with one another in the humanity of Christ.