Blamires on the Sacramental View of Life

The Christian Faith presents a sacramental view of life. It shows life's positive richness as derivative from the supernatural. It teaches us that to create beauty or to experience beauty, to recognize truth or to discover truth, to receive love or to give love, is to come into contact with realities which express the Divine Nature. At a time when Christianity is so widely misrepresented as life-rejecting rather than life-affirming, it is urgently necessary to right the balance.

- Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind

Thomas Howard on Communion

“In the simple act of taking bread, and of blessing, breaking and giving it to His disciples, the Lord gathered up all the mystery of the gospel: that the Word must become flesh, and that this flesh must be broken for the life of the world...At that supper table with His friends, Jesus revealed Himself for what John the Baptist had hailed Him as long before: the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world. Here is My body. Here is My blood. This is the whole Old Testament now brought to its fulfillment. And you, My friends, are invited, not only to be spectators or merely to recall what I am doing. You are invited, at this table, to participate in the mystery.”

Thomas Howard

CS Lewis on Trying to be more spiritual than God

“There is no use trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to be a purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it...”

- C. S. Lewis