COMMUNAL PRAYER
DAVID EUCARISTÍA | PEXELS
The Eucharist
The Eucharist: the highest form of Communal Prayer By Father Emilio Jimenez
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ouching is a deeply intimate act. Physically touching someone implies a certain objective: “I want to get closer to you.” Touching transmits a kind of warmth from one person to another. The touch of one person to another suggests a certain level of trust and confidence in the other. It also implies a vulnerability in those who are touching. What does a person achieve with a tight hug? Why such exaggeration? It seems to be a primordial act of trying to become one person with the other. Would it
not be sufficient to say to a person while standing at a distance, “I love you?” That is not enough. It is as if persons who are embracing each other are trying to take the person physically into themselves but the fact that they are corporeal makes this union impossible. Is not every expression of intimacy and love between a husband and wife an attempt to achieve the most perfect communion possible? Otherwise, all those “strange” behaviors would be nonsensical. The love between spouses utilizes many and varied expressions of communion. Communion is the
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