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September 17, 2007
Eat This
A correspondent just sent me a meditation which began from with a quotation from John of Fame, a Benedictine hermit, which I must share here:
Study then, mortal, to know Christ: to learn your Saviour. His body hanging on the cross, is a book, opened before your eyes. The words of this book are Christ's actions. as well as his suffering and passion, for everything that he did serves for our instruction. His wounds are the letters or characters, the firve chief wounds being the five vowels and the others the consonants of your book. . . .
So eat this book which in your mouth and understanding shall be sweet, but which will make your belly bitter, that is to say your memory, because he that increases knowledge increases sorrow too.
I’ll be quoting this in some article or presentation, I’m sure.
Posted by AKMA at September 17, 2007 10:58 AM | Threadorati
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