Grace can and does have a history.

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.

But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable orthodoxy; heresy in the form of indifference.

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself.