Mystery of Truth and E=mc2: More on the Eucharist-Energy (energeia) Relationship

J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R.*

I keep seeking internet sites that bridge
the gap by exploring the universal (catholic)
approach to all that is true.

Eucharist...Absolute Truth about Jesus Christ
and His Mystical Body as lived in the Liturgy
of Holy (supernatural) Mass.

Energy (energeia)...Absolute truth about
physical action of the (natural) world.

Here are a few recent online finds:

(1) The Father as the Source of the Whole Trinity: The Procession of the Holy Spirit in Greek and Latin Traditions

by Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

(From the meeting in Munich, July 6, 1982)

The original character of the person of the Spirit as eternal Gift of the Father's love for his beloved Son shows that the Spirit, while coming from the Son in his mission, is the one who brings human beings into Christ's filial relationship to his Father, for this relationship finds only in him its Trinitarian character: "God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying Abba!Father!" (Gal 4:6). In the mystery of salvation and in the life of the church, the Spirit, therefore, does much more than prolong the work of the Son. In fact, whatever Christ has instituted — Revelation, the church, the sacraments, the apostolic ministry, and its magisterium — calls for constant invocation (epiclesis) of the Holy Spirit and his action (energeia), so that the love that "never ends" (1 Cor 13:8) may be made manifest in the communion of the saints with the life of the Trinity. - See more at: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1cjg_r5FkIEJ:www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm%3Fid%3D1176+&cd=42&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us#sthash.jPX9Jij4.dpuf

The original character of the person of the Spirit as eternal Gift of the Father's love for his beloved Son shows that the Spirit, while coming from the Son in his mission, is the one who brings human beings into Christ's filial relationship to his Father, for this relationship finds only in him its Trinitarian character: "God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying Abba!Father!" (Gal 4:6). In the mystery of salvation and in the life of the church, the Spirit, therefore, does much more than prolong the work of the Son. In fact, whatever Christ has instituted—Revelation, the church, the sacraments, the apostolic ministry, and its magisterium—calls for constant invocation (epiclesis) of the Holy Spirit and his action (energeia), so that the love that "never ends" (1 Cor 13:8) may be made manifest in the communion of the saints with the life of the Trinity.

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...Jesus Christ instituted the Sacrament of His Precious Body and Blood, the Fifth Mystery of Light, the Holy Eucharist at The Last Supper and it calls for constant Divine Action of the Holy Spirit (energeia) so that eternal life and love are made manifest in Holy Communion both in the Mass of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Heaven and here on earth.

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(2) The Eucharist in the West:
History and Theology

by Edward J. Kilmartin

In brief, [Saint] Cyril of Alexandria judged that the Antiochene description of the conjunction between the humanity and divinity of Christ did not suffice to account for the efficacy of the Eucharist. According to this Alexandrian theologian, the flesh of Christ is so united to the Logos that it is endowed with the energeia of the divinity and, therefore, by participation on the sacrament, the believer receives the life-giving power of the divinity.

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...since it is the Spirit that gives life, we have to again conclude that there is constant Divine Action (energeia) bringing forth the real presence in Holy Mass.

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(3) Two Divergent Triadologies?
Anatomizing Divinity

by James L. Kelley

This spiritual heart is man’s unique organ of communion with the uncreated energies of God. These energein of God are not a part of God, nor are they an intermediary between man and God. Neither are God’s energies anything other than the very Life, Light, and Love of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. These energies are God’s going out of Himself toward creation in an act of love (kenosis, self-emptying) to save creation from corruption through communion with His incorrupt life. The recipient of God’s energies does not receive a part of God, because God is not composite, but rather man receives the body of Christ, which is a mystico-noetic—and for that very reason eminently realistic—communication of the life of the Holy Trinity.Nor are the divine energies anhypostatic, but rather are the true resplendence of God, distinguished from the divine essence but not separate from it.

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...it takes an undivided heart to see the Truth of what is in essence, an undivided Church. The Holy Eucharist is the source and summit of this communion, the one constant that effects true conversion through, with and in Jesus Christ. We need this insight about God's energeia from our Orthodox brothers to complete the picture—to breathe with both lungs.

Is it any wonder
that Albert Einstein

called celeritas squared

c² the conversion constant?

Sincerely yours in Jesus through Mary,
Mike Rizzio

Imitate Mary
Become like Jesus
Live for the Triune God

Seek the Light of Our Lord Jesus Christ
See you on the High Ground!

* - J.M.J. + O.B.T. + M.G.R. stands for:
Jesus, Mary and Joseph;
O Beata Trinitas;
St. Michael, St. Gabriel and St. Raphael