{"id":411,"date":"2011-06-23T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T18:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=411"},"modified":"2011-06-23T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T18:05:00","slug":"the-act-not-the-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=411","title":{"rendered":"The act, not the object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t let Corpus Christi go by without my <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/corpus-christi-greatest-theological.html\">annual rant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We worship a God who is known in relationship, who is within himself, relational.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t the principal form of worship of said God therefore, surely, be relational too?<\/p>\n<p>That is &#8211; we meet God, we come into the real presence of Jesus Christ, through the re-enactment of certain sorts of behaviour, within which reconciliation and adoration are combined?<\/p>\n<p>So as we are welcomed to share in the bread and wine, so we are welcomed to the taste of heaven?<\/p>\n<p>So Jesus is met in the action of a shared meal &#8211; not in the object of a piece of bread.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus is not a commodity.<\/p>\n<p>Jesus is not produced at our command.<\/p>\n<p>That is the spirituality of western consumerism.<\/p>\n<p>That is the spirituality that has ravaged the world and despises the poor.<\/p>\n<p>That is the symbol of all that has gone wrong in our faith.<\/p>\n<p>Grrrr&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t let Corpus Christi go by without my annual rant. We worship a God who is known in relationship, who is within himself, relational. Wouldn&#8217;t the principal form of worship of said God therefore, surely, be relational too? That &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=411\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[57,30,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eucharist","category-spirituality","category-theology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-6D","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}