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Flesh. The word must become flesh; the soul thirsts. On whatever crumb my eye fastens,
Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.
the shewbread to tell of Jesus, the Bread of Life, and the altar of
Prayer is the main dish. Everything else is gravy.
Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear.
Popery Teaches the Adoration of a Breaden God.
communion with God in the middle of bags of flour
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden together, moisten'd and cemented with a little seeth'd fat.
Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.
Lord," he said, "on this holiest of days, we thank you for food and ammunition. May our ships get through and the enemy's get lost." They all said "Amen" and then the orderlies brought in something that the cook had made out of bread crumbs and canned malevolence. Alistair
Fasting and feasting are universal human responses, and any meal, shared with love, can be an agape.
Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.
I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.
I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word. This proved meat indeed and drink indeed to my soul. I daily received fresh life, light and power from above.
Sin on a hot biscuit.
Garlic bread, it's the future, I've tasted it
Unleavened Bread, all
Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.
The main "food" God has given to strengthen us is the Bible, the Word of God.
Christian fasting, at its root, is the hunger of a homesickness for God
It's some chopped liver. That's Jewish soul food.
Joys season'd high, and tasting strong of guilt.
A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.
It's going to be legen ... wait for it ... and I hope you're not lactose-intolerant cause the second half of that word is ... dairy!
I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned ... it might be better to give up television.
The Jews spend at Easter.
I recommend ... bread, meat, vegetables, and beer.
Him.You are good, O God, and You are faithful. Tenderize and soften our Lenten hearts, we pray, lest they grow brittle and break.
Friendship Bread
This, said Mother, as she handed him a piece of dry, tasteless matzoh, is the bread of our affliction. Where, young Kugel wondered, is the seven-layer cake of our salvation? Where is the muffin of our mirth? Where is our no-longer-reduced-to-jelly doughnut?
And this food is called among us the Eucharist, of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins and to regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined.
I believe in red meat. I often said: red meat and gin.
Beans, beans, the magic legumes - the more you ingest, the more you consume.
in a world of groceries and sermons
They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance
Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!
Hell is Whole Foods on a Sunday. It's hordes of moms in lightweight fleeces pushing one another out of the way to get to bins of dry lentils.
That of all the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most these floures white and rede, Suche as men callen daysyes in her toune.
I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.
I believe in red meat. I've often said: red meat and gin.
Manna today or I starve.
Blessed be Thou, my Lord Jesus Christ, who didst foretell Thy death before the time, and in the Last Supper didst wonderfully consecrate Thy precious Body of material bread, and also charitably gave it to Thy Apostles, in memory of Thy most worthy Passion
Father, I am hungry; for the love of God give this soul her food, her Lord in the Eucharist
Nothing in the world tasted as good for breakfast as stolen rolls with some butter and jam and a mug of milky coffee. Nothing tasted better than a venial sin.
Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these ... We have been taught that the food that has been Eucharistized by the word of prayer, that food which by assimilation nourishes our flesh and blood, is the flesh and blood of the incarnate Jesus.
mushroom pie stuffed with spinach, thyme, and currants.
I could live on challah bread, the Jewish kosher bread, quite happily.
This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.
Went to church and fasted all day.
He was breaking his fast on white wine and raw onions, in order to keep up the character of martyr, I conclude.
Pizza... It's what America's having for dinner!
I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.
Our bread is not only the Word of God, our meat is not only to do His will, our bread is also ... the difficulties that are in our way.
Candy is my religion.
He fed his spirit with the bread of books
Sunday's my day off, where I eat whatever I want. I don't not let myself have something. I do love French fries and bread.
Dear God, don't let us confine Easter to Easter.
Festina lente. You know what that means?"
Hurry slowly."
Bene." He smiled.
-A Good & Happy Child
Jesus said to them, 'My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work'" (John 4:34).
Grab your pig's feet, bread, and gin, there's plenty in the kitchen. I wonder what the poor people are eating tonight?
What did they feed the lions and tigers with in the ark, sir?
A crier of green sauce.
Spare feast! a radish and an egg.
The Bible says, "For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost"
Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.
Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.
What was the best thing before sliced bread?
As bread is the first need of the body, so forgiveness for the soul.
I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
It isn't bread that feeds you; it is life and the spirit that feed you through bread.
The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes.
All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.
This is the bread of affliction which our forefathers ate in the land of Egypt. Let all those who are hungry come and eat with us. Let all those who are in need come and share our meal. This year we are here. Next year may we all be in the land of Israel.
You can eat caviar with the sinners, or starve to death with the saints.
The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.
Peanuts/Peanut Butter
Theology is to religion what poisons are to food
Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made miracle of bread?
I try to rekindle the fire of the Holy Eucharist
The flesh feeds on the Body and Blood of Christ that the soul may be fattened on God
Tea. It was not a perfect way to live one's life,
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your earnings for what does not satisfy? Hearken diligently to Me, and eat what is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness [the profuseness of spiritual joy].
rashers of bacon.
Hot dog? Bible? Now that poses a problem! Which is hungrier-my stomach or my soul?
Bacon! Colt loved bacon.
I spent the next couple of hours either walking around with a gelato in my hand or on my knees in church asking to be forgiven for the sin of gluttony.
If there is anything more delicious than a sausage roasted over an open Bunsen burner, I can't image what it might be
Porcelain and I tore into our food like cannibals after a missionary famine.
FLESH
I drop my wedding ring
in holy water.
I hope it repels;
the years
of hate
and hope,
so I can finally relate
to the son we made.
Throughout history, people in all cultures and lands have gathered together at mealtimes. In forests and mountains, in humble abodes and great mansions, beneath star filled skies and beside hearths, people have given thanks, and offered their blessings.
I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
See, if you said green bean, I'd be very upset. However, if you told her an eggplant, I'd probably never wear pants again. So what's it going to be, Jess?
with green beans and rice.
The oil and wine of merry meeting.
--spring lamb roasted, with a mint jelly made from Constance's garden mint. Spring potatoes, new peas, a salad, again from Constance's garden. I remember it perfectly, madam. It is still one of my favorite meals.
We have garlic days, and onion days. You know what they're cooking.
Food, the southern offering on the altar of crisis.
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken
But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man.
Never forget that there are only two philosophies to rule your life: the one of the cross, which starts with the fast and ends with the feast. The other of Satan, which starts with the feast and ends with the headache.
If there is one vegetable which is God-given, it is the haricot bean.