Jen sent me the following quote of J.R.R. Tolkien to his son Christopher:
Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament. There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves on earth…by…which alone can what you seek in your earthly relationships (love, faithfulness, joy) be maintained, and take on that complexion of reality of eternal endurance, which every man’s heart desires.
I have read it before, but am stuck now on the way he expresses the relationship between the Eucharist and the chivalric ideals of “romance, glory, honour, fidelity.” Indeed the Jesus in the Eucharist is “eternal endurance” itself.
Tolken expresses The Mystery of Faith well: ”out of the darkness,” “the one great thing to love,” “which every man’s heart desires.
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