{"id":910,"date":"2014-05-26T07:16:02","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T12:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jenniferfitz\/?p=910"},"modified":"2015-08-11T17:58:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T22:58:43","slug":"the-door-comes-to-us-and-it-looks-like-bread-and-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jenniferfitz\/2014\/05\/the-door-comes-to-us-and-it-looks-like-bread-and-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Door Comes to Us, and It Looks Like Bread and Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ceiling_Civitas_Dei,_Entrance_of_the_Cathedral,_Aachen,_Germany.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/ed\/Ceiling_Civitas_Dei%2C_Entrance_of_the_Cathedral%2C_Aachen%2C_Germany.jpg\/500px-Ceiling_Civitas_Dei%2C_Entrance_of_the_Cathedral%2C_Aachen%2C_Germany.jpg\" alt=\"Ceiling Civitas Dei, Entrance of the Cathedral, Aachen, Germany.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"362\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So what happens at Mass again? \u00a0What makes it different?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Christ, time and space open up, like a passage to Narnia.\u00a0 I don\u2019t mean that in some vaguely pseudo-mystical way.\u00a0 I mean it in cold, hard reality.<\/p>\n<p>. . .\u00a0We were made to live with God, to see Him face to face, to walk with Him every evening in the garden.\u00a0 We weren\u2019t made to live so separate.\u00a0 It hurts.\u00a0 We want to see the door, we want to be sure it\u2019s the door, we want to peek around the other side and know for certain what lies behind the door.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catholicmom.com\/2014\/05\/16\/daily-gospel-reflection-for-may-16-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">My latest at CatholicMom.com. \u00a0Read the whole thing here.<\/a> \u00a0It\u2019s short. \u00a0You\u2019ll like it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Artwork: By Jebulon (Own work) [<a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/deed.en\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CC0<\/a>], <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ACeiling_Civitas_Dei%2C_Entrance_of_the_Cathedral%2C_Aachen%2C_Germany.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Wikimedia Commons<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what happens at Mass again? \u00a0What makes it different? 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