Emotional Monasticism: Affective Piety by Lauren Mancia

Author:Lauren Mancia [Mancia, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Europe, Medieval, Religion, Christianity, General
ISBN: 9781526140203
Google: UXNAwAEACAAJ
Publisher: ManchesterUP
Published: 2019-09-15T20:42:00+00:00

Here, John asks that the ‘bread’ come into a sinner’s heart. On the one hand, the ‘bread’ is a metonym for Christ, and John simply asks for Christ to descend into the sinner’s heart in symbolic form. But throughout the Confessio fidei, John seems to embrace the action of the Eucharist as a literal ingestion of the divine that might inspire the Christian, now a vessel literally containing Christ, to do the inner emotional excavation required to retain proper interior contemplation. For instance, in another passage, John says:

For it is correct that the sacrament is great and ineffable, in which your actual flesh is eaten and your actual blood is drunk. O mystery to be feared and revered, the human gaze is beaten back for gazing at [your majesty]. Through the very sacrosanct and vivifying mystery of your body and blood … shine brightly on me, ignite me, illuminate and sanctify me, your vessel, empty me of malice, fill me with grace, and wholly preserve me, in order that I may eat the food of your flesh for the salvation of my soul: for by eating you I may live according to you, may advance thanks to you, may arrive at you, [and] may rest in you. For the very one who eats you lives on because of you.46

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