Eucharistic Astonishment

Dr. Mirus has an excellent post over at Catholic Culture that ReCon pointed out. Thanks Susie!

"Here we have God in what appears to be a piece of bread, or a sip of wine. The improbability is staggering, yet this is believed by millions upon millions of well-educated, modern, sophisticated people—as unprejudiced and self-conscious as modern criticism can make them. Moreover, people have believed it for nearly two thousand years. Every conceivable human regime has, at one time or another in that long history, tried to make people stop believing it. Yet they still believe. Nearly every one of these believers has had a doubt or two about it at one time or another. Yet they believe again and more strongly."

Yes, every once and awhile I say to myself, How can this be? Yet, at the end of each day, I find myself heading over to good old St. Anne's believing I will encounter the living God in a 2000 year old rite. Truly astonishing.