Blood of the Prince of the princes of the earth. Knowing the shock created by the very thought, Jesus added immediately, “Yet there are some of you who do not believe” (Jn 6:63–64). The scandal of the Mystery has never gone away; it is for many just too much to accept. Flannery O’Connor, in one of her letters, recalls a visit she made to another well-known author and former Catholic. This latter “said that when she was a child and received the Host, she thought of it as the Holy Ghost, he being the
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