We havea God that defies our senses. God keeps us hungering on earth. One of theproofs of God's existence is for all that is here on earth there is anemptiness and a finitude to it. Everything has its promise and failure. Prayer is meant to be atime of intimacy.
Intimacy results in a sending.
Let's move away so thatthat distance we can bring us together again. Prayer is a cycle. There is a movement from and a movement toward in the Eucharist. Itis the central mystery of our faith and constitutes us as Catholic. Itis not a symbolic gesture but a presence of Jesus the sacrificial, gratefulact of death and resurrection.