For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is dead, it is life that has died and it must be kept in refrigerators like a corpse.


Sacraments and orthodoxy (ed. 1965)

Alexander Schmemann Quotes

For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is...

For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is...

For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is...

For one who thinks food in itself is the source of life, eating is the communion with the dying world, it is communion with death. Food itself is...