Yes yes!

Yes. As I’ve been swooning over mystics of whatever persuasion, forever! Hildegaard, for example, and I appreciate her because she was also a leader, in touch with the earth, and very practical! Meanwhile, I presume you are aware of the Audience Hall that the pope speaks in — with the weird satanic sculptural backdrop and the reptilian shaped ceiling? https://www.soulask.com/inside-the-popes-reptilian-audience-hall-in-vatican-city/ YUCK.

I realize that was a very provocative part of today’s post. And a part of me (the old Catholic part, as well as the part of me that loves, and strives to emulate, the Christlike virtues as much as anyone), is totally with your assessment. However, to me, this other way of seeing the situation is worth considering, given the more obviously sordid aspects of human history.

NO. The difference between Holy Communion and drinking human blood is utterly different. While I don’t consider myself (categorized) as a “Christian’, my understanding of the ‘drinking of Christ’s blood’ and ‘eating of his flesh’ is one of partaking and ‘assimilating Christ’s Light and Word (Teaching). Some believe this a mere symbolic practice, others a tangible alchemical blessing (exchange) of his Light.