I found a better slo-motion at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UZTj4pfpUk&NR=1.

Jesus is self defined as the “life giving water” a gift that comes from the Father.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7INnvnHrlg

Also, I don’t know how much faith your put in divine providence as it applies to the here and now, but as I was began writing this I found that Japan was hit by a major earthquake and a huge tsunami is running across the Pacific

…of relationships and sense of the spirit

When people are forced to function outside their gifting or calling they eventually lose sight of where and how they fit into the larger purpose of an organization.

I just devoured your book, which couldn’t have fallen into my hands at a better time. Yesterday I promised to send a copy to Christine Mugridge, a close relative to Malcolm Muggeridge. She is an active force in promoting a Theology of Communications based on the writtings of JPII.

Ref: THE MILLENNIUM MATRIX
Oral Culture–Liturgical Church
p.29
Worship Service: Liturgy
The Eucharist for the Catholic is the weekly mystical celebration of communion with Christ. The liturgy is a sacred reenactment that transforms the place, time and participants from ordinary to extraordinary. The event is sealed with the sacrament of communion, in which the transforming power of Christ’s, body and blood is transmigrated into the bread and wine.

Mr. Miller,
May I offer the following rewrite (my own words without reference to official Church texts):

The Catholic Church considers Holy Mass the source, summit and center of its life as the Mystical Body of Christ. It is an earthly participation in the Divine Liturgy, worship that occurs eternally in heaven as revealed to and written by St. John in the Book of Revelation. St. John refers to this heavenly worship as the marriage supper of the Lamb. It is Jesus Christ’s ultimate prayer to His heavenly Father as detailed in the Gospel accounts of the Last Supper. It is the fulfillment of the Passover promise to the People of Israel and the consummation of God’s covenant. This re-presentation of the Paschal Mystery (Last Supper/Crucifixion/Resurrection) is sacrament par excellence. As the Sacrament of Holy Communion we ‘give thanks’ (Gk: eucharistia) through, with, and in Jesus Christ. Each and every day the Church celebrates and renews this sacrifice of the altar, where the elements bread and wine are consecrated by an ordained priest who acting in persona Christi (in the person of Christ) serves both as priest and victim. When Christ commanded the apostles “Do this in remembrance of me,” He meant it. The Church has always taught that in obedience to these words of Our Lord and Savior, the Holy Spirit changes the substance of the sacrificial offering into the body, blood, soul and divinity of Jesus Christ while maintaining the accidents (sense perceptible qualities) of bread and wine. Over time this action was defined by the Church using the word transubstantiation. The faithful’s receipt of Holy Communion is an abiding in Christ and He in us. It is a mystical communion of persons that is the new and everlasting covenant in Christ’s blood. It fulfills Christ’s dying wish, that we are one as He and the Father are one. It is through this Holy Mass, this participation in the atoning sacrifice of Calvary and the victory over death at the Resurrection that we are offered freedom from sin, a share in Christ’s divinity and the hope of heavenly glory.

To the best of my knowledge ‘transmigration’ has never been a term used by orthodox Catholics to define the Divine Action (Gk: energeia) at Holy Mass. Jesus never used the term ‘luck’ either. Words are critically important if one wants to reach Catholics with a very important work. Transmigration has a Buddhist ring to it…not good for the reality that Catholics hold dear.

By the way, as you recommend in the Millennium Matrix, I just did a GOOGLE Search on the term ‘marriage supper of the Lamb.’ I was shocked to find a near complete Catholic lockout from the first 40 entries…all but one was non-Catholic. This is a supremely important concept for Catholics and a seeker might have to make the search term ‘marriage supper of the Lamb, Catholic’ to find Mark Shea’s and Scott Hahn’s efforts as well as the historical record on the subject…but only if one digs deeper. This is the democratic bias that the internet provides. We Catholics are asleep at the wheel. Paltalk’s Christianity group is another sleepfest. There may be 50 chat rooms open at any one time and yet only one is Catholic…what message does this convey to the seeker?

Shocking… and that is why I am going to buy multiple copies of your book. You are spot on; you only have to make that spot a perfect circle and not a hastily stippled dot.

I am involved in a little biasing mission relative to the triad: Light, Live and Love. These three words are a battleground in their own right and New Age/esoteric cults seem to revel in claiming them as their own on the internet. They normally add the word Liberty (license) or Luck to the three and completely undo the biblical tradition that we see so powerfully witnessed in the Gospel and 1st Letter of St. John. You may be interested to see the swastika connection. It shocked me too. No wonder Hitler took it as his own. My goal is to keep a Catholic presence in the “top four” in cyberland. I have help from several non-Catholic “friends” which include Stuart H. Pouliot whose Kingdom and Glory article normally holds down the number one slot and his work dovetails with my own.

If you feel so inclined, I would be honored to be a Catholic point of contact, a node for you to “bounce things off of” in the future. I greatly appreciate your overall candor in relating the Catholic/Orthodox first 1500 years. I also think that you are gracious to put the Vatican website front and center as you described the digita lweb pages currently in existence and how they reflect the culture they serve.

Mr. Miller, I conclude by offering a simple image for you to ponder, an Einsteinian thought experiment:

Close your eyes and think of a small pebble falling from the sky and striking the surface of a perfectly peaceful pond (sorry for the alliteration, sometimes I can’t help myself). Better yet, maybe make it a single drop of rain falling from a single cloud on a windless day with the sun shining brightly in an otherwise clear blue sky. This pebble/drop impacts the water with a meteoric yet silent thud and the effect is truly dramatic if we slow things down and observe the reality. Captured in super slow motion (check the YouTube site at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLYhkU6tMA8) it is a way of conceptualizing the gift of Holy Mass to the Church and the World. It is the source, summit and center for it is Christ’s coming back to earth. The ripple effects of the waves that radiate from the center of witness to supernatural grace, both in time and in eternity. A diagram of the MM should have concentric rings with Jesus Christ and the Easter Triduum at the center of the center and at the center of time. As a drop of water we see the abiding more clearer. Notice the crown at impact. Christ is priest, prophet and king. That is why a drop of water (representing the faithful) is added to the wine in the chalice prior to the consecration at Mass. Two become one. http://www.ewtn.com/library/Liturgy/zlitur39.htm

God bless you and your important work in the Third Christian Millennium. You are in my prayers.

Mike from Corpus Christi, TX

I’ve heard great things about you and believe that we have much in common. I want to send you my book, The People Profit Connection, which was written specifically for the construction industry. It is available as a free download on my website as well. My phone number is 404-247-3747. All the best to you and your vital work.