20 LIVING OUT OUR CHRISTIAN JOY “ Those who have Christ, those in whom he is born again day after day, have just this one work to do: to show the others that what they want, what they long for, is Christ. ” Does not Mary say to us, “In the life of thanksgiving, rejoicing, and giving Christ God’s will is consummated”? Does not her self-forgetting say, “Forget yourself”? Her rejoicing in him say, “Rejoice in him”? Her Christgiving say, “Give Christ”? To forget self, to delight in God, to give Christ—that is the Eucharistic life, the only true thanksgiving for Holy Communion. What is Holy Communion but Christ given to us, and ourselves given to Christ, his words given to us to utter,
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