It is above all through Communion that the Christian is made one with and in Christ, “christified”, “ingodded” or “deified”; it is above all through Communion that he receives the firstfruits of eternity. “Blessed is he that has eaten the Bread of love which is Jesus”, writes St Isaac the Syrian. “While still in this world, he breathes the air of the resurrection, in which the righteous will delight after they rise from the dead.”7
