LPPM MMV "A Very Tangible Salvation"

[Dave Monroe]

"First stage, melancholia. Second stage, direct
violence. How much had Irving Loon been drinking? How
much did starvation have to do with the psychosis once
it got under way? And then the enormity of it hit him.
Because if this hunch were true, Siegel had the power
to work for these parishioners a kind of miracle, to
bring them a very tangible salvation. A miracle
involving a host, true, but like no holy eucharist. He
was the only one, besides Irving Loon, who knew. Also,
a sober voice reminded him, he was apparently the only
one who had the Windigo psychosis as his sole piece of
information about the Ojibwa. It might be a case of
generalization, there might be any number of things
wrong with Irving Loon. Still, perhaps ... a case of
conscience." (MMV, p. 11)


"A miracle involving a host"

Cf., e.g., ...

"'You are now the host. As host you are a trinity: (a)
receiver of guests--' ticking them off on his
fingers--'(b) an enemy and (c) an outward
manifestation, for them, of the divine body and
blood.'" (MMV, p. 3)
 
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"Is this, like the Bread and Wine, a kindness of the
Almighty, sparing him a sight he could not have
abided?  What might that be, too merciless to bear?"
(M&D, Ch. 16, p. 171)

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"... if this hunch were true, Siegel had the power to
work for these parishioners a kind of miracle, to
bring them a very tangible salvation."

How so?  Let me know ...


		
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