Education (Opvoeding) (2)

We must now take up the matter of the kind of food with which the soul of the child must be fed. This food is mental, spiritual, in distinction from material. Bread, material, was created for the body of man. But the bread of the soul is the idea, the concept, the word in which the concept is incorporated. And the word is Christ and He only. Christ is the soul's food, the soul's bread of life, living water, wine, milk. The saint eats and drinks Him, His flesh and blood and therefore lives....