Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The kitchen is a sacred space.
The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.
The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age.
Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.
In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
All we have to do is to peel the shrines like an onion, and we will be with the king himself.
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.
The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies.
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