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The Real Holy Grail

My dearest Eve,

In legend, the Holy Grail is a treasure that serves as an important motif in Arthurian literature. Different traditions describe it as a cup, dish or stone with miraculous powers that provide happiness, eternal youth or sustenance in infinite abundance, often in the custody of the Fisher King. It was said to be the cup of the Last Supper and at the Crucifixion to have received blood flowing from Christ’s side. Supposedly, it was brought to Britain by Joseph of Arimathea, where it lay hidden for centuries. In July of 2017, two historians claimed they had identified the legendary cup made of gold and precious stones. The cup was discovered on display at the San Isidro Basilica Leon in northwestern Spain. But where would a poor carpenter get that kind of money? Men foolishly attribute spiritual value to Christian relics, old places of worship and geological locations  of past dispensations because they fail to understand what truly gave those items value and meaning. Should value be given to a drinking vessel made by man to drink from? The real vessel to be treasured cannot be held in the hands of man or displayed in a museum or church. The cup of infinite value is not the cup that Jesus drank from followed by his disciples at his last supper to institute the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper. Rather it is the spiritual vessel from which he drank the wrath of God for the sins of men of all nations from which Jesus asked, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.” (Matthew 26:32) This is the cup of faith that can only be drunk from by the redeemed of the Lord in Christ Jesus. “I am the way, the truth and the Life. No man comes to the Father except through me.”  This cup of faith from which our Lord Jesus drank is the real Holy Grail. In Mathew 20:22 Jesus tells 2 of his disciples and their mother, ‘You will indeed drink my cup.” And we do drink from this cup of faith. The real Holy Grail is on display in the lives of every saint who walked this earth. All the people of the Most High God drink of the cup of salvation which is faith personified. It is more valuable than gold or jewels. This is the real Holy Grail. It is the vessel of faith through which we drink with our God in holy discourse. Gods people don’t have to look for it. In faith, we have the real Holy Grail. In this cup we truly have miraculous powers in Christ that provide happiness, eternal youth and sustenance in infinite abundance.

Drinking from the cup of Life in Christ Jesus our Lord, Kochany