More on Hunger

'The relation of hunger to food is far less complete, to be sure, but just as real as is the act of eating,'



Simone Weil writes of her refraining from partaking in the sacraments. She continues, 'It is perhaps not inconceivable that in a being with certain natural propensities, a particular temperament, a given past, a certain vocation, and so on, the desire for and deprivation of the sacraments might constitute a contact more pure than actual participation.'