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Encountering Christ AN OUTLINE FOR SPIRITUAL GROWTH THIS FALL The Rev. Ryan Fleenor Vicar In his magisterial 1945 book, The Shape of the Liturgy, English priest and monk Dom Gregory Dix wrote one of the most moving and evocative paragraphs ever about the celebration of the Eucharist. Meditating on Christ’s command to “do this in remembrance of me,” he says: Was ever another command so obeyed? For century after century, spreading slowly to every continent and country and among every race on earth, this action has been done, in every conceivable human circumstance, for every conceivable human need ... one could fill many pages with the reasons why 4 · FALL 2018