These conditions can be found in the healing nature of the mass itself as well as more specifically in the acceptance of communion. A cosmogonic quality is a healing quality of turning chaos into calm and often embedded in hierophanies, “…the manifestation of the sacred in space has a cosmological valence; ever spatial hierophany or consecration of space is equivalent to a cosmogony” (63). A hierophany such as a communion turns one’s personal chaos, evil into calm, resolving evil to become refreshed. In the Chapel of Mary, students can obtain the sense of cosmogony by attending mass. The process of attending mass in general, is cosmogonic, entering surrounded by chaos to leave …show more content…
Sacred spaces are places where there is a break from the reality to the divine, and this is obtained through hierophanies. “When the sacred manifests itself in any hierophany, there is not only a break in the homogeneity of the space; there is also revelation of an absolute reality…” (21). Eliade states that this break is created by a hierophany often placing the subject not only into a sacred space but also entering a sacred time. Through communion, once the priest consecrates the bread, Christ becomes present, and the Sacred is showing itself breaking the