Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for the ‘Eucharist’ Category

Inexplicable Gift

Posted in Eucharist, tagged on March 20, 2011| Leave a Comment »

I can’t get away from it; the Eucharist touches my spirit, soul, and body.  The Anglicans have something I experience nowhere else.

It’s inexplicable other than God’s grace.  My mind can argue a lot of things but the core of my being is not listening!  As I sing the liturgy and go for communion it makes me weep with a sense of wholeness and love for Christ, grateful for his sacrifice including me.  It’s personal – I can’t explain it, share it, or give it to others though I wish I could.  I can only experience, enjoy, and participate with those who, likewise, have gathered for the same reason.

The Apostle Paul put it this way,

“Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.” – 2nd Corinthians 9:15

– fritz

Read Full Post »

A Shared Participation

Posted in Eucharist, Fellowship, tagged on February 26, 2011| Leave a Comment »

For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread. ” – 1st Corinthians 10:17

This weeks’ Church offertory lead to an epiphany – making that 15″ journey from head to heart!

Our choir director gave the men and women in the sanctuary different words to sing, like a round. The men sang their part then the women sang theirs then both sang their different parts together and it was wonderful!

It wasn’t a show I watched but an event – and I was part of it, reminded Church is not a show to watch but a participation to share!

The realization went further!

Why the liturgy with its printed prayers, times of sitting, rising, kneeling, eating, singing songs we can actually sing? – not for a love of ritual but because Church is not a show to watch but a participation to share. We may detour throughout the service, each having our own part as the Holy Spirit leads, but then we return and continue together.

I participate in a shared fellowship – I sing, I pray, I kneel, I eat, I make the sign of the cross – participating with my body as well as my soul and spirit. There is a place for the “I” in the voluntarily participation with the “We”! I belong.

There is a reason the Eucharist is also called “Communion” – we commune with Jesus and his body, a shared participation.

– fritz

Read Full Post »

The True Host (Body of Christ)

Posted in Christ, Church, Communion, Eucharist, tagged on January 3, 2011| Leave a Comment »

“Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. – 1st Corinthians 12:27

God works through symbols – a piece of bread, a drop of oil, some sprinkled water, but it is the reality which is holy, the symbol is only a poor representation.

We who have placed our faith in Christ are, individually, a part his body and have a part in touching one another with and for Christ. The gifts of the Holy Spirit work in that endeavor, helping us do our part.

– fritz

Read Full Post »

Older Posts »