Articles of Religion
[…] death: insomuch that to such as rightly, worthily, and with faith, receive the same, the Bread which we break is a partaking of the Body of Christ; and likewise the […]
Selected Scripture
[…] oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? 7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see […]
Agreement of Full Communion – Called to Common Mission
[…] Body and Blood of Christ are truly present, distributed, and received under the forms of bread and wine in the Lord’s Supper. We also believe that the grace of divine […]
The Spirit Calls us to Communion
[…] of communion, our being renewed in that reality as our lives unfold. Christ the one bread becomes the sign and the symbol of our profound relatedness to another. In the […]
Bread, Law, and Spirit, Proper 4 (B) – 2018
[…] reassure them. Finally, someone hit upon the idea of giving each child a piece of bread to hold at bedtime. Holding their bread, these children could finally sleep in peace. […]
Lenten Reflections
[…] crucified March 4, 2018 Some things just don’t make much sense. Water doesn’t become wine, bread and fish do… Read More Lenten Series: Week 2 Tenets for Civil Discourse February […]
Pentecost b
[…] More Gifts of God, Proper 16 (B) – 2018 October 28, 2018 Read More Living Bread, Proper 15 (B) – 2018 October 28, 2018 Read More 1 2 3 4 […]
Proper 4b
[…] Us About Sabbath, Pentecost 2 (B) – June 2, 2024 May 14, 2024 Read More Bread, Law, and Spirit, Proper 4 (B) – 2018 October 28, 2018 Read More Two […]
Third Sunday of Easter
[…] O God, whose blessed Son made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread: Open the eyes of our faith, that we may behold him in all his […]
Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
[…] he called for a famine in the land * and destroyed the supply of bread. 17 He sent a man before them, * Joseph, who was sold as a […]
First Sunday in Lent
[…] him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” 4But he answered, “It is written, ‘One does not live by bread alone, but by […]
Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday
The Liturgy of the Word The Collect: Almighty and everliving God, in your tender love for the human race you sent your Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon […]
Love One Another As I Have Loved You, Easter 6 (B) – 2012
[…] fracture and remake the world of our understanding. We also meet each other, and the bread and wine are signs for us of that deep unity that undergirds and precedes […]
Sermon at installation of the 27th Presiding Bishop
[…] be interesting.” The priest came by uttering these words as each person received the consecrated bread: The Body of our Lord Jesus Christ, which was given for thee, preserve thy body […]
A Dramatic Turn, Ascension Day – 2019
[…] moments on the Emmaus road, as Jesus is known afresh in the breaking of the bread. Even Thomas’ tactile epiphany of the risen Lord and his exclamation, “My Lord and […]
God's Peace Surpassing UNderstanding: The Fellowship of the Cross
[…] is it?” Jesus answered, “It is the one to whom I give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.” So when he had dipped the […]
Legacy, Easter 3 (B) – 2021
[…] across all the parishes of Christendom, the have done.” In the primordial act of taking bread and wine, blessing, breaking, and sharing, we participate in Jesus’ covenant. It is through […]
Easter Sunday
[…] not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. Gospel: Luke 24:13-49 13Now on that same day two of […]
Anglican Spirituality
[…] Put differently, Christ happens to us over time. The One who makes use of water, bread and wine to mediate his presence can make use of the stuff of our […]
Sarah, Theodora, and Syncletica of Egypt, Desert Mothers, 4th-5th century
[…] are simple, turn in here!’ To those without sense she says, 5 ‘Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed. 6 Lay aside immaturity, and live, and walk […]