LitBit Commentary – Gordon Lathrop on the Eucharist 5
LitBit: Christianity came into existence as a meal fellowship. when it is healthy, Christianity is a meal fellowship still.
Gordon Lathrop, The pastor, p62.
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LitBit Commentary – Gordon Lathrop on the Eucharist 4
LitBit: Christianity is a meal fellowship. The meal of the Word, the Word of the meal is itself a witness to the world of God’s love for the world, is itself the very mission of God in the world.
Gordon Lathrop, The pastor, p64.
LitBit Commentary – Gordon Lathrop on the Eucharist 3
LitBit: Christianity is a meal. Its leaders are table servers. Let beggars come.
Gordon Lathrop, The pastor, p73.
LitBit Commentary – Gordon Lathrop on Preaching 3
LitBit: Preaching is to lead us to the Supper as to the visible Word and then invite us to turn in faith toward the famine in the rest of the world – begging for and signing God’s great relief in the prayers of intercession, in the collection, and in the sending.
Gordon Lathrop, The pastor, p67.
LitBit Commentary – Gordon Lathrop on the Eucharist 2
LitBit: In the Eucharist, the pastor stands at the table and gives thanks, proclaiming how this food and all food comes from God, proclaiming the mystery of God now using this food to give us life through Jesus Christ, begging the Spirit to form us in the sharing of food.
Gordon Lathrop, The pastor, p71.
LitBit Commentary – Rowan Williams on the Eucharist 17
LitBit: The Eucharist reminds us of the need for honest repentance – of the need to confront our capacity to betray and forget the gift we have been given. And that is why the Eucharist is not, in Christian practice, a reward for good behaviour; it is the food we need to prevent ourselves from starving as a result of our own self-enclosure and self-absorption, our pride and our forgetfulness.
Rowan Williams, Being Christian, p.52f
LitBit Commentary – Rowan Williams on the Eucharist 16
LitBit: [The Eucharist] is, as some modern Christian thinkers have said, what makes the Church what it really is. For that short time, when we gather as God’s guest at God’s table, the Church becomes what it is meant to be – a community of strangers who have become guests together and are listening together to the invitation of God.
Rowan Williams, Being Christian, p.58
LitBit Commentary – Rowan Williams on the Eucharist 15
LitBit: Sometimes, after receiving Holy Communion, as I look around a congregation, large or small, I have a sensation I can only sum up as this is it – this is the moment when people see one another and the world properly: when they are filled with the Holy Spirit and when they are equipped to go and do God’s work. It may last only a few seconds but there it is. It has happened and it happens again and again. And what is the appropriate response? …thanksgiving.
Rowan Williams, Being Christian, p.58
LitBit Commentary – Rowan Williams on the Eucharist 14
LitBit: The Eucharist reminds us of the need for honest repentance – of the need to confront our capacity to betray and forget the gift we have been given. And that is why the Eucharist is not, in Christian practice, a reward for good behaviour; it is the food we need to prevent ourselves from starving as a result of our own self-enclosure and self-absorption, our pride and our forgetfulness.
Rowan Williams, Being Christian p.52f
Christmas 2016 at Mark the Evangelist
Your are most welcome to join us at our Christmas celebrations this year!
Sunday December 18: a service of Advent carols and readings with Eucharist, 10am.
Christmas Eve: (we have no service at Mark the Evangelist, but commend the Christmas Eve services at St Mary’s Anglican Church – the 4pm “Kids’ Christmas” and the 11.30pm Christmas Eve Midnight Mass)
Christmas Day: Worship with Eucharist, 9.30am
Normal services will continue, 10am, throughout January