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LitBit Commentary – Rowan Williams on Prayer

Posted on 27 July 2015 by CraigT

“The prayer of the baptised is a growing and moving into the prayer of Jesus himself and therefore it is a prayer that may be difficult and mysterious. It will not always be cheerful and clear, it may not always feel as though it’s going to be answered. Christians do not pray to get what they ask for in any simple sense – you may have noticed that this can’t be taken for granted! Rather, Christians pray because they have to, because the Spirit is surging up inside them.”

Rowan Williams, Being Christian, p.8f

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LitBit Commentary – Rowan Williams on Baptism

Posted on 27 July 2015 by CraigT

“To be baptized is to recover the humanity that God first intended. What did God intend? He intended that human beings should grow into such love for him and such confidence in him that they could rightly be called God’s sons and daughters. Human beings have let go of that identity, abandoned it, forgotten it or corrupted it. And when Jesus arrives on the scene he restores humanity to where it should be.”

Rowan Williams, Being Christian, p.3f

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LitBit Commentary – Rowan Williams on the Lord’s Prayer

Posted on 21 July 2015 by CraigT

“At the central moment, just before we receive the bread and wine, we pray the prayer of Jesus: we say, “Our Father…” – and that is a great and significant moment, not just a bit of muttered devotion before we start on our way to the altar, but one of the supreme transitions in the drama of the entire service. For when we pray the prayer of Jesus, the Holy Spirit is in us and at work in us. We are affirming that in this act of worship the Holy Spirit is speaking Jesus’ words in us, praying ‘Abba, Father’, just as Jesus did and does.”

Rowan Williams, Being Christian, p.56

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LitBit Commentary – Rowan Williams on the Eucharist 2

Posted on 21 July 2015 by CraigT

“If Jesus gives thanks over bread and wine on the eve of his death, if Jesus makes that connection between the furthest place away from God, which is suffering and death, and the giving and outpouring of his Father, and if in his person he fuses those things together, then wherever we are some connection between us and God is possible. All places, all people, all things have about them an unexpected sacramental depth. They open on to God the Giver.”

Rowan Williams, Being Christian, p.49

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LitBit Commentary – Rowan Williams on the Eucharist 1

Posted on 21 July 2015 by CraigT

“Holy Communion is no kind of reward: it is, like everything about Jesus Christ, a free gift. We take Holy Communion not because we are doing well, but because we are doing badly. Not because we have arrived, but because we are traveling. Not because we are right, but because we are confused and wrong. Not because we are divine, but because we are human. Not because we are full, but because we are hungry.”

Rowan Williams, Being Christian (2014), p.53

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