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Blessed Bread

Blessed Bread

I had been thinking about bread and its blessing during the Eucharist, came across a rubric from a Roman Mass which said (after the Hebrew Prayer, Blessed are you Lord God of all creation etc) “Now the Priest takes the Bread, which is now Christ’s Body”  Interesting, so the Hebrew prayer is enough words, that got me thinking…. Yesterday I came up with this, baked a roll, and shared it with our chapter. Blessed are you, Lord God of all Creation Blessed indeed is God, Lord of all that is.  We cannot add or take away from you. You...

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Relations

I am becoming increasingly concerned, as we near the climax of the consumerist year, about relationships between all sorts of things.  Reading the latest Resurgence reminded me of our relationship to food which can be as much about how we deal with others as it is with fueling our bodies.  This is intrinsically linked to the relationship to the land on which the food is grown or reared.  Satish Kumar writes “We have to transform our relationship with food…”  Unless we can move from merely fueling, our bodies there will be no change in the relationship.  Fuel / Food...

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Eucharist

I was at St Luke’s yesterday morning. It is quite an Anglo-catholic church and so I was part of the altar party being a sub-deacon or something wearing more robes than I ever thought possible! Anyway, that is not the important part. At the distribution of the elements, I was to give out the bread to half the congregation, while the priest did the other half. It was while giving blessing to those who did not receive and giving the bread to those who did, that I was struck with a sense of not being myself. It was as...

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  • Still Waiting?

    To be able to wait, and wait patiently is I think a true gift of God. Yesterday someone said of a prayer to God. ‘God give me patience… But hurry up! So typical of our prayers, expecting what we want immediately, without looking at what it is we are asking for or how we could perhaps help to achieve that goal.

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