One of the practices of faith for christians across time and tradition has been the breaking of bread and drinking of wine/grape juice to celebrate together the last meal of Jesus and his disciples the night before his crucification - living out the words of Jesus to this in rememberance of him...
I'm beginning to think about planning a service that is dedicated to this occassion, a celebration that means something for our own particular community and context but as I do i'm curios to hear from you...
- how do you celebrate communion - what do you do in your community/tradition context?
- what does it mean to you when you do so - what do you think/feel?
- what ways/times/actions of communion have particular impacted/resonated/had significance for you?
- have you ever thought of something that you would like do different or do more of to make communion more meaningful to your context?
- any resources/liturgy/creative worship etc that you recomend?
I think this is very difficult to do well in a large setting. In it's original context it was taken as part of a meal, and I think that is tricky to do well when you have a large number of people...
Perhaps the most meaningful time i have had communion was in seville with a mate. We sat down at the table, and the waiter immediately brought red wine and bread. We naturally flowed into prayer and thankfulness for all that Jesus has done.
So for me, I want to take bread and wine in the context of a community meal.
Posted by: Rupert Ward | 15 June 2007 at 12:00 PM
thanks rupert, i like the seville idea, i'll have to see if Jase is up for it, lol...
What does that mean to you, taking it in the context of a community meal?
Is there anything you do to help create that sense of community?
Posted by: Paul | 15 June 2007 at 02:20 PM