tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051258436941012775.post2054610468127579976..comments2023-12-30T00:30:21.906-08:00Comments on The Hippie Housewife: Body and blood, broken and risen!Hippie Housewifehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14718357472343295031noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051258436941012775.post-64838795381321972792012-04-09T08:26:22.622-07:002012-04-09T08:26:22.622-07:00Michelle, I think that's exactly what N. T. Wr...Michelle, I think that's exactly what N. T. Wright was saying in the bit I quoted when he said that some have overreacted and now take the Eucharist too flippantly. Holding the meaning in our hearts will by its very nature prevent us from doing so; likewise, taking it too lightly demonstrates a tragic failure to have that focus in place. I was talking only of the details. Even the disciples right there with Jesus didn't understand, so how can we, so much later, hope to have every piece of this Great Mystery "correct"? As a still-Anglican-at-heart, the Eucharist is an incredibly meaningful sacrament to me, a moment when (as N. T. Wright describes it) the curtain separating heaven and earth is pulled back and the two touch. I don't intend to sound flippant about it; quite the opposite, in fact. It <i>should</i> be significant, and getting caught up in the details detracts us from allowing it to be so.<br /><br />I write this, also, as someone who is currently in a church that does communion very differently from the Anglican church. It was (is) very difficult for me to let go of those practices and accept that these new ones, very different but equally sincere, are truly okay. It is the sincerity, not the details, that affects how lightly one takes this meal. It's been a process for me to come to a place where I can say that.<br /><br />Thank you for sharing your thoughts and allowing me to expand on mine.Hippie Housewifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14718357472343295031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051258436941012775.post-4494565626757632302012-04-09T05:39:39.368-07:002012-04-09T05:39:39.368-07:00He was also placing, at that moment, a new covenan...He was also placing, at that moment, a new covenant: one of marriage with his disciples. <br /><br />http://followtherabbi.com/world/article/seder-and-marriage<br /><br />http://www.goldensheaves.org/pages/passover_bride_31.html<br /><br />"With such a variety of methods and understandings of the Holy Eucharist, maybe none of us have this meal quite right. Maybe we should expect it to be so, just as it was with the disciples, blind and deaf people that we can be. But maybe it doesn't matter to Jesus quite as much as we think it does whether we stand or kneel, drink grape juice or wine, pass the elements around or accept them from the hands of a priest or retrieve them ourselves, believe them to be merely symbolic or otherwise, just so long as we truly and sincerely are doing this in memory of Him."<br /><br />Though, I have a hard time with that idea. A friend and I were talking about this last night (she's new to Anglicanism from a very charismatic background) and I'm sort of new (though 5 years or so in). I believe something happens at and during the Eucharist. A grace, not of ourselves. At that moment heaven and earth touch (I believe that's something NT Wright says perhaps? Or maybe it was Scott Hahn), and we are suddenly in Heaven, communing with God and all His angels, Revelation being fulfilled. I have a really hard time receiving communion at churches that don't respect the Eucharist for the massive event that it is. The early church did NOT take it tightly. There is a reason non-believers were excluded from even viewing the eucharist: scripture calls us to be careful so that do not take it in a disrespectful manner, thus bringing judgment upon ourselves. That's pretty intense. So it may not be fair of me to be exclusive at a Baptist church, but it's not just in memory I can't handle it. No confession. No communing. It's all individual and really meaning nothing. But the Eucharist is something. It is participating. It is Christ transforming. And perhaps God works through their bread and juice, too, thus making it even more clearly a grace, but. I don't know. Maybe you understand though :)Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05527657294925014026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051258436941012775.post-29654223249053584382012-04-08T18:44:11.477-07:002012-04-08T18:44:11.477-07:00Amen and amen.Amen and amen.Sarah Besseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17217683418314819836noreply@blogger.com