Short Talks

This section of the website comprises short stand-alone talks and articles on different aspects of the Christian Faith, including the teaching of Jesus, the seasons of the Church’s Year and Feasts and Festivals.  More talks/sermons/homilies/articles will be added in due course.

The section of the website entitled The Christian Faith provides more extended teaching on larger content areas, such as the Creed and the Sacraments.

One Bread, One Body

“…we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread” (1 Corinthians 10:17)

In those terrible yet sublime days when the Church was relentlessly persecuted in the Roman Empire, to attend the Eucharist meant death if one was caught.  The government was swift to recognise that the very life and existence of the Church depended on her Eucharistic worship.  That was the basic source of her unity and her strength.

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The Body of Christ, Church and Sacrament

“The bread that we break, is it not a sharing in the body of Christ?  Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread” (NRSV, 1 Corinthians 10:16b, 17)

The Crucifixion and Ascension of Our Blessed Lord were definite events.  Each happened at a particular spot on a particular day in a particular year – a year which, as time goes on, is receding farther and farther into the past.  But the Christian religion is concerned rather with the present than with the past because, though the Crucifixion and Ascension once marked its beginning, its centre is now and always the Person of our Crucified and Ascended Lord.

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