Amen times a million. There is also the command to not forsake gathering together. I don’t relate well to lots of other people, even Christians, but we’re still the Body of Christ, whether I relate to them in this world very well or not.
Indeed. For quite a long time, this was quite a compelling reason. The problem is that when that's pretty much all that there is left, it really isn't very sustaining.
The "do this in remembrance of me" might have been more compelling if I hadn't experienced a disconnect between the "this" of the Last Supper, and the "this" of the Eucharist. There's something about sitting down at a table for a meal with people that I always found absent from Communion.
(I'm still musing about whether there was an equivalent of the Green Lantern Corps.)
...I didn't really mean this to be about me but I suppose it was sort of inevitable. Next stage in my deconstruction of what passes for my faith perhaps?
And is it? By which I mean, is there a sense in which you are making progress, in stages?
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The "do this in remembrance of me" might have been more compelling if I hadn't experienced a disconnect between the "this" of the Last Supper, and the "this" of the Eucharist. There's something about sitting down at a table for a meal with people that I always found absent from Communion.
(I'm still musing about whether there was an equivalent of the Green Lantern Corps.)
And is it? By which I mean, is there a sense in which you are making progress, in stages?
(That suggestion is as serious as you would like it to be)
Oh Esmeralda!