Evening: Psalm 107: 1-32; John 6:52-59
Some say that when Jesus talks about us eating his flesh and drinking his blood, he means the communion of bread and wine that symbolize his body and blood. But why? In one of the stories of King David, some soldiers risk their lives for the king ... and for David, ‘drinking someone’s blood’ means benefitting from their self-sacrifice .... Therefore, eating and drinking Jesus’s body and blood means accepting the benefit of his self-sacrifice. Thomas Cranmer said communion is “chawing on the Passion of Christ”, ‘chewing over’ Jesus’s self-giving Love, accepting it and taking it in.
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