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A reflection on our understanding of Holy Communion

Sunday 19 th August, 2012 John 6.51-58 Jesus said to the Jews:   ‘I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats of this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh’. The passages that John’s Gospel contain about Jesus as the bread of life are pretty radical and would have really shocked his Jewish listeners. The early Christians were thought of as cannibals because of the fact that they met together and ate the body and blood of Jesus Christ. The story of the Last Supper and Jesus’ commandment to his disciples to remember him when eating and drinking, along with these passages from John (that we have been following in the lectionary) lay the foundation for the Church’s worship and in particular for the tradition of meeting together and eating together to remember Jesus. This is of course what we do in a more formal way in our church, week by week. We come together and remember Jesus’ words at the