Topic: Communion

With every step we take towards God’s economy, we will become more powerful in our witness to God’s saving action and love for the world, and be filled ever more deeply with God’s good grace.

God approaches us in an eager desire for communion, so our task is not to strive for communion, but simply to open ourselves to receive it.

In the sacraments, Jesus constantly calls us to follow him in giving up conventional notions of honour and offer ourselves for the life of the world.

The crucified and risen Jesus reveals the truth about the triune God’s grace, love and communion, and calls us to reflect those relationships in our communal life.

United with Christ in baptism we cross the threshold from death to life, and in Eucharist we continue to touch the scars which nourish our faith and inspire our worship.

Jesus says to each one of us “I am the new wine. Feed on me”.

Our One God and Father feeds us with one bread so that we might grow up into Christ and be the missional community the Spirit is leading us to become.

The wilderness can seem harsh and threatening, but God is there, ready to nourish us with the bread of heaven.

Christ’s desire to extend hospitality to us, to welcome us at his table, is so great that he will give even his own life to bring us into the experience of his love. This is the pattern for our call to hospitality too.

Jesus invites us to find our communion in the violence done to him instead of in doing violence to others.

When we recognise Christ’s presence in the Eucharistic liturgy, we will bring the sick in search of healing.

The Trinitarian stories resemble the dreaming of Australia’s Aborigines, for both imagine the divine as a community of being in which we are invited to participate, and so find our true being.