So often within Word Made Flesh we hear that what is so important is being, even more than doing. Then the question becomes “What are we supposed to be, and how are we supposed to become it?” Here we find Christ’s words “Take of my body, become with it, drink of my blood, take it into yourself.” And these words come to us in a space. Not just any space, but in the space of a room, a room filled with the intimacy Christ shares with his disciples, in front of him and to his sides, leaning and laughing with him, sharing their lives with him and soon his death as well as resurrection.
As we sit here, having shared the day together, we find ourselves eating together, laughing together, sharing our sorrows and troubles. And as Christ says, “Do this in remembrance of me,” we slowly find that as we look to the left and right of us we not only find sons and daughters of God, but God himself. God himself laughs with us and suffers with us, God himself serves us and is served by us. We are in the presence of God himself. Here is where our life begins and where it ends.
And so we find that Communion is not something that we simply do, but the very reason we are. With it, all our hopes are confirmed and all our fears are relieved. Without it we have no room left to stand and each of us is a divided self, ready to fall.
As we serve one another the cup let us in recognition of what we do: being served and in turn serving others. Be served knowing that God himself serves you, serve knowing you serve God himself. We are the body of Christ, and as we take of the bread and wine we will be renewed, God coming through to us through one another.
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