No holiness but social holiness: Communing and sending forth
by William McDonald
You walk forward and kneel at the rail at the chancel steps. Your knees fall on the needlepoint image of the church as a ship on water. The body of Christ, given for you. The Christ remembered, the Christ present, and the Christ yet to come is here, in one bread, pressed into your slightly sweaty outstretched palm. You take Christ into yourself as he simultaneously takes you and the rest of the church—the symbol of which you’re kneeling on—into himself, his wounded and resurrected body. Read here