Renewing our Eucharist: a Sermon Series

Christians have been doing it since the experience on the Emmaus Road (Luke 24.13-35); breaking bread together. They discovered on that first Easter Sunday that they encountered Jesus alive, both in the holy scripture and in bread blessed and broken in his name. The same discovery has been made by millions of Christians through the next two millennia, as they too broke bread and listened with attention to the words of scripture. Sunday by Sunday, on the Lord’s Day, they encountered Jesus truly and spiritually as they gathered with brother and sister Christians to “do this in memory of me.”

We at St Bart’s find exactly the same as we come to church, Sunday by Sunday. We encounter our Lord, in the holy scriptures, in the bread and wine of the Eucharist, and in one another. All of us, long-standing members of the church as well as recent joiners, need to refresh and renew our celebration of the Eucharist. We are never too young or too old to learn. To help us in this, the Sundays of February this year will offer a series of sermons to help us reflect on our Eucharist. Each takes its title from a different part of the liturgy: Gathering, Word, Table and Sending Out

Subject	Date	Files
The Gathering	6th Feb 2011	as Word docx as Word doc as PDF
The Word	13th Feb 2011	as Word docx as Word doc as PDF
The Table	20th Feb 2011	as Word docx as Word doc as PDF
Sending Out	27th Feb 2011	as Word docx as Word doc as PDF

There are three links for each file as they are available in Word 07 (docx) format, Word 03 (doc) format, or as a PDF. That should provide pretty much everybody with a readable file.