Tag Archives: Eucharist

What is good news?

Posted on February 15, 2022 by Rosalind C Hughes

God showed me a robin in the snow, so I hung a feeder from my window: so far no one has used it but
the cats live in hope. Continue reading →

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A memory in black and white

Posted on February 10, 2022 by Rosalind C Hughes

A memory so ancient, it could be in black and white. I met the vicar on the street, in his white collar. He said, “J’accuse!” He did not.  He said, “It has been too long since you received Communion.” I … Continue reading →

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On Spiritual Communion

Posted on August 15, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

Even if I could not yet receive the Bread and the Wine bodily, it was important beyond measure that they were consecrated, and that others, some-bodies, shared them on my behalf and enfolded me in their mysteries. Continue reading →

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What are we worth?

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Rosalind C Hughes

No matter what we do, it is no more than Christ has ordered us to do, no more than our baptismal promises to resist evil, to strive for justice and peace among all people, to respect the life and dignity of every human being; to become slaves to the love of God and of God’s family in creation.
But, “worthless”? Continue reading →

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Bread of life

Posted on August 19, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

I knew, in my body and in my soul and in the core of my being that what was offered at that altar was something I needed, something I wanted, something I could not live without. I still can’t quite explain it; I still know that it is true. Continue reading →

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Love and marriage

Posted on October 15, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Today’s readings include the golden calf incident during the Exodus, and the parable of the wedding banquet  You may have seen, as I did, the story this week of a young girl who chose a new, white suit in which … Continue reading →

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Broken

Posted on January 29, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

At the parish where I celebrate Communion week by week, we use pita for the bread – a nice Middle Eastern connection. I tear off a small piece for each person who presents themself at the altar rail, place it … Continue reading →

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On returning from a pilgrimage 

Posted on October 16, 2016 by Rosalind C Hughes

Between my hands, wheat and water; bread, flat and pale. In its grain I read the story of hands breaking bread beside a river; light lifts the surface of the water; between fragments, for a moment, I can see the … Continue reading →

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The banquet

Posted on August 28, 2016 by Rosalind C Hughes

No sermon this Sunday, simply the observation that today’s Gospel whispered to me of those times that you have slipped into the back of the church, trying to melt into the shadows cast by the dark-wood pews, sure only of … Continue reading →

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Year B Proper 15: the bread of life

Posted on August 16, 2015 by Rosalind C Hughes

“How can this man give us his flesh to eat on the moon?” they demanded to know, adding, “This is getting a little ridiculous.”

So Jesus said to them, “Very truly, I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you.” Continue reading →

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