Meals are the settings in which families rehearse their stories, repeatedly trading tales and histories, realizing afresh what it means to be a Webber, a Clapp, or whomever. Without memory there is no identity or vision and so no personhood. The Eucharist is the church’s meal, a repast taken to praise God, to nourish it, and to refresh its memory and so its unique identity and its eschatological vision.
00041 – Memory and Eucharist
church(es) | communion | eschatology | Eucharist | family | God | histories | identity | Lord's Supper | meal(s) | memory | nourish(es) | personhood | praise(s) | refresh(ment) | repast(s) | story | tale(s) | unique(ness) | vision