Our Lent introduction ended with questions about what helps when experiencing thresholds in faith and life…

What metaphor or question may we inhabit? What way or request may we follow?

The cup that I drink you will drink; and with the baptism with which I am baptised, you will be baptised” Mark 10:39

Durham Cathedral, The Last Supper Table by Colin Wilbourn

Final Sunday Passion liturgy : Luke 22

“I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer”

And he took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me.” (Luke 22:15,19)

An antidote to the illusion of separation

It is not recorded what the disciples thought of this turn of events, as recorded in Luke 22. Knowing what was to befall, final messages to give, Jesus chooses to distribute and disperse himself.

As I ponder the Lord’s Supper again it is not so much thanks for Jesus sacrifice, or the adoration it may evoke, the story it usefully retells as much as it is the regular opportunity to be reminded of, and physically chew on, the 'illusion of separation' that stands out.

We are one. I am in you, you are in me, be like me. Let me descend to your very centre, to the pit of your stomach in fact! What the sacrifice points to, what we are to remember perhaps, is this closeness, this ‘ no separation’ message, that we need to hear so frequently and deeply. This is that bodily sense of interiority, of union. Active participation and positive reaffirmation is on the table. Injest oneness, simply.