Liturgica: The Earth
GOD is remembered as the creator of all things when we gather to celebrate the Eucharist.
GOD is remembered as the creator of all things when we gather to celebrate the Eucharist. Bread and wine, the fruit of the earth, are taken and offered, in an act of praise, thanksgiving and memorial. The elements represent all that God has made. Wheat and grapes, gifts from God’s goodness and love, are made into bread and wine through human effort, and are given back to God, so that we can in turn be strengthened in our endeavours, to bring about the kind of world which God has in mind.
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David White
is rector of Carlow, diocese of Cashel Ferns and Ossory.