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#SV – We’re Fed to Feed

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

Sequence Lauda Sion  Laud, O Zion, your salvation,Laud with hymns of exultation,            Christ, your king and shepherd true: Bring him all the praise you know,He is more than you bestow.            Never can you reach his due. Special theme for glad thanksgivingIs the quick’ning and the living            Bread today before you set: From his hands of old partaken,As we know, by faith unshaken,            Where the Twelve at supper met. Full and clear ring out your chanting,Joy nor sweetest grace be wanting,            From your heart let praises burst: For today the feast is holden,When the institution olden            Of that supper was rehearsed. … Continue reading #SV – We’re Fed to Feed

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#SV – A Tough Journey

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

Elijah went a day’s journey into the desert,until he came to a broom tree and sat beneath it. He prayed for death saying:“This is enough, O LORD! Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.” He lay down and fell asleep under the broom tree,but then an angel touched him and ordered him to get up and eat. Elijah looked and there at his head was a hearth cakeand a jug of water. After he ate and drank, he lay down again,but the angel of the LORD came back a second time,touched him, and ordered,“Get up and eat, else the journey will … Continue reading #SV – A Tough Journey

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#SV – Vital participation

Ikenna Paschal Okpaleke

That the solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ follows the solemnity of the Trinity is not a mere coincidence. Rather the former flows from the latter. As the refection of last Sunday remarked, the life of the Trinity is the life of love, the participation in the Body and Blood of Christ is to share in this life (of love) of God. The Eucharist is thus a love feast – yet not in the empty understanding of feast, rather it is a holy immersion into the life of God. It is to commune with God and hence to … Continue reading #SV – Vital participation