26.04.2020
The Breaking of the Bread – Archbishop Jackson Preaches from Kilternan Parish
Archbishop Michael Jackson joined the Revd Rob and Julie Clements and the parishioners of Kilternan Parish this morning (Sunday April 26) for a service of Spiritual Communion.
During the service viewers are invited into Rob and Julie’s kitchen to make bread for Communion and to consider the similarities between making bread and prayer. There are also readings and prayers from parishioners.
In his sermon, the Archbishop observes that in today’s reading [Luke 24: 13–35] we meet the Apostles on the road. “As we who are privileged to be able to walk every millimetre of the two kilometres radius allotted to us for our daily exercise might well be doing, they too are mulling things over,” he says. The stranger who joins their conversation sorts out their confusion. He also breaks bread with them. Then he leaves, the Archbishop says adding that the Apostles also leave and tell two things: what happened on the road and what happened in the breaking of the bread.
“Separated as we are from church and from one another by required isolation and social distancing, we nonetheless belong to a community of understanding and of recognition. We have the opportunity to take to heart through all the scriptures the presence of Jesus in ourselves. It is still our calling and our responsibility to share this with other people,” he says.
You can watch the service from Kilternan below.
You can read the text of the Archbishop’s sermon here.
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