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Reflection from our Co-Pastors
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
A WELCOMING TABLE
Today in Fr. Richard Rohr's daily meditation, he talks about a welcoming table. “The Christian Eucharist” he says, “was supposed to model equality and inclusivity, but we turned the Holy Meal into an exclusionary game, a religiously sanctioned declaration and division into groups of the worthy and the unworthy--as if we were worthy.”
Meanwhile, our gospels show Jesus “eating in new ways and with new people,” many who were marginalized, oppressed, and excluded from the system. He was always trying to make a “bigger table.”
Our community of Mary of Magdala invites all to receive communion--not only at the Eucharistic table in the church sanctuary, but with the gracious invitation that all tables are God’s table-in person, on zoom, or anywhere in the world. We practice Sacramental Justice, inviting all, wherever they may be on their faith journey, to receive the Body of Christ. In fact, all Seven sacraments of our faith are open to everyone.
Fr. Rohr continues, “Eucharist is meant to identify us in a positive, inclusionary way, but we are not yet well practiced at this… Many today want to make the Holy Meal into a ‘prize for the perfect,’ as Pope Francis observed in his book The Joy of the Gospel.
“The Eucharistic meal is meant to be a microcosmic event, summarizing at the table what is true in the whole macrocosm: we are one, all are equal in dignity, we all eat of the same divine food, and Jesus still and always ‘eats with sinners,’ just as he did when on earth.
Thanks be to God!
Amen
If you wish to receive Fr. Rohr’s Daily Meditations, please visit the website of 'The Center for Action and Contemplation.'
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