How would you describe the overall shape of a Eucharist?
Hear St Francis College’s Bishop Jonathan Holland explain how a Eucharistic service unfolds and why Eucharistic services have historically followed this “lovely shape and structure”
Hear St Francis College’s Bishop Jonathan Holland explain how a Eucharistic service unfolds and why Eucharistic services have historically followed this “lovely shape and structure”
Hear Archbishop Phillip Aspinall explain the presiding role of the priest in the Eucharist: “In the Eucharist the priest presides over the rite and the ritual, exercising that leadership role in the community that has many facets to it…the president doesn’t do everything, but the president kind of holds it together”
Hear The Rev’d Gillian Moses and Bishop Jonathan Holland explain the place of the Eucharist, and how our hearts are “set on fire as we chew over the scriptures” and how we then “get inspired when we meet Christ in the bread and the wine”
“It is so important for people to worship in their vernacular because worship and life are the same. They are God’s gifts. We worship in the language that God has gifted us,” says The Rev’d Eleanor Mancini
“After a few months of ‘digital church’, our Parish Council realised that those attending church online were a congregation in their own right and would benefit from support just like the usual face-to-face congregation, so the concept of an ‘Online LA’ was born,” says Sarah Gover from the Parish of North Pine
Revising the Tongan liturgy of the Eucharist has put the translators into a balancing act between Tonga’s most formal patterns of speech and the language Anglicans might want to use when they relate to Jesus
Hear Archbishop Phillip Aspinall share about Christ’s presence in the Eucharist and how the Eucharist is about our transformation: “Through the Eucharist we deepen our participation in Christ as Christ meets us and transforms us”
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