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To all our readers who wrote
to say thanks for "Church Gathers at Our House" in the Spring
'02 issue, Your comments were much appreciated and your words encouraging.
It never did enter our heads not to celebrate the eucharist or thanksgiving
prayer in our home in view of "Where two or three etc." Moreover,
Jesus' request to "Do this in memory of me." was spoken to
all the disciples and not only, as is often put forth, to the twelve
(?) male disciples alone. If Jesus words are in opposition to some other
words of the church, there is no question as to which words take precedence.
Every christian, female and male, can eucharist at home with family
or with friends. Ordination is not necessary. Ordination, an action
of the church believing it is acting in the spirit of Jesus, is necessary
for doing the same publicly in church on Sunday when someone acts as
president of the church gathered in that place. There are far too many
rules about that in itself, but for good public church order, the church,
local and universal, has to have some say as to what happens when people
gather to eucharist. But christians need never be without the eucharist
at any time. We have Jesus' word for it. Chris Diamond *** We cover the universe with the drawings we have lived. Gaston Bachelard
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