This Sunday, we gather in fellowship around the communion elements and remember the beautiful teachings of our way-shower. Jesus initiated this celebration on Passover with his disciples.
The Passover is a symbol of one's passing from sense to spiritual consciousness. It is consistent with the giving up of pretense and worldly values for the sake of sincerity and truth. We rest in love and truth as we share this ritual.
Typically, churches celebrate the Last Supper in a Holy Thursday service. We chose to celebrate communion on Palm Sunday. In the sharing of the bread and wine/juice, we remember the metaphysical meaning. The bread symbolizes spiritual substance - the idea of unity and interconnectedness with God, the invisible reality. The wine symbolizes blood, or spiritual life principle. This principle rests on pure ideas, and it is manifested in mind and body in concrete form when rightly appropriated.
How does one appropriate spiritual substance? Meditating on spiritual ideas is the first essential. In the Gospels we read repeatedly, “Jesus sat down and the apostles with him.” We “eat” or appropriate the things of Spirit, when we contemplate them in peace and quietness, giving them our undivided attention. The One mind has an exhaustless store of ideas. In the mind, the I AM collects the faculties and gives them the substance and life of Spirit.
Come and join in a consciousness of appropriating divine ideas and abiding in divine life. Come celebrate being aware of the Christ within and the unseen infinite life and love of which we partake. It is a joy to be united in this energy. Of course, there will be fabulous music throughout the service.
Oodles of love,
Rev. Patty
