Bread and Truth (John 13-17)
I met an convert who told me that when he was a Catholic he wanted to be the best, actually the Pope. Convinced by the priests he was a sinner however he became instead the best at the other end, in fact a hitman. He said he would wait until the end of the week to commit the crime so that after confession he was made right in time for Sunday Mass. How out of touch we can end up in a set of rules and distorted teachings. In fact the essence communion was the love feast of the early gathering of Jesus followers. It was not actually a wafer and sip, or bread dipped, but rather the believers eating together their main daily meal. We can see at the Passover feast (John 13: 24-28) a very different context as Jesus uses what we believe is communion to identify the disciple who was about to betray him. The disciple leans close to Jesus in confidence and asks which of the twelve is the betrayer. Jesus uses the bread dipped to signify who it will be and gave it to Judas. How things have ch