‘You mean something to me, I mean something to you, and we commune with each other.’ Photo: by Kamil Szumotalski on Unsplash
Body language: Ian Wright’s Thought for the Week
‘Our communion in coming together in worship is held by us all.’
A Quaker friend and I were talking recently when he reminded me that our communion in coming together in Quaker Meeting for Worship is held by us all, in stillness and silence as we sit around. I had spoken to him about a visit I had made over Easter to a local Catholic church, and he had talked about Catholic communion being something that the congregation face towards, carried out through the priest, while ours is held corporately where we look for the centre. In Meeting I ministered on this theme, recalling this reminder, because it is something I often forget. Our communion is held by us in Meeting as individuals, for each other, for our family and friends, and for our wider communities wherever we might then find ourselves.
