Comfort food? Robert Ashton visits an Anglican feast

‘Would I find it similarly nourishing?’

by Robert Ashton 24th March 2023

An old French proverb says ‘bread and wine start a banquet’. With that thought in mind, I ventured to Blaxhall church to attend the monthly mid-week communion service. For Anglicans, taking the bread and wine is a spiritual banquet, but would I find it similarly nourishing? Although confirmed in my early teens, and an altar server through adolescence, I’d not taken communion for decades. I wondered how much of the service I would remember.