Rowan Williams again. For every year (I think) of his time as Archbishop, Rowan gave lectures for Holy Week in Canterbury. Many have now been published - Tokens of Trust; The Lion's World; Being Christian; Meeting God in Paul; Meeting God in Mark and most recently God With Us: The Meaning of the Cross and Resurrection Then and Now. Today comes from the chapter on Eucharist in Being Christian.
One of the most transformingly surprising things about Holy Communion is that it obliges you to see the person next to you as wanted by God. God wants that person's company as well as mine. How much simpler if God only wanted my company and that of those I had decide to invite. But God does not play that particular game. And the transforming effect of looking at other Christians as people whose company God wants, is - by the look of things - still sinking in for a lot of Christians, and taking rather a long time ...
Rowan Williams, Being Christian (SPCK, 2014), p.51.
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