Quote of the Day

If the Eucharist is essentially an encounter with the real presence, rather than essentially an institutional-cum-cultic event, then surely [Jesus’] social interactions make it abundantly clear: hunger, not worthiness underpins Table Fellowship. To allow the law, cultic statutes, and theology to take precedence over mercy and love and encounter, is tantamount to perpetuating the hard line rigour of those Pharisees who complained bitterly and moralised pompously about so many things.

Their approach fostered a cold, superficial temple-based religion. But Jesus invited his followers to a change of heart, a heart oriented to the one called, Abba – Father: a relational, God-based faith.

– Peter Day
Excerpted from "An Open Letter to Cardinal Pell"
Pearls and Irritations
September 23, 2014

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• The Challenge of Eucharist
• "Receive What You Are, the Body of Christ"
• Celebrating and Embodying Divine Hospitality
• “Take, All of You, and Eat”: Communion and the Rainbow Sash
• My Rainbow Sash Experience
• Responding to Cardinal Pell
• Chris McGillion Responds to the “Exacerbating” Actions of Cardinal Pell
• Trusting God's Generous Invitation
• Compassion, Christian Community, and Homosexuality
• Reflections on the Primacy of Conscience
• The Two-Sided Catholic Crisis
• Nicole Sotelo: "Jesus Was Not Focused on Priesthood"