The Post Communion Prayer

The post communion prayer captures much of the reverence and transcendence that we experience in Holy Communion. What God does in and through this sacrament is a Holy Mystery. It is unlike anything that we know in creation yet it is a part of creation. It is a place where the divine and the created meet. How that works is a Holy Mystery. What we know is that this sacrament assures us of God’s goodness and favor. That favor and goodness look like the mystical body of Christ. 

When we each eat and drink the body and blood of Jesus, we become Him and He becomes us. We become members of this large body. The Sacrament is an instrument of unity between us and God. It is a powerful thing to look at our neighbors as they receive communion and think of them as brother or sister because of this sacrament.

The favor and goodness of the Lord is also seen in how He makes us heirs of an everlasting kingdom. This is a kingdom that is without the problems of scarcity. It is everlasting! The world deals with shortages all the time. Some have enough and others do not. Our abundance comes at the expense of another’s lack. This is not so in God’s kingdom. We are fed with spiritual food from a source that is unending. The source being Jesus. Another great mystery in receiving this food, this body and blood, is that we then become the body of Christ. We go into the world and offer ourselves as healing salve. The world consumes us through our service, our time and our resources. But the more we give of ourselves the more Jesus adds to us. When we come back to the sacrament we are replenished as the Body of Christ ready to go back out into the world. 

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