Thursday last week was a public holiday in the Roman Catholic areas of Germany for the celebration of Corpus Christi. The body of Christ in the Mass is honoured through beautiful flower petal arrangements in and around the churches and a procession accompanying the consecrated bread through the streets. We watched this in our local town of Schönau where the above picture was taken.
By way of contrast, we, as evangelical believers, are so thankful to be able to concentrate our thoughts on a risen Saviour whose powerful presence is with us each day and as we eat bread and drink wine in fellowship together in rememberance of His body broken for us it's wonderful to believe and know that His presence is not so much in the bread but in our hearts.
This week we have a group of five men as guests in the house, two of which are totally blind and one only partially sighted. On Sunday we sang 'When I stand in glory I shall see His face' and one of our blind brothers pointed out to us the particular blessing this glorious hope is to him.
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