The superabundance of God
Preached for Corpus Christi 2019 at St. Paul's, Deptford ‘When the crowds found out about it, they followed him; and he welcomed them, and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who needed to be cured.’ In the name of God who is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Today is a great Feast. It is a day when the church gathers around the altar once again, and offers particular thanks for this great sacrament of the Eucharist which we are partaking in today. Coming, as it does, as the strains of the Easter season can still be heard, gently fading into the distance, it brings our hearts and our minds back to that upper room where Jesus gathered his disciples around him and broke the bread, gave the cup, telling them to do this in ‘re-membrance of me’. And as we recall the events of that solemn and holy night of Maundy Thursday today, we look at it, perhaps, from a different angle. In the great emotion and journey to the cross, tomb and re...