Tag Archives: eucharist

I Am the Bread of Life

Jesus declared that he was “the bread of life.” These poems explore the metaphor.

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This Altar the Earth Herself Has Given

Guite traces an old oaken altar back to the tree out of which it was made, which also blessed the elements.

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No One Understood the Final Meal

In this poem, Mark Jarman shows how the Last Supper was just like any other meal–until it wasn’t.

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The Poetry of Holy Bread

I share a church talk on “The Poetry of Bread” where I shared poems by Levertov, Ungar, Neruda, Underhill, and others.

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Out of Pain We Feed This Feverish Plot

One can read Mary Oliver’s “The Fish” as a description of the eucharist–which is appropriate for today’s gospel reading about fishing for people.

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Hearts Seized by What Is Possible

Chard DeNiord grapples sensitively and intelligently with the meaning of transubstantiation.

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The Bloody Flesh Our Only Food

I share a Good Friday poem by T. S. Eliot and a Passover poem by Norman Finkelstein.

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Jesus as the New Dionysus

Parallels between Dionysus and Christ are clearly drawn in Michael Cacoyannis’s translation of “The Bacchae.”

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Becoming Intimate with God

As George Herbert and Fiona Sampson make clear, partaking in the eucharist feat is our way of becoming intimate with God.

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