\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Saint James Anglican Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nI attend a High Mass Anglo-Catholic Parish in Vancouver called Saint James. There are sometimes 12 people in the Chancel at a time, attending to the consecration of the Eucharist, swarming in dervish like semi-circles around the eastward facing priest. Priests, deacons, sub-deacons, acolytes, thurifer, torch bearers and crucifer. No single one of us, even the priest makes the dance complete. We are each an integral part of the liturgical ecology.<\/p>\n
This is of course not a food chain, but food is involved. Our oikos<\/em> is the altar, \u00a0the place where we bring the fruits of the land, the work of human hands, and \u00a0ourselves, and to turn it, ever so slowly, into God.\u00a0As an ecosystem transfers energy from up the trophic hierarchy\u00a0from simple to complex organisms, so we during the liturgy, move the desires of our hearts into God\u2019s desires; a little more each day.<\/p>\nIt is true, that if we stay on the surface, the liturgy can be boring and repetitive. But just under the surface, the intricate dance that turns bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ on the altar, is an icon for the everyday intricacy that turns our food into our bodies; bodies that make up the mystical body of Christ.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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