633 sligo avenue, silver spring, md 20910
633 sligo avenue, silver spring, md 20910
Rev. Susan G. Astarita
August 27, 2006
Dear Friends:
Here's a story John Lawrence shares in Synthesis about a person who was trying to get his head around the notion that Christ could be found at the altar Sunday after Sunday. The person approached the priest and told of this dilemma after the service.
The priest asked the person to wait after the rest of the congregation had left, and then, as the Altar Guild was doing the cleanup, the priest and the congregant went up to the sanctuary rail. The chalice was still on the table.
The priest asked, "What do you see?"
The response: "A cup."
"And when you come up for communion, what do you notice?"
"The bread on the plate and the wine in the cup."
Then the priest held up the chalice and asked the person to look closer. After a few moments, the parishioner shook his head and walked away. A friend happened to be in the narthex, and asked what had happened.
The person replied as if not quite taking in what had just occurred, but with great conviction:
"I saw the face of Jesus!"
Stunned, the friend quickly asked, "What did Jesus look like? What did Jesus look like?"
The answer came quietly and humbly, "Jesus looked like me."
Faithfully,
Mother Susan +