Dear Reader,
After my holiday break and a catch-up, Towerpod is back. I’ve not sent an email to you for the catch-up episodes, but you’ll find them on the Substack here or your podcast app. I do want to draw your attention to this one though…
At the moment in the Eucharist when the Bread is broken and this is said:
We break this bread
to share in the body of Christ.
there was a loud, extended crescendo of thunder - I had no choice but to pause for a few moments before completing, “to share in the body of Christ”.
I felt both fear and awe. I expect some of you did too.
I commented that this was no accident. It was as if the reason for breaking the bread was being drawn powerfully to our attention… so that we can share the body of Christ with those who need it.
This the whole point, this is our purpose, this is our mission…to be blessed, to break the Bread in order that others may share in Him.
The simplest way is Mary’s way at the wedding at Cana John 2:1-12 - after all, she’s our Patron… I commend it to you - experiment with it.
* Notice someone’s need …”when the wine ran. out”
* Take the need to Jesus in prayer “they have no wine”
* Let the person know of your prayer, and invite them to listen to Jesus for themselves “His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
We’re being sent, let’s go!
Andrew+
Luke 10:1–20 NIV
After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. *Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.
“When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’ If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them; if not, it will return to you. Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.
“When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is offered to you. Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say, ‘Even the dust of your town we wipe from our feet as a warning to you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God has come near.’ I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades.
“Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
The seventy-two returned with joy and said, “Lord, even the demons submit to us in your name.”
He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
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