The Cathedral Close

On a quiet Monday as we come to the beginning of a new Church year and “crown” the old, the following quote from the great Anglican theologian  Fr. Austin Farrer seems appropriate.  The piece is Farrer’s meditation for Easter I and is taken from his book THE CROWN OF THE YEAR-Weekly Paragraphs for the Holy Sacrament

THE death and resurrection of Christ draw near to us in this sacrament.  The bread is broken–there Christ dies; we receive it as Christ alive–there is his resurrection.  It is the typical expression of divine power to make something from nothing.  God has made the world where no world was, and God makes life out of death.  Such is the God with whom we have to do.  We do not come to God for a little help, a little support to our own good intentions.  We come to him for resurrection.  God will not be asked for a little, he will be asked for all.  We reckon ourselves dead, says St. Paul, that we may ask God for a resurrection, not of ourselves, but of Christ in us.