This new book from Tim Chester sounds really interesting: a Biblical theology of food, meals in the life of Jesus, the Lord's Supper, t...

The principal Feasts which are to be observed in the Church of England are: Christmas Day Epiphany the Annuniation of the Blessed Virgin...

Here's the text you need for the congregation to be able to say their bits in the Communion part of the Holy Communion service in the Co...

Calvin defines the sacraments as "outward signs". One of the most striking things about the Supper, however, is that the bread and...

From Keith Mathison's review of Thomas R. Schreiner and Matthew R. Crawford, eds., T he Lord’s Supper: Remembering and Proclaiming Chri...

I heard a report on Radio 4 this morning of a pagan wedding service where, amongst other things, the couple ate bread and drank mead to repr...

It is worth noting that in a manner of speaking, every Communion is an extended communion. No one communes at exactly the same time and plac...

"A retired Methodist minister is to use Twitter to conduct Holy Communion - with his online flock taking bread and wine in front of t...

According to Jonathan Bonomo, by the end of his review of J. W. Nevin’s The Mystical Presence , Charles Hodge had charged Nevin’s system wit...

The communicants are to receive (rather than offer) the consecrated bread and the wine “with thanksgiving” [1] (Eucharist) and it is aft...

C. S. Lewis argued that modern people and Christians particularly need to regain Joviality (and Mercuriality). It may be that the Lord's...

The boy is repeatedly asking to be admitted to the Lord's Table.

I reckon George Smeaton's book, The Holy Spirit (Banner of Truth, 1882, repr 1958) might be worth dusting off. I liked this: The exalte...

Tim Keller encourages pastors to say to non-Christians who might be present at the Supper: If you are not in a position to take the bread an...

On the exhortation to Lift Up Your Hearts at the Supper, see: John Calvin, 'Form for Administering the Sacraments' in Treatises on t...

I can't agree with Donald Macleod that if each communicant receives the bread and the wine from a minister rather than from his companio...

It is interesting that in many of our churches the bread is prepared for Communion beforehand (in our church sliced bread is half cut up int...

Surveying the writings of the Fathers, George Dollar says: In no area of early church life among Christians is there greater uncertainty tha...

John Mackay records that under the Episcopal regime following the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the Sacrament of the Lord's Suppe...

Revd Prof John Brown (1784-1858) "did not regard the meaning of 'guilty of the body and blood of the Lord' as being a mere prof...