Food

I’m showing up as I can – some days more than others. I say to God, “This is where I am. This is what I have and don’t have. And this is what I need.” In the Eucharist I say, “Here I am.” And God says, “Yes, here I am for you today.”

– Br. Luke Ditewig

Way of Love: Daily Practice

Take time to linger over a meal. Savor the flavors and the slower pace.

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Since the very beginnings of the church, we have remembered Jesus with food, food that we eat and share in community, and we have remembered Jesus as food, food that sustains us, and becomes part of our very being. Eating this food together, we become the body of Christ.

– The Rev. Becky Zartman

Way of Love: Daily Practice

Eat a meal with someone you may not know or normally eat with.
Use a phone or video call to connect with someone during these isolating times.

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It’s a really powerful practice to recognize the gift of sustenance in a world where so many people are starving – starving for food, but also starving for love, starving to belong, starving for shelter, starving for justice. We can use the gift of our hunger – and the provision to sate our hunger – as a reminder to take food as a gift, not just a given. Let food have a symbolic, iconic quality of the hungers that surround us in this world.

– Br. Curtis Almquist, SSJE

Way of Love: Daily Practice

Share your blessings. Buy a meal for a hungry person or make a donation to a food bank.

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The Eucharist has a way of surprising us. It’s not always this feeling that I’m engorged and full – and so grateful to be full of Jesus. Sometimes the Spirit says, “We are going to feed you today with this lack that you are feeling. This lack that you’re feeling is going to be what feeds you.” 

– Br. Sean Glenn, SSJE

Way of Love: Daily Practice

Fast today. Pay attention to the ways in which you are hungry.

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Jesus comes to us as food in the Eucharist, and he’s truly present in the bread and wine. But even before that, he is present in the breaking open of the bread of scripture. And he’s present in the gathered community. 

– Br. James Koester, SSJE

Way of Love: Daily Practice

Jesus says, “I am the bread of life.” For what do you hunger?

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Having now received the Eucharist – most days – for ten years, I know that there’s always more. There’s always more to receive of God. I’m always further in need, which is the humbling part. And God has good gifts to give.

– Br. Luke Ditewig, SSJE

Way of Love: Daily Practice

Read The Song of Mary (BCP 119). Sit silently. Invite God to speak through this reading.

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The Eucharist and the liturgy continue to be an ongoing invitation. Even when I think I’ve got it all figured out, there’s always more. I’ve been receiving communion now for thirteen years, and it’s never the same any day. I never walk away feeling fed in the same way. I always feel fed. 

– Br. Sean Glenn, SSJE

Way of Love: Daily Practice

Worship in community today. Watch “Signs of Life: Food” video

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