Description
1 Corinthians 11:17-34
Common. The word carries many different meanings and shadings. One of the meanings of “common” is inferior, or not remarkable. Think of common ware, or a common soldier or a commoner. The sense is that something that is “common” lacks value.
However, that’s not at all the sense of the word when used among those who are marked by the cross. We have things in common. We share. We have part in something, equally, together. We have ‘common-ity’.
And there is no ritual that celebrates what we have in common more than Communion. In fact, the word itself shares a root with the word “common.” It comes from two Latin words – cum, which means with, and uno, which means one. Communion means to be one with – and there are two senses in which we are one – we are one with Jesus, and with each other, bound together in grace.
