Sharing the eucharistic insights of the ‘Star Wars Prayer’: a step on our pilgrim journey towards being one in Christ

O'Loughlin, Thomas

Abstract

Since our earliest days as disciples of Jesus of Nazareth the churches, local communities that came together in Jesus ’ name to praise the Father while sharing the cup and breaking the loaf, 1 have continually borrowed from one another. This borrowing has been of material resources – Paul’s collection in Greece for the relief of famine in Palestine; people – the teachers, prophets and evangelists were all travellers between the communities; texts – it was the copying and sharing of letters and the recorded performances of the evangelists that generated the body of texts that eventually formed the canon; and items of liturgy – such as hymn s we find embedded in letters and the texts for blessing the Father we find within the Didache …

Citation

O'Loughlin, T. (2019). Sharing the eucharistic insights of the ‘Star Wars Prayer’: a step on our pilgrim journey towards being one in Christ. One in Christ, 53(1), 46-63

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 20, 2018
• Publication Date: Sep 2, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jun 25, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 25, 2019
• Publisher: Monastery of Christ our Saviour Turvey
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 46-63
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/2227498
• Related Public URLs: http://www.oneinchrist.org.uk/