‘Remember, remember’
Writing in the week following Guy Fawkes Night, with Remembrance Sunday on the horizon, remembrance is at the forefront of the minds of many at the moment. Many Christians do their remembering, first and foremost, in the context of the Eucharist. It is at the Eucharist that we take, bless and share bread and wine in remembrance of Christ and, in particular, in memory of his cross and resurrection. In the almost 2,000-year history of the church, the Eucharist has been celebrated in many different contexts and many different ways. The great Anglican liturgist and Benedictine monk, Dom Gregory Dix (1901-52) describes this in a famous passage from his book The Shape of the Liturgy (1945):
