Take This Bread: Giving Thanks & Doing Justice

An afternoon exploring the meaning of the eucharist with Sara Miles, founder of St Gregory's Food Pantry in San Francisco.

'Eating Jesus, as I did that day to my great astonishment, led me against all my expectations to a faith I'd scorned and work I 'd never imagined. The mysterious sacrament turned out to be not a symbolic wafer at all, but actual food––indeed, the bread of life. In that shocking moment of communion, filled with a deep desire to reach for and become part of a body, I realized what I'd been doing with my life all along was what I was meant to do: feed people. ...'

When Sara Miles, journalist and life-long atheist, wandered into a church and received her first communion, she had no idea how it would change her life. But as her acclaimed spiritual autobiography 'Take This Bread' recounts, her conversion to the way of Jesus posed the most challenging question of all: "How could I take communion and read the Bible and not feed people ?"

Join Sara and others to explore how we do justice when we take the bread and drink the wine.

Cost £10.00 (£7)
Booking (essential): email patriciatomlinson@mac.com