Please read the Scripture passage before the homily.
Take the scroll and eat the scroll. The word of God makes a meal for us. It is honey in the mouth and upsetting in the stomach. We hear the word, but struggle with it.
Our banquets and meals have two essential elements, conversation and eating. Without conversation, we might as well eat alone: we need conversation as well as food.
When we gather to celebrate the Lord’s Supper, the Eucharist, we celebrate with word and Body and Blood. We hear the scriptures proclaimed and we celebrate the dying and rising of the Lord. Our examples come from the scriptures and the record of what Jesus did in his life on earth, eating and preaching together.
Before we take the sacramental Bread and Wine, changed into the Body and blood of Christ, we are to experience, sacramentally, Christ’s real presence to us in the proclamation of the Sacred scriptures.
We eat the scroll and feast on the whole Christ in the forms of bread and wine. These actions we undertake at the command of God urge us on to prophecy to may peoples, nations, tongues and kings.