Our scripture lesson for our communion meditation is the 24th chapter of Luke.  Will you follow me as we hear the word of God, beginning with the 13th verse of the 24th chapter?  (Read Luke 24:13-24) Let us pray.

Come Holy Spirit, heavenly dove, with all your quickening powers.  Come shed abroad a savior’s love and that will quicken ours.  Amen.

A few weeks ago, I shared with you a story of a Benedictine monk who is a friend of mine.  Now I want you to know that I do have some protestant friends, but I want to tell you about another monk, another friend, Brother Simon Reynolds.  He is one of the most, if not the most, significant person to enter my life during the past 10 years, and he came via the mail.  I met him through a letter.  Back during 1975 and 76, at the Upper Room, we were h…