I found the sermon to be wandering and I was distracted by the priest’s incorrect use of the word “eliciting.” I can’t say there’s a better word that fits in each of the instances that he used that word, but “eliciting” is not the correct work.
He said that Jesus is “in” the sacred bread. WELL…
It seems that he composed the sermon by putting his ideas on scraps of paper, then arranging the papers and sort of smoothing over the transitions from one to the next.
He didn’t seem to stick well with that Sunday’s sermon. He was saying make your Easter communion today…hmmmm.
It is as he said, a theological argument, how long Jesus is physically in us after we receive communion. I suppose you have to make this point, but I believe Jesus is with us always, we are temples of the Holy Spirit. It’s very old fashioned to draw a distinction on that point, isn’t it?
The sermon was kind of stiff. But, it might have been just what some need to hear, I won’t begrudge that. A priest should know his congregation well enough to know what they need to hear and how to say it.