Sharing the Lord's Supper - Laurent Clémenceau

Sharing bread and wine together: this is one of the invitations extended by Jesus to his disciples, and ever since, one of the gestures most frequently practiced in Christian communities. Christians therefore engage in it with a sense of familiarity. But what actually happens at the moment of the Lord's Supper? What does this gesture imply? Who does it concern? In what form and with what regularity can we practice it... and why? What was Jesus' intention in establishing it? How can we explain the different perspectives that Christian communities have on this practice? Should it be accompanied by an examination of conscience? Can children be included? A single cup or small glasses?

It is to such questions, both conceptual and very practical, that this collection of texts seeks to respond. Within it, one will find an invitation to reconsider the images we have learned to form of the Lord's Supper and to re-examine the biblical texts that speak to us about it.

Laurent Clémenceau is a pastor and the author of Rencontres et mariages (2014), Comprendre Colossiens aujourd’hui (2015) and, in the Éclairages collection, L’ancien et le nouveau (2016).

ISBN: 9782755003130