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Such inclusiveness inevitably includes the Sacrament itself. New Testament scholarship indicates that Jesus' open table fellowship with unqualified and unprepared sinners led directly to his death; and so we follow his example explicitly, inviting all who wish to share Christ's Body and Blood, and baptizing them afterward when they are ready. Our altar table bears two inscriptions on its two pedestals. One, in Greek, an insult to Jesus preserved in St. Luke's gospel (15:2), reads: "This fellow welcomes sinners and dines with them!" The other, by St. Isaac of Nineveh (for whom St. Petersburg's cathedral is actually named), greets the newly baptized as they return from our font: "Did not the Lord share the table of tax collectors and harlots? So then—do not distinguish between the worthy and unworthy: all must be equal in your eyes to love and to serve."3 ENDNOTES1. Peter L. Berger, Pyramids of Sacrifice (New York: Basic Books, 1974), 170. 2. Some of you may have read Louis Bouyer's Liturgy and Architecture (Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, 1967). 3. Olivier Clément, The Roots of Christian Mysticism: Text and Commentary, trans. T. Berkeley and J. Hummerstone (Hyde Park, N. Y.: New Century Press, 1995), 283. Richard Fabian holds degrees from from Yale (summa cum laude in Chinese Studies), Cambridge, the College of the Resurrection at Mirfield, and General Theological Seminary. He served as Episcopal Chaplain at Yale, and Chaplain to the Bishop of California, and in 1978, together with his fellow Rector Donald Schell, he founded St Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church in San Francisco. He has composed and arranged service music for the Hymnal 1982, Church Hymnal Series V, Wonder Love and Praise, and Music for Liturgy II. Scott King is a scientist and medical entrepreneur developing new therapies. He was educated at the University of Chicago and Harvard with degrees in chemistry. He has long participated in music, and composes hymns for use at St. Gregory's Church in San Francisco. |
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