We Are What We Sing

Taylor Mertins

Matthew 26.17-30 Music has this almost magic quality to it. It can bring forth emotions we did not know we had, or that we did not know we needed to feel. God uses the songs we sing to remind us who we are and whose we are. And the same happens here at the table. We do this in remembrance not only because we are commanded to, but also because, in so doing, we become Jesus’ memory for the world. The Eucharist is the feast that makes Christ’s time the time in which we live. A time meant for singing. And so, it is here in this ferocious fellowship of differents God says, “Behold what you are! And become what you receive.”