Communion
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Updated
April 17, 2008
Each September in the country of Malaysia, Chinese people there celebrate the
Mooncake Festival. It is observed a time when the moon is very bright and
supposedly closer to the earth. The festival is filled with superstitions and
pagan ideas. Mooncakes are round meat pies, stuffed with eggs, pork and bean
paste. Once they were stuffed with something else as well. At the end of the
13th century in China the Chinese people planned an uprising against the ruling
Manchu dynasty. Messages were hidden in mooncakes and circulated throughout the
country. That gave the signal for the revolt. (Is that the ancestor of the
fortune cookie?) There is a message in the bread of communion, too. It is not a
message written on paper. Some eat the bread with no idea that the message is
there. But to the discerning there is a deep spiritual message in communion
bread -- and that message is the very reason for Communion. The message is that
Christ died for our sins, and we must now pledge our allegiance to him.