Sharing a Meal in the Name of the Lord with Goat and Lamb - Day 16: Wednesday, 3/2/2010

This is my last full day in Kenya.  As we celebrate our time together, we also must prepare to say goodbye.  Thankfully, we have found a way to make technology work for us so that we will be better able to stay in touch until I return in 2011.

We partook of roasted goat, a meat often associated with big celebrations, (George and I are chomping down) and a host of my favorite Kenyan dishes. 

                                    

                                                

After this meal, we had another meal recalling the sacrifice the Lamb of God made for our sins as we celebrated the "memorial of our redemption. Recalling Christ's death and his descent among the dead, proclaiming his resurrection and ascension . . ."  John asked me to preside from the BCP of The Episcopal Church using The Holy Eucharist: Rite II service.  At this Eucharist we blessed by their first use the vessels of the communion set given to me by All Saints at my ordination and first mass, which I then presented to John.  It seemed to be a "right, and a good, and joyful thing" to share one of the two sets I had received.  Rather than to have one of two sets sitting on a shelf, they are both now in regular use thus blessing those who were so generous to me.  As this set is used by John, prayers will be lifted up for the people of All Saints, Pleasant Ridge in Cincinnati, OH.