What we offer each other then becomes the fruit—the bread, meat, cheese, and wine—that we can set before you, and everyone we know, to eat. It’s a lavish banquet of delights that is free to us all, because it came at the cost of another: Jesus, “the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). The one who came to give us life to the full, who is now preparing for us the complete, heavenly banquet, said, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink” (7:37).
