Updates from Dr. Eileen Scully and Jesse Zink's letter "Discerning the body: Eucharistic fasting and Covid-19"

Excerpted from the letter (Read the full letter)

“Many people have noted that while we may be fasting from the Eucharist, we can still feast on the word. I agree! In the college community, we have turned our weekly service into an extended Bible study. Other communities are doing the same thing. Christian communities that may not have previously had regular Bible study are learning how transforming this can be. There are ample resources online to support this work and more coming all the time. May God’s word be a light to our feet and a lamp to our path in this time (Psalm 119:105).

This pandemic is calling us to an extended fast, a sort of “super Lent.” (The word “quarantine” literally means “40 days.”) May this time, like Lent itself, be holy to us and a blessing to the church so that we may bless a world so deeply in need.”

Jesse Zink
Canon Theologian, Diocese of Montreal