The Community at the Crossing—an ecumenical group of young people living for a year on the Cathedral close—regularly hosts distinguished guest scholars and teachers. The Bridge Seminars offer an opportunity to learn from some of these eminent thinkers in an intimate, roundtable setting, side-by-side with members of the Community at the Crossing.

The Eastern and Western churches agree that the Eucharist sits at the heart of the Christian life, as the principal act of worship that Christians offer when they gather on the Lord’s Day. This seminar explores the nature of Christianity as a religion with a ritual at its center and how to think about the relationship of ritual to human persons. It will also look specifically at the Holy Eucharist, the liturgies used by Catholics and Anglicans, and how churches articulate the understandings of this central Sacrament.

The Rev. Dr. Matthew S.C. Olver is the executive Director and Publisher of The Living Church Foundation, Senior Lecturer in Liturgics at Nashotah House Theological Seminary, and a priest in the Episcopal Church since 2006.

The class schedule is
October 27, 10am - 12pm & 2:30pm - 4:30pm
October 28, 9:30am - 12pm & 2:30pm - 4:30pm

Attendance is required at both days of this seminar.