CORRESPONDENCE.
The Editor, Waiapu Church Gazette. Sir,I appreciate Mr. McLean's thoughtful letter on the observance of Good Friday, but I think he has missed the point about the buns. It seems to me that they accentuate the message of the day and recall to the members of the household the message of Good Friday. The sacramental teaching of our Church emphasises the fact that each meal and all our activities should be an extension of tKe EucHaristic service. All our food is symbolically marked with the sign of the cross and on Good Friday these buns bring us this message. The redeeming work accomplished on Good Friday has for its ultimate goal the bringing of the earth and all that dwells upon it back into the circle of the Divine love, and the round bun with the surcharged cross symbolises this great fact. The spices which it should contain have also an interesting meaning. I do not think, however, that anyone can accuse the present-day bun # of being a happy accompaniment to a feast! Yours, REGINALD GARDINER. Havelock North, 11/5/39.
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Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 30, Issue 4, 1 June 1939, Page 4
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