Wessel Gansfort - Life and Writings #226375

During the celebration of masses we should neither read nor pray, but simply remember the Lords suffering, how his body was broken and his blood was shed for us. For a servant cannot be deemed faithful, if, without regard to his instructions, he does what in his own opinion is suitable for the house or useful to his master: for example, if his master were to ask for a cup and he were to hand him a tripod or if his master were to ask for bread and he were to give him a goblet. If he persists in annoying his master in this way, being no longer a faithful but an impertinent servant, he shall be beaten with many stripes. Christ invites us to his table not as servants but as friends, and bids all his guests make this feast a feast of love in remembrance of him, i.e. in remembrance of his broken body and shed blood.<br><br>At this table, although through the condescension of our host we are honored as guests, nevertheless because of our condition we are necessarily servants.