There’s nothing like fresh dough – first fresh dough is just that fresh and it smells lovely, but secondly you can do things with fresh dough – you can make bread, a cheese twist a chousamme de pomme or even a quiche! And that’s how God wants us fresh, mouldable and be ready to be turned into anything that God decides…

But this for me is the best part of this fresh bread analogy. Paul goes onto say that we are to be like Christ, our Passover lamb, sacrificed for us. Bread is meant to be broken – broken in solidary with others, but broken bread reminds us of Jesus’ sacrifice for us, his display of love for us. As we say in our communion liturgy “we break this bread to share in the body of Christ.

We have two choices Paul gives us. Old yeast and however that is displayed negatively in our lives and churches, or we can be ourselves like bread – broken and distributed to each other and to our communities in which we live and serve.

Jesus said “I am the bread of life”.., and as we share in the body of Christ, so we too share in the bread of life, and as imitators of Christ we are ourselves to become fresh dough broken and shared with a world in need.