The year was 1900. We remember the “dean” of the house church movement in China, Wang Ming Dao. The reading is from 17th century Emperor Kangxi, “Poem of the Cross.”
The year was 1542 and Pope Paul III issued the Papal Bull, “Licet ab Initio.” The reading is an excerpt from Soren Kierkegaard's 1851 “Discourse on Communion.”
The year was 1969, and Buzz Aldrin became the first man to take communion in space. The reading is from Robert Campbell's hymn, "At the Lambs High Feast We Sing."