Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
The Eucharist table is open to the whole cosmos through the creative interplay of the memories, hopes, and relationships of the meal itself. Meals always ground the societies who eat them in the planetary processes of life, identifying our relatives at the table and disclosing opportunities for gratitude and humility in response to the beloved dignity of all our kin. This imperative is grounded in the organic claim that every eater is fundamentally related to everyone who is eaten. Meal memories, hopes, and relationships have been, are, and must continue to be critically important events that disclose restorative and life-giving ecological solidarities that include and transcend the Church.