Communion Service - 3rd August 2014. Matthew 26:26-35. (Preached in Kilskeery FPC) It is necessary to ever bear in mind when we gather around the Lord's Table, that on the occasion of the initiation of this sacred sacrament, that there anything but true spiritual unity at the table for here sat Judas Iscariot. Though there was a most solemn profession of faith in Christ involved in the partaking of the bread and the wine, the heart of Judas was filled with treachery born of a love for this world's goods, even the paltry sum of 30 pieces of silver. Let each one of us ponder the treachery of the human heart in the light of this sacred record. "But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body," 1 Cor 11:28-29. And yet, in the midst of such imperfections and sins, the people of God must continue to bear witness to Christ's great mercy and love and remember His death and resurrection and the blessed redemption that arose from them.