Add to ORKGSince our earliest days as disciples of Jesus of Nazareth the churches, local communities that came together in Jesus ’ name to praise the Father while sharing the cup and breaking the loaf, 1 have continually borrowed from one another. This borrowing has been of material resources – Paul’s collection in Greece for the relief of famine in Palestine; people – the teachers, prophets and evangelists were all travellers between the communities; texts – it was the copying and sharing of letters and the recorded performances of the evangelists that generated the body of texts that eventually formed the canon; and items of liturgy – such as hymn s we find embedded in letters and the texts for blessing the Father we find within the D...