There Must Be Bread

A Sermon for Lammas

It is Lammas Day, the 1st of August. In the old ritual year of Britain, this represented the midpoint of the downward swing of the year from the high point of midsummer to the autumnal equinox on September 22 and Michaelmas on the 29th. This was the traditional first fruits of the harvest, also, in which the still largely agrarian society of the British…