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Good Morning.聽聽In Brecon Cathedral where I serve is a 12th-century font covered in wonderful carvings of a jolly-looking green man, animals, and foliage. Many people think it鈥檚 Celtic, but it鈥檚 not even Welsh, having been built by Normans.

Whenever I conduct a baptism, I consider the countless priests who have christen countless people at that font over the past 900 years. Many of the people whose names appear in memorials on the cathedral wall and its floor were christened there. The beginning and end of their lives connected by cathedral stone.

Today, as the old rhyme goes, we 鈥榬emember, remember the 5th of November鈥�. More happily than Guy Fawke鈥檚 Day, our font reminds us that remembering is central to Christianity. From our beginning, Christians have recalled Christ鈥檚 life, especially his death and resurrection. Indeed, he commanded us: 鈥淒o this in remembrance of me.鈥� For us, remembering is a sacramental act that unites us to God.

But we now live in an age of amnesia. Consumer culture eradicates the customs and even landscape that we have inherited or else it promotes only those aspects that can be used for profit. In such a world, it鈥檚 vital that Christians remember.

Objects like our font remind us that we鈥檙e part of a Christian fellowship that reaches back deep into time. They provide us with memory inscribed in stone, pointing us towards Christ, who promises to be ever-present with us in our remembering.

God of ages past, our hope for years to come, help us so to prize what we have inherited that we act responsibly for those yet to be born. Amen.