The Queen's College Record 2020
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Reports and <strong>College</strong> Activities<br />
A detail of one of the stained glass windows at the east end of the Chapel, above the altar,<br />
showing the baby Jesus on Mary’s knee (photo by David Fisher)<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>College</strong> very much is the people, of course. But people are embodied, and<br />
the Christian faith affirms a God who became flesh to live with his flesh and blood<br />
people. How do we live an incarnational faith in a virtual world? I have once again<br />
taken inspiration from the Ascension, the subject chosen by our eighteenth century<br />
predecessors in the <strong>College</strong> to preside over all our gatherings in the Chapel. In the<br />
Feast of the Ascension, and in the closely following feast of Corpus Christi, we are<br />
reminded that Christ’s physical presence does not give way to physical absence.<br />
Rather, free from the limitations of his pre-resurrection body, he is liberated to be<br />
tangibly present everywhere that his people pray or act in his name. In the words<br />
of St <strong>The</strong>resa of Avila: ‘Christ has no body now on earth but ours.’ As the <strong>College</strong><br />
regroups, and we begin to see the long-term impact of this year’s events on our<br />
community, we will only see more clearly the value of those things for which the<br />
Chapel has stood for three hundred years.<br />
<strong>College</strong> <strong>Record</strong> <strong>2020</strong> | <strong>The</strong> Queen’s <strong>College</strong> 49
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