Paul, in Galatians, speaks not only of unity but of belonging. “You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.” In baptism we have been clothed with Christ; old badges lose their right to rank us, and our differences are no longer permission to disregard. And Paul presses it further: if you belong to Christ, you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise. Communion teaches this before we can argue it. We receive bread and wine not as rivals but as family.

So we pray about access in education, not as a fashionable phrase but as neighbour-love with a timetable. Where opportunity is quietly rationed by postcode, wealth, disability, language, or fear, teach us to seek justice without bitterness. As heirs of the King and subjects in his world, we are trained to ask a simple question: would we accept this barrier if the person facing it were beside us at the Lord’s Table, our brother or sister? Lord, make our common life more honest, more patient, and more open-handed, for the sake of those who are too easily excluded.