Humbly we come before your face, O Lord: take the gifts we offer you. Humbly we come before your face, O Lord: grant us peace and salvation. Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation. Thanks to your goodness, here is bread: Bread which our hands have made and earth has given. It will become … Read more
Behold the bread, O Lord, we offer unto you, O take our hearts as well and consecrate them too. Before you, loving Father, let our offering rise, the symbol of a pure and holy sacrifice. O let us be your harvest, Harvester Divine, We offer you the sheaves, Lord, full of grain so fine.
What can we bring to offer as our gift to you, O Lord, O God, as our gift to you? You are full of kindness for your sinful sons, O Lord, O God, for your sinful sons. Father, all that we have, Father, comes from your hands. So we offer you, Jesus, as our holy … Read more
Take this bread, gift and work of human hands. Take this wine from this branch of your vine. Take our lives as an offering to you, God of mercy, singing “Blessed be our God!”
Accept, almighty Father, these gifts of bread and wine, which now the priest is offering for us before thy shine; but soon the word will make them his body and his blood, the sacrifice renewing, once offered on the rood. With these, although unworthy, some offering we make, but all we have, thou gavest, then … Read more
Bread and wine we bring to you, Lord, work of our human hands. Soon to become your body and blood, Jesus yourself. May all who share this meal divine be one. Humbly we bring ourselves to you, Lord. Take our hearts, take our wills. All that we have and all that we do, we give … Read more
Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation. Through your goodness, we have this bread to offer you, which earth has given and human hands have made. It will become for us the Bread of life. Blessed be God for evermore. {3} Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation. Through your goodness, we have … Read more
In bread, we bring you, Lord, our bodies’ labour. In wine, we offer you our spirits’ grief. We do not ask you, Lord, who is my neighbour? But stand united now, one in belief. O we have gladly heard your Word, your holy Word and now in answer, Lord, our gifts we bring, Our selfish … Read more
Take thou the offering thy children make, all united for thy name’s sake. Heavenly Father, Almighty God, we offer thee this sacrifice. Show to us thy mercy, O Lord, forgive us the sins of all our life. To thee, O Lord, our joys we give, our weariness, our work and woe, the anxious moments that … Read more
Bless now, O heavenly Father, your people gathering round you before your altar bringing our gifts: bread for your broken body, wine for your blood which heals us, and all the love, Lord, of our poor hearts. We, your people, with full hearts we ask you, O take our gifts, Lord, and make them yours. … Read more