Take And Eat
Take and eat, this is my body. Take and drink, this is my lifeblood. Whenever you share this meal with others to do so in memory of me.
Take and eat, this is my body. Take and drink, this is my lifeblood. Whenever you share this meal with others to do so in memory of me.
Come to the feast of heaven and earth! Come to the table of plenty! God will provide for all that we need, here at the table of plenty. O, come and sit at my table, where saints and sinners are friends. I wait to welcome the lost and lonely to share the cup of my … Read more
That there may be bread, that there may be joy, for all humanity to share with gratitude: let this be our prayer, and may each child of earth long for a freedom that will flourish in all lands. Simple is the truth that our love cannot be real unless we choose to bless each other … Read more
To be your bread now, be your wine now, Lord, come and change us to be a sign of your love. Blest and broken, poured and flowing, gift that you gave us, to be your body once again. We come to your table with our lives as they are. Heal us, Lord, for we are … Read more
Take this, all of you, eat of this flesh. Take, this is my blood, shed for sinners all. For my life I give and my love I share: trust and believe in me. Truly I say, my brethren: should you not drink my blood, should not eat my body, you have no life in you. … Read more
The earth is his and all it holds, its wealth and boundless harvest his, the bright sun his, the moon and stars that burn in fiery ritual. Bright gold of wheat, the purple grape, earth’s gift to us, his gift to earth, in symbol of our gratitude with bread, with wine, we worship him. Accept … Read more
Take this bread, take this wine as a promise as a sign. The life is yours, the love is mine let our life and love combine. Take this heart, it is yours, every struggle it endures, all the love it’s made to hold, all the warmth all the cold. Come among us in return, in … Read more
Take our bread, we ask you, take our hearts, we love you, take our lives, O Father, we are yours, we are yours. Yours as we stand at the table you set, yours as we eat the bread our hearts can’t forget. We are the signs of your life with us yet; we are yours, … Read more
To you, O Father above, we offer this symbol of love, take our hearts, our lives, all we say and do, make them pure as this bread which we give to you. As our sweat and our tears mingle with the blood of your Son, unite us, Father, make us truely one.