Lord, make us ready now to share this meal: sign of our life in you. We bring you this food which bears the stain of human toil: this bread, hard-won food of slavery, this bread which brings to mind each meal which men have shared in happiness; Lord, give it power to make us free. … Read more
Lift up your hands and offer to the Lord, lift up your eyes and see the works of God, lift up your heart unto the heart of God, offer your love with his love to accord. Through your goodness, Lord, we bring gifts of bread and wine, which will soon become for us life-giving food … Read more
Abba Father, let us be yours and yours alone. Set our hearts, our spirits free. Make us, Lord, your own. Through your goodness, Lord, we bring bread of our labour and wine to cheer the heart which will soon be filled for us with the life of your Son. Take this drop of water, too, … Read more
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