Communion Based on Sacrifice
Cosmic Mystery Series
Eucharistic
Communion Based on Sacrifice
Tunes: ENDURING LIFE 88.66.88
Music: Barry Brinson
TEMPLETON 88.66.88
Melody: William L. Wallace
Harmony: Denis Guyan
1. Communion based on sacrifice,
Each life laid down for other ones;
A cry that heralds life,
The fires that birth the suns,
All these are gifts from death and pain
As life emerges once again.
2. While life of living things will end,
Apart from genomes’ spiral bond,
The atoms will survive
As nature’s magic wand
To undergird all cosmic life
Beyond the powers of human strife
3. Within the sphere of cosmic ways
The power of process shall prevail.
Though species may compete
They share the cosmic tale.
Each human being should recall
Compared with fire an ember’s small.
4. The God of process everywhere
Still lives amid the cosmic flow.
From birth until we die
We find new ways to know
That death to life is nature’s course
And God’s love is its primal source.
5. Our reason cannot ascertain
What lies beyond our dying time;
We may sing “death is life”
But that’s faith at its prime.
So let’s trust God the source of love
For all below and all above.
Text and Templeton Melody© William Livingstone Wallace
Music for Enduring Life © Barry Brinson
Harmony for Templeton © Denis Guyan
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William (Bill) Livingstone Wallace is a retired New Zealand Methodist Minister and one of our most prolific contributors. Bill says that his work springs from communicating with the fire in his gut and his observation of both the internal and external aspects of the Cosmos. Since an early age, he has been both sympathetic to and critical of the church, announcing at the age of 13 his belief in evolution. In his youth, he struggled with the disconnection between art and spirituality in his own and other denominations and with the way in which all of the liturgies prior to the sermon were regarded as preliminaries and longer sermons were viewed as superior to more concise ones.
He holds a B.A. in philosophy and a Dip. Ed. and is the author of nine published collections of his hymns as well as other resources on our website. His aim is to help people be empowered by the divine within them and the Cosmos and to work to overthrow the forces of personal and institutional greed which destroy both the ecosystem and human society.
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