Eucharist

Come Raise Your Voice With Me

Tune: EUCHARISTIC WONDER 7676.8676

Melody: William L. Wallace

Harmony: Colin Gibson

 

1. Come raise your voice with me now

In Eucharistic feast,

Come celebrate this art form

That’s filled with spirit’s yeast

For wonder that this feast holds

Of all that is or was

As in it’s myst’ry all find

The mists beyond “because”.

 

2. As bread and wine share myst’ry

We praise the Cosmic birth

Of Earth from gas and dust clouds

And humans from the earth.

As evolution’s tales unfold

Our psalms of praise we raise

For all the range of God’s works

That set our minds ablaze.

 

3. Recalling all the stories

Of greed and nurture here

In wondrous but dark fashion

Ignoring future care,

God’s justice undermined by hate,

Great beauty shaped by greed,

Oppression growing each day

Spreads poverty’s grim seed.

 

4. We celebrate this wonder

With awe that’s tinged with pain

Stirred in our heart  and mem’ry

Till Ways of Christ shall reign;

The cup we raise is ourselves

For life upon this Earth;

Through gifting we gain wholeness,

Compassion laced with mirth.

 

Text and Melody © William Livingstone Wallace

Harmony © Colin GibsonFor similar words to a traditional tune, see Singing the Sacred

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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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