Cosmic Eucharist

Will You Raise Your Cup With Me

Tune: KELVINGROVE 76 76 77 76

Scottish Folksong 

Harmony: Barry Brinson

 

1. Will you raise your cup with me

    To this great Eucharist?

    Will you join to celebrate

    What now should not be missed? 

    For the wonder this feast holds 

    Is both past and in the now

    As its mystery still grows

    To be both leaf and bough.

 

2. With this cup we celebrate,

    The cosmic birth we hail,

    Of how atoms first were born

    In this evolving tale;

    For the life that we observe 

    We now raise our joyful praise

    To mark God’s creative works

    Within the cosmic haze.

 

3. We remember humankind’s

    Destructive acts and grace

    Form a wondrous tragic tale

    Where good has little space, 

    Lack of justice blamed on God,

    And a beauty shaped by greed,

    Harsh oppression hid by lies

    Ignoring cries of need.  

 

4. Once again all this we share

    With joy that’s tinged with pain,

    Stirring, both in heart and mind,      

    Compassion once again.

    Our own life can be a cup 

    That we raise for life on Earth

    As our giving fullness signs

    And our love gifts new birth.

 

         Text © William Livingstone Wallace

         Harmony © Barry Brinson

 

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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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