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THEME Feast of Death – Feast of Life
THOUGHTS FOR REFLECTION
PRAYER
O Jesus Christ, who invited us to allow bread and wine to feed both our bodies and our spirits, may all that we see, all that we touch, all that we taste lead us into communion with the God who is both beyond and within, the God whose embodiment we share.
HYMNS
Can bread and wine? Sacred Presence (BL)
Can bread and wine? Clonmel (BL)
To you, O God, we offer. (BL)
To God the process. (BL)
O golden cup of life.(BL)
O golden doors now open wide.(BL)
Taste and see.(BL)
The patterned mystery.
www.methodist.org.nz/resources/hymns/boundlesslife
I am more than flesh and bone says Christ.
http://www.methodist.org.nz/resources/hymns/the_mystery_telling
With God we shape compassion’s robe.
http://www.methodist.org.nz/resources/hymns/the_mystery_telling
Christ the tent.
http://www.methodist.org.nz/resources/hymns/the_mystery_telling
“I wash my hands”.
http://www.methodist.org.nz/resources/hymns/the_mystery_telling
The way of the Christ. (STS1)
We will celebrate with praises. (STS1)
Behind the bread. (STS2)
Help me to pray as Jesus prayed. (STS2)
All our hearts and minds. (STS2)
Singing the Sacred, Vol 1 2011, Vol 2 2014 World Library Publications
POEMS / REFLECTIONS
BEHIND AND WITHIN
Eucharist is the feast of seeing behind and within;
behind the bread to the sales-assistant,
baker, miller, farmer; to the plant, the seed,
the earth, to the sun and moon, air and water;
to the cosmic explosion that birthed the universe,
to the God who is in all
and through all;
And also the knowledge that our eating starts another process
that leads back to the earth and
the perpetual recycling of the atoms,
temporarily part and parcel of this bread,
this particular part of the body of Christ.
Indeed the divine that is in this bread is sign and symbol
of the sacred process of recycling.
BROKEN BREAD
No one coming to receive communion
seemed more Christ-like
than the woman
with flailing arms,
misshapen legs
and wobbling head.
Like Isaiah’s Messiah
she had no comeliness
but through her brokenness
God’s love ministered
to this misshapen world.
FOCUS FOR ACTION
Text and image © William Livingstone Wallace but available for free use.
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