Tune: Solothurn
('Now let us from this table rise')
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Communion ended once more
We have partaken of Christ's store
The bread and wine, His body, blood
Nourishing food and cleansing flood
Grant as we have humbly partook
Of your gifts, you not us forsook
So may we faithful to you be
Fill us with your Spirit, e'en me
Not detached from life, but living
In the world for you, God and King
Of our lives be, help us witness
Share you with others and them bless
So being fruitful, productive
To serve, to be served, thus to live
And to your will know, do reveal
Send us out to teach, preach, and heal
And here our source, 'tis you our Lord
Shown to us here, the living Word
Love as the centre of this feast
Open to all, greatest and least
We pray when we return again
To share in these symbols, that then
May we something for your glory
[Have] Done or said for eternity
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Author:
orchidee (
Online) - Published: July 21st, 2019 01:26
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.8.8.8. metre.
- Category: Spiritual
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Comments5
Fitting tribute to a bloodthirsting religion. Pocket vampires all of you!
(just kidding you)
Well, it could be called such, in the Old Testament, with killing of animal sacrifices. It's Christ's death (and resurrection) for us in the New Testament.
I was referring to the drinking of christs blood in communion wine orchidee.
I see dusk. I see it, as many do, as symbolic. Christ's body and blood are not actually present, as though we are magically eating and drinking it. That would be repulsive, and cannibalistic. The bread and wine are symbols or emblems.
But why do you need to symbolically drink blood and eat flesh? Isn't being a believer enough.... frankly its like something out of a horror movie..... not only did your forebears kill you Jesus horribly upon a cross but they now want to symbolically eat you and drink his blood.... macabre in the truest sense of the word. Do you/the 'flock' actually understand why this is necessary or do they all just blindly accept it as a part of proving they are totally brainwashed?
We could say we spiritually 'feed' on Him, when taking the bread and wine. Part of a prayer says 'And feed on Him in your hearts with thanksgiving'. Well, He instituted it Himself at the 'Last Supper'.
Good write but I no longer believe that the Christian philosophy is right, it is being forced on us, as are other religious structures to others. My Spirit is there though.
Thanks Gold.
I kinda enjoyed these words sir... feels like I've been away for ever...
Thanks N. Ya missed my singing?!
nope............................ 🙂
Boo hoo, why did you not miss it? I thought no one could bear to be without it for a moment. lol.
ANGELA HERE (9:30 pm in Auckland !) Thanks for great posting - Lovely Hymn & Tune and a great Communion Poem. I love the Commuion Service and wherever we are in the World BRIAN & I attend Communion ! Remember BUZZ ALDRIN celebrated Communion on the MOON 50 years ago today ! Ive had my Communion today & Brian is on His way to his. We will always celebrate Christs Atoning Death until He returens - AMEN
Blessings to You & Your Pious Pooch
Love in the Spirit ANGELA & BRIAN
🧡 🧡 🧡 🧡 + 🧡
Thanks B&A - glad you do! Sometimes it's tacked on to a service; or some have it monthly. It's a pity where they fit it in just to get it out of the way, as it were.
Uplifting - another winner O
Thanks M. Miss Berles laid the table for Sunday lunch?
And she's eaten it. You could hear the Gob Berles from the garden.
She's a hungry lass!
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