Tune: St Francis Xavier
('My God, I love thee, not because')
John 6 v.53-58
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Though seems a mystery to be
'Tis not literally
That Jesus, bread of life, does say
Words unto us today
That except we do the flesh eat
Of the Son of Man meet* (*suitable)
And drink His blood, we have life not
So poor shall be our lot
Who eats His flesh, who drinks His blood
Symbolic as a flood
Such have eternal life and He
Shall raise them [at] last day, see
For His flesh it is food indeed
And his blood drink indeed
They that His fleshe eat, His blood drink
In symbols, so do think
They who do eat and drinks uch dwell
In Him, and shall fare well
And He dwells in them, there abides
Within their heart resides
As the livng Father has sent
Christ, by Father's intent
Christ lives by the Father, so we
Eating Him shall live, see
This is that bread come from heaven down
To every people, town
Not as ancestors now dead, they
Had manna for each day
But who shall eat of this bread sure
Shall live for evermore
Expressed in Communion we
Eat, drink symbolically
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Author:
orchidee (
Offline) - Published: July 29th, 2020 01:59
- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.6.8.6. metre. It's not too difficult to understand, if we see this symbolically. When saying these words, Jesus said 'These words are spirit and life', so He was speaking 'spiritually', not meaning eating Him literally! I felt drawn to add this poem as the last part of the 'Bread of life' poems.
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Thanks M. How you do that tick?! lol. Ctrl+4587498 or something?
in the emoji options - di you know E Moji ?
A good write Orchi.
Thanks Gold.
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