Communing Company

orchidee



Tune: Corpus Christi

('Jesus, in they dear Sacrament')

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Not forgetting Communion

Your invite to each one

Here feast of bread and wine there be

We join in here humbly

 

'Tis feast, you Lord, did institute

With gifts simple, astute

The bread your body, it broken

To bring life to all men (mankind)

 

The wine your blood, it shed freely

To save us, even me

So with heart and mind wand will prepared

May we in it have shared

 

To strengthen body, spirit, soul

Forgive, heal, make us whole

We do partake, remembering you

Say for us so to do

 

And sharing gospel news to all

That they may hear your call

Come accept your salvation

Offered to each nation

  • Author: orchidee (Offline Offline)
  • Published: June 6th, 2021 02:22
  • Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 8.6.8.6. metre. Not that well-known a hymn - not many videos of it.
  • Category: Spiritual
  • Views: 60
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  • orchidee

    Sorry dusk - deleted your comment by mistake. Type it in again if you wish.
    Symbolism, yes, but cannibalism, no.
    It's meant 'spiritually', though the bread and wine is there physically.

  • dusk arising

    Symbolic cannibalism. Drinking his blood and eating his flesh.

  • Saxon Crow

    Im hungry now. But more for a big mac

    • orchidee

      Thanks SC.

    • Jerry Reynolds

      Well done, Orchi.

      • orchidee

        Thanks Jerry.

      • Neville



        I have always wondered about those little round wafer things .. and the wine of course ... My father-in-law had a shed load of each ... but then he was a vicar ... 🙂

        • orchidee

          Thanks Neville. It's symbolic, the bread and wine. Though in early days the churches had to live down rumours that they practised cannibalism, as if taking the bread and wine literally, as eating someone physically. (so says a Commentary I have).

        • Goldfinch60

          The "Gospel News" another newspaper you cannot believe.

          Andy

          • orchidee

            Thanks Gold.
            Ohh, it's a newspaper I will believe, hopefully not in blind faith!
            I feel you do too. though we don't want to believe in man-made things of 'religion'.



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