Communion Continuity

Tune: Salzburg

('At the Lamb's high feast we sing')

Based on various Gospel verses

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Jesu shared at Last Supper

Graces there He did confer

On disciples gathered round

Table, in fellowship found

Bread, symbol of His body

Bread of life He ever be

Wine, a symbol of His blood

Poured out as a cleansing flood

 

Two disciples on their way

To Emmaus went one day

Jesus drew near, they not know

Yet, that it was Jesus so

But when He with them broke bread

They ate with Him and were fed

Then they did Him recognise

He vanished before their eyes

 

Lord, in each Communion

We remember of your Son

That he did it institute

Origins in Him its root

He said each time we partake

To recall that or our sake

he died for our sins, then rose

Inner witness each then knows

 

Though these symbols of his death

When He took His final breath

'Twas as He did prophesy

That He would suffer and die

And that He would rise again

Be the Saviour of all men* (*mankind)

In His Eucharistic* feast (*Thanksgiving)

He invites all, great to least