Tune: Coelites Plaudant = From heaven praise
('Christ the fair glory of the holy angels')
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You Lord do come to us, your blessed sacrament
Come to bless, strengthen us, that be your intent
Angelic help you send unto penitent
In love you Son you sent
Here be fine feast, fine fare, in it all may share
Heavenly glories, with which none can compare
Your life given, so that sinners may live
And praises you e'er give
High do our spirits rise, in this Communion
By your grace man with God does have union
Reaching our deepest needs, we now unashemed
Kneel before you unblamed
For by your blood shed, we may be forgiven
So here on earth a foretaste of your heaven
Symbols of bread and wine, your body, your blood
A sparking cleansing flood
No other could the way to God make open
But Jesus, Son of the Father, He made then
A way by Himself that gives us sure access
To our God, we confess
Forgive where we, dull, dreary, or apathy
Causes our love to cool, with dim light we see
Your offering, sacrifice, us fresh inspire
With your love's holy fire
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Author:
orchidee (
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- Comment from author about the poem: A hymn-poem in 11.11.11.6. metre. Last line can be 5 syllables. Back to the 9th Century for the original hymn.
- Category: Spiritual
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Comments3
Bread and wine, ever asked yourself why they don't serve sherry in Church?
Thanks Fred. Maybe the wine is sherry, if they run out of wine?!
Good write Orchi.
Thanks Gold.
Bread, wine, sherry - no pork pies? - of all the Churches I've visited I've never seen a menu
Thanks Michael. Well, it's a 'feast' or our soul and spirit I suppose, if not for our bodies - it's a wafer-size piece of bread. Sometimes not even bread, but wafers. A sip of wine too ,or sip of sherry, not a glass full. I got chucked out of church once . They had sherry instead of wine and I drank the whole chalice! heehee. I'm telling porkies here! Did you stay to the church lunch that they have in some places?
I do visit a lot f churches and cathedrals as I love the architecture. It is also great to see some have even incorporated coffee shops/snackeries within the body of the church - Liverpool for example - I think our forefathers will have baulked at the idea.
Some think it almost heretical that a 12th Century church has thrown out all the pews. One can't tell from the outside. It's old outside, new inside. Would forefathers have liked bingo in the church hall?! heehee. I'm not a stuff-shirt about it. I'm not ultra-modern either though.
Ah the pews - now that's a debate in our village. A 12th century church and some argue that the pews were only a later addition and since they were not contemporaneous they should be removed opening up the church for other activities. Others argue it is one of the few churches where pews have endured and should be retained as part of history. Our village is a hot bed of debate.
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