Communion Commitment

orchidee



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

 

  • Author: orchidee (Offline Offline)
  • Published: February 25th, 2018 03:10
  • 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

  • FredPeyer

    Bread and wine, ever asked yourself why they don't serve sherry in Church?

    • orchidee

      Thanks Fred. Maybe the wine is sherry, if they run out of wine?!

    • Goldfinch60

      Good write Orchi.

      • orchidee

        Thanks Gold.

      • Michael Edwards

        Bread, wine, sherry - no pork pies? - of all the Churches I've visited I've never seen a menu

        • orchidee

          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?

          • Michael Edwards

            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.

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