Here
is an invitation to the Lord’s Table from Richard Bott. It was posted on the Liturgy Alive website.
The Bread and Wine of Remembrance
When
the time was right,
God
sent Jesus to be among us.
Born
into this life,
seeing
Your grace revealed in all things,
he
laughed with those who laughed,
and
mourned with those who mourned.
Through
Your love, he healed the sick,
he
welcomed the outcast,
he
challenged those in power,
and
the structures that kept them there.
And
he called us back to Your love.
In
the power of the Holy Spirit,
the
Christ laughs and cries,
heals
and welcomes,
challenges
and loves,
again
and again and again.
We
have been told that,
on
the night before he was taken
to
be tortured to death on a cross,
Jesus
sat with his disciples,
and
ate with them, in a meal of remembrance.
Jesus
took a loaf of bread,
asked
Your blessing upon it, broke it,
and
gave it to his disciples saying:
“Take
this – all of you – and eat it.
This
is me. My Body. Given for you.
Each
time you eat it, remember me.”
Close
to the meal’s end,
he
took a cup filled with wine,
asked
Your blessing upon it,
and
gave it to his disciples saying:
Take
this – all of you – and drink it.
This
is me. This is my promise in my life’s blood -
poured
out for you and for the world.”
Each
time you drink it, remember me.
So
we, his disciples,
eat
bread and drink wine – and remember.
~
from Richard Bott’s “Communion Liturgy for Advent.” Posted on the Liturgy Alive website. http://www.bibleclaret.org/liturgy/CycleA/june05/26_hugh.htm
