Gifts of Bread and Wine

Listen, read and contemplate on these lyrics:

Gifts of bread and wine, gifts we’ve offered,
fruits of labour, fruits of love:
taken, offered, sanctified,
blessed and broken; words of one who died:
‘Take my body, take my saving blood.’
Gifts of bread and wine: Christ our Lord.

Christ our Saviour, living presence here,
as He promised while on earth:
’I am with you for all time,
I am with you in this bread and wine.’
‘Take my body, take my saving blood.’
Gifts of bread and wine: Christ our Lord.

Through the Father, with the Spirit,
one in union with the Son,
for God’s people, joined in prayer,
faith is strengthened by the food we share.
‘Take my body, take my saving blood.’
Gifts of bread and wine: Christ our Lord.

© 1978 Kevin Mayhew Ltd