30: Eucharistic prayer

Please choose someone on your table to take the bread, and someone to take the wine.

lift up your hearts
we lift them up to god
lift up your heads
we lift them up to god
lift up your voices
we lift them up to god
lift up your hearts
we lift them up to god

we praise you for your unswerving love for us
though we are fragile
though we are wounded
though we are broken
you have never stopped loving us
and you have never stopped travelling with us

greater love has no-one than this
that they lay down their life for their friends

you take what is broken and transform it
through your death and love
what once was hurt
what once was friction
what left a mark
no longer stings
because grace makes beauty
out of ugly things

so we join with the angels singing
holy holy holy
lord god almighty
heaven and earth are full of your glory
hosanna in the highest

hold up the bread

after the long walk to Emmaus
you sat down to supper with your friends
echoes of the upper room all around them
the moment of recognition as
you took the bread and gave thanks
you broke it and shared it saying
“take and eat. this is my body, broken for you”

break the bread

christ’s body is broken
we are christ’s body, we are broken
may christ’s broken body nourish you in all the right places

hold up the cup of wine

you took the cup of wine, gave thanks and shared it saying
“drink this, my blood shed for you”

christ’s body is wounded
we are christ’s body, we are wounded
may the blood that flowed from christ’s wounds
heal you in all the right places

send your holy spirit on us
heal our brokenness
open our eyes to recognise you all around us

great is the mystery of faith
christ has died
christ is risen
christ will come again

this is the table of christ
today it is made as we recognise we are all broken
a sign that christ welcomes us all as we are
there is no need to pretend and no need to hide

so gather at this table
not because you are whole
but because you recognise your need for healing
not because you are good enough
but because you recognise these gifts of god