A Sung Communion Liturgy for Epiphany
(Tune: IN
DULCI JUBILO (“Good Christian Friends, Rejoice”))
Good
Christian friends, rejoice with heart and soul and voice!
Lift your
hearts unto the Lord. Praise! Praise! Praise our God forevermore!
Radiant
star that shines so bright: Jesus Christ, the world’s light!
Praise God evermore! Praise God evermore!
We’re in
Your image made; to us this world You gave.
Yet, we
turned our hearts from You. Woe! Woe! Set against the good we knew.
Still Your
love remained steadfast. You beckoned us to walk your path.
Jesus lights the way! Jesus lights the way!
To table
we’ve been called: Come one, come now, come all!
Here we
share the feast of grace! Love! Love! Here, for everyone a place!
He breaks
the power of cancelled sin and darkness quenched, the light pours in.
God-with-us revealed! God-with-us revealed!
Hosanna in the highest! Hosanna in the
highest!
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord! Joy! Joy! Prince of
Peace, Living Word!
Blessed be the child who comes in God’s
name, the Promised One!
Praise God’s holy name! Praise God’s holy
name!
The night
Christ was betrayed to us this meal he gave.
First he
took and broke the bread. Life! Life! At God’s table they were fed.
Then he
shared the loving cup. Forgiving us, he raised us up.
“Feast, and think of me. Feast, and think
of me.”
Remembering
these mighty acts, to You, O God, we offer back
Holy,
living sacrifice: Thanks! Thanks! Full of joy, commit our lives.
We proclaim the mystery: Christ died, but
rose in victory.
Christ will come again! Christ will come
again!
On bread
and cup outpour Your Holy Spirit, Lord.
Make these
gifts become for us Christ! Christ! We, his body, him, our life.
By this
meal we are redeemed and by this grace we are set free.
Jesus makes us one! Jesus makes us one!
Prayer after Communion:
The dark to light gives way, Bright Dawn of
all our days!
Journey with us as we leave, Star! Star! People
of the Star are we!
Now we travel other roads to shine Your
light where’er we go
Overwhelmed with joy! Overwhelmed with joy!
Text: Beth Quick, 2014.
First stanza text: 14th Century Latin, John Mason Neal, translator (1855.)
A Sung Communion Liturgy for Epiphany Sunday by Rev. Beth Quick is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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