A Sung Communion Liturgy for Easter Sunday

Sung Communion Liturgy for Easter Sunday

(Tune: REGENT SQUARE (Suggested: “Easter People, Raise Your Voices,” UMH 304))

At the table, Easter people

Gather now, let voices ring

Lift your hearts to God, Creator

Lift your hearts, and praises bring.

Alleluia! Alleluia! Resurrection people, sing!

In God’s image, we’re created

Called to life from breath and dust.

Yet we turn from God, who loves us,

Building walls and breaking trust

God, forgive us! God forgive us! Holy God, deliver us!

Through the ages, God pursued us,

Calling us through prophets bold

Yet we would not heed the message

Or believe the truth they told

God, Hosanna! We, your people, in your mercy now enfold!

In the right time God sent Jesus

God-made-flesh, God face-to-face

Showing us the ways of justice

Healing, preaching, teaching faith

Sing Hosanna! Sing Hosanna! Jesus, Savior, Gift of Grace!

With disciples he shared supper

Cup of life and living bread

Symbols of his body, broken

Signs of his redeeming love

We remember! We remember! Grace and mercy we are fed. 

Pour on us your Holy Spirit,

We, your people gathered here.

Take these gifts of bread and cup now

Make them be as Christ for us

We, your people, we, your people

with the world Christ’s body share!

Let us live as Easter people

Bound no more by death and fear

We are children of God’s kin-dom

God’s redemption time is here

Now we gather, now we gather, gather for this holy meal!

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Prayer after Communion:

Blessed, Forgiven, God, we thank you

For this Holy Mystery

Send us forth to love and serve you,

With your eyes the world to see.

Alleluia! Alleluia! Easter people we will be!  

Text: Beth Quick, 2017.

A Sung Communion Liturgy for Easter Sunday by Rev. Dr. Beth Quick is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.