PSALM OF COMMUNION

PSALM OF COMMUNION

Here I stand alone in a queue of people:

waiting in line to go up to your altar.

How can I be comfortable, conscious of your presence:

nervously trying to prepare to make my communion?

But yet I am not alone, there are millions about me:

I walk in company with greater ones who've gone before,

for many have stood where I now stand:

I follow the footsteps of others in succession to your apostles.

Without agreeing with everything, I'm treading their path:

joining my prayers to theirs not fighting their battles.

This is our pilgrimage into your future:

step by step we go forward in procession.

I come to receive your bread:

the body of Christ to preserve my life,

and we return scattered to the places we left:

the broken body of Christ in our world today.

Thank you for inviting us to the supper we share:

your life inside us refreshed at your table,

and by making the journey we belong to each other:

the ordinary people of God made special by you.