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As We Gather at Your Table

Author: Carl P. Daw Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 27 hymnals Topics: liturgical Communion Songs

Author: Mary A. Lathbury Meter: 6.4.6.4 D Appears in 719 hymnals Topics: liturgical Communion Songs Lyrics: 1 Break now the bread of life, dear Lord, to me, as once you broke the loaves beside the sea. Beyond the sacred page I seek you, Lord; my spirit waits for you, O living Word. 2 Bless your own word of truth, dear Lord, to me, as when you blessed the bread by Galilee. Then shall all bondage cease, all fetters fall; and I shall find my peace, my All in all! 3 You are the bread of life, dear Lord, to me, your holy word the truth that rescues me. Give me to eat and live with you above; teach me to love your truth, for you are love. 4 O send your Spirit now, dear Lord, to me, that he may touch my eyes and make me see. Show me the truth made plain within your Word, for in your book revealed I see you, Lord. Psalter Hymnal, 1987

Let Us Break Bread Together

Meter: Irregular Appears in 112 hymnals Topics: The Church at Worship Holy Communion; liturgical Communion Songs First Line: Let us break bread together on our knees Refrain First Line: When I fall down on my knees Lyrics: 1 Let us break bread together on our knees, let us break bread together on our knees. [Refrain:] When I fall down on my knees, with my face to the rising sun, Oh, Lord, have mercy on me. 2 Let us drink wine together on our knees; let us drink wine together on our knees. [Refrain] 3 Let us praise God together on our knees; let us praise God together on our knees. [Refrain] Used With Tune: LET US BREAK BREAD Text Sources: African-American spiritual, 19th cent.

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LET US BREAK BREAD

Meter: 10.10 with refrain Appears in 112 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William Farley Smith Topics: The Sacraments and Rites of the Church Eucharist (Holy Communion or The Lord's Supper); Holy Communion Tune Sources: Afro-American spiritual Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 56111 11322 11355 Used With Text: Let Us Break Bread Together

ONE BREAD, ONE BODY

Meter: 4.4.6 with refrain Appears in 37 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John B. Foley; Gary Alan Smith Topics: The Sacraments and Rites of the Church Eucharist (Holy Communion or The Lord's Supper); Holy Communion Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11215 55431 24321 Used With Text: One Bread, One Body

LIVING GOD

Meter: 7.5.7.5.8.7.5 Appears in 102 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Daniel Iverson Topics: Holy Communion Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33332 34312 33333 Used With Text: Spirit of the Living God

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Communion Feast

Author: Richard Ho Lung Hymnal: Sing a New Song #14 (1981) Topics: Liturgical Communion First Line: Come, pray, Kushu Refrain First Line: Come we Mavis, come we children Languages: English Tune Title: [Come, pray, Kushu]

Communion Hymn

Hymnal: Sing a New Song #15 (1981) Topics: Liturgical Communion First Line: We come now to your table Lord Languages: English Tune Title: [We come now to your table Lord]

Here, O My Lord, I See You Face to Face

Author: Horatius Bonar Hymnal: Voices United #459 (1996) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Topics: The Church at Worship Holy Communion; liturgical Communion Songs; Communion with Christ and God Lyrics: 1 Here, O my Lord, I see you face to face, here would I touch and handle things unseen, here grasp with firmer hand eternal grace, and all my weariness upon you lean. 2 Here I will feed upon the bread of God, here drink with you the royal wine of heaven; here I will lay aside each earthly load, here taste afresh the calm of sin forgiven. 3 This is the hour of banquet and of song; this is the heavenly table for me spread; here let me feast, and feasting, still prolong the fellowship of living wine and bread. 4 Too soon we rise, the symbols disappear. The feast, though not the love, is past and gone: the bread and wine remove, but you are here, nearer than ever, still my shield and sun. 5 Feast after feast thus comes and passes by, yet, passing, points to that glad feast above, giving sweet foretaste of the festal joy, the Lamb’s great bridal feast of bliss and love. Languages: English Tune Title: ST AGNES

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Joseph A. Seiss

1823 - 1904 Topics: Other Observances World Communion Translator (stanza 4) of "Fairest Lord Jesus" in The Worshipbook Joseph A. Seiss was born and raised in a Moravian home with the original family name of Seuss. After studying at Pennsylvania College in Gettysburg and completing his theological education with tutors and through private study, Seiss became a Lutheran pastor in 1842. He served several Lutheran congregations in Virginia and Maryland and then became pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church (1858-1874) and the Church of the Holy Communion (1874-1904), both in Philadelphia. Known as an eloquent and popular preacher, Seiss was also a prolific author and editor of some eighty volumes, which include The Last Times (1856), The Evangelical Psalmist (1859), Ecclesia Lutherana (1868), Lectures on the Gospels (1868-1872), and Lectures on the Epistles (1885). He contributed to and compiled several hymnals. Bert Polman

James Leith Macbeth Bain

1840 - 1925 Person Name: J. L. Macbeth Bain, ca. 1840-1925 Topics: Post-Communion Composer of "BROTHER JAMES AIR" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) James Leith Macbeth Bain (b. Scotland, c. 1840; d. Liverpool, England, 1925), was a healer, mystic, and poet known simply as Brother James. The tune BROTHER JAMES AIR was first published in his volume The great peace: being a New Year's greeting ... (1915). Born in a devout Christian home, Bain came to doubt the faith but later regained a mystical belief with the aid of the Christo Theosophic Society. He founded the Brotherhood of Healers, and he and his fellow healers often sang to their patients during healing sessions. In the latter years of his life he worked among the poor in the slums of Liverpool. He published a book on healing entitled The Brotherhood of Healers ... (1906). Psalter Hymnal Handbook, 1988

Jean Calvin

1509 - 1564 Person Name: John Calvin Topics: Other Observances World Communion Author (attributed to) of "We Greet You, Sure Redeemer from All Strife" in The Worshipbook

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