Hospitality Communion Liturgy

Leader: The Lord be with you
Many: And also with you
Leader: Lift Up Your hearts
Many: We lift them up to the Lord.
Leader: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
Many: It is right to give our thanks and praise.

Lay Leader: It is right, and a good and joyful thing always and everywhere to praise you, Loving God. You welcome us at table and bid us to join the feast. You sow the seed and harvest the grain you kneed and bless and break; that we might be filled and do the same.

Pastor: For Jesus Christ we give You thanks. With small offerings of bread and fish he fed the hillside, at table he welcomed the outcast and in love he shared the cup with those who would struggled to follow the way.
Grant us the courage to set a feast for the famished and turn the tables on the status quo. God of Compassion, we praise you and with the faithful of every time and place, join creation’s eternal hymn:

Holy, holy, holy Love, God of presence and grace,
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is the one who comes in the name of God.
Hosanna in the highest.

Lay Leader- (Invite People to be seated)
With Christ, love embodied, You delivered us from brokenness and destruction and made with us a new covenant by water and the Spirit. On the night in which Jesus gathered his beloved family and friends to the table He took bread, gave thanks, broke the bread, gave the grain of hope to the people he loved and said “Take, eat.”“Do this in remembrance of me”

Pastor: When the supper was over, and the crumbs lay round about the table, he took the cup, Gave thanks to you, invited his loved ones to taste the fruit of paradise and said Drink from this all of you, this is a symbol of the new covenant. Poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins that in overcoming brokenness you might embrace hope. Do this as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me. And so in remembrance of these your mighty acts in Jesus Christ. We lift our voices in praise and thanksgiving as we proclaim the mystery of our faith.
Christ has died, Christ has risen, and Christ will come again.

Lay Leader: Pour out your spirit of hope in the midst of our struggles, brokenness, conflict and strife as we remember people who journey with us straining under heavy burdens.

-Struggles named here-

This we pray

Loving God, hold us in your care.

Lay Leader: Pour out your Spirit of joy as we give thanks in taking the bread and cup and remember all who bring laughter to our days and warm our hearts in this season of grace.

-Joys named here-

This we pray

Loving God, fill us with your joy.

Pastor: Pour out your Holy Spirit on us and on these gifts of grape and grain, make them be for us the body of Christ, that we might be for the world God’s people of compassion shaped in Christ’s love, members of one body. By your Spirit make us one with Christ, One with each other, and one in ministry to all the world until Christ comes in the full glory of compassion and we feast at the table of paradise. Through your child Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit in your holy church, all honor and glory is yours, Loving God now and forever.  

Amen. Amen. Amen.