St Marry Mackillop

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARI ST

The newly blessed altar is now covered with a cloth, and candles are

placed upon it. When the altar is ready, the bread, wine, and water

are brought forward for the celebration of the Lord’s sacrifice. The

bishop receives the gifts at the chair. As is customary during this time

a collection is taken up to support the clergy of the Diocese. While the

gifts are being brought, the following hymn is sung:

We Come to Your Feast

Michael Joncas

We place upon your table a gleaming cloth of white

The weaving of our stories, the fabric of our lives,

The dreams of those before us, the ancient hopeful cries,

The promise of our future, our needing and our nurture

Lie here before our lives.

Refrain: We come to your feast, we come to your feast,

the young and the old, the frightened, the bold,

the greatest and the least.

We come to your feast, we come to your feast,

with the fruits of our lands and the work of our hands

we come to your feast.

We place upon your table a humble loaf of bread,

The gift of field and hillside, the grain by which we’re fed,

We come to taste the presence, of him on whom we feed,

To strengthen and connect us, to challenge and correct us,

To love in word and deed.

We place upon your table a simple cup of wine,

The fruit of human labour, the gift of sun and vine

We come to taste the presence of him we claim as Lord

His dying and his living, his leading and his giving,

his love in cup outpoured.

Used with permission, Word of Life International Lic No 2826E