New Words (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The new words of Christ around the Passover table the Seder, ancient words to the rite of the people Commanded ...
The new words of Christ around the Passover table the Seder, ancient words to the rite of the people Commanded ...
Something different radically new in the words of the Seder spoken by the Christ The bread and the wine no ...
The bill, our cost the price of our sin never coming to our table Christ paid it all himself because ...
So much meaning, dripping irony in this moment the retelling of the story the ancient words of the Seder of ...
The story of the world changed forever by the events of his last day the day the lamb of God ...
A last meal with them the master and the disciples gathered around the Passover table sharing in the Seder Words ...
His words, changing the Seder comforting words of his sacrifice remembering his love an echo of the Passover the blood ...
The same redemption, the same gift of grace offering us love freely to all not just to the twelve sitting ...
In the Communion remembering the Passover the new covenant of Christ assurance in both God with us in the trials ...
At the table the cup of sacrifice the bread, the wine shared with the twelve remembered, each time, when we ...
In the garden, Gethsemane after the supper, the Passover, the betrayal, the breaking of the bread the sharing of the ...
In raising the cup the unleavened break remembering the story of this people Christ intoning the ancient rite the ordinance ...
Simple food, the bread the wine more today symbols, of the Passover the birth, the Lord's last supper The giving, ...
In my mind's eye the images of the shepherd his staff, his cradling the lost sheep sitting there, a child ...
The blood of the lamb spirit, life, eternal life spread on the lintels of our hearts marking us, a chosen ...
Sacred, solemn words of the ritual meal changed by the Master in the breaking of the bread sharing this cup, ...
Slowing our steps measured steps, of remembrance pilgrims, yoking our lives with Christ and with the first disciples journeying with ...
The prescience, the foreknowledge allowing evil to profit so were the words of the Messiah before the meal in the ...
These days, these times, more focused, more centered, fasting, praying, thinking about You about the path you walked, in that ...
To the table we come, young and old, slowly, tentatively, spritely, quickly standing, kneeling, as we are able coming forward ...
they were all at the table sharing the Passover dinner all set apart, sitting with the Master sharing the ancient ...
There was Peter, John sitting at the table, with Christ sitting there on the night the Passover meal to share ...
Like the towel, the basin the foot washing We shared the bread, the wine, intimate sharing, disciple to disciple intoning ...
The king in celebration, on a donkey entered the holy city, of his ancestor David with palms and cloaks across ...
Even the betrayer, the one who shared the bowl who would give him over to man even him, Christ washed ...
The risen Lord, walking with them opening the scriptures, explaining them clearing the mysteries, the true meaning the fulfillment, His ...
Of Man, of Woman of the King We see the prodigal son, the fatted calf we see the fragrant oil ...
Urging a blessing on a humble table using the litany we know so well, the words He used, the night ...
Blood shed in fulfillment, willingly spilled for us spread blood of the lamb Blood on the lintels, the threshold, the ...
Her four-year old body figgeted, struggled to sit still in the pew to quiet her spirit where the sermon was ...
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