What Must the Disciples have Felt (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
What must the disciples must felt each time they broke bread what did they say as they passed the wine, ...
What must the disciples must felt each time they broke bread what did they say as they passed the wine, ...
The cup just passed the taste still ripe sitting on their tongues as Christ started to speak The wine, after ...
Hanging on his words as he changed the ancient rite the bread his body and the cup his blood Offering ...
The remembering of his sacrifice his choosing to die to climb the rugged cross Not for ourselves the bread and ...
The living bread the lamb of God so clear in his statement choosing the way of the cross sacrificing his ...
Our Lord's table the bread and the wine the depth of his love yet only a foretaste a hint, a ...
Speaking to us profoundly in a simple meal the fruit of the field of the vine the bread and the ...
Sometimes hesitant sitting fitfully hesitant to come not yet ready that moment too some called to come, forward falling at ...
My hands cupped waiting, in my stillness silently waiting for the bread, the offering his life for me, that I ...
Oh Lord, we tremble, solemn with joy, yet feeling unworthy something about the truth of our earthly nature hearing your ...
A community assembling we gather together all of our souls joined around the table of the Lord sharing a meal, ...
New words of Christ around the Passover table the Seder, ancient words to the rite of the people Commanded by ...
In the rote of the ritual centuries of tradition following the words of the story long ago The story of ...
Trembling in the darkness after the words he had shared telling us to remember him his sacrifice for each of ...
Full from the meal dizzy from the wine the disciples in the garden fast asleep at night While they lay ...
Not at the beginning not with Adam in Eden with Jesus in his anguish in the night of Gethsemane Our ...
Watching Christ sitting at the table speaking words unlike the others always the same before Hushed, in that moment the ...
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 ...
Not fleeing from the Pharaoh roasting the lamb whole blood on the doorframes the birth of our people sitting around ...
Unlike all that had come before generation after generation the telling of the exodus the saving of the Lord the ...
The blood of the lamb on the lintels, the doorposts the gates of our hearts washing us clean Remembering the ...
The bill, our cost the price of our sin never coming to our table Christ paid it all himself because ...
Not with the blood of animal sacrifice not written on the lintels, on the doorposts on the frames of the ...
All of their history following the ancient ritual the words of the deliverance of God and Egypt of their escape ...
In the rote of the ritual the centuries of tradition following the words of the story long ago The story ...
The story of the world changed forever by the events of his last day the day the lamb of God ...
Marking their homes the blood of the lamb marking them, children of God marking their hearts with the blood of ...
The world shook nothing ever the same after in the things foretold in what transpired in the words he spoke ...
At the table the cup of sacrifice the bread, the wine shared with the twelve remembered, each time, when we ...
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