Eucharistic Setting: Sumner Place
Parts of this setting were first sung during a conference at Old Alresford PLACE near Winchester, where in 1876 Mary SUMNER founded what became the world-wide Mothers’ Union.
Category: Eucharist
Jesus said, Share my bread
I wrote this originally for a Harvest Communion at St Teilo’s Church Llandeilo, unaware that at the time Dvorak’s music was being used in a television commercial to sell bread! Jesus said Share my bread.midi
We keep the memory of a time
*** A simple commemoration of both Pesach/Passover and the Last Supper. For reflective, devotional, unison singing. This re-writes and replaces No.32 in my collection People Making Peace.
Source of love, our life for sharing
* This hymn is a simple grace before eating together.
When with the blood of Jesus Christ
*** This hymn presents a Christian interpretation of the Jewish festival of Pesach (Passover). When, with the blood of Jesus Christ.midi COMMENTARY In the book Exodus the story of the institution of the first Passover is situated immediately before Israel’s Read More …
The King of heaven calls everyone
* This hymn, a meditation on Jesus’ double parable of the Wedding Feast, challenges the convention that the human freedom to choose is the highest value. All people, everywhere, are called to behave well in all circumstances; none is free to Read More …
This body, Lord, is mine and yours
*** Romans 12.1 is the inspiration for this hymn: I beseech you, present your bodies as a living sacrifice. It would be good if congregations are encouraged to sing this hymn, but, plainly, it is more of a hymn-anthem than a Read More …
Companion me,and eat my bread
*** This hymn for the Feast of Corpus Christi (Thanksgiving for Holy Communion) is essentially a love-song in the medieval tradition of ‘Jesu, thou joy of loving hearts’. Sung in unison, it is especially suitable for congregational singing. COMMENTARY Three Read More …
Are you the man to build me a house?
* This is a hymn about the sovereignty of God.
Aperitif (round)
*** Written to be a Christmas greeting and a grace before eating. APERITIF.midi