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Breaking bread at Emmaus (Vol 1 No 97)

Feasting is a pleasing way

To put friendship on display;

Jesus often would reveal

Love, by sharing in a meal,

But meals with the rich were sad;

Insults and abuse were bad;

So we find that Jesus fed

With the outcasts eating bread

Two disciples’ disbelief -

Disillusioned with their grief; 

Jesus walked with them a while;

They don’t recognize his smile.

They had hoped that they would be

Saved by Jesus.  Israel free!

But when slayed so publicly,

He left them in misery.

Now they wandered listlessly

To Emmaus. Patiently

Heard this stranger, who began

Teaching them of God’s great plan.

But it’s not in prophecy,

Nor in Scripture’s summary,

It is in the broken bread,

Jesus’ love was known and shared.

As we gather here to dine

Eating bread and sipping wine,

We recall so solemnly,

‘Do this to remember me’.

In these symbols Christ is near;

As we feel God’s presence here

We receive.  Now we can serve

In God’s love, with no reserve.

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