For the list of Gospel passages used in Years A,B and C click here     

After Pentecost     Pentecost 24     Reign of Christ     Matthew 25:31-46, particularly verses 35-36, 42-43

Ministering to Christ (YA No 79)

The sacred role of ministry

Is caring for the broken –

Christ can be heard, but silently

As if his pain has spoken.

 

Christ is not seen in pageantry,

Nor seen in dazz’ling raiment;

Christ comes to us as refugee,

As outcast and as vagrant.

 

Do we see Christ in those in pain,

And hear his constant pleading?

In prisoners, those we might disdain -

Is this where he is bleeding?

 

If we neglect the least of these

And show them no compassion,

Then Christ is left in deep despair.

For loving is his passion.

 

When we support those gone astray,

The stranger and the helpless,

We minister to Christ and lay

The grounds for hope and justice 


Tune  Dominus Regit Me  AHB 81(i)  TiS 145

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