Together in Song ‎#521

521. Lord Christ, at your first eucharist you prayed

1 Lord Christ, at your first eucharist you prayed
that all your church might be for ever one;
may at each eucharist this prayer be made
with longing heart and soul, 'Your will be done.'
O may we all one bread, one body be,
through this blest sacrament of unity.

2 For all your church, O Lord, we intercede;
make all our sad divisions soon to cease;
draw us the nearer each to each, we plead,
by drawing all to you, O Prince of Peace:
thus may we all one bread, one body be,
through this blest sacrament of unity.

3 We also pray for wanderers from your fold;
O bring them back, Good Shepherd of the sheep,
back to the faith which saints believed of old,
back to your church which still that faith must keep:
soon may we all one bread, one body be,
through this blest sacrament of unity.

4 So, Lord, at length when sacraments shall cease
may we be one with all your church above,
one with your saints in one unbroken peace,
one with your saints in one unbounded love;
more blessèd still, in peace and love to be
one with the Trinity in Unity.

Text Information

• First Line: Lord Christ, at your first eucharist you prayed
• Author: William Henry Turton, 1856-1938 (alt.)
• Meter: 10 10 10 10 10 10
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1999
• Scripture:
  1 Corinthians 10:16-17
  ;
  Colossians 3:12-13
  ;
  Ephesians 2:18-22
  ;
  Ephesians 3:1-6
  ;
  John 10:11-16
  ;
  John 17:1-11
  ;
  John 17:20-26
  ;
  Philippians 2:1-4
• Topic: Church; Communion of Saints; Intercession of the Church; Reconciliation; Saints Days and Holy Days: St John the Evangelist; Unity of the Church; Worship: Earthly and Heavenly

Tune Information

• Name: SONG 1
• Composer: Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625
• Arrangement (attributed to): Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958
• Meter: 10 10 10 10 10 10
• Key: F Major
• Copyright: Arrangement from the 'English Hymnal' by permission of Oxford University Press