Leader: As bread scattered on the hillside was gathered together and made one,
People: so too, we, your people, scattered throughout the world, are gathered together around your table and become one.
Leader: As grapes grown in the field are gathered together and pressed into wine,
People: so too are we drawn together and pressed by our times to share a common lot and are transformed into your life-blood for all.
Leader: So let us prepare to eat and drink as Jesus taught us: inviting the stranger to our table.
All: May their absence serve to remind us of the divisions this Eucharist seeks to heal. And may their presence help transform us into the Body of Christ we share.
From Imaging the Word, Volume 3; adapted from The Didache. A Litany of Thanksgiving at Oakhurst Baptist Church, Decatur, Georgia on October 6, 2013.
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