This is a Bernadette Farrell song that is not in AOV. I found it in Spirit & Song Vol 1 and will be asking our liturgy group to use as a communion song for Sunday 11th as its healing motif suits the readings. I think it’s one of her prettiest tunes.
It can be purchased for download at OCP.
You can hear the original here, just click on the arrow to the right of the Spirit & Song logo.
My backing is more laid back country:
Refrain
Bread for the world:
a world of hunger.
Wine for all peoples:
people who thirst.
May we who eat
be bread for others.
May we who drink
pour out our love.Verse 1
Lord Jesus Christ,
you are the bread of life,
broken to reach
and heal the wounds
of human pain.
Where we divide your people,
you are waiting there
on bended knee
to wash our feet with endless care.Refrain
Verse 2
Lord Jesus Christ,
you are the wine of peace,
poured into hearts once broken
and where dryness sleeps.
Where we are tired and weary,
you are waiting there
to be the way which beckons us
beyond despair.Refrain
Verse 3
Lord Jesus Christ,
you call us to your feast,
at which the rich and pow’rful
have become the least.
Where we survive on others
in our human greed,
you walk among us
begging for your ev’ry need.Refrain
© Bernadette Farrell 1990.