Now Is The Time

Refrain:

   Now is the time, here in this space,
   we come to share a meal from ancient days.
   Gathered now in Christ gathered here as One,
   we taste the banquet yet to come.


1. From age to age a people gathered in your  name,
   a story now remembered. So the Spirit you have sent
   embraces from our past a promise that will last.

2. Now in the blessing and the breaking of the bread,
   your presence dwells among us. In the sharing of this meal,
   the love that you impart now dwells within our hearts.

3. And in the blessing and the drinking of the wine,
   we come to learn our story.
   In the richness of our lives, the blood of Christ outpoured.

4. There is myst’ry of the path that lies ahead,
   a journey still unfathomed.
   May the myst’ry we behold become the light we bear
   (for all the world to share).


Descant:

   May the mystery we behold become the light we bear.