In Bread We Bring You Lord
Ordinary TimePresentation of Gifts
Verse 1
In bread we bring you Lord, our body’s’nlabour. In wine we offer you our spirit’sngrief. We do not ask you, Lord, who is mynneighbor? But stand united now, in onenbelief. For we have gladly heard your
Word, your holy Word, and now in answer,
Lord, our gifts we bring. Our selfsh heartsnmake true, our failing faith renew, our lifenbelongs to you, our Lord and King.
Verse 2
The bread we offer you is blessed andnbroken, and it becomes for us our spirit’snfood. Over the cup we bring, your Word isnspoken; Make it your gift to us, your healingnblood. Take all that daily toil, plants in ournheart’s poor soil, take all we start and spoil,neach hopeful dream.
The chances we have missed, the graces wenresist, Lord, in thy Eucharist, take and redeem.