Choose the sections that are appropriate to your context and tradition. For example, if communion is part of a longer service, it may be more appropriate to use only parts of the liturgy.

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Gathering at the table

Christ scatters grace generously, without keeping score.
We come to the table where love is given freely.

Some things grow quickly. Some take time. Some need care that others may not notice.
Teach us patience, attention, and hope.

This is Christ’s table.
Not a reward for those who have tended the most,
but bread for those who need life.
Not a prize for the perfect,
but welcome for those who come as they are.

We come with what is flourishing and what feels fragile.
We come for bread, for grace, for life that can take root.

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The Peace

Peace grows where people are given time, care, and space to live.
The peace of Christ be with you.
And also with you.

(Share peace in ways that honour boundaries – words, a nod, a wave, a hand on heart.)

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The Great Thanksgiving

The Spirit is here.
The Spirit is with us.

Lift up your hearts.
We lift them to the God of love.

Let us give thanks to the Holy One.
It is right to give thanks and praise.

It is right, and a joyful thing,
to give you thanks, God of seed and soil,
of breath and life.

You scatter goodness with generosity.
You bring forth life in places we might not notice.
You work through seasons we cannot hurry,
through hidden roots, slow change,
and growth that does not always appear the way we expect.

You know what helps life flourish
and what leaves people worn down.
You know the pressures that crowd out hope,
the fear that makes trust difficult,
and the conditions that keep some lives from thriving.

Still you sow.

In Jesus, you came among us with patience and hope.
He told stories that asked people to notice more deeply.
He did not divide the world neatly into the worthy and unworthy.
He trusted that grace could take root
in ordinary lives, difficult places,
and people still becoming.

He spoke of a sower
who scattered seed with open hands,
trusting the possibility of life
more than the certainty of success.

And so, with angels and ancestors,
with all who have planted without knowing what would grow,
with all who have waited for signs of life,
we sing the song of heaven:

Holy, holy, holy One,
breath of all that lives, fire of all that loves,
heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is the One who comes to heal and to set free.
Hosanna in the highest.

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Thanksgiving and story

Blessed are you, Holy One.
In Jesus you showed us a way of love
that is generous enough to keep sowing.

He knew that people live under different pressures.
Some are worn down.
Some are crowded by worry.
Some have been given little chance to flourish.
Some need time, safety, and patient care.

He did not reduce people to the conditions around them.
He kept teaching, feeding, welcoming, and nurturing hope.
He trusted the life of the Spirit
to work beneath the surface
before anyone else could tell what was changing.

At his table, grace was not rationed.
Bread was shared.
People were received.
New life was already beginning.

Here is the mystery we celebrate –
God keeps sowing,
Christ keeps making room,
the Spirit brings life from within,
and grace works in ways we cannot always measure.

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Words of Institution

On the night before he gave himself for us,
Jesus took bread;
he gave thanks, broke it, and said:
“Take, eat. This is my body, given for you.
Do this in remembrance of me.”

When the meal was ended,
he took the cup;
he gave thanks, and said:
“Drink from this, all of you.
This is my blood of the new covenant,
poured out for you and for many,
for the forgiveness of sins.
Do this, as often as you drink it,
in remembrance of me.”

Christ has died.
Christ is risen.
Christ will come again.

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Prayer of the Spirit

Pour out your Spirit on us gathered here,
and on these gifts of bread and cup.
Make them for us the body and blood of Christ,
that we may be for the world the body of Christ:
patient in hope,
attentive to what helps life flourish,
gentle with what is still growing,
alive in the Spirit.

When people are worn down, help us offer care rather than judgement.
When worry leaves little room for hope, help us make space.
When growth is slow, give us patience.
When lives are restricted by unjust conditions, give us courage to change what we can.

Shape us into a people who do not measure worth by productivity or visible success.
Let this table teach us another way:
bread shared without competition,
the cup received as gift,
community that makes room for different needs,
and hope practised with patience.

Through Christ, with Christ, in Christ,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
all honour and glory are yours,
God of promise and presence,
now and always.
Amen.

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The Prayer Jesus taught

As Jesus taught us, we pray:
(Use your community’s preferred wording/version.)

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Breaking the bread

We break this bread
to share in the body of Christ.
Though we are many, we are one body,
because we all share in one bread.

The gifts of God for the people of God.
Thanks be to God.

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Sharing the bread and cup

(Words such as these may be used during the distribution.)

Grace is given freely.
Life is still taking root.

(If people receive a blessing instead of the elements: “May Christ be close to you; may love hold you.”)

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Prayer after Communion

God of patience and life,
we thank you for meeting us at this table.
You have fed us with grace,
and reminded us that growth cannot be forced.

When we are impatient with ourselves or others, teach us gentleness.
When hope is hard to find, keep us attentive to signs of life.

Send us out to care for what helps people flourish –
to make room for rest,
to challenge conditions that diminish life,
to offer patience instead of judgement,
and to trust that grace is still at work.
God of life,
now and forever. Amen.

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Sending

Go in peace – not because every seed has grown,
but because the work of life continues.
We will make room. We will practise patience. We will trust grace at work.