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.

Gathering at the table

Christ speaks of treasure, yeast, seed, and pearl.
We come to the table of grace, where ordinary things carry deep love.

The Spirit helps us when words fail,
and nothing can separate us from the love of God.
Hold us in hope, and teach us to trust your love at work.

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

We come with longing and gratitude, with hope and with questions.
We come for bread, for courage, for love that holds us.

The Peace

Peace is love made real in small, faithful ways.
Peace is the promise that no one is beyond the reach of grace.
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.)

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 love beyond measure.
Your reign does not depend on spectacle.
It begins like a seed.
It works like yeast.
It is found like treasure.
It is sought like a pearl.
It is held in ordinary things:
bread, cup, welcome, courage, kindness, truth.

You know the tangled stories of human life:
promises broken, labour exploited,
love controlled, people treated as means to an end.
You do not bless harm or call injustice holy.
You call us back to dignity, honesty, and life.

In Jesus, you came among us as love made practical.
He spoke of your reign in stories people could carry:
a mustard seed becoming shelter,
yeast changing the whole loaf,
treasure worth joy,
a net drawn wide.

He did not teach fear as the heart of faith.
He taught trust, patience, and joy.
He welcomed the small and ordinary
as places where your love can begin.
He gave himself in love,
and through his rising showed that nothing –
not death, not fear, not failure, not any power in creation –
can separate us from your love.

And so, with angels and ancestors,
with all who have trusted small beginnings,
with all who have found treasure in unexpected places,
with all who are held by love beyond measure,
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.

Thanksgiving and story

Blessed are you, Holy One.
In Jesus you showed us that your reign of love
is not always loud, grand, or impressive.

He compared it to seed and yeast,
to treasure and pearl,
to things that receive little attention,
things that take time,
things worth giving ourselves to with joy.

He taught us to honour small signs of life:
a word of kindness,
bread shared,
hope kept alive,
truth spoken with care,
welcome offered without fuss.

He knew that human stories are often complicated.
He did not deny pain, betrayal, longing, or injustice.
He met people within the truth of their lives
and called them towards freedom, dignity, and love.

Here is the mystery we celebrate –
God’s reign begins in small places,
Christ shares the treasure of God’s love,
the Spirit prays in us when words fail,
and nothing can separate us from love.

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.

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 with small beginnings,
faithful in ordinary kindness,
brave in the face of harm,
alive to love that cannot be broken.

When words fail, pray within us.
When hope feels small, keep it alive.
When people are treated as objects or possessions, call us back to dignity.
When fear or weariness makes love hard to receive, help us trust it again.

Shape us into a people who trust your reign at work
without needing to control how it grows.
Let this table teach us another way:
bread shared as treasure,
the cup received as grace,
community shaped by patient love,
and hope practised in small, faithful acts.

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.

The Prayer Jesus taught

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

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.

Sharing the bread and cup

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

Christ’s love – for you.
Nothing can separate you from grace.

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

Prayer after Communion

God of love beyond measure,
we thank you for meeting us at this table.
You have fed us with grace,
and reminded us that nothing can separate us from your love.

When hope feels small, keep it alive in us.
When words fail, hold us in the prayer of your Spirit.

Send us out to practise your reign of love –
to honour small beginnings,
to protect dignity,
to resist harm,
to share kindness without fuss,
and to trust grace at work in ordinary places.
God of life,
now and forever. Amen.

Sending

Go in peace – not because love is always easy to name,
but because nothing can separate us from it.
We will honour signs of life. We will protect dignity. We will trust love at work.