We gather here, before your table, Lord,
To share the sacrament you broke and poured.
We come in thanks for hearts and lives restored.
Alleluia! Alleluia!

What love is this! When human hope had ceased,
You came to save the lonely, lost, and least,
Inviting us to come and share your feast.
Alleluia! Alleluia!

For you had vowed a covenantal vow:
That we might be cast off you’d not allow,
For you would save your people, then and now.
Alleluia! Alleluia!

Claimed by your call to follow in your ways,
We take this bread, this joyful cup we raise.
We set our hearts to serve you all our days.
Alleluia! Alleluia!

Words: James Ayers, © 1992. Tune: Sine Nomine, R. Vaughn Williams, 1906 [“For All the Saints”]