Please join in singing:

All:           Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world:
                 have mercy on us.
                 Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world:
                 have mercy on us.
                 Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world:
                 grant us peace.

Please kneel

Bishop       This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
                 Happy are those who are called to his supper.

All:          Lord, I am not worthy to receive you,
                 but only say the word and I shall be healed.

ONE BREAD, ONE BODY                                                                                     AOV 129

                 Refrain:
                 One bread, one body, one Lord of all;
                 One cup of blessing which we bless.
                 And we, though many, throughout the earth,
                 We are one body in this one Lord.

Gentile or Jew, servant or free,
Woman or man, no more.

Many the gifts, many the works,
One in the Lord - of all.

Grain for the fields, scattered and grown,
gathered to one for all.

 

PSALM 34                                                                                 Setting : Christopher Willcock

Taste and see the goodness of the Lord;
taste and see the goodness of the Lord.

During our reflection after Holy Communion, flautist Alice Meese will play Franz Doppler's Hungarian Pastoral Fantasy.  Then please stand.

Bishop Lord, hear the prayers of those you renew
                 with the food of life at your holy table.
                 By the power of this sacrifice
                 may Dominic, your servant and priest,
                 rejoice in your presence forever
                 as he served you faithfully in the Church.
                 We ask this through Christ, our Lord.

All             Amen

Please sit.  (The texts for this Final Commendation are particular to the Dominican Order.)

© 1978 John Foley SJ & New Dawn Music.  reproduced under licence;  Word of Life International, Lic. no. 861.