Thanksgiving Prayer

O Holy Presence, you have filled the universe with the dance of light
and darkness. We have walked with you since the beginning of our
time on this planet, seeking always for closer relationship in our
understanding of you. Great Earth Mother to whom we all belong,
Center of Darkness and Chaos, Holy Sophia, Most Holy Womb, Source of
all Being, you are the Heart, we the heartbeat. You are the Ocean,
feeding us and all your creatures with what we need to sustain life.
You are the Horn of Plenty, the stew pot that is always full, the
great Hand that holds us.

We remember your child, Jesus of Nazareth, son of the rebel, Mary. He
was sent among us to be our teacher, our brother, our friend. He
shared food in joyful celebration of your nurturing and showed people
how to feast on the abundant goodness of Eden, around and within us,
where divisions cease and all creation is One. Jesus taught us to
love You and each other, and that you love and care for us.

On the night before he was arrested he took bread and broke it, and
passed it to his friends gathered there. He said, "This is my body.
Remember me when you break bread." And he did the same with the cup
after supper. He said, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood."

May we remember Jesus in this bread and this wine. May we celebrate
in this feast our own embodiment and the blood which unites us with
the cycles of earth and moon. May we receive these gifts of Your
blessed creation into our hands with reverence and awe. Make of
these gifts, made by our hands, offered with our hearts, the Body and
Blood of Jesus, Child of Sophia. And through this common union
which we celebrate today may we know ourselves to be beings of one
body, one blood. May we feast on this abundant goodness, and always
know it and rejoice in it in our lives.

AMEN

(The bread is passed around the circle with the words, "The body of
Jesus, bread of Eden.")

(The wine is passed around the circle with the words, "The blood of
Jesus, cup of wholeness.")

Post Communion Prayer:

Great Nurturer, you have fed us with bread and wine for the journey.
Let us now in turn feed those who hunger in body, mind and spirit,
the lost and lonely, and all our fellow creatures who need our care.
Amen.