His Body, Blood within us rise,
The fruit of Jesus’ sacrifice:
Ingest His life with earthly food
Transformed to Body and His Blood.
Without His food we cannot live
The life He freely to us gives;
Without Him we can never be
Conceived in His humility.
Forgetting self, we Him consume–
Brings life into our earthly gloom.
Receive His life: His great surprise
Is we with Him will ever rise!
O Sacred Heart, so wounded deep,
With Mary’s heart your vigil keep
As for us both your Hearts do weep;
For as we sow, we also reap.
Peace in our hearts we cannot buy,
So trapped are we by Satan’s lie;
No matter now how hard we try,
In us the price is just too high.
Imperfect cannot perfect be
Since first Eve chose imperfectly.
One perfect in humanity
Must come to us to human free.
God’s New Creation now is born
Of Woman, from the old not scorned.
Her heart one Heart that’s not forlorn,
A heart that has not our sin worn.
From Mother, He our nature takes;
His Sacred Heart her own Heart makes,
As human nature on earth quakes,
When from its sin-drugged sleep awakes.
That Sacred Heart joins with our own;
Her Heart Immaculate now known.
In human nature virtue grown
With Jesus’ Heart, our cornerstone.
The Holy Spirit picks His fruit
From Cross through grave that’s empty now,
For He who grew from Jesse’s root
Has risen to fulfill His vow.
He promised He would live again
And come to us in bread and wine
That cleanse us of our mortal sin:
His Body, Blood born from His vine.
When we remember His command,
His-once-for-all-time here appears;
On Spirit’s breath with Father’s hand
To us on altar brings Son there.
He enters us when we partake
And eat and drink His risen life
To give to others for their sakes:
We bring to all His heaven’s light.
In Eucharist He always asks of us:
“Who do you say on altar that I am?”
Invites us to in Him place all our trust
To come inside and take away our sin.
In this we His eternal Person know–
Surrender to the One who gives us all–
Allow Him in us to forgiveness grow
And through us to Christ Jesus others call.
When faith in Him on altar in us lives,
Will blossom in us fullness of His love;
With hope a surety He to us gives
That someday we’ll abide with Him above.
His Eucharist is pledge forever more
That He gives grace so we may Him adore.
The glories of the Cross I sing
When high and lifted up;
For Jesus, heaven’s anthems ring
When on His life we sup.
He’s here in bread and wine made His
In Risen Life for all;
We now know truth of all He is—
God’s Son on whom we call.
He speaks but once for all our time:
“This is my Body, Blood,”
And we in Him new life there find
For we are understood.
Like us the Father’s Son became
Except for Adam’s sin;
We’re by the Second Adam claimed,
And we can live again.
We eat and drink His Risen Life,
Find Him and Whose we are–
Discover He’s the world’s true light
Announced by Bethl’m’s Star.
In each of us His life now shines
Through Cross raised on a hill,
And joy we know is His new wine:
He all our dreams fulfills.
White lilies on the table laid,
Reflect the beauty of the one
Who gives her heart as our Lord’s maid
To follow truth of Only Son.
Her hands caress the world around
And with His Spirit’s holy touch
Will consecrate with truth–abounds
In beauty that He loves so much.
Her inner beauty on us shines
As through her we bask in His glow–
Will change our water into wine
As we her Handmaid’s heart will know.
The clap of thunder over Cross foretold
A washing of all earth in Jesus’ Blood,
And birth of Eden New from Eden Old
As Cross stands where the Tree of Life once stood.
Our Father breathes His Spirit to come down—
Through Father’s Son gives Paradise new birth—
And Son then rises over world with crown
Of King o’er life anew for all the earth.
And all the mountains, valleys, trees, and streams
Join with earth’s creatures scattered near and far
In joyful song, dispels temptations dream
As dawn shows Eden’s gate no longer barred.
With thunder comes the Son’s Baptismal rain
To bury in His grave earth’s sin and pain.
Why do we long for hills so far away
And for the sunset disappears behind
To bring the night that with us never stays–
Prepares for sun to rise o’er humankind?
The birth and death of every day reminds
Each one of us of his mortality
And of our longing for new life we find
When dawn bathes hills in new light that’s death free.
Come, Jesus, with your Resurrection’s dawn
To mercy bring to all of us below:
Your heaven’s light for which we’ve always longed
And can on earth through You begin to know.
Our longing for those hills so far away
Is longing for your dawn of heaven’s day.
We build our walls around our Jerichos
And think they will suffice to save our sin,
But deep within our hearts we surely know
That Jesus and His Angels always win.
The Devil tempts us all to build those walls
And grow within his world our mortal sins,
Yet we can hear inside when Jesus calls
To of our sins repent and let Him in.
We open gate a crack to peak without,
And Michael’s hosts with Jesus inside pour
To cast out sin and with it all our doubt:
On Spirit’s breath we to our Father soar.
Our walls with Him forever tumble down,
And we in freedom at His feet are found.
All families here are in God’s heart,
Each one a likeness of His love,
As in between He takes His part
To turn us back to Him above.
Begotten in the Family First,
Through Mary, One of us becomes,
Removes from us Old Eden’s curse:
Of Holy Family He’s the Son.
His Naz’reth Family mediates
Those Three above to earth below,
As Holy Spirit saturates
Our hearts with Father’s love we know.
For into death Son takes our sin,
Restores in human families here
God’s likeness, and we can again
Live in His love without death’s fear.
PROCLAIMING TRUTH! 