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500. Be Known to Us in Breaking Bread

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1 Be known to us in breaking bread,
but do not then depart;
Savior, abide with us, and spread
your table in our heart.

2 Here share with us, in love divine,
your body and your blood,
that living bread, that heavenly wine
be our immortal food.

Text Information
First Line: Be known to us in breaking bread
Title: Be Known to Us in Breaking Bread
Author: James Montgomery (1825)
Meter: CM
Language: English
Publication Date: 2013
Scripture: ; ;
Topic: Eucharist; Jesus Christ: Resurrection; Lord's Supper (1 more...)
Tune Information
Name: ST. FLAVIAN
Meter: CM
Key: F Major
Source: Day’s Psalter, 1562


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Not all communion texts refer to the Last Supper: this brief hymn is based on the meal at Emmaus shared by the Risen Christ and his two companions on the road (Luke 24:13–35). It is set to a 16th-century psalm tune that carries the text with appropriate simplicity.


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