We Who once were dead    

1) We who once were dead
Now live, fully knowing
Jesus as our head.
Life is overflowing
When he breaks the bread.

2) We were lost in night,
but you sought and found us.
Give us strength to fight;
death is all around us.
Jesus, be our light.

3) He became our bread;
Jesus died to save us.
On him we are fed,
eating what he gave us,
rising from the dead.

4) Let us share the pain
you endured in dying;
we Shall then remain
living; death defying,
we Shall rise again.

5) Jesus, you were dead,
but you rose and, living,
made yourself our bread,
in your goodness giving
life though we were dead.

6) This is your design;
in this meal we meet you.
Be our bread and wine,
Jesus, we entreat you.
This shall be our sign.