Alleluia! Christ is Risen. He is Risen Indeed, Alleluia!

Calvary Redeemed

Re-posted from Easter 2014 with thanks that we here can celebrate freely year after year - and with thoughts and prayers for the many who will greet Easter with fear in their hearts.

This song celebrates the bread and wine of the Risen Lord and can be sung to the lovely traditional  Scottish Tune which has been set to ‘The Mingulay Boating Song’ **

Come among us, Risen Jesus,

pour your Holy Spirit on us 

as we gather round your table

taking bread and drinking wine

Bread of life, which ever strengthens

wine his blood, our sweet refreshment:

by our Saviour, freely given,

sacrifice, for you and me.

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At the time of posting this was Dedicated to friends-in-Jesus in The Ukraine: that still feels appropriate in September 2014, September 2015 and 2017.

On the morning of original publication we greeted The Day of Resurrection a little after sunrise in the grounds of the ruins of Denny Abbey, which has been a Benedictine Abbey (C12th), A Preceptory of the Knights Templars (C13th) and a House of Poor Clares (14^th). The early morning service included members of two Baptist churches, a Salvation Army Corps and our two local Anglican (C of E) churches. So between the history and the inter-church morning fellowship we are reminded of the breadth of Christ’s church.

But the international dimension was not represented. So I would like to re-dedicate the following song to those friends in Ukraine who I have noticed have recently been visiting The Cross and The Cosmos’ more regularly than usual.

Ukranian Friends, here in the UK, we understand only what the media shows us of the complexities of your country’s present situation, but we pray for all of those of you who long for a lasting peace in your land.

**You can listen to The Corries singing The Mingulay Boating Song at This link to sense how the tune fits the communion song above. In due course.