It's the Morning Meal We Celebrate
Channel: John London
Date: 23/06/2011

This song was inspired by one of my favorite passages in Science and Health. It appears in this week's (July 10, 2011) Christian Science Bible Lesson on the topic of Sacrament. Here it is:

35:10--14, 19
          This spiritual meeting with our Lord in the dawn of a new light is the morning meal which Christian Scientists commemorate. They bow before Christ, Truth, to receive more of his reappearing and silently to commune with the divine Principle, Love.
          Our baptism is a purification from all error. Our church is built on the divine Principle, Love. We can unite with this church only as we are newborn of Spirit, as we reach the Life which is Truth and the Truth which is Life by bringing forth the fruits of Love, — casting out error and healing the sick. Our Eucharist is spiritual communion with the one God. Our bread, "which cometh down from heaven,"  is Truth. Our cup is the cross. Our wine the inspiration of Love, the draught our Master drank and commended to his followers.

The meal we celebrate is the morning meal celebrated on the lake shore after resurrection, and we bow before the victorious Christ, Truth to commune with our divine Principle, Love.

You can find the sheet music for this song as well as many other Bible Lesson Songs at my website at http://manoftruth.net.

Here are the lyrics:

Baptized? We're purified, 
Error washed away
Our church built on the Principle
Of God's Love always

It's the morning meal we celebrate
On the shore of a new dawn
And we bow before the Christ, Truth
To commune with our Principle, Love

To unite we've got to be reborn
Love's fruit fill our lives
The Life that's the Truth of God
And the Truth that is Life

It's the morning meal we celebrate...

Our Eucharist is a spiritual one
Our communion with God
Our bread is heavenly fed
Its the Truth from above

It's the morning meal we celebrate...

Our cup is the cross we bear
Inspiration, our wine
Heart-felt, unceasing our prayer
With humbleness of mind

It's the morning meal we celebrate...