Your sacrament, Lord Jesus Christ,
gives life
and the remission of sins;
you have suffered the passion for our sake.
For us you have drunk gall to take from us all bitterness;
you have drunk a bitter wine for us to lift us from our weariness;
you have been despised for us,
that the dew of immortality might be poured upon us;
you have been beaten with scourges to ensure to our frailty eternal life;
you have been crowned with thorns that your faithful might be crowned with the evergreen laurels of love;
you have been wrapped in a winding sheet that we might be clothed in your strength;
you were laid in the tomb
that in a new age loving kindness might again be granted to us.
Fragment from an ancient eucharistic liturgy
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