The students of the class Early Christian Liturgical Practices at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia prepared a wonderful worship service that included a meal for our community. Worshiping and eating together was about honoring God with our love, time, talents and desire to serve. Being at the (eucharistic?) table, getting to know each other, sharing our lives and differences, we sang, read, talked, listen to the gospel, prayed, ate and drank, caring and feeding each other. Surely, a rehearsal of what the world should be, an appetizer of the God’s love feast prepared to us all.
Order of Worship
Prelude
Greeting & Welcome
Service of Light (Holden Evening Prayer)
Sharing of the Peace
Lord’s Prayer
Meal & Music
Toasts & Prayer
Lord’s Prayer
“Oh, Happy Day”
Scripture Readings
Discussion & Dessert
“We Come to the Hungry Feast”
Lord’s Prayer
Blessing & Benediction
OH HAPPY DAY
Oh, happy day (oh, happy day)
Oh, happy day (oh, happy day)
When Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)
oh, when he washed (when Jesus washed)
when Jesus washed (when Jesus washed)
he washed my sins away! (Oh, happy day)
Ah, happy day (oh, happy day)
REPEAT
(he taught me how) he taught me how
(to watch) (fight and pray)
(fight and pray) (and he’ll rejoice)
(in things we say) (everyday)
CHORUS
(he taught me how) he taught me how
(to watch) (fight and pray)
(fight and pray) (and he’ll rejoice)
(in things we say) (everyday)
Oh, happy day (oh, happy day)
oh, happy day (oh, happy day)
(oh, happy day)
REPEAT
CHORUS
Oh lord (oh, happy day)
mmm, good God (oh, happy day)
oh yeah (oh, happy day)
mmm, lord (oh, happy day)
WE COME TO THE HUNGRY FEAST
Text by Ray Makeever ©1982
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We come to the hungry feast,
Hungry for a word of peace.
To hungry hearts unsatisfied,
The love of God is not denied.
We come, we come to the hungry feast.
We come to the hungry feast,
Hungry for a world released,
From hungry folk of every kind,
The poor in body, poor in mind.
We come, we come to the hungry feast.
We come to the hungry feast
Hungry that the hunger cease,
And knowing, though we eat our fill
The hungry will stay with us; still
We come, we come to the hungry feast.
MENU
Wine/Juice/Water
Salad
Rice & Beans
Oven Roasted Chicken
Pulled Pork
Shepherd’s Pie
Pasta
Carne Molida Borincana (Puerto Rican Pot Roast)
Calico Bean Hot Dish
Brownies, Cookies, Apple Pie, Assorted Fruits
Valerie Jeannine Willis
Alexander Thomas Kennedy
Angel David Marrero-Ayala
Timothy William Ness