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| Opening Responses | |
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| Reader 1 | We break the bread of Africa A continent rich in resources, living on a knife edge: impoverished by tribal strife, by AIDS, by drought, by preventable diseases, by unfair trading.. |
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| Reader 2 | We break the bread of Africa- People living on the leading edge: living the prophecy of the Kingdom in racial co-operation, in feeding the hungry, in healing the sick. A continent graced with prophets in power, leading Africa to new life. |
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| Reader 3 | We break the bread of South America- living on the knife-edge of ecological disaster: acres of virgin forest put to sword and flame; her children, promise of her future living on a knife-edge: on street and rubbish-tip, considered to be vermin - and disposable. |
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| Reader 4 | We break the bread of South America- living on the leading edge of peoples living in harmony with the forests; teaching the future the value of the past. Communities, small, basic and Christian offering havens of hope and hospitality to the cast-offs of society; prophets of our age living without power living prophetically the hunger for justice and right. |
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| Reader 5 | We break the bread of India, living on the knife-edge of poverty and squalor; living on a knife-edge of political stability resorting to tactics of oppression and fear; dictatorship in democracy. Generations bonded in labour to masters long-dead; debts beyond repaying. |
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| Reader 6 | We break the bread of India: living on the leading edge; small lights lit in Calcutta, Madras, Bombay, people living alongside the poor, living the prophecy of the Kingdom that the Lord - and those whom the Lord has chosen - hear the cries of the poor. |
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| Reader 7 | We break the bread of Eastern Europe: living on the knife edge of recovery from civil war; where barbarity dressed up in euphemism of ethnic-cleansing; the achievements of generations disintegrating into rubble; the pride of peoples dissolving in the tears of refugees, weeping for the lost ones. |
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| Reader 8 | We break the bread of Eastern Europe: people living on the leading edge of rebuilding bridges: crossing swirling rivers and restoring road-links, rising over hatred and restoring relationships; people living the prophecy of the Kingdom: the making of peace, the comforting of those who mourn. |
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| Reader 9 | We break the bread of ..........(name of
town/city): our young people living on a knife-edge of unemployment and exploitation by drug dealers; our old folk living in fear of crime and violence; Christians afraid of our voices. |
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| Reader 10 | We break the bread of ............: people living on the leading-edge of the care of the user, the care of the weak and the frail; people living the prophecy of the Kingdom the life of the good neighbour; people prepared to risk insult and misunderstanding in following their Lord. |
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| Reader 11 | We break the bread of the world: for its shames and its sorrows; for its pains and its injustices; for a beautiful world living on a knife-edge broken by brutal hands. |
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| Reader 12 | We break the bread of the world: with the healing hands of Jesus; who broke bread that we might live. We celebrate all who live on the leading-edge, people who live the Gospel prophecy: in power and in powerlessness, believing in the Kingdom breaking free of familiar boundaries and building a new world on the foundations of the old: a world where the healing hands of our Lord draw broken edges together - and make all things new. |
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| Closing Responses | |
| Reader | Jesus took bread and broke it -
gave it to his disciples and said "This is my body given for you. |
| ALL | JESUS, THE BREAD OF LIFE, BROKEN FOR THE WORLD. |
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| Reader | Jesus said, "I am the bread come down from heaven" |
| ALL | MAY WE WHO BREAK THIS BREAD AND EAT IT SHARE ITS LIFE WITH THE WORLD. |
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| Reader | Jesus said, "I commission you to be my disciples
- to go and bear fruit, fruit that will endure." |
| ALL | MAY WE BE BREAD BROKEN FOR THE WORLD - GIVING OUR LIVES AS SACRIFICES OF LOVE: GIVING OF OURSELVES SO THAT OTHERS MIGHT LIVE. |
| (Reader | And may God bless us |
| ALL | THE FATHER, THE SON AND THE HOLY SPIRIT |
| Reader | And until we meet again |
| ALL | MAY GOD HOLD US IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND. |
| AMEN. | |