St Peters RC Church Hamilton

“Let us keep the feast ...with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.” (1 Corinthians 5 v 8)

Dearest Father, we praise and thank You for allowing Your Son to live and die for us, leaving us a remarkable witness to Your grace and goodness in the Eucharist.

What a gift of holiness! We receive the Lord of lords and King of kings freely. We are made righteous in this blood of the Lord Jesus offered up for us. I thank You.

You are our Provider, the Father of every mercy, who does not allow vital provisions to run short for us. For since the Lord Jesus’ sacrifice on the †of forgiveness, His body and blood have been available to us. I praise

You.

It is truly amazing, a miracle taking place each time the Priest iterates the bread and the wine that the Holy Spirit transubstantiates these into the precious body and blood of Jesus. I thank You.

Jesus as Saviour, through the Holy Spirit as Sanctifier, lifts our heart, mind and hope to heaven. We delight to enter the company of the Trinity even now, a foretaste of what is to come. I praise You.

We cannot really understand the concept of the Trinity, One Person yet Three, but we do experience You working individually with us in Your different roles, yet know You work as all Three at the same time! I

thank You.

The entirety of love and mercy is made ours in many ways, as in studying the sacred Scriptures, praying the sacraments and the help of Christian friends and family. I praise You.

But the highest help, the supreme way of receiving You as intimately as is possible this side of heaven, is by the holy communion, gifting us the real Presence of Jesus. I thank You.

Manna from heaven indeed is made ours to enjoy, to benefit from, to be strengthened and nourished by, to fortify our faith and justify our hope as we are called to worship. I praise You.

Trust teaches us so much, allowing us the courage to face up to trials, tribulations and all manner of challenges to our faith, because we know we are not alone. We trust in the mercy of the Father God, that

You are ever with us, in the Lord Jesus, by the work of the Holy Spirit. I thank You, How wonderful it is to be called to worship and how truly marvellous that we can respond to the call of the

Lord Jesus, as the Spirit of faith invites and encourages us to. We receive Your living Word, He who manifests the written word of the Bible so clearly. I praise You.

“ ‘Blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it’,” (Luke 11 v 28) for by obedience we learn reverence, and in being reverent, we enjoy a spiritual kinship with each Person of the Trinity. I thank You.

The Lord Jesus tells us His family are those who hear Your word and keep it (Luke 8 v 21) and we are possessed of the Master to help us with this each time we celebrate the Eucharist. I praise You.

To be placed and positioned within the power of holy love is our highest hope, our deepest peace and our profoundest joy, for we feel secure, fully loved and cherished. I thank You.

I do not like to think where humanity would be without Your holy love and mercy Lord God. We would be as nobody, with no prospects eternally, and this is daunting and frightening. But by Your Son and Spirit You

remedy this through salvation. I praise You.

We can judge the quality of our life by our likeness or otherwise, to the exemplary life of the Lord Jesus. We have been set the highest standard to meet, but also the means by which this is accomplished. I thank You.

The Holy Spirit ever at work is zealous in His efforts with us and for us. How delighted He must be each time we avail ourselves of the perfection offered us as the Lord Jesus’ sacramental and spiritual actual

presence is shared with us in a real, most joyous celebration of the Eucharist. I praise You.

Love and mercy are the hallmark of this supreme sacrament, our redemption recalled so vividly, so succinctly, yet perfectly. “You, O LORD, are a shield for me, my glory and the One who lifts up my head.” (Psalm 3 v 3) I thank You.

“I will praise Your name forever and ever...One generation shall praise Your works to another and shall declare Your mighty acts.” (Psalm 145 v 2, 4) “For You have done wonderful things” (Isaiah 25 v

1) worthy of the highest acclaim. I praise You.

“Your counsels of old are faithfulness and truth” (Isaiah 25 v 1) witnessed by us through the Lord Jesus, sacrificed for our forgiveness and then sending the Holy ‘Spirit that we be sanctified. I thank You.

Our Saviour Brother told us that He would pray for us to be sanctified by the truth. I praise and thank You for revealing to us that we have a Saviour Lord, the promised Messiah, reigning as the King of Glory.

Let all the earth praise You, most holy Trinity, one God in Three Persons, whose “...name alone is exalted,”

(Psalm 148 v 13) “the praise of all Your saints.” (based on v 14) Amen.