Have Mercy

Let us break bread together on our knees

Let us break bread together on our knees

When I fall on my knees before the Risen Son

Lord, have mercy on me

Let us drink wine together on our knees

Let us drink wine together on our knees

When I fall on my knees before the Risen Son

Lord, have mercy on me

Have mercy

Let us praise God together on our knees

Let us praise God together on our knees

When I fall on my knees before the Risen Son

Lord, have mercy on me

Have mercy

Collective: Brian Ames, lead vocals | Larry Beers, drums | Josh Garner, bass guitar | Jennifer Hall, vocals | Packy Lundholm, lead guitar, organ | Noam Wallenberg, rhythm guitar

Public domain

South Carolina’s Gullah Geechee slave culture yielded this famous Black spiritual, “Let Us Break Bread Together.” Acknowledging Communion’s origin in God’s ultimate merciful act, my title changed to the Kyrie Eleison (“Lord, have mercy”) of the Catholic tradition. And God’s act of mercy reached its fulfillment in the Resurrection, so I also traded the historic lyric – “rising sun” – for “Risen Son.”