{"id":16644,"date":"2025-09-22T18:45:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/?p=16644"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:45:18","slug":"he-took-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2025\/09\/22\/he-took-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"He took bread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16645\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2025\/09\/22\/he-took-bread\/michael_mayne_bread\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/michael_mayne_bread.jpg?fit=800%2C533&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,533\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;motorola edge 20&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1758561026&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;5.88&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;3136&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.06&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"michael_mayne_bread\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/michael_mayne_bread.jpg?fit=800%2C533&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/michael_mayne_bread.jpg?resize=800%2C533&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/michael_mayne_bread.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/michael_mayne_bread.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/michael_mayne_bread.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>The four-fold pattern of self-giving love<\/h3>\n<div style=\"border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 1px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;\">At the very end of his life Jesus did two things that more any other, lodged in the minds of his friends. The first, the washing of their feet, spoke as no other action could, of the plain, unromantic, down-to-earthness of the love God both shows and asks for. The second has proved even more meaningful in the two millennia that have passed since Jesus first took bread and wine and did with them four deeply significant things.<\/p>\n<p>He took bread into his hands; thanked God for it; broke it; shared it. And he said, &#8220;This is my body, my blood. This is me .. this is what I am like. He is showing them the profoundly simple pattern of this one totally good human life: a life taken and lived in complete openness to the Father and so <em>&#8216;offered&#8217;<\/em>. A life lived <em>thankfully<\/em> at every point by one who saw God&#8217;s hand in everything. A life spent in the costly love of others and finally <em>broken<\/em> on the Cross. A life totally <em>shared<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Those four actions of offering, thanking, breaking and sharing, together show the pattern of what self-giving love means &#8230; and if we accept Christ&#8217;s authority in our lives we are committed to trying to make that pattern our own.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nfrom <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/This-Sunrise-Wonder-Michael-Mayne\/dp\/0232527423\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This Sunrise of Wonder<\/a><\/em> by <strong>Michael Mayne<\/strong>, 2008 edition, p. 296-7<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<h3 style=\"margin-bottom:0px;\">Prayer of adoration<\/h3>\n<p><em>O come, let us adore him, Christ the Lord!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lord Jesus, preaching good tidings to the people,<br \/>\nproclaiming release to captives,<br \/>\nsetting at liberty those who are bound:<br \/>\n<strong>We adore you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lord Jesus, friend of the outcast and the poor,<br \/>\nfeeder of the hungry,<br \/>\nhealer of the sick:<br \/>\n<strong>We adore you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lord Jesus, denouncing the oppressor,<br \/>\nexposing the hypocrite,<br \/>\novercoming evil with good:<br \/>\n<strong>We adore you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lord Jesus, pattern of gentleness,<br \/>\nteacher of holiness,<br \/>\nprophet of the kingdom:<br \/>\n<strong>We adore you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lord Jesus, dying to save us from our sin,<br \/>\nrising to give us eternal life,<br \/>\nascending to prepare our heavenly home:<br \/>\n<strong>We adore you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Almighty and loving God, you loved the world so much that you gave your only Son to be our Saviour. You allowed him to empty himself of his heavenly glory and become a suffering servant. Yet by your grace we have beheld his glory, such glory as befits the Father&#8217;s only Son, full of grace and truth.  <strong>Amen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 written by <strong>David Beswick<\/strong>, posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/re-worship.blogspot.com\/2012\/01\/prayer-of-adoration-we-adore-you.html\" target=\"_blank\">re:Worship<\/a><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><strong>From the blog<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2021\/04\/05\/in-the-school-of-prayer-with-michael-mayne\/\">In the school of prayer with Michael Mayne<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2022\/09\/20\/making-making-making\/\">Making, making, making<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.irenebom.com\/prayer_matters\/2018\/05\/29\/full-of-air\/\">Full of air<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four-fold pattern of self-giving love At the very end of his life Jesus did two things that more any other, lodged in the minds of his friends. 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