In that shared Dinner,
The delivery of Jesus in Bread and Wine
It is gesture and memory:
The subversive heritage of his Life.
Let us knead the daily bread:
Fresh yeast and tenderness
In the original skin of Utopia.
Your hands and my hands in the hard
Task to quench thirst and wheat
And make the bread that satisfies and endures.
His memory is a claim and a witness
At the empty table of the hungry
And in the wounded hands of the beggar.
His shared Bread is testament,
Subversive inheritance and wounded cry
In the lips ash of the thirsty.
Let’s join hands and heartbeat
From his Blood will be ember in our veins.
With freshly-baked wine and bread
Let us untie the knot and the chains,
Let us prepare the table of the poor
and drown the weeping and the sorrow.
Fr. Blas Márquez, CMF