Explore the sign of bread by passing the loaf to anyone in your group who wishes to bless and give thanks for it; for example, “Bless this bread which represents the many ways our ideas nourish one another,” or “Bless this loaf which contains crushed and baked wheat seeds that have become a new reality.”
When all who wish have blessed the loaf, have each group member give the next person a piece of bread with a special personal wish or word of blessing. Then pray together:
LEADER: When we gather for Eucharist—
ALL: Is not the bread we break a sharing in the body of Christ?
LEADER: Because the loaf is one—
ALL: We, many though we are, are one body for we partake of the one loaf.