Place a fresh-baked loaf of bread and a cup of wine at the center of your group. Jesus chose these everyday, familiar foods as signs of his nourishing and challenging love for us.
Explore the sign of wine by passing the cup to anyone in your group who wishes to make a blessing, such as: “May this wine give us a taste for God’s word,” or “May this cup pledge my commitment to live Jesus’ way.”
When all who wish have asked a blessing, pass the cup around the group and drink from it. Pray together from Sunday’s second reading, 1 Corinthians 10.16-17.
Leader: When we gather for Eucharist—
All: Is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of Christ?