When moving to my current post, I found it very hard to find good, modern, and short liturgies for communion. All I could find were either very old school or the various Church of England formats. Here is a liturgy I have written based on the words from Isaiah 53.
With Christians around the world, today and throughout the centuries, we gather to celebrate communion together.
ADAPTED FROM ISAIAH 53:
We turned our backs on Christ and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.
Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows that weighed him down.
And we thought his troubles were a punishment for his own sins!
But he was pierced for OUR sins.
He was beaten so WE could be whole.
He was whipped so WE could be healed.
BY HIS STRIPES WE ARE HEALED
All of us, like sheep, have strayed away.
We have left God’s paths to follow our own.
Yet the Lord laid on him
the sins of us all.
He had done no wrong
and had never deceived anyone.
But he was buried like a criminal;
he was put in a rich man’s grave.
But it was the Lord’s good plan.
His life is an offering for OUR sin.
You may wish to spend some quiet time for repentance and saying sorry here. using your own words or something like the CoE format.
We remember that on the night he was betrayed, Jesus ate the Passover meal with his disciples.
After they finished the ceremonial meal, Jesus took the bread,
thanked God for it, and broke it and told his friends:
“This is my body which I give to you. Take it, and eat it and remember me.”
Then he took a cup of wine, thanked God for it and said to his friends:
“This is my blood given to you as a new agreement between God and his people, which is shed for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins. Drink it and remember me.”
This is Christ’s dinner table. Christ welcomes everyone who wants to know him to come and eat with him here.
Share in bread and wine.