Prayer To Bless Bread and Wine for Communion. Dear God, You are the source of all life, death and resurrection. Through your Son, Jesus Christ, you gave our ancestors the gift of Eucharistic Bread and Wine to remember him and proclaim his death on Calvary as a sacrifice for our sins. In your infinite love for us, you give us his Body and Blood in these sacramental symbols so that we can be one with him, who lives and reigns with you in eternity . Bless these elements so that they will be holy gifts to us. May the Bread we share nourish us in body and soul; may the Wine we drink build up our community through forgiveness, charity , mutual support , reconciliation , understanding or compassion . Grant us this grace through Christ our Lord. Amen
The bread and wine are the means by which Jesus Christ presents us to God. May this wine be blessed, and may those who eat it find peace of soul, so that they may enjoy the body of Christ and not condemn their brother, nor stir up enmity among themselves. Lord, send our minds into your presence; let us receive you with humble hearts and a pure mind; for these gifts your Son came down from heaven–to offer himself for our salvation through the mediation of his priestly prayer and sacrifice; to raise up our bodies from the dead with undying grace in his kingdom forevermore. Amen.
It is good to bless the bread and wine for communion. It is a special moment when you pray together to allow Jesus to bless these sacred symbols. It also helps you know that God is present and there with you, even though you may be alone during the other parts of the service. This prayer can be used any time you are thinking about eating or drinking something in a religious setting.
Lord, as we gather, Your Son invites us to be a part of the Body of Christ. May we enter into this celebration in light of His love and grace. Amen
Prayer To Bless Bread And Wine For Communion
Prayer 1:
Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask for your blessing upon this bread and wine, which we will partake in remembrance of your Son, Jesus Christ. May these elements be sanctified by your presence and become a means of grace for all who partake. Amen.
Prayer 2:
Lord Jesus, as we prepare to receive communion, we ask for your blessing upon this bread and wine. May they nourish our souls and strengthen our faith in you. We thank you for the sacrifice you made for us and pray that we may always remember your love and grace. Amen.
Prayer 3:
God of all creation, we give thanks for the gift of this bread and wine, symbols of your abundant love and grace. Bless these elements as we partake in communion, that they may be a source of unity and fellowship among us. May we be drawn closer to you and to one another through this sacred meal. Amen.
Prayer 4:
Eternal God, we gather together as your people to receive communion and to remember the sacrifice of your Son, Jesus Christ. We ask for your blessing upon this bread and wine, that they may be for us the body and blood of Christ. May this holy meal strengthen our faith and renew our commitment to following your will. Amen.
Prayer 5:
Dear Lord, we humbly come before you as we prepare to receive communion. Bless this bread and wine, the symbols of your Son’s body and blood, and make them a source of spiritual nourishment for us. May we be filled with your presence and grace as we partake in this sacred meal. Amen.
Prayer 6:
Gracious God, as we gather around this table to receive communion, we ask for your blessing upon this bread and wine. May these elements be a reminder of your great love for us and a source of spiritual sustenance for our souls. Help us to partake with grateful hearts and to be united in our faith in you. Amen.
Bible Verse:
1 Corinthians 10:16-17 – “Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all share the one loaf.”
How to Bless the Bread and Wine for Communion
The Lord’s Supper is also called “the Lord’s table” (1 Corinthians 10:21), “communion,” “cup of blessing” (1 Corinthians 10:16), and “breaking of bread” ( Acts 2:42 ). In the early Church it was called also “eucharist,” or giving of thanks (Matthew 26:27), and generally by the Latin Church “mass,” a name derived from the formula of dismission, Ite, missa est, i.e., “Go, it is discharged.” The account of when Jesus instituted this ordinance of communion is given in Matthew 26:26-29, Mark 14:22-25, Luke 22:19-20, and 1 Corinthians 11:24-26.
Jesus told us why we celebrate communion when He instated it. He said, “Do this… in remembrance of me” (1 Corinthian 11:25).
When we take communion, we are remembering Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. The bread and wine are tangible, visible reminders of Christ’s love. Rather than simply saying “remember,” Jesus gave us a reminder. Just as we depend on food and drink to live physically, we can only live spiritually through Christ.
Communion is a time of just that: communing. It is a chance to bring ourselves before the Lord and partake in the life He has given us through His death and resurrection.
What Is the Purpose of Communion?
To commemorate the death of Christ: “Do this in remembrance of me.”
To signify, seal, and apply to believers all the benefits of the new covenant. In this ordinance, Christ ratifies his promises to his people, and they on their part solemnly consecrate themselves to him and to his entire service.
To be a badge of the Christian profession.
To indicate and to promote the communion of believers with Christ.
To represent the mutual communion of believers with each other.
The elements used to represent Christ’s body and blood are bread and wine. The kind of bread, whether leavened or unleavened, is not specified. Christ used unleavened bread simply because it was at that moment on the paschal table. Wine, and no other liquid, is to be used (Matthew 26:26-29). This is a permanent ordinance in the Church of Christ and is to be observed “till he comes” again. Adapted from Easton’s Bible Dictionary ~ Excerpt from Crosswalk.com
How Catholics View Communion
The Holy Eucharist is a sacrament and a sacrifice. In the Holy Eucharist, under the appearances of bread and wine, the Lord Christ is contained, offered, and received.
The whole Christ is really, truly, and substantially present in the Holy Eucharist. We use the words “really, truly, and substantially” to describe Christ’s presence in the Holy Eucharist in order to distinguish Our Lord’s teaching from that of mere men who falsely teach that the Holy Eucharist is only a sign or figure of Christ, or that He is present only by His power.
All Christians, with but few minor exceptions held the true doctrine of the Real Presence from the time of Christ until the Protestant Revolution in the sixteenth century.
The word “Eucharist” means “Thanksgiving.”
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Prayer for Communion
O Lord God, heavenly Father, we praise and thank you for your grace that through your Son Jesus Christ you established this supper in which we eat his body and drink his blood.
By your Holy Spirit, help us to use this gift worthily, to confess and forsake our sins, to confidently believe that we are forgiven through Christ, and to grow in faith and love day by day until we come at last to the joy of eternal salvation, through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord. Amen.
Holy Communion Prayer
We thank you, our Father, for that life which you have made known to us by Jesus your Son, by whom you made all things, and take care of the whole world. You sent him to become man for our salvation. You allowed him to suffer and to die. You raised him up, glorified him, and have set him at your right hand, and in Him you have promised us the resurrection of the dead.
O Lord Almighty, eternal God, gather together your Church from the ends of the earth into your kingdom, as grain was once scattered, and now has become one loaf. Our Father, we also thank you for the precious blood of Jesus Christ, which was shed for us, and for his precious body, as Himself appointed us, “to proclaim his death.”
For through him glory is to be given to you forever. Amen.
Prayer after Communion
Dear Lord Jesus Christ, thanks and praise to you. Again you fed me at your holy table with your own body and blood. By your Word and Supper, may I be led from this world of sorrow into life eternal. Amen.
Holy Scriptures about Communion
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes. ~ 1 Corinthians 11:26
Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; this is my body.” And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. ~ Matthew 26:26-28
The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. ~ 1 Corinthians 10:16-17
And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. ~ Acts 2:42
And he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to them, saying, “This is my body, which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” And likewise the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood. ~ Luke 22:19-20
And when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” ~ 1 Corinthians 11:24
prayers for communion bread and wine
Because of the broken body and spilled blood of Jesus on the cross, Christians participate in Holy Communion as a memorial to His sacrifice.
When we take Holy Communion, we’re reminded not only of Christ’s human suffering but also of the love He had for us. As believers, we also celebrate because Jesus’ resurrection has led us to eternal life.
In this article, we’ll go over the Lord’s supper and the remembrance of Jesus through communion. We’ll also show you five prayers you can say for communion.
The story of the Last Supper
In Matthew 26:17-30, Jesus sent two of His disciples ahead with very specific instructions on preparing the Passover meal.
That evening, Jesus ate His final meal with the disciples. As they ate, He told them that one of them would soon betray Him.
One by one, they asked, “I’m not the one, am I, Lord?”
Jesus told them that, even though it was His destiny to die, His betrayer’s fate would be worse: “Far better for him if he’d never been born!”
A book open on a table that says “This is my body which is given for you”
Jesus then took bread and wine and asked God the Father to bless it. He broke the bread into pieces, giving it to His disciples, and said, “This is my body, given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”
Then, Jesus took the cup of wine and shared it with His disciples. He said:
“This wine is the token of God’s new covenant to save you — an agreement sealed with the blood I’ll pour out for you… I won’t drink wine again until the day I drink it with you in my Father’s Kingdom.”
Then, they sang a hymn and went out to the Mount of Olives.
Since Jesus shared the Last Supper with His disciples, communion has been a time-honored tradition during Passover.
What is communion?
Eucharist, also known as communion, is the ceremony during which bread and wine are consecrated and consumed as a commemoration of the Last Supper.
In early Christianity, taking communion was a daily practice that celebrated the Lord Jesus Christ and His life. Each time they gathered around a table to eat and drink, it was a chance to recognize Jesus and give thanks for all He’d done.
a person receiving holy communion
Communion isn’t considered an obligation but a celebration. The emphasis isn’t on the bread and wine but on what they symbolize: the body of Christ and the blood of Christ.
The act of celebrating communion commemorates the story of Jesus, who gave Himself completely so we could start anew and clean of sins.
Holy sacraments are important because they help us remember. Jesus asks us to remember every time we taste the communion bread and wine that He is the one who gives us all we need.
By feeding us physically, He gives us the energy we need to grow spiritually and helps us take our next steps with Him.
Devotion doesn’t come from the ritual itself but from the person who died for us.
The Lord’s supper prayer
Even though communion is a major ritual in the Christian faith, it doesn’t automatically make you a Christian. Heaven or salvation aren’t guaranteed on an act of spiritual communion alone.
communion bread and wine
In fact, God warns us not to take communion without thinking about its significance and purpose. This isn’t intended as a mindless ritual — we use it to intentionally remember what Jesus has done for us and why He did it.
short communion prayer for the bread
Holy communion prayer
We thank you, our Father, for that life which you’ve made known to us by Jesus, your Son, by whom you made all things, and take care of the whole world. You sent Him to become a man for our salvation. You allowed Him to suffer and to die. You raised Him up, glorified Him, and have set Him at your right hand, and in Him, you’ve promised us the resurrection of the dead.
O Lord Almighty, the eternal God, gather your Church from the ends of the earth into your kingdom as grain was once scattered and now has become one loaf. Our Father, we also thank you for the precious blood of Jesus Christ, which was shed for us, and for His precious body, as He appointed us, “to proclaim his death.” For through Him, glory is to be given to you forever. Amen.
Prayer for the bread of communion
Eternal God, we ask you in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this bread to the souls of all those who receive it. That they may eat in remembrance of the body of your Son, and witness to you, O God. That they are willing to take upon them the name of your Son, and always remember Him, and keep the commandments which He’s given them. That they may always have His Spirit to be with them. Amen.
Prayer for the wine of communion
Holy God, we ask you in the name of your Son Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this wine to the souls of all those who receive it. That they may drink in remembrance of the blood of the Lord which was shed for them. That they may witness to you, O God, that they do always remember Him, that they may have His Spirit to be with them. Amen.
Blessing on the wine and bread combined
O God, we ask you in the name of your Son Jesus Christ, to bless and sanctify this bread and wine to the souls of all those who receive them. That they may eat and drink in remembrance of the body and blood of your Son, and witness to you, O God. That they are willing to take upon them the name of your Son, and always remember Him and keep the commandments which He’s given them, that they may always have His Spirit to be with them. Amen.
Prayer for after communion
O Lord God, eternal Father, we praise and thank you for your grace that through your Son Jesus Christ, you established this supper in which we eat His body and drink His blood. By your Holy Spirit, help us to use this gift: to confess and forsake our sins, to confidently believe that we’re forgiven through Christ, and to grow in faith and love day by day, until we come at last to the joy of eternal salvation through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord. Amen.
Take and eat, this is my body
We can have eternal life because of the death of Jesus. When Christians partake of Holy Communion, they are proclaiming that Christ, through His death and resurrection, prepared us for eternal life in heaven.