A Table of Fellowship

I was flipping through Alan Mann's Atonement for a 'sinless' society, when I came across this inclusive piece of communion liturgy.
I took the service at our local church last Sunday and rewrote a communion liturgy - which also majored on the inclusive nature of Jesus and the Table. I won't bother including my own as it's in French.

Here's Alan Mann's:

A Table of Fellowship

On the night that he was 'betrayed',
Jesus ate with his friends: 'betrayers' and self-betrayed, one and all.

Jesus broke bread and gave it to his friends
As a sign of his intent to die that they might have life.

He also shared wine with them
A symbol of his death
That opened to humankind the possibility of reconciliation to God,
To ourselves and to Others.

So we also come to the table of Jesus,
For that is what he desires.

We come to reflect on his story.
But we also come to reflect on our own story
And to the stories of those we love and those we struggle to love.

We acknowledge the absence of the Other in our own lives-
Both human and divine.
We have told our story for far too long
Isolated from the Other.

As we acknowledge the inadequacies of our own story,
We say that we are sorry.
For out of ignorance and weakness,
We have not found space in our stories for the presence of Others.

Though we are not against you
We have failed at being for you.
You have been absent from our lives.
As a result, we are against ourselves, for we are Your Creation.

Therefore, we lift our heads to gaze upon the cross and listen to these words of hope:
"Forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing."

Like prodigal child, we bring our story to the table of Jesus
Assured by the story of the Lord's Supper that we will find fellowship there.

We come
Without fear of exposure
Without fear of judgement
For this is the Lord's Table.

Though we withdraw from you and from Others
You do not withdraw from us
And so we thank you.

Our presence at this table means that we are your friends.

So, as we approach this table of fellowship
We recall those absent from all lives
And acknowledge the presence of Others here with us.

We gather
That we may become one with ourselves
One with each Other
One with God

Though we fear it.
We also come to this table so that we,
Like You,
Can 'die' to ourselves.
This is our Golgotha
This is our cross.
For we know and understand that in dying
We open ourselves up to the presence
Of Others in our lives.

Therefore, we offer Others a sign of peace
A symbol of our desire for the Other to be part of our story
And for ourselves to be part of the Other.

We come in the hope of at-one-ment.
That we may be reconciled to Others
And to the Other: God.

At this table
In this moment,
We are given another chance.
To put aside our denial of the Other
And embrace the story of Jesus as our own story.

God, into your hands we place our lives.
We look to Your story to become part of our story
And so be at-one with You, with Others and with ourselves.

Amen