Postmodern Liturgist Resources

While we find this piece, sung to Rory Cooney’s masterpiece “I Myself am the Bread of Life”, to be moving, insightful and penetrating, it may be too frank for use in most communities. Some communities may be ready to use it discreetly, as we do here at the Institute. So it’s not so much “in progress” as “progressed ahead of our time”.

CHORUS:
I myself am why I am here.
You and I are why we are here
Now we can say we are “community”
That’s what really counts.

Verses:
We come together – we come just as we are –
For affirmation
And for our self esteem
Now singing songs about ourselves.


Mortification is not the path we choose
No self-denial
For us, no sacrifice!
Just singing songs about ourselves.


We talk of Jesus, when we are in this place.
We think we’re like him
Since people mistreat us
For singing songs about ourselves.

I want communion, no one can hold me back.
No one can tell me
That I’ve done something wrong!
Let’s sing more songs about ourselves.