This is a rather lovely text emphasising unity in the Eucharist by Timothy Rees. It would work as a communion and entrance hymn.
The tune is a C17 Viennese melody called SOLL’S SEIN that I hadn’t heard of and, for a traditional style tune, is quite wonderful too.
1 Christ is the heav’nly food that gives
to every famished soul
new life and strength, new joy and hope,
and faith to make them whole.
We all are made for God alone,
without whom we are dead;
no food suffices for the soul
but Christ, the living bread.
2 Christ is the unity that binds
in one the near and far;
for we who share his life divine,
his living body are:
On earth, and in the realms beyond,
one fellowship are we;
and at his table we are knit
in mystic unity.