Disclaimer: The song "Our Last Summer" was written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus; those of you who aren't familiar with it can find it on track 19 of the Mamma Mia! soundtrack album. (Or on Youtube, where you can get the original ABBA recording - which is considerably better, actually, but not the version this song is based on.) The Gospels were written by Sts. Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John; those of you who aren't familiar with them really need to get out more.

Happy Corpus Christi, everybody.


I can still recall
My Last Supper,
I still see it all:
In the upper room,
When the hour had come,
My Last Supper,
Just before the tomb.

That Thursday night before I suffered, I lay down to Seder bread
With the Twelve about Me.
I knew that, once I fell asleep,
My foe would scatter them like sheep
Oh, yes
Some would be grieved, some would despair,
Some would come to doubt me –
But, at that feast, I had a gift to leave them,
That, when I rose, and came to undeceive them,
They might discern
The truth that made their hearts to burn

I can still recall
My Last Supper,
I still see it all:
"Take my flesh and eat;
I have washed your feet."
My Last Supper
Made the bitter sweet.

Then I took the wine
Of My Last Supper,
Made the grape's blood Mine:
"Drink the mystery,
And remember Me
In My Last Supper
Throughout history."

For what I gave them was a piece of My own life,
The Corpse of Christ,
One no man could bury;
Though years have passed, yet
My gifts of Blood and Body last

And men still recall
My Last Supper,
They still see it all!
Raise the Host on high;
Let the people cry,
"Christ's Last Supper
Means the Lord is nigh!"