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BREAD

Meter: 8.8.7.7.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Carl Schalk, b. 1929 Tune Key: C Major Used With Text: Take the Bread, Children

Take the Bread, Children, Take the Bread

Author: Herbert Brokering Meter: 8.8.7.7.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Topics: The Church at Worship Lord's Supper; Lord's Supper Used With Tune: BREAD

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Take the Bread, Children, Take the Bread

Author: Herbert Brokering Hymnal: Celebrating Grace Hymnal #464 (2010) Meter: 8.8.7.7.8 Topics: The Church at Worship Lord's Supper; Lord's Supper Languages: English Tune Title: BREAD

Take the Bread, Children

Author: Herbert Brokering, b. 1926 Hymnal: RitualSong #925 (1996) Meter: 8.8.7.7.8 First Line: Take the bread, children, take the bread Lyrics: 1 Take the bread, children, take the bread, Take the bread, children, take the bread, For the Father of us all Is the One who gives the call, Take the bread, children, take the bread. 2 Bless the bread, children, bless the bread, Bless the bread, children, bless the bread, For the blessing of the Lord Comes in bread and in the Word, Bless the bread, children, bless the bread. 3 Break the bread, children, break the bread, Break the bread, children, break the bread, For the breaking is the sign All is mine and all is thine, Break the bread, children, break the bread. 4 Give the bread, children, give the bread, Give the bread, children, give the bread, For the gift of mother earth Is the sign of daily birth, Give the bread, children, give the bread. 5 Eat the bread, children, eat the bread, Eat the bread, children, eat the bread, For the table of the Lord Is the way you take the Word, Eat the bread, children, eat the bread. Topics: Blessing; Body and Blood of Christ; Children's Hymns / Youth; Eucharist; Eucharist; Giving; God the Father (Creator); Sunday; Word of God Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:23-27 Languages: English Tune Title: BREAD

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Herbert Brokering

1926 - 2009 Author of "Take the Bread, Children, Take the Bread" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal Herbert F. Brokering (b. Beatrice, Nebraska, May 21, 1926; d. Bloomington, Minnesota, November 7, 2009) was a Lutheran pastor with German roots, an author of more than forty books, and a poet and hymn writer known especially for two hymn texts, “Earth and All Stars” and “Alleluia! Christ Is Risen,” both set to the same tune. He was born in Nebraska, the son of a German Lutheran pastor; earned degrees from Wartburg College in Iowa, University of Iowa, and Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Columbus, OH, and pursued graduate study in Germany at the University of Kiel and the University of Erlangen. He served as a pastor of three Lutheran congregations, in Pennsylvania, New York, and Texas; taught at the Navy Chaplain’s Career School in Newport, Rhode Island, Luther Seminary and Trinity Seminary, and was also active in the Lutheran World Federation services and the World Council of Churches. Emily Brink

Carl Schalk

1929 - 2021 Composer of "BREAD" in Celebrating Grace Hymnal Carl F. Schalk (b. Des Plaines, IL, 1929; d. 2021) is professor of music emeritus at Concordia University, River Forest, Illinois, where he taught church music since 1965. He completed graduate work at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. From 1952 to 1956 he taught and directed music at Zion Lutheran Church in Wausau, Wisconsin, and from 1958 to 1965 served as director of music for the International Lutheran Hour. Honored as a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada in 1992, Schalk was editor of the Church Music journal (1966-1980), a member of the committee that prepared the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978), and a widely published composer of church music. Included in his publications are The Roots of Hymnody in The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (1965), Key Words in Church Music (1978), and Luther on Music: Paradigms of Praise (1988). His numerous hymn tunes and carols are collected in the Carl Schalk Hymnary (1989) and its 1991 Supplement. Bert Polman