NeuroDivine

This hymn was written for NeuroDivine as a song of Eucharistic continuity and hope. It situates the community within the great communion of saints of the Celtic world—Patrick’s fire, Hilda’s shore, Columba’s pilgrimage, Cuthbert’s solitude, Bede’s scholarship—bearing witness that Christ has fed his people in every age and in every kind of mind.

At its heart is the refrain:

“Be known to us, O living Lord,

In broken bread and outpoured wine.”

For a neurodiverse church, this is no small confession. We proclaim a faith that is tactile, rhythmic, and embodied. The Eucharist is not an idea to be mastered but a mystery to be received. In it, Christ meets us in ways that honor sensory experience, pattern, repetition, and communal belonging.

The hymn moves from memory to mission: from the saints who received Christ’s peace to our calling to become his faithful body in a fractured world. It holds together contemplation and justice, table and transformation, feast and future—until all things are made new.

Christ feeds his saints in every age,
Across these wind-washed isles of grace:
From Patrick’s fire to Hilda’s shore,
His light has shone from place to place.

Be known to us, O living Lord,
In broken bread and outpoured wine.

Brigid, who welcomed Christ in need,
Columba, pilgrim on the sea,
Dewi, whose prayer shaped hill and vale—
They teach us Eucharistic charity.

Be known to us, O living Lord,
In broken bread and outpoured wine.

From Cuthbert’s cell to Kevin’s glen,
From Clare’s bright fields to Bede’s wise pen,
The saints received your gift of peace
And shared it freely among all men.

Be known to us, O living Lord,
In broken bread and outpoured wine.

So gather us at your table now,
A pilgrim people, one in you;
As once you fed the saints of old,
Make us your body, faithful, true.

Be known to us, O living Lord,
In broken bread and outpoured wine.

Till swords are turned to ploughing fields,
And tears are dried from every face,
We bear the pledge of feast to come,
Foretaste of your unending grace.

Be known to us, O living Lord,
In broken bread and outpoured wine.

Text copyright 2026 Michael McFarland Campbell.