We use Divine Service I for our liturgy from LSB. One of the features of that liturgy I especially have come to love is the post-communion collect, which sort of says it all:
Gracious God, our heavenly Father, You have given us a foretaste of the feast to come in the Holy Supper of Your Son's body and blood. Keep us firm in the true faith throughout our days of pilgrimage that, on the day of His coming, we may, together with all Your saints, celebrate the marriage feast of the Lamb in His kingdom which has no end; through Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever.
Isn't that a wonderful prayer? It breathes the spirit of the early Church's "maranatha!" and how in the Eucharist we are sustained by a future that breaks back into our own time.
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