Clean Chance

These worthy young priests 

Blessing the sacrament

Are as sentinels-

Guards of this covenant

Our holy chapel 

Their sacred calling

Offering the Lord's

Emblems for cleansing

To receive this gift

Though repetitive

Requires obedience

Renew your motive

[Verse 1]

These worthy young priests

Blessing the sacrament

Are as sentinels

Guards of this covenant

Our holy chapel

Their sacred calling

Offering the Lord's emblems

For cleansing and for healing

[Pre-Chorus]

To receive this gift

Though repetitive

Requires obedience

Purely your motive

Faith, hope, repentance

A quiet change of heart

Each week a clean chance

For joy to restart

[Chorus]

Each week a clean chance

A clean chance for joy

Each week a clean chance

For the Lord to restore

Perfect atonement

Perfect love

Fullness of spirit

From above

[Verse 2]

We come with open hands

And a humbled mind

Hoping mercy meets us

Every single time

Bread and water

Simple and sacred

Teaching us again

How to be made ready

[Pre-Chorus]

To receive this gift

Though repetitive

Requires obedience

Purely your motive

Faith, hope, repentance

A quiet change of heart

Each week a clean chance

For joy to restart

[Chorus]

Each week a clean chance

A clean chance for joy

Each week a clean chance

For the Lord to restore

Perfect atonement

Perfect love

Fullness of spirit

From above

[Bridge]

Not for the perfect

But the willing soul

Not for the finished

But the made-whole

So they kneel we listen

We partake anew

Every week a clean chance

To feel His Spirit new

[Chorus]

Each week a clean chance

A clean chance for joy

Each week a clean chance

For the Lord to restore

Perfect atonement

Perfect love

Fullness of spirit

From above

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Chandler David Hendry shared a personal experience that inspired this poem.