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♪ Hallelujah ♪

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♪ Hallelujah ♪

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♪ Hallelujah ♪

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♪ Hallelujah ♪

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<v ->When we gather to praise God,</v>

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we remember that we are the people of God who have preferred

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our own wills to the Divine will.

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Accepting the power God offers to us

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to become new persons in Christ.

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Let us confess our sin

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before God and one another.

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Let us pray.

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Most merciful God,

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we confess that we have sinned against you

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and thought word and deed.

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We have not loved you with our whole heart.

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We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.

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We pray you of your mercy.

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Forgive what we have been.

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Amend what we are,

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direct what we shall be,

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that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways

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through Jesus Christ, Our Lord.

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Amen.

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Hear the good news.

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Christ died for us while we were yet sinners.

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That is God's own proof of his love toward us.

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In the name of Jesus Christ,

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you are forgiven.

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(crowd chattering indistinctly)

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<v ->Amen.</v>

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(crowd chattering indistinctly)

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<v ->Amen.</v>

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<v ->Let us with one voice, affirm our faith.</v>

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We are not alone.

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We live in God's world.

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We believe in God, who has created and is creating.

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Who has come and the truly human Jesus to reconcile

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and make new who works in us and others through the spirit.

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We trust God who calls us to be the church,

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to celebrate life and it's fullness.

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To walk just (indistinct).

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To seek justice and resist evil,

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to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen.

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Our judge and our Hope.

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In live and death.

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And life beyond death.

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God is with us.

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We are not alone.

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Thanks be to God.

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<v ->Let us pray.</v>

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Lord, open our hearts and minds

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by the power of your Holy Spirit,

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that as the scriptures are read and the word proclaimed,

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we may hear with joy what you say to us today.

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Amen.

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The word of God written in St. Paul's letters

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to the church at Philippi.

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"Rejoice in the Lord always again, I will say rejoice,

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that all persons know your forbearance,

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the Lord is at hand."

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"Have no anxiety about anything,

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but in everything, by prayer and supplication

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with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God."

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"And the peace of God, which passes all understanding

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will keep your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."

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"Finally, brethren, whatever is true."

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"Whatever is honorable, whatever is just,

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whatever is pure,

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whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious."

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"If there is any excellence,

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if there is anything worthy of praise,

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think about these things."

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"What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me

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do."

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"And the God of peace will be with you."

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Here ends the epistle.

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Let us rise for the Gospel.

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The Holy Gospel of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

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According to Saint Matthew:

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Hear another parable.

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There was a householder who planted a vineyard

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and set a hedge around it and dug a wine press in it

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and built a tower and let it out to tenants

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and went into another country.

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When the season of fruit drew near,

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he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit.

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And the tenants took his servants and beat one,

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killed another and stoned another.

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Again he sent other servants more than the first

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and they did the same to them.

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Afterward He sent his son to them saying,

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"They will respect my son."

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When the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves,

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"This is the heir. Come let us kill him

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and have his inheritance."

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And they took him and cast him out of the vineyard

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and killed him.

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When therefore the owner of the vineyards comes,

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what will he do to those tenants?

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They said to him,

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"He will put those wretches to the miserable death

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and let out the vineyard to other tenants

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who will give him the fruits

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in their season."

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And Jesus said to them,

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"Have you never read in the scriptures?

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The very stone, which the builders rejected

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has become the head of the corner."

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This was the Lord's doing.

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And it is marvelous in our eyes.

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Therefore I tell you, the Kingdom of God

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will be taken away from you and given to a nation,

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producing the fruits of it.

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The gospel of the Lord.

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<v ->In the name of God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.</v>

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Amen.

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(clears throat)

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If you want to catch a glimpse of the world,

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in which most humans live, the sub literary world,

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you can not afford to treat graffiti casually.

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Mixed in with advertising claims

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that love alone transcends Schlitz.

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You hit upon graffiti, which are poignant.

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Or graffiti with sharp edges.

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I saw one moving on a bumper last week.

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Adam was a rough draft.

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Some, some graffiti assume

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an ongoing discussion.

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And they are the ones which provoke

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the interest of a historian.

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For example, the barbs and the jousting's

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that are swapped by the religious and the not so religious

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"Honk, if you love Jesus."

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Has evoked a more skeptical, "Honk if you are Jesus."

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<v ->And this exchange has just about run its course.</v>

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If my latest intelligence is trustworthy

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because a friend told me the other night that he had seen

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the latest entry.

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"Jeez, if you are hunkus"

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<v ->That graffiti skirmish over Jesus has a long,</v>

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long history.

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Sometime back in the first centuries of the church's life,

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some anonymous person scratched a rough picture

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of the Pedagogium, on Rome's Palatine Hill.

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In that picture, a man has his hands raised

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in reverence to a crucified figure,

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a figure clearly human,

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that the head is that of an ass.

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And below in Greek, it says,

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"Alexamenos worships his god."

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The graffito's scorn is directed at Alexamenos,

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and anyone else who locates the power of deity

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in a human.

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Or even worse in a human who is no hero,

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but a victim of the world's machinery.

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For the wall scribbler, it's a good jibe,

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a clean deft put down.

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Christ and Christians are self-evidently ridiculous.

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I cannot report how Alexamenos and his companions

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put together their retort

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to this hostile portrait

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of their faith.

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and the need

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the need to carve it into the wall,

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yield more than one interpretation.

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The picture may represent an easy joke and nothing more.

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Christ is a laughable weakling savior who attracts to his

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worship silly asses.

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Nobody's like himself.

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And Christianity is a view of life.

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You can discount in a moment,

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you can write it off with a cartoon.

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Or, looked at in another way

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that graffito may give evidence

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of a more serious estimate of this strange cult of Jesus.

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The asses head of the Savior

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may reflect the Emperor Nero's reported practice

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of dressing Christians in animal skins

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before executing them on crosses or in fire.

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On that reading Christianity is a view of life

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which must be eliminated.

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Christians are fools for Christ,

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whose loyalty and worship cast a question mark,

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before every definition of the good life,

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which society is promoting.

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Christians are a challenge to the cultures

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estimate of what is wise, what is to be valued.

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"Silly asses"

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justifying temporary fantasies

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and mindless prejudices by the use of Jesus' name

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or fools to be contended with

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both worshipers and carriers of an alternate wisdom.

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A cruciform wisdom.

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Somehow when it comes down to this,

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Alexamenos is not the only one who needs to answer.

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And what seemed at first a curious antique graffito,

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will not stay safely and its historical chamber,

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but it comes to interrogate would be loyalists

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like you and me, and the hard ambiguities

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are no longer just his, but ours.

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What can it mean for one who pledges allegiance

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to a vulnerable Savior, a powerless God

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to be a citizen supporter of a superpower?

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to contest oppressors,

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which we spy outside and inside the community of faith.

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When we arrive at convictions and prosecute them,

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will it be fair to regard us,

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as "silly asses" responding either with enthusiasm

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or suspicion to whatever new thing

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emerges from the horizon?

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Faddists and reactionaries who

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anoint their whims in the name of Jesus?

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Or if we read ourselves differently as conscientious fools

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moved my wisdom itself to be what we are.

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Are we liable to be too firmly committed, to be revised?

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Too flexible to stand firm?

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Too much into dying to live?

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Or too much into living to die?

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Does what we believe deserve ridicule

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or does it in fact,

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represent the death dealing and life promising question,

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which we were charged to carry to the culture

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and along the way to keep alive in ourselves?

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How do you and I look sketched

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out in our time as worshipers of the crucified one

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with a head of an ass?

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Merely ridiculous asses who have done neither serious living

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nor serious thinking,

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or fools whose existence puts in its sharpest form,

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what it might mean to lose your life

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and in the process to find it.

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Maybe now, just before I stop talking,

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I can spring on you today's text from the Apostle Paul.

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His claim that the peace of God passes all understanding.

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Why is that so?

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Because we are not up to it intellectually and spiritually?

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Because we cannot handle it?

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Or because it is so difficult to get down to it,

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get down to the heart of things in human terms?

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I believe that Paul's answer, sounds like this:

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The peace of God eludes us.

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Not because of it's awesome distance,

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but because of its proximity, because it is at hand.

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And the peace of God is about brokenness and weakness

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and the hope of having all that bound up once again.

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The peace of God is about a crucified God

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who by the standards of a culture

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in love with eternal growth and power is an ass.

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What is compelling about the communion we are about

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to celebrate is not that it is worldwide.

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What is foolish and irresistible about this meal

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is the fact that even though you and I

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would have declined the original, dangerous invitation

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from its vulnerable host

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out of our fear and our indecision

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and our unreadiness to be loved in the foolish way

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that Christ loves

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nevertheless, we are welcomed to it

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to lose our lives and define them.

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Paul's words then belong to Alexamenos

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and all the rest of us

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who have been implicated in that wall drawing in Rome.

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Rejoice in the Lord, always rejoice,

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let all know your forbearance the Lord is at hand,

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have no anxiety about anything,

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but in everything by prayer and supplication

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with Thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God

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and the peace of God which passes all understanding

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will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

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<v ->Let us pray.</v>

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On this worldwide communion Sunday,

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let us pray that the world may live in peace

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and that the church may achieve unity,

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fulfilling its service here and everywhere.

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<v ->That all Ministers and Teachers and in the church,</v>

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may be faithful servants of the Gospel,

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leading others into its way of life

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and strengthening their faith.

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<v ->That the leaders of this nation and the world may govern</v>

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with justice and mercy.

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<v ->That all our work may be done for the common good,</v>

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that it be done and safety.

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And that all may be spared from grinding toil,

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which destroys fullness of life.

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<v ->That those who work on frontiers of truth,</v>

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and those who enrich our lives with beauty and joy

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may be free to follow their vocations.

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That those who do suffer, disease or poverty

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or loneliness or grief may be healed and comforted.

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That those who are oppressed or persecuted,

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maybe strengthened and delivered.

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<v ->That those whom we have known and loved</v>

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who have died in the faith, maybe a glorious memory

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to us and a source of renewed fellowship

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with all the saints.

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<v ->Christ our Lord invites to His table</v>

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all who love Him

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and who desire to live in peace with one another.

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May the peace of the Lord be with you always.

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<v ->As forgiven and reconcile people, let us offer ourselves</v>

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and our gifts to God.

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(choir singing)

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(choir singing)

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<v ->Oh, God, most merciful and gracious</v>

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of whose bounty we have all received.

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Accept this offering of thy people.

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Remember in thy love those who have brought it,

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and those for whom it is given.

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And so follow it with thy blessing that it may promote peace

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and Goodwill among persons and advance the Kingdom

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of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

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Amen.

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<v ->The Lord is with you.</v>

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<v ->Lift up your hearts.</v>

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<v ->Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God.</v>

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<v ->Oh God. It is right.</v>

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That we should always and everywhere give you thanks

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and praise.

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Only you are God,

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you created all things and called them good.

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You made us in your own image.

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Even when we rebelled against your love,

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you did not desert us. You delivered us from captivity,

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made covenant to be our God and King

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and spoke to us through your prophets.

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Therefore, we joined the entire company of heaven

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and all your people now on earth in worshiping

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and glorifying you.

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Holy Holy, Holy

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Lord, God of power and might.

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And my heaven and earth are full of your glory.

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Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is He

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who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

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We thank you Holy God, that you love the world so much

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that you sent your only Son to be our Savior.

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The Lord of all life came to live among us.

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He healed and taught people, ate with sinners

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and won for you a new people by water and the Spirit.

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We saw his glory.

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Yet He humbled himself in obedience to your will

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freely accepting death on a cross.

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By dying He freed us from unending death.

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By rising from the dead He gave us everlasting life.

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We remember that on the night in which he gave himself up

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for us. The Lord Jesus took bread

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after giving you thanks He broke the bread,

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gave it to his disciples and said,

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"Take eat.

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This is my body, which is given for you."

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And the supper was over. He took the cup.

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Again, He returned thanks to you

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gave the cup to his disciples and said,

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"Drink from this, all of you.

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This is the cup of the new covenant in my blood

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poured out for you. And for many,

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for the forgiveness of sins.'

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When we eat this bread and drink this cup,

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we experience a new, the presence of the Lord, Jesus Christ,

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and look forward to his coming in final victory.

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<v ->We remember and proclaim with gratitude Holy God,</v>

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what your Son has done for us in His life and death,

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in His Resurrection and Ascension.

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Accept our sacrifice of praise and Thanksgiving and union

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with Christ offering for us

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as a reasonable and Holy surrender of ourselves.

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Send the power of your Holy Spirit on us.

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Gathered here out of love for you and on these gifts,

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help us know in the breaking of this bread,

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the presence of Christ who gave His body and blood

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for all people make us one with Christ,

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one with each other, and one in service to all humanity.

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<v ->In unity with Christ and each other we pray</v>

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our Father in Heaven.

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Holy be your name.

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Your Kingdom come

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your will be done on earth as in Heaven,

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give us today the bread we need.

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Forgive us, our sins, as we forgive those

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who sin against us, save us in the time of trial

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and deliver us from evil,

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the Kingdom, the power and the glory

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are yours now and forever.

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Amen.

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<v ->Because there is one loaf we many as we are one body,</v>

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for it is one loaf of which we all partake

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when we break the bread.

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Is it not a means of sharing in the body of Christ?

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<v ->When we give thanks over the cup,</v>

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is it not a means of sharing in the blood of Christ?

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<v ->Body of Christ</v>

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<v ->The member of the choir</v>

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will now receive at the first table which we will

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share this morning.

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I ask you simply to observe the choir as they gather

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in two circles around the alter

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to share in this Blessed Supper.

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And then the ushers will assist you,

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to gather around the table of our Lord in like manner,

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in two circles,

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and then to return to your places by the side aisles.

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First those in the choir, and then those in the transepts.

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And then those in the main part of the Knave,

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as we receive the body and the blood

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of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

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(choir singing)

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<v ->The word says, if we walk in the light,</v>

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as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another

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arise my dear friends in Christ.

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And as you have received these gifts of the body

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and the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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May His light shine in you.

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Warm your hearts and minds.

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And may you share His love and His life with others?

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Amen.

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<v ->Mm hmm</v>

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If there are any among us who need or desire to be served,

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the bread and the wine where you're seated,

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please indicate this.

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And we will be pleased to serve you.

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