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<v ->Good Friday service, Duke Chapel, April 13th, 1979.</v>

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(organ music)

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<v ->Would you please rise.</v>

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Christ himself bore our sins in his body on the tree.

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Died to sin and lived to righteousness.

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Blessed and praised be God, our redeemer,

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who has so loved us and our world,

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whose only son was sent into our midst

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to make us children of God

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and heirs to the promise of life everlasting.

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The lord be with you.

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All mighty God, on the cross we see the pain and sorrow

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which we have inflicted upon you

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and upon one another.

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We confess that we have strayed from your ways.

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We have broken you commandments,

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we have betrayed you love through our disordered

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and self-centered lives.

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Lord have mercy upon us so that we might be lifted up

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and drawn to you in order to live

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in righteousness and service.

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Hear these comfortable words from the scriptures.

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For God so loved the world that he gave his only son

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that whoever believes in him should not perish,

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but have eternal life.

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In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.

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In the name of Jesus Christ.

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<v ->From the gospel of Luke,</v>

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and when they came to the place, which is called the skull,

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there they crucified him.

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And the criminals, one on the right,

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and one on the left.

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And Jesus said, "Father, forgive them,

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"for they know not what they do."

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And they cast lots to divide his garments.

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And the people stood by, watching.

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But the rulers scoffed at him, saying,

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"He saved others, let him save himself,

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"if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One."

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The soldiers also mocked him,

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coming up and offering him vinegar and saying,

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"if you are the king of the Jews save yourself."

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There was also an inscription over him,

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this is the king of the Jews.

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One of the criminals who was hanged,

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railed at him, saying, "Are you not the Christ?

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"Save yourself, and us."

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But the other rebuked him, saying "Do you not fear God,

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"since you are under the same sentence of condemnation,

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"and we, indeed, justly.

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"For we are receiving the due reward of our deeds.

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"But this man has done nothing wrong."

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And he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come

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"in your kingly power.

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And he said to them, "Truly, I say to you,

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"today, you will be with me in Paradise."

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It was now about the sixth hour,

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and there was darkness over the whole land,

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until the ninth hour, while the sun's light failed

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and the curtain of the temple was torn in two.

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Then Jesus, crying with a loud voice, said,

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"Father, into thy hands, I commit my spirit."

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And having said this, his breathed his last.

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(singing of hymns)

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On this day, we contemplate the Cross.

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It stands out as our most difficult moment

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of the Christian year.

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We aren't quite sure how we're supposed to feel.

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It doesn't seem like a good day.

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We want Easter to come, so that we can sense victory,

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instead of the seeming defeat of the cross.

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A crucified Messiah, is still somewhat a stumbling block

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to our sense of the world.

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We want our savior to act like a savior,

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to be in control of things.

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We're used to great drama,

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powerful speeches, stirring events.

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But a cross?

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It was an ugly death,

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the most vicious of Roman executions.

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We can't make it fit neatly into our religious

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and cultural practices.

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It ruffles our pride in humanity.

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A savior hanging on a piece of wood,

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outside of the city, is not our kind of glory.

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It's not our style.

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Yes, we recognize the significance of pain, suffering.

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But, too often, we trivialize the cross.

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We think that we have found the right way

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to feel about pitying the poor Jesus,

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who ran into the wrong crowd.

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He could have avoided it, we think,

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if he had only been more careful about his method.

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Every time I watch one of the movies

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of Jesus' life, such as NBC's Jesus of Nazareth,

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I always find myself wanting Jesus

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to do it all differently.

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I want him to amaze the Jewish council.

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I was him to dazzle Pontius Pilate.

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I want him to really defend himself.

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Be persuasive, Jesus.

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Show them your stuff.

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But it always turns out the same.

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The march to Cavalry and the Crucifixion

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strike a blow of my sense of how to influence people.

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And then I realize, we want Jesus to be approved of

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by the council, because we want our fellow Christians

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to tell us how nice we are.

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We want Pilate to think he was okay,

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because we know that power comes about

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when you know the right people.

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We want the angry mob to cheer for Jesus

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instead of for Barabbus, because we want to be accepted

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by our peers.

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Crucifixion doesn't fit like resurrection does.

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It seems like defeat.

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And defeat is a way that we would not choose.

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But God's way is a different way than our way.

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Only by contemplating the cross,

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do we recognize that the message of Christ

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has not been our way.

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The same forces which worked to bring about his death,

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are forces which we participate in.

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In a sense, we may crucify him daily.

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We may be the least of God's people,

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if we are so bound by our culture,

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our political and commercial arrangements,

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and even our very own religious traditions.

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These were the same forces which brought about Jesus' death.

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But this was the only way

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in which we could see God's fundamental principle

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of love in its fullest expression.

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For God so loved the world, that the son was given.

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The cross brings judgment upon us,

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because it forces us to realize that we do not always live

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by the standard of love.

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And in this realization, there lies our salvation.

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Our pride, our motives, our designs tend

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towards self-affirmation at the expense of others.

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Christ has died for our sins, not because he has struck

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some sort of bargain with God.

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But in suffering as God-incarnate,

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he has brought about our own redemption.

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Our redemption lies in our acceptance

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of the love of God, reaching out to us from the cross.

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And making that love our basis for living.

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In giving of ourselves, as Christ has given himself

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for us, we live the abundant life of which he taught.

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Our contemplation of the cross forces us

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to realize that our hope does not lie with

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ourselves, but in God who endured the very destruction

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which we create for ourselves.

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The late Reinhold Niebuhr wrote that, "If God is love,

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"rather than power, it follows that he gains his victories

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"by pain, rather than by force."

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We call this Good Friday because of the redemptive work

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which God has done in Christ, through the cross.

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The verse from Luke tells us that Jesus,

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crying with a loud voice, said, "Father, into thy hands

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"I commit my spirit."

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As we accept the redemption and freedom which the cross

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offers to us, let us cry out,

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oh loving God,

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"into thy hands, we commit our spirits,

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Amen.

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(singing of hymns)

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<v ->For almost 2000 years,</v>

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the cross has been the chief symbol of Christians.

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But about the first three centuries

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of the early Christian church, the cross was not used

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as a public symbol.

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And there are two reasons for that.

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by non-Christians, the cross was looked

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upon as a very degrading death,

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even by the Christians themselves.

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And secondly, the cross was such a symbol

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of the vigor and the growth of Christianity in those days,

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that it was desecrated very often by non-Christians.

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But privately, and theologically, and liturgically,

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the cross has always been

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the premiere symbol of Christianity.

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And it was natural and logical that the instrument

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of our salvation, should become an object

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of special veneration.

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It is clear that devotion to the cross,

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beginning with the epistles of Paul,

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who mentions it many, many times,

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on the negative aspects

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of the death of the cross, of mere physical suffering,

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and pain, and death,

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but uppermost in the mind

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of the Christian mentality, from the very beginning,

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was the cross' saving role

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of God, our Father.

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And it's Christ, through his passion,

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was a triumphant victor over death and sin,

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so the cross, the means of suffering,

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became the source of life.

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And thus, it was looked upon as the throne

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and the standard of the king of glory.

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And so at Christ's moment of apparent greatest defeat,

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he attained his greatest victory.

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Now the ceremony, the Veneration of the Cross,

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it is a really ancient one.

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During the veneration, the readers will be reading

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the lamentations, which comes from an old Greek liturgy

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from the Eastern Church.

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And at the end of the lamentations,

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they will be reading a translation of the Pange Lingua,

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a very ancient Latin hymn from the Western Rite.

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And I think this symbolizes the unity of all Christians.

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No matter where we are, we are one.

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We are one in Christ Jesus, our Lord.

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At the Veneration of the Cross, when they hold the cross

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down at the bottom of the steps,

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some may care to remain in their pews,

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and quietly contemplate the death and victory of Christ.

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Others may care to come forward, and venerate it,

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in any way that their conscience dictates.

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Please feel free to do what you think is best.

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<v ->We worship you, Lord.</v>

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We venerate your cross.

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We pray to your resurrection.

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Through the cross, you brought joy to the world.

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<v ->May God be gracious and bless us.</v>

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And let his face shed his light upon us.

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<v ->We worship you, Lord.</v>

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We venerate your cross.

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We praise your resurrection.

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Through the cross, you brought joy to the world.

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My people, what have I done to you?

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How have I offended you?

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Answer me.

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<v ->I led you out of Egypt, from slavery to freedom.</v>

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But you led your savior to the cross.

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<v ->My people, what have I done to you?</v>

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How have I offended you?

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Answer me.

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<v ->Holy is God.</v>

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<v ->Holy and strong.</v>

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<v ->Holy, immortal one, have mercy on us.</v>

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<v ->For 40 years, I led you safely through the desert.</v>

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I fed you with manna from heaven,

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and brought you to the land of plenty.

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But you led your savior to the cross.

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<v ->Holy is God.</v>

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<v ->Holy and strong.</v>

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<v ->Holy, immortal one, have mercy on us.</v>

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<v ->What more could I have done for you?</v>

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I planted you as my fairest wine,

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but you yielded only bitterness.

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When I was thirsty, you gave me vinegar to drink.

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And you pierced my side with a lancet.

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<v ->Holy is God.</v>

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<v ->Holy and strong.</v>

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<v ->Holy, immortal one, have mercy on us.</v>

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For your sake, I scourged your captors

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and their first-born sons.

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But you brought your scourges down upon me.

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<v ->My people, what have I done to you?</v>

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How have I offended you?

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Answer me.

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<v ->I led you from slavery to freedom.</v>

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And drowned your captors in the sea.

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But you handed me over to your high priests.

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<v ->My people, what have I done to you?</v>

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How have I offended you?

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Answer me.

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<v ->I opened the sea before you,</v>

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but you opened my side with a spear.

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<v ->My people, what have I done to you?</v>

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How have I offended you?

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Answer me.

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<v ->I led you on your way, in a pillar of cloud,</v>

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but you led me to Pilate's court.

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<v ->My people, what have I done to you?</v>

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How have I offended you?

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Answer me.

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<v ->I bore you up with manna in the desert,</v>

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but you struck me down and scourged me.

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<v ->My people, what have I done to you?</v>

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How have I offended you?

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Answer me.

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<v ->I gave you saving water from the rock,</v>

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but you gave me gall and vinegar to drink.

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<v ->My people, what have I done to you?</v>

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How have I offended you?

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Answer me.

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<v ->For you, I struck down the kings of Canaan,</v>

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but you struck my hand with a wreath.

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<v ->My people, what have I done to you?</v>

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How have I offended you?

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Answer me.

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<v ->I gave you a royal scepter,</v>

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but you gave me a crown of thorns.

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<v ->My people, what have I done to you?</v>

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How have I offended you?

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Answer me.

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<v ->I raised you to the height of majesty,</v>

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but you raised me high on the cross.

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<v ->My people, what have I done to you?</v>

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How have I offended you?

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Answer me.

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<v ->Sing my tongue, the savior's glory.</v>

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Tell his triumph far and wide.

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Tell all the famous story of his body, crucified,

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how upon the cross, the victim, vanquishing in death, died.

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<v ->Eating of a tree, forbidden, man had sunk in sanken snare,</v>

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When our pitying creator did a second tree prepare.

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Destined, many ages later, that first evil to repair.

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<v ->Such the order God appointed,</v>

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when for sin he would atone.

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To the serpent, thus supposing schemes yet deeper

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than his own.

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Thence the remedy for curing, when the fatal wound had come.

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<v ->So when now, at length, the fullness of the sacred time</v>

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drew near, then the son, the world's creator,

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left his father's throne, on high.

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From a virgin's womb appearing,

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clothed in our mortality.

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<v ->All within a lowly manger, low a tender baby lies,</v>

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seeing his gentle virgin mother,

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lull to sleep his infant cries

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while the limbs of God incarnate,

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round with swathes of band she ties.

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<v ->Thus did Christ to perfect manhood,</v>

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in our mortal flesh attain.

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Then of his free choice he goeth, to a death of bitter pain.

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And as a lamb, upon the altar of the cross,

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for us, is slain.

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<v ->Low, with gall, his thirst, he quenches.</v>

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See the thorns upon his brow.

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Nails his tender flesh arrending.

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See his side is opened now,

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whence to cleanse the whole creation,

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streams of blood and water flow.

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<v ->Lofty tree, bend down thy branches</v>

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to embrace thy sacred load.

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Oh, relax the native tension of that all too rigid wood.

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Gently, gently, bear the members of thy dying king and God.

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<v ->Tree which solely was found worthy</v>

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to world's great victim to sustain.

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Harbor from the raging tempest,

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art that saved the world again.

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Tree with sacred blood anointed, of the lamb,

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for sinners slain.

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<v ->Blessing, honor, everlasting, to the immortal deity.</v>

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To the father, son and spirit, equal praises ever be.

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Glory to the earth and heaven, to trinity and unity, amen.

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<v ->We worship you, Lord.</v>

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We venerate your cross.

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We praise your resurrection.

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Through the cross, you brought joy to the world.

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<v ->May God be gracious and bless us.</v>

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And let his face shed light upon us.

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<v ->We worship you, Lord.</v>

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We venerate your cross.

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We praise your resurrection.

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Through the cross, you brought joy to the world.

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My people, what have I done to you?

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How have I offended you?

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Answer me.

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<v ->I led you forth out of Egypt,</v>

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from slavery to freedom.

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You led your savior to the cross.

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<v ->My people, what have I done to you?</v>

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How have I offended you?

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Answer me.

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<v ->Holy is God.</v>

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<v ->Holy and strong.</v>

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<v ->Holy immortal one, have mercy on us.</v>

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<v ->For 40 years, I led you safely through the desert,</v>

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I fed you with manna from heaven,

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and brought you to the land of plenty.

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But you led your savior to the cross.

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<v ->Holy is god.</v>

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<v ->Holy and strong,</v>

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<v ->Holy immortal one, have mercy on us.</v>

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<v ->What more could I have done for you?</v>

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I planted you as my fairest wine,

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but you yielded only bitterness.

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When I was thirsty, you gave me vinegar to drink.

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And you pierced yours savior's side with a lance.

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<v ->Holy is God.</v>

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<v ->Holy and strong.</v>

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<v ->Holy, immortal one, have mercy on us.</v>

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<v ->Blessed be the lord by day.</v>

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Blessed be the lord by night.

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Blessed be lord when we lie down.

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Blessed be the lord when we rise up,

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for in thine hand our the souls of the living

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and the dead.

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And whose hand is the soul of every living thing,

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and the breath of all flesh?

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Into thy hand, I trust thy spirit.

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Thou hast redeemed me, oh lord, God of truth.

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Oh God, reveal unto us thy oneness.

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And establish thy kingdom and reign over us, forever, amen,

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Please rise to receive the benediction.

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And now, may the lord send down blessings upon us.

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People who have recalled the death of his son

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in the surety and hope of the resurrection.

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And may God grant us pardon and bring us comfort.

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May our faith grow stronger,

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and our salvation be assured, in the name of God,

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creator, son and holy spirit, amen.