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(congregation sings)
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We have been challenged.
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Let us now affirm what we believe.
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We believe in God who has created and is creating,
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who has come in the truly human Jesus
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to reconcile and make new,
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who works in us and others by the Spirit.
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We trust God who calls us to be the church,
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to celebrate life and its fullness,
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to love and serve others,
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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 life, in death, in 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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The Lord be with you.
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And also with you.
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Let us pray.
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Eternal God, source of all life,
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the energy behind the vast universe,
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we praise you.
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We joyfully declare your Lordship.
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Since time and space began,
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the created order has borne witness to your power
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but ours is now the privilege of bearing witness
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to your love as revealed in Jesus Christ.
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Christ be with us all.
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Into our prayers, oh Lord, we pour ourselves,
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our gasps, our yearnings, our fatigues,
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our confusions, our worries, our failures, our expectations.
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Hear us.
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Let our cries come, broken though they may be,
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selfish they sometimes are,
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as groans though they may sound to our own ears,
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let them come.
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By your Spirit, grasp and transform them,
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that truth they may express
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and that healing they may accomplish.
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Remind us that even our groans
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are to you as a poet's eloquence.
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Christ be with us all.
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Know that we are grateful, Lord of the universe,
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keeper of the high spaces,
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watcher beyond time,
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grateful for returning us from our summer journeys
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and bringing us again to this campus, this windowed church,
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the family of friends.
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We thank you for this season
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that now awaits the blazon trees,
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the fire tastes, the dark birds going down the ancient sky.
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We thank you for the great works before us,
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the new beginnings,
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hope riding high on the mornings,
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life gathering us in the nightfall of a million stars.
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Christ be with us all.
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Almighty God, we pray unto your grace and power
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for this Earth beset by earthquakes and famine,
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the nations broken by war,
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the peoples crippled by disease,
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this university community stunned
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and saddened by the death of one of our own,
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protect us when nature goes berserk,
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inspire in all lands the desire
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to live as one family.
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Restore health to the ailing,
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Christ be with us all.
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Hear oh Lord, our prayers for your daughter
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and servant Serena
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who died her promise still ablaze.
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To your care we entrust her.
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And for her family and friends we also pray.
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Grant them a bold faith,
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even now when a faith in any goodness
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is sorely challenged.
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Embrace them, hear their sighs of sorrow,
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show them how to be angry but not embittered.
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Help them to cry and not be ashamed.
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Teach them how to rage but not destroy.
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Enable them to pour forth their grief
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that it might not consume them from within.
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Help them to claim and to experience the hope
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and the healing of your presence.
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Christ be with us all.
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Come now, oh majestic one,
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to these days of study
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and our pursuit of truth
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and our times of play.
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Inhabit this place and its peoples,
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let neither towers nor books nor stones
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nor silences blind us to our own humanity
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nor to the humanity of others.
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Each of us, all of us created in your image.
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When we take ourselves too seriously,
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tease us into laughter.
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When we neglect ourselves, alarm us.
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When we take too lightly the world's injustices,
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provoke us into deeds of mercy.
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And as we discover something of justice
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and art and nature and society
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and the human heart,
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we ask for a commitment to make good use
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of what we understand,
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through what we do with our lives,
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may walls of misunderstanding be breached,
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old prejudices destroyed, new visions emerge
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of a world where goodwill takes preeminence over power
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and where righteousness
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will be both politic and possible.
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Christ be with us all.
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Praying together the prayer of Christ's community.
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Our Father who art in heaven,
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hallowed be thy name,
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thy kingdom come, they will be done
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on Earth as it is in heaven.
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Give us this day our daily bread
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and forgive our trespasses
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as we forgive those who trespass against us
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and lead us not into temptation
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but deliver us from evil
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for thine is the kingdom and the power
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and the glory forever.
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Amen.
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(choir sings)
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(congregation sings)
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Hallelujah ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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Remember the words of the Lord Jesus
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how he said it is more blessed to give than to receive.
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Open wide your hands now, oh God,
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to receive these gifts of our lives and service,
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in your holy name we pray, amen.
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Be seated.
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God of Abraham, Isaac,
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of apostles and prophets, in every age you call people
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to work for you showing justice,
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doing mercy, giving purpose
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to an aimless humanity.
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By your truth, darkness is dispelled
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and all people set free to mature in wisdom.
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In pursuit of that truth,
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we now take our place at Duke University,
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receive us unto yourself, oh God
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to use us to accomplish your sacred intention.
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Amen.
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That in this place we will remember those
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who love us, and whose hopes follow us here.
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(congregation mumbles)
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That we may accept the responsibility of our freedom
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and the burden of our privilege.
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(congregation mumbles)
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That we will be curious, imaginative
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and sufficiently patient to labor for end's sight.
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(congregation mumbles)
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That with courage we may doubt
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but that we will also hold our doubts
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in the larger faith of Jesus Christ.
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(congregation mumbles)
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From insulating ourselves with books and words.
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(congregation mumbles)
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From ignorance that feeds injustice,
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from indifference that yields to cruelty
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and from blind loyalty to worn out values.
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(congregation mumbles)
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From hopelessness that will cripple us,
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a self-consciousness that would paralyze us
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and from temptations that would destroy us.
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(congregation mumbles)
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Lord God, in a world where justice
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does not yet roll down as waters
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nor righteousness as a mighty stream,
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where knowledge floods in but there's only a trickle
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of wisdom, we pray for this school,
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its students and faculty,
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staff and administrators
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and for the task in which we now unite,
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turn our efforts to good
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that as our understanding increases,
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our responsibility will deepen.
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Cause us to finish this year
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having made ourselves more humane
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and the world more habitable
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for our sakes and for the sake of the future
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that you give us to create.
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Oh Lord, please hear us, amen.
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Deep peace of the running wave to you,
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deep peace of the flowing air to you,
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deep peace of the quiet Earth to you,
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deep peace of the shining stars to you,
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deep peace of the Prince of Peace,
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to each of you now and always.
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♪ Amen ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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(people murmuring)
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(people murmuring)