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♪ Amen ♪
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This is the day which the Lord hath made,
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we will rejoice and be glad in it.
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The hour come now is when the true worshipers
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shall worship the Father in Spirit and in truth.
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For the Father seek of such to worship him.
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Let us humbly confess our sins unto almighty God.
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Almighty and most merciful Father,
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we have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep.
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We have followed too much the devices and desires
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of our own hearts.
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We have offended against thy holy laws.
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We have left undone those things, which we ought to
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have done.
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And we have done those things, which we ought not
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to have done, but thou Lord have mercy upon us.
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Spare thou those of God who confess their fault.
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Restore those who are penitent, according to thy promises
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declared unto mankind in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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And grant oh most merciful Father for his sake,
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that we may hereafter live a godly, righteous and sober life
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to the glory of thy holy name.
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Amen.
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The almighty and merciful Lord grant
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you absolution and remission of your sins,
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true repentance, amendment of life and the grace
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and consolation of his Holy Spirit.
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Amen.
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Here the word of God to all who truly turn to him.
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Come unto me all ye that travel and are heavy Laden
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and I will refresh you.
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So God loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son
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to the end that all that believe
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in him should not perish but have everlasting life.
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Hear also what St. Paul said, this is a true saying
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and worthy of all men to be received
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that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
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Hear also what St. John said,
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if any man sin we have an advocate
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with the father, Jesus Christ, the righteous
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and he is a propitiation for our sins.
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These words of the morning lesson
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from the 42nd Psalm echo those of the anthem
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the Bach Anthem that we have just heard.
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As a heart longs for flowing streams,
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so longs my soul for thee oh God.
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My soul thirst for God, for the living God.
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When shall I come and behold the face of God
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my tears have been my food day and night
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while men say to me continually, where is your God?
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These things I remember as I pour out my soul.
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How I went with the throne
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and let them in procession to the house of God
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with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving,
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a multitude keeping festival.
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Why are you cast down oh my soul?
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And why are you disquieted within me?
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Hope in God for I shall again
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praise him my help and my God.
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My soul is cast down within me.
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Therefore I remember thee from the land of Jordan
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and of Herman and from Mount Miza.
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Deep calls to deep at the thunder of I cataracts
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all thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.
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By day, the Lord commands his steadfast love.
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And at night His song is with me a prayer to the God
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of my life.
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I say to God, my rock, why has thou forgotten me?
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Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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As with a deadly wound in my body, My adversaries taught me
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while they say to me continually, where is your God?
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Why are you cast down oh my soul?
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And why are you disquieted within me?
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Hope in God for I shall again praise him.
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My help and my God.
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May God bless unto us this reading
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and hearing of his holy word.
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♪ Amen, amen ♪
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The Lord be with you.
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And with your spirit.
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Let us pray.
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Oh most merciful God who are to pure eyes
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and to behold iniquity and has promised forgiveness
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to all those who confess and forsake their sins.
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We come before thee in a humble sense
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of our own unworthiness
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acknowledging our manifold transgressions
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of thy righteous laws.
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That oh gracious Father who desires
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not the death of a sinner, Look upon us
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we beseech thee in mercy
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and forgive us all our transgressions.
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Make us deeply sensible of the great evil of them and work
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in us and heart in contrition that we may
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obtained forgiveness at thy hands who aren't
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ever ready to receive humble
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and penitent sinners.
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Unless through our own frailty are the temptations
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which encompasses we'd be drawn again into sin.
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Thou save us we beseech thee, the direction and assistance
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of thy Holy Spirit.
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Reform whatever is amiss and the temper
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and disposition of our souls that no one unclean thoughts
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unlawful designs our inordinate desires may rest there.
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Purge our hearts from envy, hatred
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and malice that we may never suffer the sun to go
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down upon our wrath, but may always go
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to our rest in peace, charity and good will
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with a conscience void of offense toward thee,
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and towards all men.
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Accept, oh Lord our intercessions for all mankind.
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Let the light of thy gospel shine upon all nations.
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Bless all in authority over us.
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And especially the President of the United States,
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the governor of this state, the authorities
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of this university, that in thy holy fear
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they may govern the peoples in wisdom, justice
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and peace, send down thy blessings, both temporal
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and spiritual upon all of our relations, friends
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and neighbors.
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Reward all who have done us good
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and pardon all those who have done our wishes evil
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and give them repentance and better minds.
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Be merciful to all persons who are in danger, trouble
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sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity
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that they may have comfort and relief according
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to their necessities for his sake who went about doing good
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thy son, our savior Jesus Christ.
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Through our prayers oh Lord, we join our thanks
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for all thy mercies, for our being, our reason
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and all other faculties of soul and body.
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For our health, friends, food and Raymond
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and all other comforts and conveniences of life.
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Above all we thank thee for sending thy only Son
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into the world to redeem us from eternal death and giving us
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the knowledge and sense of our duty towards thee.
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We bless thee for thy patience with the us,
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not withstanding our many and great provocations.
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For all the directions, assistance ,and comforts
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of thy Holy Spirit for thy continual care and watchful
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providence over us through the whole course of our lives.
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Give us grace to show our thankfulness and in sincere
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obedience to his laws, to whose merits
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and intercession, we receive them all thy son,
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our Savior Jesus Christ.
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And now as our Savior Christ has taught us.
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We're bold to say.
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Our father who art in heaven,
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hallowed be they name.
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Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth
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as it is in heaven.
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Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us
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our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
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And lead us not into temptation, 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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The other morning, flipping on the car radio
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I broke suddenly into an intense exchange
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between a local Eric Severini
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and a bevy of Housewives exchanging views
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on gardens and raising Platos
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and the weather and the signs of the times.
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The matter of immediate concern was a recent
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ruling of the army that the chaplains,
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army chaplains were directed to omit or reference to God
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in moral guidance program
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since this violates the constitutional provision
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for the separation of church and state.
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Well, the order has since been rescinded
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by the Secretary of the Defense.
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God presumably breathed a heavenly sigh of relief
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when the news came up, that the Secretary of Defense
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had permitted his name to be used after all,
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At one point in his career President has called
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God our greatest secret weapon.
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But at the time of this exchange that I overheard
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the directive had evoked a great spasm of consternation
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among the pious of the land.
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And one housewife had called in and she was irate.
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This was about the worst thing that had
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ever happened to America.
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Didn't the local pundit think so too?
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Yes, ma'am said he fervently.
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Take God out of ours society and we'd be left
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to ourselves to decide what's right and wrong.
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That's a fascinating theological judgment here.
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Is he right?
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This exchange and the par of concern behind it is signal
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of a very odd contradiction of temper in the American mind.
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On the one hand is the increasing secularization
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of our life, the legal exclusion
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of traditional religious symbols
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and concepts and practices from our public life,
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from schools and courts, constitutional freedom of religion
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has been extended now to include freedom from religion.
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The rights of non-belief must be honored equally
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with the respect for varieties of belief.
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At Christmas now it's quite proper to sing Jingle Bells
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in the grade school, but there's only very
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remote theological implications of that Diddy
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but it is not proper to sing "Silent Night".
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And if you wanna pray in public schools, you have to go out
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behind the barn.
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On the other hand, there's a resurgence of piety
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along the Potomac in grasping for spiritual resources
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to bring us together and as a stay against
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the mood of despair and failure of nerve.
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The president has no doubt with serious if baffled
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intent called for the return to our religious heritage
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and established a kind of informally required Sunday chapel
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in the White House.
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And in recent days in the national celebration
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of President Eisenhower's passing, the nation turned its TV
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cameras and its heart almost instinctively
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in solemn reverence and religious rite to honor him.
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These are signals of more than a phony rhetoric
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or a shrewd political gambit.
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They are expressions of something strongly,
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if incoherently felt in the American conscience.
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That there is a religious ground of our life together
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and of our common morality.
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And in a time of the shaking of the foundations,
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we look for this ground of faith.
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I would like to defend the claim and stand
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beside the local pundit on the radio.
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That there is an indispensable link between religious faith
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and morality.
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That the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
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And to depart from evil Is understanding.
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To put it another way,
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religious reverence is the ground of our humanity
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our moral sensitivity, our true civility, and conversely
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a lack of reverence in the harsh caustic cynic
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for whom nothing is sacred is the beginning of foolishness
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and inhumanity.
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Insofar as reverence for God is our underlying faith
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we are moved to treat each other in a humane way.
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In so far as that reverence is absent
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we become increasingly brutal and heedless
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in our treatment of neighbors and of things.
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Any terms we use here are cloudy, imprecise and at admit
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of a variety of shades of meaning.
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But an expectation of the biblical phrase,
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the fear of the Lord may help to make
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clear the inner connection
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between religion and moral responsibility.
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The essence of the religious imagination
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is reverence for the sacred.
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This has nothing to do in the first instance
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with church going, it means simply a sense of awe
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and wonder and devotion in the presence of the sacred,
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the divine, the transcendent and a way of seeing
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and treating everything secular in the light of the sacred.
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This is faith in God.
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One may draw the line of connection
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between theology and morality in either direction
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from the side of theology
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in the Hebraic Christian tradition
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faith in God always involves moral obligation.
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Authentic worship requires both as its precondition
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and its fruit actions of care and consideration
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for the God who is the object of our faith
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is not an abstract principle,
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a logical stop to regress of infinite cause
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or explanations, but a living God,
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a morally serious God who requires us to do justly
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and love mercy and walk humbly.
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Without such moral actions
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our so-called worship of him is vain.
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Or take it the other way from morality to God.
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What constitutes the ground rule
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of community of our humanity, our civility
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and considerations, our trust of each other,
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our trusts and considerations that hold us together
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even within controversy.
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I think the word, the phrase responsible love
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is the single phrase that catches it best.
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But inside a sense of responsibility is a sense
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of accountability.
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In the last analysis to whom or to what
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are we accountable?
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To our public?
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To ourselves alone?
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To the TV image or to the image of God in us?
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To whom are we accountable when no one is looking?
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When the crowd out of sight.
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Why add up the figure column straight
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in one's income tax return?
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Why honor the honor system in taking exams?
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The Puritan divine, Jeremy Taylor had a true word here.
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He said, nothing rules a man in private, but God
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and his conscience, but these give laws in a wilderness
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and they accuse in a cluster.
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In some, a sense of accountability
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to a Lord transcended of the crowd is the true ground
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of our humanity to each other.
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The way we treat each other in care, in love.
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The way we trust each other.
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Perhaps the most serious moral question before us
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as a nation is this,
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can we become one people Living together
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in peace and justice
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on purely secular terms of community?
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Is there any adequate surrogate for our traditional belief
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in God that gave us a common faith?
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Or is chaos king of the universe and our life really
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the war of every man against every man
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where we stand with Matthew Arnold at Dover Beach
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has on a darkling plane swept with confused
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alarms of struggle and flight where ignorant armies
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clash by night.
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This question is not new, it was anticipated a long time ago
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by the champions of our rights and liberties
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a John Locke for instance, argued religious tolerance
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on a religious ground, which also set its limits.
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He said, "those are not at all to be tolerated
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who deny the being of a God, promises, covenants, oaths,
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which are the bonds of human society can have no hold
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upon an atheist, the taking away of God though, but even
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in thought dissolves all"
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More recently Walter Lippin has warned us.
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"The liberties," he says,
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"the liberties we talk about defending today were
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established by men who took their conception of man
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from the great central religious tradition
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of Western civilization.
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The liberties we inherit can almost certainly
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not survive the abandonment of that tradition."
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In making this confessional statement
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of the indispensability of God to our morality,
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I hope I'm not being misunderstood here to be siding
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with the conservatives who stand for law and order
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the old way with the establishment
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and standing against the student rebellion
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and the civil rights agitators.
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No, back to God or come to Christ as some
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of the pious in our midst to may interpret it does not mean
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that we should all become again, docile, clean shaven
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middle class, respectable white suburbanites,
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living in the delusion then that gentility
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is inborn trait or monopoly of Gentiles.
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For the God of the Christian faith is the God
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who requires social justice, whose sons may have to break
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the peace to secure that common justice.
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To fight against the institutions and customs
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and power structures that block the realization
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of our common humanity.
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But what I do mean is that a religious sense
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of accountability, the consideration of the neighbor
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whom one must oppose is what keeps the demand for rights,
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civil rights, whatever, viable.
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Because they derive from a sense of obligation
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to serve the common good.
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The ruckus on our campus two months
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was quite different in spirit from the vigil a year ago.
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What made the difference?
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Both were intense militant measures pressing
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for dry drastic changes in our community power structure.
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But unless I'm way off, I sensed in the vigil a reverence,
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a self restraint, a christian sense of accountability.
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A mutuality of trust and respect
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among those of sharply opposing points of view.
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This was tragically absent
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from the more recent episode marked
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as it was by distrust, suspicion, disrespect,
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arrogance, brutality.
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In short, it was a religious difference in spirit.
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Ours is a restless, impatient searching generation.
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It's moral indeed it's religious mood is one of seeking
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suspicious of all certitudes of elders.
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Students of today aren't at all interested in the church.
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They are profoundly interested in theology.
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Underneath their seemingly childish negativism
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If I read them a right,
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they are seeking a way out of the morals of NOE
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to some sure round of faith.
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Some yes answer to the idealism that lies right
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under the surly surface, the idealism that goes
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with being young of heart.
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They reach out Looking here and there
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for moments of joy, for something pure and lovely,
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for their true identity as Americans.
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Perhaps Simon and Garfunkel are the best Trudos here
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of our condition and our mood on a Greyhound bus
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looking for America.
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So I looked at the scenery,
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she read her magazine and the moon rose over an open field.
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Cathy, I'm lost, I said,
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Though, I knew she was sleeping.
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I'm empty and aching and I don't know why counting the cars
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on the New Jersey turnpike.
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They've all come to look for a America.
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The hint of the answer put here might well be listened to
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and heated in the America of Catherine Lee Bates
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who could not have been moved
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at the scene of the burial of Senator Kennedy at Arlington
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when the brass choir from Harvard played America.
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And who could dare not heed the life
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and death import of the words of that hymn,
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America, America, God shed his grace on thee
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and crown thy good with brotherhood
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from sea to shining sea America, America, God mend
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thine every flaw, confine thy soul in self control.
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Thy liberty in law.
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Amen.
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Let us pray.
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Almighty God, the Lord of our life,
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the unseen source of our strength
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who does question our last answer
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and answer our last question.
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Do thou by that grace illumine our minds
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and inspire our hearts that we may be cleared
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of sight to see and nerved in will to do
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thy will for our good and thy glory
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through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen.
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(hymnal singing drowned by instruments)
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(instrumental music)
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(hymnal singing)
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All things come of thee oh Lord
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and are thine only have we given thee.
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For thine oh Lord is the greatness
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and the power and the glory and the victory.
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And the majesty.
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For all that is in the earth is thine.
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Thine is the kingdom oh Lord
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and thou art exalted his head above all.
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And the peace of God, which passes all understanding
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keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge
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and love of God and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
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And the blessing of God almighty the Father, the Son
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and the Holy Ghost be amongst you this day and always.
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♪ Amen. ♪
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♪ Amen, amen, amen ♪
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♪ Amen, amen, amen ♪
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