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Maundy Thursday worship service,
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April 3rd, 1980, Duke Chapel.
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(organ music)
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(ambient chatter)
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(organ music)
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♪ Let thy holy presence come upon us ♪
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♪ We pray ♪
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♪ Thy holy presence ♪
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(organ and choral music)
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When we gather to praise God,
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we remember that we are the people of God,
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who have preferred our wills to the divine will.
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Accepting the power God offers us
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to become new persons in Christ,
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let us confess our sin before God and before one another.
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Let us pray.
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Most merciful God,
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we confess that we have sinned against you
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in thought, word, and deed.
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We have not loved you with our whole heart,
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we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves.
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We pray you, of your mercy,
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forgive what we have been, amend what we are,
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direct what we shall be, that we may delight in your will
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and walk in your ways, through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.
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Hear the good news.
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Christ died for us while we were yet sinners.
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That is God's own proof of his love toward us.
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In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.
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In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven.
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Glory to God, amen.
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Let us pray.
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Prepare our hearts, O Lord, to accept your word.
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Silence in us any voice but your own,
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that hearing, we may also obey your will.
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Through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen.
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The Old Testament lesson is from the 31st chapter
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of Jeremiah, verses 31 through 34.
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"'Behold, the days are coming,' says the Lord,
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"'when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel
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"'and the house of Judah, not like the covenant
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"'which I made with their fathers
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"'when I took them by the hand to bring them
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"'out of the land of Egypt, my covenant which they broke,
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"'though I was their husband,' says the Lord.
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"'But this is the covenant which I will make
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"'with the house of Israel after those days,' says the Lord.
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"'I will put my law within them,
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"'and I will write it upon their hearts,
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"'and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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"'And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor
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"'and each his brother or sister, saying, "Know the Lord."
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"'For they shall all know me, from the least of them
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"'to the greatest,' says the Lord.
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"'For I will forgive their iniquity,
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"'and I will remember their sin no more.'"
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The Epistle lesson is from the first Letter of Paul
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to the Corinthians, Chapter 11, verses 23 through 26.
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"For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you,
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"that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed
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"took bread, and when he had given thanks
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"he broke it and said, 'This is my body which is for you.
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"'Do this in remembrance of me.'
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"In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying,
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"'This cup is the new covenant in my blood.
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"'Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.
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"For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup,
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"you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes."
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Here ends the reading from the Epistle.
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Would you please stand for the reading of the Gospel.
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The Gospel lesson is from the 13th chapter of John,
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verses one through 35.
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"Now, before the feast of the Passover,
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"when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart
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"out of this world to the Father,
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"having loved his own who were in the world
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"he loved them to the end.
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"And during supper, when the Devil had already
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"put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son,
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"to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father
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"had given all things into his hands,
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"and that he had come from God and was going to God,
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"rose from supper, laid aside his garments,
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"and girded himself with a towel.
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"Then he poured water into a basin
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"and began to wash the disciples' feet
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"and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.
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"He came to Simon Peter, and Peter said to him,
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"'Lord, do you wash my feet?'
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"Jesus answered him, 'What I am doing
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"'you do not know now, but afterward you will understand.'
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"Peter said to him, 'You shall never wash my feet.'
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"Jesus answered him, 'If I do not wash you,
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"'you have no part in me.'
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"Simon Peter said to him, 'Lord, not my feet only
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"'but also my hands and my head.'
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"And Jesus said to him, 'He who has bathed
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"'does not need to wash, except for his feet.
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"'But he is clean all over, and you are clean.
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"'But not every one of you,'
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"for he knew who was to betray him.
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"That was why he said, 'You are not all clean.'
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"When he had washed their feet and taken his garments
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"and resumed his place, he said to them,
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"'Do you know what I have done to you?
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"'You call me teacher and Lord,
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"'and you are right, for so I am.
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"'If I, then, your Lord and teacher, have washed your feet,
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"'you also ought to wash one another's feet.
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"'For I have given you an example, that you also should do
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"'as I have done to you.
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"'Truly, truly I say to you, a servant is not greater
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"'than his master, nor is he who is sent
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"'greater than he who sent him.
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"'If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
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"'I am not speaking of you all; I know whom I have chosen.
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"'It is that the Scripture may be fulfilled,
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"'"He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me."
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"'I tell you this now, before it takes place,
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"'that when it does take place,
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"'you may believe that I am he.
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"'Truly, truly I say to you, he who receives
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"'anyone whom I send receives me, and he who receives me
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"'receives him who sent me.'
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"When Jesus had thus spoken, he was troubled in spirit
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"and testified, 'Truly, truly I say to you,
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"'one of you will betray me.'
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"The discipled looked at one another,
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"uncertain of whom he spoke.
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"One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved,
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"was lying close to the breast of Jesus,
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"so Simon Peter beckoned to him and said,
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"'Tell us who it is of whom he speaks.'
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"So lying thus, close to the breast of Jesus,
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"he said to him, 'Lord, who is it?'
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"Jesus answered, 'It is he to whom I shall give
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"'this morsel when I have dipped it.'
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"So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas,
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"the son of Simon Iscariot.
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"Then after the morsel, Satan entered into him.
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"Jesus said to him, 'What you are going to do, do quickly.'
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"Now, no one at the table knew why he said this to him.
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"Some thought that because Judas had the money box
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"Jesus was telling him, 'Buy what we need for the feast,'
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"or that he should give something to the poor.
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"So after receiving the morsel,
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"he immediately went out, and it was night.
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"When he had gone out, Jesus said,
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"'Now is the Son of Man glorified,
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"'and in him God is glorified.
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"'If God is glorified in him, God will also glorify him
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"'in himself, and glorify him at once.
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"'Little children, yet a little while I am with you.
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"'You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews,
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"'so now I say to you: where I am going, you cannot come.
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"'A new commandment I give to you:
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"'that you love one another, even as I have loved you,
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"'that you also love one another.
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"'By this, all people will know that you are my disciples,
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"'if you have love for one another.'"
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Here ends the reading of the Gospel.
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Praise be to God.
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You may be seated.
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I greet you this night in the name of our Lord.
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Let us pray.
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Mighty God, may the words of my mouth and the meditations
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of our hearts be acceptable in your sight this night.
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Amen.
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I shall never again approach a service
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on Maundy Thursday without a vivid memory
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about an experience of two years ago.
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I had the privilege of traveling with 24 other
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United Methodists through the People's Republic of China.
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We were one of the very first church groups
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identified as such allowed into that country.
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We were there to learn about the country and its people
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in order that we could be resource persons
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to United Methodists in this country as they undertook
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a mission study of that land and its way of life.
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We arrived in Peking, or Beijing as we are now
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supposed to call it, on the Saturday before Palm Sunday.
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Before leaving New York, we had agreed
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to hold services during Holy Week, wherever we were.
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Palm Sunday was celebrated at noon
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in Peking in the Peking Hotel,
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in one of the spacious guest rooms.
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From the time we had deplaned at the airport in Peking,
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we had been met with billboards and notices
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on bulletin boards and slogans on the lips
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of our Chinese guides which all said, "Serve the People!"
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That was a slogan which Chairman Mao Zedong had espoused
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and which people seemed determined at that time to follow.
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And it showed, in people's faces,
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in their appearance, in their politeness.
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People seemed to be well-fed, clothed, healthy,
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and they cared for one another.
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And they were certainly gracious to their guests.
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Granted, "people" was a euphemism for "state,"
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but the people seemed to be the real beneficiaries.
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And it was easy to make the transference
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from people to state and back to people again.
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Thursday evening, Maundy Thursday, we were in Yangchow
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in what had once been a British guest house,
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now run by the Chinese government for tourists.
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We had requested of our Chinese hosts a room for a service,
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a basin of water and towels, and communion elements.
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Having spent five days with the slogan, "Serve the People,"
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it seemed very fitting to us
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that our Maundy Thursday service be a foot-washing service,
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and that our text for the evening
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be the Gospel passage which I just read to you.
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By the time we returned to the guest house around 10:30 p.m.
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after having spent a full day which began at the Sun Yat Sen
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Memorial in Nanking, traveling 70 to 80 miles
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by a very slow bus from Nanking, visiting a commune,
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and attending a Chinese movie, we were all
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ready for hot showers and bed.
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But it was Maundy Thursday, and we had pledged
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about a hundred years before in New York
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that we would have a service, and our Chinese hosts
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had made preparations for us.
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So, weary travelers that we were, we gathered
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in the conference room at the guest house
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for our Maundy Thursday service,
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foot-washing and the celebration of the Lord's Supper.
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Our responsible hosts had served the people,
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their guests, well.
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For there were trays of steaming hot towels
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and a basin of soothing warm water,
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and soft, soft towels to dry feet.
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And there was a loaf of bread,
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and there was a bottle of wine.
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And our hosts remained around the room,
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not accepting our invitation to join us,
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but watching to see what this church group,
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also known as the Blue Team, was up to now.
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Prayers were said, the Scripture was read,
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and we knelt there in that room in that strange land,
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far from home, remembering the services
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that would be going on in our home churches,
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missing our loved ones, and we washed
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one another's tired and dusty feet.
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And the meaning of that Scripture passage came alive,
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taught to us by a people, most of whom had never heard
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the passage read, did not know who Jesus was,
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did not know what we were up to,
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but who understood and recited and kept ever before them
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the slogan "Serve the People."
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Many of us had never participated in a foot-washing service
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before, and initially we felt strange and awkward and shy,
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perhaps not unlike Peter, at having our feet washed
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by someone else in our group.
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It was much easier to do the washing than to have it done;
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that is, until one thought about the passage
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that had been read.
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For here was Jesus, who according to this Gospel account
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knew his hour had come,
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that all of this was to be over soon for him,
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that the hour of glory would be his.
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Such knowledge might have filled him with pride,
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but instead he washed his disciples' feet.
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Knowing that he was Lord of all,
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that he was King of Kings, he washed feet.
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We probably would have had contempt for human beings
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and the things of this world, like dirty feet,
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but he assumed the office of a slave
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to bring comfort to those to whom he was also host.
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Knowing that betrayal was close at hand,
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we would probably have been bitter and filled with hate,
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but Jesus met the approaching injury
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and disloyalty and death with humility and love.
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To assume the role of washing another's feet meant for us,
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as we experienced it in Yangchow, assuming and committing
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ourselves to a live of serving the people;
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one another, the Chinese, the folks at home,
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and all those in between.
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As we assumed Peter's role and reflected on it,
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allowing our feet to be washed meant also
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the same commitment, for in accepting that act,
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we were opening ourselves to new understandings of service,
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to new possibilities for life,
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to risks and to hope.
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But the service did not end there.
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The account continued; it foretold the betrayal;
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Jesus offered bread to Judas and urged him
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to do quickly what he was going to do.
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And there in that room where the revolutionary committee
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for that guest house met, we served one another
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the Lord's Supper, knowing that even as we offered
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and as we received,
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we too would be betrayers and deniers;
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for we would not want to serve
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nor would we want to have our feet washed;
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for we would not want to love one another
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nor would we want to accept the love that God offered.
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We heard the new commandment to love,
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but it was not until Easter Monday in Shanghai
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that an understanding of that new commandment came
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and that a real awareness of our responsibility was born,
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or that the meaning of our hope was made alive.
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For on that Monday we were told, after a long conference
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among our Chinese guides, that they all wanted
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to ride on our bus and not with the Red Team.
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The Red Team was a group of American shoppers
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who were traveling the same route as were we,
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who had been rather disparaging to some of the ethnic
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members of our group, and who had labeled us
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religious fanatics after the foot-washing service.
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But the Chinese guides wanted to ride on our bus
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because we, being a church group, were different;
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we cared about the Chinese people
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and we cared about one another.
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And we thanked God, that God's voice was spoken to us
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through a people who claimed to have no knowledge
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or need of a god; and that perhaps that voice
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had been heard echoing back through us
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to those who had spoken it to us.
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On the table here before you are a towel and a basin,
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symbols of love, humility and service,
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that remind us of the parable lived by our Lord
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and which parable we are called to actualize.
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Also to be placed on the table are bread and wine
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of which we will eat and drink.
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As we do so,
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let us keep in mind that by accepting them,
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we are committing ourselves once again
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to a life of love and service,
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to the people, in God's name.
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"I shall put my law within them,
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"and I will write it upon their hearts.
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"This is my body, which is for you.
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"This cup is the new covenant in my blood.
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"A new commandment I give to you:
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"that you love one another, even as I have loved you,
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"that you also love one another.
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"By this, all people will know that you are my disciples,
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"if you have love for one another."
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Amen and amen.
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Let us pray.
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O Lord our God, hear us as we pray.
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That the world may live in peace
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and that the church may achieve unity,
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fulfilling its service here and everywhere,
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Lord, hear our prayer.
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That all ministers and teachers in the church
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may be faithful servants of the Gospel,
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leading others into its way of life
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and strengthening their faith,
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Lord, hear our prayer.
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That the leaders of this nation and of the world
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may govern with justice and with mercy,
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Lord, hear our prayer.
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That all our work may be done for the common good,
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that it be done in safety, and that all may be spared
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from grinding toil which destroys fullness of life,
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Lord, hear our prayer.
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That those who work on frontiers of truth
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and those who enrich our lives with beauty and joy
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may be free to follow their vocations,
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Lord, hear our prayer.
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That those who suffer disease or poverty
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or loneliness or grief may be healed and comforted,
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that those who are oppressed or persecuted
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may be strengthened and delivered,
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Lord, hear our prayer.
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That those whom we have known and loved
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who have died in the faith
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may be a glorious memory to us and a source
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of renewed fellowship with all the saints,
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Lord, hear our prayer,
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Jesus Christ our Savior.
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Amen; stand, please.
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Dear friends, hear these words.
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Christ our Lord invites to his table
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all who love him and all who desire
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to live in peace with one another.
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The peace of the Lord is with you always.
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And also with you.
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As forgiven and reconciled people,
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let us now offer ourselves and our gifts to God.
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Amen.
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Be seated, please.
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♪ This is my commandment ♪
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♪ That ye love one another ♪
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♪ Ev'n as I have loved you ♪
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♪ No man hath greater love than this ♪
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♪ To give his life ev'n for his friends ♪
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♪ No man hath greater love than this ♪
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♪ To give his life ev'n for his friends ♪
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♪ When I survey the wondrous cross ♪
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♪ On which the Prince of glory died ♪
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♪ My richest gain I count but loss ♪
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♪ And pour contempt on all my pride ♪
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♪ Were the whole realm of nature mine ♪
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♪ That were a present far too small ♪
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♪ Love so amazing, so divine ♪
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♪ Demands my soul, my life, my all ♪
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♪ Amen ♪
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Let us offer to God this prayer of dedication;
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let us pray.
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O God most merciful and gracious,
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of whose bounty we have all received,
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accept these offerings of your people.
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Remember in your love those who have brought it
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and those for whom it is given,
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and so follow it with your blessing,
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that it may promote peace and love
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and good will among people around the world
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and may advance the kingdom of our Lord and Savior,
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even Jesus Christ.
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Amen.
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Let us continue in prayer.
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The Lord is with you.
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And with you also.
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Lift up your hearts.
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We lift them up to the Lord.
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Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
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It is right to give God thanks and praise.
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O God, it is right that we should always
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and everywhere give you thanks and praise.
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We thank you, O Lord our God, that you loved the world
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so much that you sent your only son to be our savior.
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We remember that on the night in which he gave himself up
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for us, our Lord Jesus took bread.
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After giving you thanks, he broke the bread,
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gave it to his disciples and said,
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"Take, eat; this is my body which is given for you."
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When the supper was over, he took the cup.
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Again he returned thanks to you, gave the cup
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to his disciples, and said,
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"Drink from this, all of you.
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"This is the cup of the new covenant in my blood,
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"poured out for you and for many
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"for the forgiveness of sins."
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When we eat this bread and drink this cup,
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we experience anew the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ
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and look forward to his coming and final victory.
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Help us know in the breaking of this bread
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the presence of Christ, who gave his body and blood
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for us and for all people.
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Make us one with Christ, one with each other,
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and one in service to all people.
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Through Jesus Christ our Lord,
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with the Holy Spirit in your holy church,
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all glory and honor is yours, O Lord our God.
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Amen.
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Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
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Thy kingdom come, thy 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 us 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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Because there is one loaf, we,
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many as we are, are one body,
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for it is one loaf of which we all partake.
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When we break the bread, is it not a means
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of sharing in the body of Christ?
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When we give thanks over the cup,
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is it not a means of sharing in the blood of Christ?
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The body of our Lord Jesus Christ,
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broken for you, Bob.
Amen.
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The blood of our Lord Jesus Christ
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poured out for you, Bob.
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Amen.
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Arise, beloved, and go,
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and may the purity of your life be such
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that with true faith you may be able
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to know and experience the love of God,
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which God offers us in Christ our Lord.
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Amen.
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Jesus said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit,
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"for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
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Arise, dear friends, and go in peace.
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And may the attitude and spirit
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of your mind and heart commend you to God
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and to the kingdom of God, now and forever,
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through Christ our Lord.
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Amen.
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Dear friends in Christ, will you join with me now
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as, responsively, we offer to God
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this prayer of thanksgiving and commitment.
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Let us pray.
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You have given yourself to us, O Lord.
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Now we give ourselves for others.
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Your love has made us a new people.
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As a people of love, we will serve you with joy.
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Your glory has filled our hearts.
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Help us to glorify you in all things.
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Amen.
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Go out in peace, to serve God
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and your neighbor in all that you do.
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We are sent in Christ's name.
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The blessing of Almighty God,
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creator, redeemer, sustainer, is with you 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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