William H. Willimon - "The Weight of Glory" (March 17, 1991)
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(hymn solo) | 0:10 | |
(choir sings hymn) | 2:24 | |
- | Good morning and welcome to this service | 6:09 |
of worship here in Duke University Chapel | 6:10 | |
on the fifth Sunday in Lent. | 6:13 | |
We have been led in our worship thus far | 6:16 | |
by Dr. Joe Hickman and the chamber singers | 6:19 | |
of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. | 6:22 | |
They are yearly visitors to our chapel | 6:26 | |
and we welcome them again for this Sunday | 6:28 | |
and appreciate their musical offering in this service. | 6:33 | |
Next Sunday is Palm Sunday. | 6:40 | |
The congregation is reminded that we will gather | 6:44 | |
in front of the chapel at a quarter of 11 | 6:46 | |
for a short opening service with the Catholics | 6:49 | |
before their service, a blessing of the palms | 6:55 | |
in front of the chapel at 10:45 next Sunday. | 6:58 | |
Our liturgist today is Dean Dennis Campbell, | 7:03 | |
Dean of the Divinity School at Duke University | 7:06 | |
and our lector is Miss Sylvia Arnett, | 7:08 | |
President of the Congregation at Duke Chapel. | 7:11 | |
Now let us stand together for the greeting. | 7:15 | |
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. | 7:25 | |
Crowd | And also with you. | 7:28 |
- | Bless the Lord, Oh my soul, and all that is within me. | 7:30 |
Bless God's holy name. | 7:33 | |
Crowd | Bless the Lord, oh my soul | 7:35 |
(Indistinguishable chanting) | 7:37 | |
- | Who forgives all your sins and heals all your infirmities. | 7:40 |
Crowd | Who redeems your life from the grave | 7:45 |
and crowns you with mercy and loving kindness. | 7:47 | |
(organ plays) | 7:53 | |
(everyone sings hymn) | 8:20 | |
- | Let us pray. | 12:06 |
Almighty God whose most dear son | 12:09 | |
went not up to joy but first he suffered pain | 12:13 | |
and entered not into glory before he was crucified, | 12:18 | |
mercifully grant that we, walking in the way of the cross, | 12:23 | |
may find it none other than the way of life and peace | 12:28 | |
through the same, thy son Jesus Christ, our Lord. | 12:35 | |
Amen. | 12:40 | |
- | Let us pray. | 12:53 |
- | [Sylvia And Crowd] Open our hearts and minds, Oh God, | 12:55 |
by the power of your holy spirit | 12:58 | |
so that as the word is read and proclaimed | 13:01 | |
we might hear with joy what you say to us this day. | 13:05 | |
Amen. | 13:09 | |
- | The first reading is taken from the book of Jeremiah. | 13:11 |
The days are surely coming, says the Lord, | 13:17 | |
when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel | 13:19 | |
and the House of Judah. | 13:23 | |
It will not be like the covenant | 13:25 | |
that I made with their ancestors | 13:27 | |
when I took them by the hand to bring them out | 13:29 | |
of the land of Egypt, a covenant that they broke | 13:32 | |
though I was their husband, says the Lord. | 13:36 | |
But this is the covenant that I will make | 13:39 | |
with the house of Israel after those days says the Lord. | 13:41 | |
I will put my law within them | 13:46 | |
and I will write it on their hearts | 13:49 | |
and I will be their god and they shall be my people. | 13:51 | |
No longer shall they teach one another | 13:56 | |
or say to each other know the Lord | 13:59 | |
for they shall all know me, | 14:01 | |
from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord. | 14:04 | |
For I will forgive their inequity | 14:07 | |
and remember their sin no more. | 14:10 | |
This is the word of the Lord. | 14:14 | |
Crowd | Praise be to God. | 14:16 |
- | This altar for this fifth Sunday in Lent | 14:25 |
is Psalm 51, verses 10 through 17. | 14:29 | |
Let us stand and read responsively. | 14:36 | |
Create in me a clean heart, Oh God, | 14:48 | |
and put a new and right spirit within me. | 14:52 | |
Crowd | Do not cast me away from your presence, | 14:57 |
and do not take your holy spirit from me. | 14:59 | |
- | Restore to me the joy of your salvation | 15:02 |
and sustain in me a willing spirit. | 15:06 | |
Crowd | Then I will teach transgressors your ways | 15:11 |
and sinners will return to you. | 15:14 | |
- | Deliver me from death, Oh God, | 15:16 |
God of my salvation and my tongue | 15:19 | |
will sing aloud of your deliverance. | 15:22 | |
Crowd | Oh Lord, open my lips, | 15:26 |
and my mouth will declare your praise. | 15:29 | |
- | For you have no delight in sacrifice; | 15:31 |
were I to give a burnt offering you would not be pleased. | 15:35 | |
- | [Leader And People] The sacrifice acceptable | 15:40 |
to God is a broken spirit; | 15:42 | |
a broken and contrite heart. | 15:44 | |
Oh God you will not despise. | 15:47 | |
(organ plays) | 15:50 | |
(crowd sings hymn) | 15:58 | |
- | This reading is from Paul's letter to the Hebrews. | 16:54 |
In the days of his flesh, | 16:58 | |
Jesus offered up prayers and supplications | 17:00 | |
with loud cries and tears to the one who was able | 17:04 | |
to save him from death and he was heard | 17:08 | |
because of his reverent submission. | 17:11 | |
Although he was a son, he learned obedience | 17:14 | |
through what he suffered. | 17:17 | |
And having been made perfect, | 17:19 | |
he became the source of eternal salvation | 17:21 | |
for all who obey him. | 17:24 | |
Having been designated by God a high priest, | 17:27 | |
according to the order of Melchizedek. | 17:32 | |
This is the word of the Lord. | 17:34 | |
Crowd | Praise be to God. | 17:37 |
(organ plays) | 17:57 | |
(choir sings hymn) | 18:55 | |
- | The gospel for this fifth Sunday of Lent: | 25:24 |
Now among those who went up to worship | 25:30 | |
at the festival were some Greeks. | 25:33 | |
They came to Philip and said to him, | 25:36 | |
Sir, we wish to see Jesus. | 25:38 | |
Philip went and told Andrew, | 25:41 | |
then Andrew and Philip went and told Jesus. | 25:43 | |
Jesus answered them, the hour has come | 25:46 | |
for the Son of Man to be glorified. | 25:50 | |
Very truly I tell you unless a grain of wheat | 25:54 | |
falls to the Earth and dies, it remains just a single grain. | 25:57 | |
But if it dies, it bears much fruit. | 26:04 | |
Those who love their life lose it | 26:09 | |
and those who hate their life in this world will keep it | 26:11 | |
for eternal life. | 26:14 | |
Whoever serves me must follow me. | 26:17 | |
And where I am there will my servant be also. | 26:20 | |
Whoever serves me, the Father will honor. | 26:24 | |
Now is my soul troubled. | 26:29 | |
And what should I say, Father save me from this hour? | 26:32 | |
No. | 26:36 | |
It is for this reason that I have come to this hour. | 26:38 | |
Father glorify your name. | 26:42 | |
Then a voice came from heaven. | 26:47 | |
I have glorified it and I will glorify it again. | 26:49 | |
The crowd standing there heard it | 26:55 | |
and said that it was thunder. | 26:56 | |
Others said an angel has spoken to him. | 27:00 | |
Jesus answered, this voice has come | 27:05 | |
for your sake, not for mine. | 27:08 | |
Now is the judgment of this world. | 27:11 | |
Now the ruler of this world will be driven out. | 27:14 | |
And I, when I am lifted up from the Earth, | 27:18 | |
will draw all people to myself. | 27:21 | |
He said this to indicate what kind of death he was to die. | 27:26 | |
This is the word of the Lord. | 27:35 | |
- | [William And Crowd] Thanks be to God. | 27:38 |
- | What does it mean to be in your glory? | 27:46 |
When are you in your glory? | 27:52 | |
The semester has ended and you hand in the term paper | 27:57 | |
to the professor and he glances over it | 28:01 | |
and says oh, this looks good. | 28:03 | |
This looks quite good. | 28:05 | |
And you sail out of class. | 28:08 | |
You soar over the face of the campus. | 28:11 | |
It can be said of you that you are in your glory. | 28:13 | |
Last year our director of chapel music, Dr. Wynkoop, | 28:20 | |
directed three back to back performances | 28:26 | |
one weekend of Carmina Burana, | 28:29 | |
with dancers and orchestra and choir | 28:31 | |
and Saturday night at the intermission | 28:34 | |
someone said to me do you think | 28:37 | |
he'll have anything left for Saturday morning? | 28:38 | |
For Sunday morning, I mean, for at the Sunday service | 28:42 | |
and I said, oh yes, he's in his glory. | 28:45 | |
And I was right. | 28:51 | |
Because Sunday morning after the Palm Sunday service | 28:53 | |
someone said to him, you know, you look exhausted. | 28:55 | |
You look tired. | 28:57 | |
And he said well, it's been a big weekend. | 28:58 | |
And then with a wry smile he said | 29:02 | |
and I wish it could be like this every weekend. | 29:05 | |
He was in his glory. | 29:10 | |
If you watch us humans when we're at work or play, | 29:15 | |
during those moments of exhilaration, | 29:19 | |
when we rise to our feet in jubilation, | 29:22 | |
when the adrenalin is flowing and the heart is pumping, | 29:26 | |
you can learn a great deal about us. | 29:30 | |
A friend of mine teaches a course here on war. | 29:35 | |
And they spend the first three weeks of the class | 29:39 | |
talking about all that we get out of war. | 29:43 | |
They read war novels and they watch war movies | 29:47 | |
and they tell war stories, and his point | 29:50 | |
is that it is important to remember | 29:54 | |
how much we glorify in war. | 29:56 | |
As Robert E. Lee says, it is great that war is so brutal | 30:00 | |
or else we might come to love it so much. | 30:06 | |
Last year, | 30:12 | |
a famous movie was done about the bloodshed, | 30:15 | |
the carnage, the horror of war. | 30:18 | |
And the name of the movie was Glory. | 30:22 | |
When can it be said of us that we are in our glory? | 30:28 | |
In the Bible, the Hebrew word for glory is kabod. | 30:34 | |
The Greek word in the New Testament is doxa. | 30:39 | |
Doxa, from which we get our word doxology. | 30:42 | |
Kabod doxa, my biblical dictionary says | 30:47 | |
that the Hebrew word glory implies weightiness | 30:51 | |
or splendor. | 30:57 | |
Glory, it's what gives you weight, substance. | 30:59 | |
Or, on the other hand, that which makes you shine. | 31:04 | |
And so in everyday speech, we speak | 31:10 | |
of a weighty personality, somebody who's got substance. | 31:12 | |
Or on Sunday morning we sing a doxology, | 31:19 | |
doxa, praise, praise God! | 31:21 | |
All ye creatures here below, praise God. | 31:25 | |
That is God's glory in that God is high | 31:32 | |
and that God is lifted up and God is just over everything. | 31:35 | |
And thus we give God doxa, praise. | 31:40 | |
But wherein is Jesus' glory? | 31:47 | |
What is that which glorifies Jesus? | 31:53 | |
One day some Greeks came to the disciples, | 31:59 | |
saying we would like to see Jesus. | 32:04 | |
They had probably heard, according to John's gospel, | 32:09 | |
about all of the things Jesus has been doing, | 32:13 | |
his marvelous, wonderful, glorious works | 32:16 | |
of healing and miracle. | 32:21 | |
Sir, we would like to see Jesus. | 32:23 | |
It must be a really shining person, this Jesus, | 32:28 | |
who's done all these good things. | 32:32 | |
And Jesus seems to confirm this. | 32:34 | |
He says to his disciples, the hour has come. | 32:36 | |
The hour has come for me to be glorified. | 32:40 | |
And one could imagine an exciting stirring | 32:48 | |
among Jesus's disciples. | 32:50 | |
Enough of this flesh and blood Galilean fisherman type. | 32:52 | |
Now, at last, we will throw off the cloak of earthly flesh | 32:57 | |
and see some glory. | 33:02 | |
Now, at last, is the hour when we can sing a doxology, | 33:05 | |
that weighty, illustrious, | 33:10 | |
when the high and lifted up God to reveal his glory. | 33:12 | |
See whenever we hear the word glory, | 33:20 | |
we think in terms of what causes us glory. | 33:23 | |
But wherein is the glory of Jesus? | 33:30 | |
His answer is shocking. | 33:35 | |
Unless a grain of wheat falls to the Earth and dies. | 33:39 | |
Unless a grain of wheat falls to the Earth and dies. | 33:47 | |
We think of glory as that which is high, exalted, | 33:51 | |
lifted up over all. | 33:55 | |
But Jesus speaks of glory, divine glory, | 33:58 | |
as that falling to Earth and dying. | 34:01 | |
The glory of this God is not in his exaltation | 34:04 | |
but in his humiliation, | 34:08 | |
God stooping down, the cross. | 34:11 | |
Am I right in saying that we usually think | 34:18 | |
of the glory of God as God's distance, his otherness? | 34:20 | |
His exaltation? | 34:27 | |
We are low, God is high. | 34:28 | |
God is transcendent, eternal, invisible, unchangeable, | 34:32 | |
infinite, incomprehensible, doxa. | 34:37 | |
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow down | 34:40 | |
to these creatures here below. | 34:44 | |
People don't build one story churches. | 34:49 | |
They build churches like we built Duke Chapel: | 34:54 | |
high, lifted up, for this high, exalted God. | 34:57 | |
We don't write church music for the kazoo or the harmonica. | 35:01 | |
No, we throw up an organ with a thousand pipes | 35:06 | |
and then we gather and we pull out all the stops. | 35:09 | |
Glory. | 35:11 | |
They came to Jesus saying we want to see Jesus. | 35:15 | |
We want to see this glorious one who has come down | 35:21 | |
from a glorious God. | 35:24 | |
And they were shown one who spoke of his life | 35:28 | |
as a grain of wheat that falls down to the Earth and dies. | 35:31 | |
His glory. | 35:39 | |
See John is working here on our definition of glory. | 35:41 | |
His glory is in his death. | 35:44 | |
When struck on one cheek, he turned | 35:49 | |
to us another tear stained cheek. | 35:51 | |
When we cursed him, he blessed us. | 35:57 | |
Those weighted with the world's glory | 36:05 | |
make the cover of Time magazine. | 36:10 | |
They do the victory dance in the end zone at the touchdown. | 36:15 | |
They give you the finger, shouting we're number one. | 36:19 | |
You can tell a great deal about us, | 36:25 | |
watching what we doxa, what we glorify. | 36:27 | |
The teacher who gives a lifetime working | 36:36 | |
at a small rural school? | 36:38 | |
No. | 36:42 | |
The high school coach who has to work two jobs | 36:46 | |
just to support his family so he can continue to coach | 36:49 | |
in an inner city high school? | 36:52 | |
No. | 36:53 | |
The mother who forgoes dreams of a career in business | 36:56 | |
to care for her retarded daughter? | 37:01 | |
The husband who does not get tenure at the university | 37:05 | |
because he puts his fatherly responsibilities | 37:08 | |
before research and publication? | 37:10 | |
Nobody sings a doxology to them. | 37:13 | |
So when we looked at Jesus, | 37:20 | |
what we saw surprised us. | 37:24 | |
And still surprises. | 37:29 | |
In the Christ we beheld God's countering | 37:33 | |
of the world's glory with a glory of his own. | 37:37 | |
We march upward in a glorious procession | 37:46 | |
behind a silver cross. | 37:49 | |
He was hung on a rude cross of wood. | 37:52 | |
We put weighty crowns of gold upon the heads | 37:58 | |
of those whom we exalt. | 38:01 | |
He wore a crown of thorns. | 38:03 | |
Thorns are not weighty. | 38:09 | |
As our lesson from Hebrews says, | 38:15 | |
although he was a son, he learned obedience | 38:16 | |
through what he suffered. | 38:21 | |
Oh, we work and we study and we strive | 38:25 | |
so that we might be weighty enough, | 38:29 | |
substantial enough so that we don't have | 38:32 | |
to stoop to anybody. | 38:34 | |
He enacted glory with a basin and a towel. | 38:39 | |
We wanted to hail him on Palm Sunday | 38:45 | |
as glorious Lord and by the week's end | 38:48 | |
he knelt down and washed our tired feet. | 38:52 | |
When we beheld his glory, | 39:00 | |
it required of us that we redefine glory, | 39:03 | |
the weight of glory. | 39:08 | |
His glory was in his stooping down, | 39:11 | |
not in his transcendence but in his condescendence | 39:16 | |
as a grain of wheat, cast down to the Earth, | 39:21 | |
buried under the sod, suffered, died. | 39:25 | |
His glory, his exaltation, | 39:31 | |
was when he finally got his opportunity | 39:36 | |
to be high and lifted up. | 39:39 | |
Did not he say, when I'm high and lifted up | 39:44 | |
above all the Earth, I will draw all unto myself? | 39:47 | |
But his being lifted up from the Earth, | 39:56 | |
the only time he got a chance to be high enough | 39:59 | |
to look down on the rest of us | 40:03 | |
was when he looked down at us from a cross. | 40:08 | |
Fellow preacher Jack Roda called my attention | 40:17 | |
to the Japanese writer Shusaku Endo. | 40:22 | |
Endo is a Catholic Japanese Christian, | 40:28 | |
and that which fascinates Endo about the Christ | 40:32 | |
is not that which fascinates Western Christians, | 40:38 | |
the power of Christ, but the pain of Christ. | 40:41 | |
Not his transcendence, but his condescendence. | 40:45 | |
Surely he has born our grief and carried our sorrows. | 40:52 | |
That's a theme through many of Endo's novels. | 40:55 | |
Endo tells a story from out of the past. | 41:00 | |
The Jesuits came to Japan in the 16th century | 41:04 | |
and there were mass conversions to Christianity. | 41:07 | |
But after the Jesuits there came the English | 41:11 | |
and the Dutch and the Spanish and the Portuguese traders | 41:13 | |
with their arrogance. | 41:18 | |
And there set in a massive backlash | 41:19 | |
in Japan against the Christians. | 41:22 | |
And many, under pain of torture and persecution, | 41:25 | |
were forced to recant of their faith. | 41:29 | |
There was a Jesuit superior named Rodrigues. | 41:33 | |
And Rodrigues is sent by Rome back to Japan to inquire | 41:38 | |
why so many Christians have fallen away from the faith, | 41:43 | |
particularly his esteemed Japanese teacher. | 41:46 | |
Rodrigues was a pious man. | 41:52 | |
He spends all of his time in prayer and contemplation | 41:56 | |
and Bible reading, listening for Christ. | 42:00 | |
But Rodrigues is a man who suffers | 42:05 | |
under terrible torture because it has been years, | 42:07 | |
40 years, since he has heard one word from God. | 42:11 | |
He is tormented, this Rodrigues, by the silence of God. | 42:18 | |
That's the title of the novel, The Silence. | 42:23 | |
And though he gives his life to God | 42:28 | |
and though he listens at his, | 42:30 | |
it is as if God has closed the door to Rodrigues. | 42:32 | |
He cannot hear a word. | 42:35 | |
Well, when Rodrigues arrives in Japan | 42:39 | |
it isn't long before he runs afoul of the authorities | 42:41 | |
and he is thrown in this small, dark prison cell. | 42:45 | |
And there in his cell at night | 42:50 | |
Rodrigues hears strange sounds. | 42:51 | |
Strange sounds, which he assumes | 42:54 | |
coming from drunken guards snoring at night. | 42:57 | |
He asks someone what are these sounds | 43:02 | |
that he hears in the prison. | 43:04 | |
And he is told that it's not drunken guards | 43:07 | |
but rather the sounds made by his fellow prisoners, | 43:10 | |
former Japanese Christians who, | 43:14 | |
although they have long since forsaken their faith, | 43:16 | |
are still being punished. | 43:21 | |
They are hanging upside down by their ankles, | 43:24 | |
their faces half buried in human excrement. | 43:28 | |
And the sounds that he has heard | 43:34 | |
are the belabored breathing of these pitiful people. | 43:37 | |
Rodrigues pleads for their release | 43:45 | |
and he is told by the superior of the prison | 43:49 | |
their release would be possible. | 43:52 | |
We would be willing to release them if only you | 43:55 | |
would recant of your faith. | 44:00 | |
Rodrigues is told that all he must do | 44:06 | |
is to fulfill a mere bureaucratic formality. | 44:08 | |
He is presented with a bronze medallion, I think. | 44:13 | |
It's a bronze medallion of the image of Christ | 44:16 | |
and he's told that all he has to do | 44:19 | |
to free these prisoners is simply to place his toe, | 44:21 | |
ever so slightly on this image of Christ. | 44:25 | |
When presented with that medallion, | 44:29 | |
Rodrigues doesn't want to touch it. | 44:31 | |
He wants to kiss it because it represents everything | 44:33 | |
that he has given his life for, everything that he loves. | 44:37 | |
And yet it is put before him and he considers the choice. | 44:45 | |
He raises up his foot. | 44:50 | |
But his foot is filled with pain and heaviness. | 44:53 | |
He cannot even pick up his foot. | 44:56 | |
And at that moment the bronzed Christ | 44:59 | |
broke the silence and spoke. | 45:04 | |
And the first words that Rodrigues heard | 45:08 | |
were not the words he expected to hear from his God. | 45:10 | |
The words were, "Trample." | 45:13 | |
Trample. | 45:20 | |
Go ahead. | 45:23 | |
Put your foot down. | 45:24 | |
I, of all people, know what it is like, | 45:27 | |
the pain that you feel, for I felt that same pain. | 45:30 | |
It was for your sake that I bore the pain of the cross. | 45:38 | |
Put your foot down. | 45:43 | |
Trample on me. | 45:46 | |
And Rodrigues put his foot down on the face of Christ. | 45:51 | |
Far out in the distance, the cock crowed. | 46:01 | |
But some said it thundered. | 46:08 | |
(organ plays) | 46:21 | |
(crowd sings hymn) | 47:05 | |
- | The Lord be with you. | 49:33 |
Crowd | And also with you. | 49:35 |
- | Let us pray. | 49:36 |
Let us pray for the members of Christ church | 50:01 | |
throughout the world, | 50:05 | |
for all ministers of the gospel and for all teachers, | 50:08 | |
leaders, and office bearers, | 50:12 | |
that they may be good stewards of the manifold race of God. | 50:15 | |
Lord, in your mercy | 50:22 | |
Crowd | Hear our prayers. | 50:26 |
- | Let us pray that justice, truth, and love | 50:31 |
may prevail in human affairs, | 50:37 | |
that strife and warfare may be no more, | 50:41 | |
and that all classes and nations | 50:47 | |
may dwell together in peace and harmony. | 50:49 | |
Lord, in your mercy | 50:56 | |
Crowd | Hear our prayers. | 50:59 |
- | Let us pray for schools, colleges, and universities, | 51:02 |
that those who grow in knowledge | 51:08 | |
may dedicate their learning to the service of God | 51:10 | |
and of men and women, remembering that | 51:15 | |
from those to whom much is given, | 51:18 | |
much will be required. | 51:22 | |
Lord, in your mercy | 51:25 | |
Crowd | Hear our prayers. | 51:28 |
- | Let us pray for all children, | 51:32 |
especially those of our own families and schools, | 51:36 | |
but also for those throughout the world, | 51:43 | |
many of whom live in desperate poverty, | 51:46 | |
without proper food and shelter. | 51:52 | |
May they be cared for | 52:03 | |
and may they come to put their trust in Jesus Christ. | 52:06 | |
Lord, in your mercy | 52:12 | |
Crowd | Hear our prayers. | 52:15 |
- | Let us pray for all who are suffering | 52:18 |
from sickness of body or mind, | 52:21 | |
for those who draw near to the end of life, | 52:25 | |
and for the doctors, nurses, and kinsfolk | 52:29 | |
who minister to their necessities. | 52:33 | |
Lord, in your mercy | 52:38 | |
Crowd | Hear our prayers. | 52:41 |
- | Almighty God, you are the fountain of all wisdom | 52:44 |
and you know our necessities before we ask. | 52:49 | |
And you know our ignorance in asking. | 52:54 | |
Still, we ask that you would | 52:59 | |
have compassion on our infirmities | 53:02 | |
and those things which for our unworthiness we dare not | 53:07 | |
and for our blindness we can not ask. | 53:12 | |
All of these things, Oh God, we pray | 53:20 | |
in the name of your son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, | 53:24 | |
who bore the weight of glory, | 53:29 | |
even unto death on the cross. | 53:32 | |
So prepare our hearts and minds in these days of Lent | 53:38 | |
that as we approach Holy Week | 53:44 | |
we may bear the cross. | 53:51 | |
Amen. | 53:59 | |
(organ plays) | 54:16 | |
(choir sings hymn) | 54:37 | |
- | Oh God, we praise thee. | 1:03:51 |
We give thanks to thee for thy bountiful providence, | 1:03:54 | |
for all the blessings and all the hopes of life. | 1:03:58 | |
Accept these gifts now as evidence of our thanksgiving | 1:04:02 | |
as we accept your gifts as evidence | 1:04:10 | |
of your continuing grace unto us. | 1:04:14 | |
Above all, we praise and adore you | 1:04:19 | |
for the unspeakable gift in your only son, | 1:04:24 | |
our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. | 1:04:27 | |
Let the memory of your goodness, | 1:04:31 | |
we beseech you, fill our hearts with joy and thankfulness | 1:04:34 | |
through Jesus Christ, who taught us to pray, | 1:04:41 | |
Everyone | Our father who art in heaven, | 1:04:45 |
hallowed be thy name. | 1:04:49 | |
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, | 1:04:51 | |
on Earth as it is in heaven. | 1:04:54 | |
Give us this day our daily bread | 1:04:57 | |
and forgive us our trespasses | 1:04:59 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 1:05:02 | |
And lead us not into temptation, | 1:05:05 | |
but deliver us from evil. | 1:05:08 | |
For thine is the kingdom and the power | 1:05:10 | |
and the glory forever. | 1:05:13 | |
Amen. | 1:05:15 | |
- | And now, under God's gracious mercy and protection | 1:05:21 |
we commit you the blessing of God almighty, | 1:05:25 | |
father, sun, and holy spirit. | 1:05:29 | |
Be with you both now and forevermore. | 1:05:33 | |
Amen. | 1:05:37 | |
(organ plays) | 1:05:39 | |
(everyone sings hymn) | 1:06:08 |
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