Charlene P. Kammerer - "The Paradox of Humility" Orientation (August 28, 1983)
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(dramatic organ and trumpet voluntary) | 0:03 | |
("The Church's One Foundation") | 0:08 | |
♪ Through toil and tribulation ♪ | 0:13 | |
♪ And tumult of her war, ♪ | 0:18 | |
♪ She waits the consummation ♪ | 0:24 | |
♪ Of peace forevermore; ♪ | 0:29 | |
♪ Till with the vision glorious ♪ | 0:35 | |
♪ Her longing eyes are blest, ♪ | 0:40 | |
♪ And the great Church victorious ♪ | 0:46 | |
♪ Shall be the Church at rest. ♪ | 0:52 | |
(intense organ key change) | 0:58 | |
(climbing low brass) | 1:15 | |
♪ Yet she on earth has union ♪ | 1:36 | |
♪ With God, the Three in One, ♪ | 1:42 | |
♪ And mystic sweet communion ♪ | 1:48 | |
♪ With those whose rest is won. ♪ | 1:54 | |
♪ O blessed heav'nly chorus! ♪ | 2:00 | |
♪ Lord, save us by your grace, ♪ | 2:07 | |
♪ That we, like saints before us, ♪ | 2:13 | |
♪ May see you face to face. ♪ | 2:21 | |
- | We have heard what God believes about us, | 2:38 |
let us affirm what we believe about God. | 2:42 | |
- | We believe in God who has created and is creating, | 2:47 |
who has come in the truly human Jesus | 2:52 | |
to reconcile and make new, | 2:55 | |
who works in us and others by the Spirit. | 2:58 | |
We trust God who calls us to be the Church, | 3:02 | |
to celebrate life in it's fullness, | 3:07 | |
to love and serve others, | 3:10 | |
to seek justice and resist evil, | 3:13 | |
to proclaim Jesus crucified and risen. | 3:16 | |
Our judge and our hope in life, in death, | 3:20 | |
in life beyond death. | 3:25 | |
God is with us, we are not alone. | 3:27 | |
Thanks be to God. | 3:32 | |
- | The Lord be with you. | 3:35 |
- | And also with you. | 3:37 |
- | Let us pray. | 3:39 |
How good it is to praise you, oh elusive One. | 3:55 | |
You strider down the other side of Heaven. | 4:00 | |
You, in our kitchens. | 4:04 | |
You, now under the green trees | 4:06 | |
already tasting the airs of Autumn. | 4:09 | |
May our presence praise you. | 4:13 | |
May our breath praise you as we sigh. | 4:16 | |
May this gesture and that one in hope and love praise you. | 4:20 | |
May our tears for others praise you. | 4:26 | |
May our laughter and loneliness and listening | 4:31 | |
speak our praise. | 4:34 | |
Christ, be with us all. | 4:37 | |
Oh, sovereign Lord, waken in us those needs | 4:41 | |
of flesh and soul, of loss and hope, of wound and healing. | 4:46 | |
Be, oh mysterious One, that leaping grace, | 4:53 | |
that generosity of spirit by which we care anew | 4:56 | |
for what happens to the human race. | 5:01 | |
Make us sensitive to the ache and anxiety in the world, | 5:05 | |
open to the cries for help. | 5:11 | |
Let this prayer, let all of our prayers | 5:15 | |
shape what we will do to men, to overcome, to make new. | 5:17 | |
Christ be with us all. | 5:27 | |
Hear our concerns for our nation, your world, | 5:32 | |
the human family. | 5:36 | |
Oh Lord, turn the heart of these United States | 5:39 | |
and its peoples away from the things that will destroy: | 5:42 | |
the force of arms, the illusions of wealth, | 5:50 | |
the contagion of prejudice, the rule of selfishness. | 5:56 | |
Make of us a servant people | 6:02 | |
following the way of our Lord Jesus Christ. | 6:06 | |
Persuade this nation to lose its life | 6:11 | |
that it may find its soul. | 6:15 | |
Open each of us to all the weathers of the world | 6:19 | |
that we may learn again to love | 6:23 | |
and honor the humanity of all people. | 6:29 | |
Christ be with us all. | 6:34 | |
Be, we pray, with all who dwell upon this fragile earth, | 6:38 | |
the joyful, the despairing, the broken, the whole, | 6:43 | |
the hurting, those who know no pain, | 6:47 | |
the faithful, the disbelieving, | 6:51 | |
those suffering from too little, | 6:54 | |
we who are burdened by too much, | 6:57 | |
the warrior, the maker of peace, | 7:01 | |
the healthy, the ailing, | 7:06 | |
those whose life is about to be claimed by death, | 7:08 | |
those, even now, laboring themselves for a mother's womb. | 7:13 | |
Let not our burdens make us cynical. | 7:18 | |
Let not our plenty insulate us. | 7:22 | |
Let not death blind us to resurrection. | 7:25 | |
Heal us, oh Yahweh, restore us, reconcile us, make us whole. | 7:30 | |
Christ be with us all. | 7:40 | |
Come now, vast God, to this high occasion | 7:46 | |
and these days of orientation | 7:49 | |
to this university that celebrates its virtues, | 7:54 | |
praises its scholars, anoints its students. | 7:58 | |
May Duke always embrace and declare the good, | 8:05 | |
the true, the just, the beautiful, the sacred. | 8:09 | |
Around the footnotes, let flesh and humanity cling. | 8:15 | |
In our laboratories, cause us to raise | 8:21 | |
the question of purpose. | 8:24 | |
Set loose in the classrooms the wild airs | 8:28 | |
of open discussion, diversity, dissent, | 8:32 | |
ideas ancient and new. | 8:38 | |
Keep learning and life comrade and close. | 8:42 | |
Make compassion more important, | 8:48 | |
more important than sophistication, | 8:51 | |
the delighted heart more significant than the passing grade. | 8:55 | |
And as this day exclaims its purpose, | 9:00 | |
deliver us from the cliches and shallow places that stifle. | 9:04 | |
Gather us in love and show us the deep places | 9:09 | |
of authentic faith and life. | 9:13 | |
Christ be with us all. | 9:16 | |
We pray, oh God, together, | 9:21 | |
the prayer which your Son teaches his community. | 9:23 | |
Our Father, who art in Heaven, | 9:27 | |
hallowed be thy name. | 9:31 | |
Thy Kingdom come. | 9:34 | |
Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. | 9:36 | |
Give us this day our daily bread | 9:41 | |
and forgive us our trespasses | 9:44 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 9:47 | |
And lead us not into temptation, | 9:50 | |
but deliver us from evil. | 9:53 | |
For thine is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory | 9:56 | |
forever, Amen. | 10:01 | |
(solemn organ) | 10:07 | |
(cheerful organ building) | 10:46 | |
♪ Glorious ♪ | 11:33 | |
♪ Glorious ♪ | 11:39 | |
♪ Glorious, Everlasting ♪ | 11:45 | |
♪ I will praise thee, oh Lord, among the people ♪ | 12:05 | |
♪ I will sing unto thee among the nations ♪ | 12:10 | |
♪ I will praise thee, oh Lord, among the people ♪ | 12:16 | |
♪ I will sing unto thee among the nations ♪ | 12:21 | |
♪ I will praise thee, oh Lord, among the people ♪ | 12:27 | |
♪ I will sing unto thee among the nations ♪ | 12:33 | |
♪ I will praise thee ♪ | 12:40 | |
♪ I will sing ♪ | 12:45 | |
♪ I will praise (I will praise thee, oh Lord) ♪ | 12:51 | |
♪ I will sing (I will sing unto thee) ♪ | 12:56 | |
♪ I will praise thee, oh Lord ♪ | 13:02 | |
♪ I will sing unto thee ♪ | 13:06 | |
♪ I will praise thee, oh Lord ♪ | 13:09 | |
♪ I will sing unto thee ♪ | 13:13 | |
♪ Glorious, Everlasting ♪ | 13:24 | |
♪ I will praise thee ♪ | 13:40 | |
♪ I will praise thee among the people ♪ | 13:42 | |
♪ I will praise thee ♪ | 13:47 | |
♪ I will praise thee among the people ♪ | 13:50 | |
♪ I will sing ♪ | 13:55 | |
♪ Unto thee, oh Lord ♪ | 14:01 | |
♪ Ye are exalted, oh Lord ♪ | 14:10 | |
♪ Ye are exalted, oh Lord, among the Heavens ♪ | 14:13 | |
♪ Ye are exalted, oh Lord ♪ | 14:19 | |
♪ Ye are exalted, oh Lord, among the Heavens ♪ | 14:22 | |
♪ Let your Glory be over the earth ♪ | 14:29 | |
♪ Let your Glory be over the earth ♪ | 14:35 | |
♪ Glorious (Glorious) ♪ | 14:44 | |
♪ Glorious ♪ | 14:56 | |
♪ Everlasting ♪ | 14:59 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 15:09 | |
("All Creatures of our God and King") | 15:27 | |
♪ Praise God, from whom all blessings flow ♪ | 15:44 | |
♪ Praise him, all creatures here below ♪ | 15:49 | |
♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ | 15:55 | |
♪ Praise him above, ye heavn'ly host ♪ | 16:02 | |
♪ Praise Father, Son and Holy Ghost ♪ | 16:08 | |
♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ | 16:13 | |
♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ | 16:19 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 16:25 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 16:34 | |
- | Oh, Lord of lords, because every act of giving | 16:45 |
is in itself a small death. | 16:49 | |
Every opening of our hands, | 16:54 | |
a losing of something of our own. | 16:56 | |
In this act of sacrifice, may we discover | 17:00 | |
that we can live by dying and find by giving up. | 17:03 | |
This we do pray in the name of your Son Jesus, | 17:11 | |
who brings us to this place, | 17:13 | |
calls us to be his people in ministry, | 17:15 | |
Amen. | 17:18 | |
- | Let us join together, now, in the responsive prayer | 17:23 |
for our university family. | 17:27 | |
Let us pray. | 17:29 | |
Oh, Lord our God, | 17:32 | |
help us to acknowledge those things which divide us | 17:33 | |
and to experience your love which unites us. | 17:37 | |
(congregation responding) | 17:41 | |
When we disagree or misunderstand, | 17:52 | |
help us to listen to each other | 17:55 | |
and to discover your truth together. | 17:57 | |
(congregation responding) | 18:01 | |
In sadness, let us put our arms around each other. | 18:12 | |
In joy, let us sing and laugh and dance together. | 18:17 | |
In life, let us celebrate our health and wholeness. | 18:21 | |
In death, let us celebrate our hope. | 18:26 | |
In the year ahead, oh God, let us give ourselves | 18:29 | |
in love to you and to one another. | 18:33 | |
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord, Amen. | 18:37 | |
(building timpani) | 18:45 | |
(triumphant trumpets) | 18:51 | |
("A Mighty Fortress Is Our God") | 19:04 | |
♪ A mighty fortress is our God, ♪ | 19:15 | |
♪ A bulwark never failing; ♪ | 19:21 | |
♪ Our Helper He amid the flood ♪ | 19:28 | |
♪ Of mortal ills prevailing: ♪ | 19:35 | |
♪ For still our ancient foe ♪ | 19:43 | |
♪ Doth seek to work us woe; ♪ | 19:48 | |
♪ His craft and power are great, ♪ | 19:54 | |
♪ And, armed with cruel hate, ♪ | 20:00 | |
♪ On earth is not his equal. ♪ | 20:07 | |
♪ Did we in our own strength confide, ♪ | 20:16 | |
♪ Our striving would be losing; ♪ | 20:23 | |
♪ Were not the right Man on our side, ♪ | 20:30 | |
♪ The Man of God's own choosing: ♪ | 20:37 | |
♪ Dost ask who that may be? ♪ | 20:45 | |
♪ Christ Jesus, it is He; ♪ | 20:51 | |
♪ Lord Sabaoth His Name, ♪ | 20:57 | |
♪ From age to age the same, ♪ | 21:03 | |
♪ And He must win the battle. ♪ | 21:09 | |
(triumphant trumpet and timpani) | 21:19 | |
♪ And though this world, with devils filled, ♪ | 21:28 | |
♪ Should threaten to undo us, ♪ | 21:34 | |
♪ We will not fear, for God hath willed ♪ | 21:42 | |
♪ His truth to triumph through us: ♪ | 21:49 | |
♪ The Prince of Darkness grim, ♪ | 21:57 | |
♪ We tremble not for him; ♪ | 22:04 | |
♪ His rage we can endure, ♪ | 22:10 | |
♪ For lo, his doom is sure, ♪ | 22:17 | |
♪ One little word shall fell him. ♪ | 22:23 | |
(triumphant trumpets) | 22:34 | |
♪ That word above all earthly powers, ♪ | 22:55 | |
♪ No thanks to them, abideth; ♪ | 23:02 | |
♪ The Spirit and the gifts are ours ♪ | 23:09 | |
♪ Through Him who with us sideth: ♪ | 23:17 | |
♪ Let goods and kindred go, ♪ | 23:25 | |
♪ This mortal life also; ♪ | 23:32 | |
♪ The body they may kill: ♪ | 23:38 | |
♪ God's truth abideth still, ♪ | 23:45 | |
♪ His Kingdom is forever. ♪ | 23:52 | |
(triumphant trumpets and timpani) | 24:01 | |
- | Go out into the world in peace. | 24:12 |
Have courage, hold onto what is good. | 24:14 | |
Return no person evil for evil, | 24:17 | |
but rather strengthen the fainthearted, | 24:20 | |
support the weak, help the suffering, | 24:23 | |
honor all men and women, love and serve the Lord | 24:25 | |
rejoicing in the power of the Holy Spirit. | 24:31 | |
And now, may the love of God | 24:35 | |
and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ | 24:37 | |
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit | 24:39 | |
be with you in this place this day | 24:42 | |
and forever, wherever you may go. | 24:45 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 24:53 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 25:02 | |
♪ Amen, Amen ♪ | 25:12 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 25:26 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 25:34 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 25:49 | |
("Prelude and Fugue in G Major, BWV 541" by J.S. Bach) | 26:13 | |
(congregation standing and speaking amongst themselves) | 26:26 | |
(distant laughter) | 34:19 | |
(jovial whistling) | 34:32 |