D. Moody Smith, Jr. - "A Communion Meditation" (October 1, 1978)
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(soft chanting) | 0:03 | |
- | Duke University Chapel, Service of Worship | 0:04 |
October 1, 1978 | 0:07 | |
(joyful music) | 0:12 | |
(solemn music) | 3:30 | |
(solemn music) | 4:22 | |
(joyful music) | 5:20 | |
(joyful music) | 7:40 | |
♪ Beautiful Savior ♪ | 11:12 | |
♪ Lord of all the nations ♪ | 11:20 | |
♪ Son of God ♪ | 11:29 | |
♪ And Son of Man ♪ | 11:35 | |
♪ Glory and honor ♪ | 11:44 | |
♪ Praise, adoration ♪ | 11:52 | |
♪ Now and forevermore be thine ♪ | 11:59 | |
♪ Now and forevermore ♪ | 12:09 | |
♪ Be thine ♪ | 12:21 | |
(joyful music) | 12:32 | |
(muffled singing) | 13:11 | |
(muffled singing) | 13:30 | |
(muffled singing) | 13:52 | |
(muffled singing) | 14:34 | |
(muffled singing) | 15:15 | |
(muffled singing) | 15:35 | |
- | Let us pray. | 16:11 |
Almighty God. | 16:13 | |
On whom to our hearts our open. | 16:15 | |
All desires known. | 16:18 | |
And from whom no secrets are hid. | 16:20 | |
Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts | 16:24 | |
by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit. | 16:26 | |
That we may perfectly love thee, | 16:30 | |
and the worthily magnify thy Holy Name. | 16:32 | |
Through Christ our Lord. | 16:36 | |
Amen. | 16:39 | |
Ye that do truly and earnestly repent of your sins. | 16:40 | |
And are in love and charity with your neighbors, | 16:45 | |
and intend to lead a new life | 16:49 | |
following the commandments of God, | 16:52 | |
and walking from henceforth in His holy ways, | 16:55 | |
draw near with faith. | 16:59 | |
And take this holy sacrament to your comfort. | 17:01 | |
And make your humble confession to Almighty God. | 17:04 | |
You be seated. | 17:08 | |
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, | 17:12 | |
maker of all things, | 17:15 | |
judge of all people. | 17:17 | |
We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness. | 17:19 | |
which we from time to time most grievously have committed, | 17:24 | |
by thought, word, and deed, against thy divine Majesty. | 17:29 | |
We do earnestly repent, | 17:34 | |
and are heartily sorry for these our misdoings, | 17:37 | |
the remembrance of them is grievous unto us. | 17:40 | |
Have mercy upon us, | 17:44 | |
have mercy upon us, most merciful Father | 17:46 | |
for thy Son our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, | 17:50 | |
forgive us all that is past; | 17:54 | |
and grant that we may ever hereafter | 17:57 | |
serve and please thee in newness of life, | 17:59 | |
to the honor and glory of thy Name; | 18:03 | |
through Jesus Christ our Lord. | 18:06 | |
Amen. | 18:08 | |
Almighty God, our heavenly Father, | 18:11 | |
who of thy great mercy has promised forgiveness of sins | 18:15 | |
to all them that would hearty repentance | 18:18 | |
and true faith turn to thee. | 18:21 | |
Have mercy upon us. | 18:24 | |
Pardon and deliver us from all our sins. | 18:27 | |
Confirm and strengthen us in all goodness. | 18:31 | |
And bring us to everlasting life. | 18:35 | |
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. | 18:39 | |
Amen. | 18:42 | |
- | The Epistle lesson is the first Epistle of Saint Paul | 18:59 |
to the Corinthians, the 11th chapter, | 19:04 | |
the 20th through the 29th verses. | 19:09 | |
When you meet together, it is not the Lord's Supper | 19:14 | |
that you eat. | 19:17 | |
For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. | 19:19 | |
One is hungry and another is drunk. | 19:23 | |
What do you not have houses to eat and drink in? | 19:27 | |
Or do you despise the Church of God | 19:31 | |
and humiliate those who have nothing. | 19:33 | |
What shall I say to you? | 19:37 | |
Shall I commend you in this? | 19:39 | |
No, I will not. | 19:42 | |
For I receive from the Lord what I also deliver to you. | 19:45 | |
That the Lord Jesus, | 19:50 | |
on the night he was betrayed took bread. | 19:52 | |
And when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, | 19:55 | |
"This is my body which is for you. | 19:59 | |
"Do this in remembrance of me." | 20:02 | |
In the same way also the cup after supper, saying, | 20:06 | |
"This cup is the new covenant in my blood. | 20:10 | |
"Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me." | 20:13 | |
For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, | 20:20 | |
you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes. | 20:24 | |
Whoever therefore eats the bread or drinks the cup | 20:29 | |
of the Lord in an unworthy manner, | 20:32 | |
will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. | 20:34 | |
Let a man examine himself and so eat of the bread | 20:39 | |
and drink of the cup. | 20:42 | |
For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body, | 20:45 | |
eats and drinks judgment upon himself. | 20:49 | |
May God bless to our understanding, | 20:55 | |
this reading from His Word. | 20:58 | |
Where do you find Jesus in Indianapolis? | 21:09 | |
That question was put by the English Shakespearian | 21:13 | |
director Ronald Eyre at the beginning of the PBS series, | 21:16 | |
"The Long Search." | 21:22 | |
Incidentally, this BBC series on world religions | 21:25 | |
is carried every Sunday this fall at two p.m. | 21:28 | |
on public television. | 21:32 | |
An alternative, if you will, | 21:36 | |
to the endless professional football games. | 21:37 | |
And on this Sunday particularly, | 21:42 | |
many of us may not want to be reminded of football. | 21:45 | |
Ronald Eyre pursued this question, | 21:52 | |
"Where do you find Jesus?", | 21:54 | |
and Jesus through three Indianapolis churches. | 21:56 | |
A huge, what I would call, Fighting Fundamentalists | 22:00 | |
Independent Baptist Church. | 22:03 | |
A so called, main stream United Methodist Church. | 22:05 | |
And a lively church, also Baptist, | 22:10 | |
in the midst of a Black ghetto. | 22:14 | |
The Fighting Fundamentalist Church seemed to be interested | 22:18 | |
primarily in such things as confuting | 22:20 | |
the theory of evolution. | 22:23 | |
The Methodist Church was obviously interested | 22:26 | |
in fighting teenage crime and other social ills. | 22:28 | |
But it was in the Black church, | 22:34 | |
in the other Baptist church, | 22:36 | |
and in its combination of spirited worship | 22:38 | |
and social outreach | 22:41 | |
that Eyre thought Jesus might be found. | 22:44 | |
Indeed, had been found. | 22:48 | |
I was struck, | 22:51 | |
as you may have been if you were watching the program, | 22:52 | |
with the quickness and the directness with which | 22:56 | |
Eyre got to the question of Jesus. | 22:58 | |
It is often seemed to me that secular religious programs | 23:02 | |
avoid talk about Jesus like the plague. | 23:05 | |
But Eyre obviously saw that talk about Christianity | 23:08 | |
or Christian churches leads inevitably | 23:12 | |
to the question of Jesus. | 23:16 | |
Where do you find Jesus in Indianapolis? | 23:18 | |
Where do you find Him in Durham? | 23:21 | |
Where in Duke Chapel? | 23:24 | |
Today we come together to celebrate the Lord's Supper. | 23:27 | |
Here Christians down through the centuries have found, | 23:31 | |
or sought to find, Jesus. | 23:34 | |
Jesus and the salvation that he brings. | 23:37 | |
We do well to remind ourselves of whom and what we seek | 23:41 | |
before we proceed further into this service. | 23:46 | |
The Christians of Corinth about whom we have just read, | 23:51 | |
obviously forgot to do this, or neglected to do it. | 23:54 | |
According to Paul, the celebration of the Lord's Supper | 23:59 | |
in the Corinthian Church had become | 24:02 | |
something of a mob scene. | 24:04 | |
The reasons for this may be obscure, | 24:06 | |
but they're not important to us. | 24:08 | |
In any event, the situation had deteriorated | 24:10 | |
so that the purpose of the service and of the occasion | 24:12 | |
had been lost. | 24:17 | |
And Paul writes, | 24:18 | |
When you meet together, it is not the Lord's Supper | 24:19 | |
that you eat. | 24:23 | |
Then after a suitable upbraiding of the Corinthians | 24:27 | |
for their misbehavior, | 24:30 | |
Paul knew nothing of | 24:31 | |
indirect method of counseling or admonition, | 24:32 | |
he rehearses once again, the familiar words of institution | 24:37 | |
of the Lord's Supper. | 24:40 | |
The Lord Jesus on the night he was betrayed, | 24:43 | |
took bread. | 24:48 | |
The reader is reminded | 24:50 | |
that in partaking of the Lord's Supper, | 24:52 | |
one partakes of and participates in | 24:55 | |
the body and blood of Christ. | 24:58 | |
To eat and drink without discerning the body, | 25:02 | |
as Paul says, is to profane the elements, | 25:05 | |
and thus to insult Christ himself. | 25:08 | |
The result is not participation and fellowship, | 25:12 | |
fellowship in the body and blood of Christ, | 25:15 | |
but dissolution and condemnation. | 25:18 | |
Because of this, Paul's injunction to examine ourselves | 25:24 | |
and to partake with discernment | 25:27 | |
is always worth our hearing. | 25:30 | |
But let us turn our attention to the grounds | 25:33 | |
of Paul's exhortation to the Corinthians. | 25:37 | |
This is, after all, the foundation of the new covenant. | 25:42 | |
Jesus is in some very real sense present | 25:48 | |
in the celebration of the Lord's Supper. | 25:52 | |
Probably these import of 16th century debates | 25:56 | |
over the means and mode of Christ's presence | 26:00 | |
in the Lord's Supper is lost on many or most of us. | 26:03 | |
Especially if we're low church Protestants. | 26:07 | |
And yet we can at least appreciate a central point | 26:11 | |
of that controversy. | 26:15 | |
Christians debated vigorously these questions | 26:17 | |
because they felt that the reality of Jesus' presence | 26:19 | |
was at stake. | 26:23 | |
The Lord's Supper answers to the perennial question | 26:25 | |
put to and by Christians. | 26:28 | |
Where do you find Jesus? | 26:31 | |
Where do you look for Him? | 26:33 | |
Around the Lord's table, we find an answer to that question. | 26:36 | |
Now perhaps that's enough to say, | 26:42 | |
but I feel impelled to expand briefly upon that answer, | 26:44 | |
as well as to emphasize it. | 26:49 | |
The Christians' quest for Jesus is in fact | 26:53 | |
always in danger of becoming | 26:57 | |
simply a quest for our own security | 26:59 | |
and our own tranquility. | 27:02 | |
Blessed assurance Jesus is mine. | 27:05 | |
The intention of that gospel hymn, | 27:09 | |
may be quite sound and valid. | 27:12 | |
But the expression of is it not without its dangers. | 27:14 | |
Jesus cannot be used for our purposes. | 27:17 | |
When Paul begins to recite the words of institution, | 27:21 | |
he says, "The Lord Jesus, | 27:25 | |
"on the night when he was betrayed." | 27:28 | |
And thus Paul sets these words in their proper context: | 27:32 | |
the death of Jesus. | 27:37 | |
That death was a public event, | 27:39 | |
as well as a private experience. | 27:42 | |
And as he speaks of the death of Jesus, | 27:45 | |
he reminds us of who Jesus was and what He did. | 27:48 | |
That is | 27:55 | |
He reminds us of the light of Jesus. | 27:58 | |
"Do this in remembrance of me," says Jesus. | 28:01 | |
Who Jesus is can never be separated | 28:08 | |
from who He was. | 28:12 | |
And as we learn who Jesus was, | 28:14 | |
we know that to find Jesus | 28:18 | |
is to find one who disturbs our own peace | 28:19 | |
in order to give us a peace of a different order. | 28:23 | |
We cannot command him. | 28:28 | |
He commands us. | 28:31 | |
I read the Religion columns of Newsweek with great interest. | 28:35 | |
About two weeks ago, Newsweek reported | 28:40 | |
a fresh investigation of the famous Turin Shroud. | 28:43 | |
And that was the Turin Shroud was allegedly | 28:47 | |
the burial robe of Jesus himself. | 28:50 | |
On that shroud, as you may have read, | 28:54 | |
there seems to be visible, | 28:58 | |
the life-sized imprint of the face and figure of a man. | 28:59 | |
The shroud is thought to be ancient. | 29:05 | |
And the imprint, also ancient, | 29:08 | |
not the result of painting or other artificial reproduction. | 29:11 | |
And the question is, | 29:17 | |
what caused it? | 29:19 | |
Newsweek suggests the possibility of a quasi photographic | 29:22 | |
process brought about by some brilliant flash of light. | 29:25 | |
Such light, as is traditionally associated | 29:29 | |
with the glorification and resurrection of Christ. | 29:32 | |
All this, of course, awaits further testing. | 29:37 | |
Naturally, profane, as well as Christian curiosity | 29:42 | |
is fascinated by the prospect of some dramatic | 29:45 | |
scientific confirmation of the reality of Christ | 29:48 | |
and His resurrection. | 29:52 | |
And yet, as even the editor of Newsweek points out, | 29:55 | |
faith in the resurrection is something more | 30:00 | |
and other than this. | 30:03 | |
The faith that is distinctly Christian | 30:06 | |
does not hinge upon such signs and wonders. | 30:09 | |
That faith, that faith, finds its vindication, | 30:14 | |
its proof, if you will, in a congregation in Indianapolis | 30:19 | |
which feeds thousands of poor people | 30:24 | |
turkey dinners on Thanksgiving, | 30:26 | |
and runs a vocational training center | 30:29 | |
in an abandoned school building. | 30:31 | |
The pastor of that church says, | 30:35 | |
says very simply, | 30:37 | |
"Unless we love one another, we can't have faith. | 30:39 | |
"We can't find Jesus. | 30:44 | |
"We cannot command his presence whether by scientific proof, | 30:48 | |
"or by our religious rights. | 30:54 | |
"Jesus becomes real for us as we obey His command | 30:57 | |
"to love one another." | 31:02 | |
That is certainly true. | 31:06 | |
If anything in the Gospel is true, that is true. | 31:08 | |
But it doesn't nullify what we do here today. | 31:11 | |
Rather it justifies and interprets | 31:16 | |
what we now do. | 31:20 | |
For around this table, we celebrate Jesus. | 31:23 | |
Who he was, and what he means. | 31:28 | |
Moreover, Jesus Himself commands this celebration. | 31:32 | |
Do this in remembrance of me. | 31:37 | |
Our celebration is not simply the memorial | 31:42 | |
of a great historic figure. | 31:45 | |
But neither is it some mystical or magical transaction | 31:48 | |
whereby we assure ourselves of the kind of salvation | 31:51 | |
that we would like. | 31:55 | |
In the presence of one another, | 31:58 | |
and in the presence of the scriptural word about Jesus, | 32:01 | |
we gather around His table. | 32:05 | |
Where do you find Jesus in Indianapolis? | 32:10 | |
Where in Durham? | 32:14 | |
Where in Duke Chapel? | 32:18 | |
Jesus may or may not be found in any of these places. | 32:21 | |
But He is to be found as we wait upon | 32:28 | |
the gift of God's grace, | 32:30 | |
in the partaking of bread and wine. | 32:33 | |
The body and blood of the Lord Jesus, | 32:38 | |
which is given for you. | 32:42 | |
Amen. | 32:45 | |
- | As forgiven and reconciled people, | 32:53 |
let us offer ourselves and our gifts to God. | 32:57 | |
(soft music) | 33:05 | |
(muffled singing) | 35:18 | |
(solemn music) | 37:50 | |
(joyous music) | 39:52 | |
♪ Praise God, from whom all blessings flow ♪ | 40:11 | |
♪ Praise Him, all creatures here below ♪ | 40:17 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 40:24 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 40:27 | |
♪ Praise Him above, ye heavenly host ♪ | 40:32 | |
♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪ | 40:38 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 40:44 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 40:47 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 40:50 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 40:54 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 40:57 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 41:06 | |
- | Be seated please. | 41:17 |
May I say two words before we continue | 41:26 | |
with the Liturgy and our worship? | 41:28 | |
One, a practical word, and one a personal word | 41:32 | |
for all Christians today. | 41:35 | |
We were not informed that changes would be made | 41:39 | |
in traffic patterns this morning. | 41:43 | |
Nor that the buses from East Campus would not be operating. | 41:46 | |
So for all of you who have been inconvenienced this day, | 41:51 | |
because of those changes, let me offer an apology. | 41:56 | |
And say that I hope it will not happen again. | 42:00 | |
I assure you that I will do all to keep in touch | 42:03 | |
with those responsible, to see that it does not. | 42:06 | |
Today is Worldwide Communion Sunday. | 42:11 | |
All of us, particularly those of the Roman Catholic faith, | 42:16 | |
were shocked and aggrieved by the death of Pope John Paul I. | 42:22 | |
It seems to me that, | 42:31 | |
in any Christian gathering this day, | 42:33 | |
it would be appropriate, but particularly as we celebrate | 42:35 | |
the sacrament of our Lord's Supper, | 42:39 | |
it would be most appropriate, | 42:41 | |
for us to remember him and his life, | 42:43 | |
and all our fellow Christians who share | 42:47 | |
this moment of sorrow together. | 42:50 | |
Will you join with me and with others as we remember him. | 42:52 | |
Gracious God, | 43:08 | |
for Pope John Paul I, | 43:11 | |
for his goodly gifts and kindly ways, | 43:15 | |
his gentle humanness for all that he has meant | 43:21 | |
to your church and to your world, | 43:27 | |
we give you thanks and praise. | 43:31 | |
We ask your blessing | 43:36 | |
on those who mourn in special ways. | 43:40 | |
His family and those who share leadership | 43:47 | |
in the church with him, | 43:49 | |
we pray that your direction will be with those | 43:53 | |
who assume responsibilities that have been his | 43:57 | |
and those who follow after him. | 44:04 | |
May our hearts and minds and spirits remember | 44:08 | |
the gifts of faith, hope, and love which he has brought | 44:14 | |
to the world. | 44:18 | |
In the name of Christ our Lord, we pray. | 44:20 | |
Amen. | 44:25 | |
Lift up your hearts. | 44:29 | |
- | We lift them up to the Lord. | 44:32 |
- | Let us give thanks unto the Lord. | 44:34 |
- | It is meet and right so to do. | 44:36 |
- | It is very meet right and are bound and duty | 44:39 |
that we should at all times and in all places | 44:43 | |
give thanks unto thee, O Lord. | 44:46 | |
Holy Father, almighty everlasting God. | 44:48 | |
Therefore with angels and archangels, | 44:53 | |
and with all the company of heaven, | 44:55 | |
we laud and magnify thy glorious name, | 44:57 | |
evermore praising thee and saying, | 45:01 | |
Holy, holy, holy, | 45:04 | |
Lord God of hosts. | 45:06 | |
Heaven and earth are full of thy glory. | 45:09 | |
Glory be to thee O Lord most high. | 45:12 | |
Amen. | 45:15 | |
Almighty God, our heavenly Father, | 45:20 | |
who of thy tender mercy did give thine only son Jesus Christ | 45:23 | |
to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption. | 45:26 | |
Who made their by the one offering of Himself | 45:30 | |
a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice | 45:33 | |
for the sins of the whole world. | 45:36 | |
And in institute and in His holy Gospel | 45:38 | |
compels us to continue a perpetual memory | 45:40 | |
of His precious death until His coming again. | 45:44 | |
Hear us, O Merciful Father, we most humbly beseech thee. | 45:47 | |
And grant that we receiving these | 45:52 | |
thy creatures of bread and wine according to thy Son, | 45:53 | |
our Savior Jesus Christ's holy institution | 45:57 | |
in remembrance of his passion, death, and resurrection. | 46:01 | |
may be partakers of the divine nature through him, | 46:04 | |
who in the same night that he was betrayed took bread. | 46:08 | |
And when he had given thanks, he broke it | 46:12 | |
and give it to his disciples saying, | 46:14 | |
"Take, eat. | 46:17 | |
"This is my body which is given for you. | 46:18 | |
"Do this in remembrance of me." | 46:21 | |
Likewise, after supper, He took the cup. | 46:25 | |
And when He had given thanks, He give it to them saying, | 46:28 | |
"Drink ye all of this. | 46:30 | |
"For this is my blood of the new covenant | 46:33 | |
"which is shed for you and for many | 46:35 | |
"for the forgiveness of sins. | 46:38 | |
"Do this as oft as you shall drink it, | 46:41 | |
"in remembrance of me." | 46:44 | |
Amen. | 46:46 | |
Let us pray together. | 46:48 | |
We do not presume to come to this thy Table, | 46:50 | |
O merciful Lord. | 46:53 | |
Trusting in our own righteousness, | 46:55 | |
but in thy manifold and great mercies. | 46:58 | |
We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs | 47:01 | |
under thy Table. | 47:04 | |
But thou art the same Lord, | 47:06 | |
whose property is always to have mercy. | 47:08 | |
Grant us therefore, gracious Lord, | 47:11 | |
so to partake of this sacrament thy Son Jesus Christ. | 47:14 | |
That we may walk in newness of life. | 47:19 | |
May grow into His likeness, | 47:21 | |
and may evermore dwell in Him, and He in us. | 47:24 | |
Amen. | 47:28 | |
Because there is one loaf, we many as we are, | 47:31 | |
are one body. | 47:35 | |
For it is one loaf of which we all partake. | 47:37 | |
When we break the bread, is it not a means of sharing | 47:40 | |
in the body of Christ? | 47:44 | |
- | When we give thanks over the cup, | 47:47 |
is it not a means of sharing in the body of Christ? | 47:50 | |
- | The body of Christ broken for you (faintly speaking). | 47:58 |
The blood of Christ shed for you (faintly speaking). | 48:07 | |
- | The body of Christ broken for you (faintly speaking). | 48:17 |
The blood of Christ shed for you (faintly speaking). | 48:25 | |
- | It is our custom as we | 49:24 |
share the sacrament of the Lord's Supper in Duke Chapel, | 49:26 | |
to do so by gathering around the table of our Lord. | 49:29 | |
The choir will come first and will receive the first table. | 49:33 | |
The ushers then will assist you to gather around the table. | 49:38 | |
We gather in two concentric circles all the way around, | 49:43 | |
symbolizing both our oneness together | 49:48 | |
and our gathering around the table of our Lord indeed. | 49:51 | |
We invite you to share in this blessed moment with us. | 49:55 | |
(solemn music) | 50:11 | |
(solemn music) | 52:00 | |
- | Dear people of God, | 54:27 |
Go with assurance that God's grace and mercy | 54:30 | |
sustains you this day and everyday. | 54:34 | |
Amen. | 54:38 | |
(solemn music) | 54:39 | |
(solemn music) | 58:56 | |
(solemn music) | 1:02:12 | |
- | Our Lord has said, | 1:02:53 |
"A new commandment I give unto you. | 1:02:54 | |
That you love one another. | 1:02:57 | |
My dear friends in Christ, | 1:03:00 | |
as we have received now this blessed gift | 1:03:02 | |
of the love of Christ, | 1:03:04 | |
I invite you to go now. | 1:03:07 | |
Loving even as our Lord loves us, | 1:03:09 | |
rise and go in peace. | 1:03:14 | |
And may the peace of God be with you. | 1:03:15 | |
Amen. | 1:03:18 | |
(solemn music) | 1:03:20 | |
- | Beloved in Christ, | 1:12:01 |
go in peace with the assurance that God's peace is yours | 1:12:03 | |
this day and forever. | 1:12:08 | |
Amen. | 1:12:10 | |
(solemn music) | 1:12:12 | |
(solemn music) | 1:15:36 | |
- | For God so loved the world | 1:19:04 |
that He gave his only Son. | 1:19:07 | |
And whoever believeth in Him should not perish, | 1:19:10 | |
but have eternal life. | 1:19:15 | |
Dear friends in Christ, | 1:19:18 | |
we have now received again | 1:19:20 | |
that most blessed gift of the body and blood of our Lord. | 1:19:23 | |
As we arise and go from this place, | 1:19:28 | |
may we go with the love of God | 1:19:32 | |
and the presence of Christ. | 1:19:35 | |
Rise and go in peace. | 1:19:38 | |
And may the peace of God be with you. | 1:19:40 | |
Amen. | 1:19:44 | |
(faintly speaking) | 1:20:02 | |
There's those persons seated in the congregation | 1:20:16 | |
who wish to be served where you are, | 1:20:19 | |
the ministers will now come. | 1:20:22 | |
And if you will simply indicate, | 1:20:25 | |
we will be pleased to serve you where you are seated. | 1:20:26 | |
As we have broken bread and drunk from the cup together, | 1:21:29 | |
let us now rejoice together as we pray together | 1:21:33 | |
this prayer of thanksgiving. | 1:21:36 | |
Let us pray. | 1:21:39 | |
Almighty and ever living God, | 1:21:41 | |
we most heartily thank thee that thou dost feed us | 1:21:44 | |
in these holy mysteries, | 1:21:48 | |
with the spiritual food of the most precious body and blood | 1:21:50 | |
of thy son, our Savior Jesus Christ. | 1:21:53 | |
And dost assure us thereby of thy favor | 1:21:57 | |
and goodness towards us. | 1:22:00 | |
And that we are very members incorporate in the | 1:22:02 | |
mystical body of thy Son, | 1:22:05 | |
the blessed company of all faithful people; | 1:22:07 | |
and are also heirs, through hope, | 1:22:11 | |
of thy everlasting kingdom. | 1:22:13 | |
And we humbly beseech thee, O heavenly Father, | 1:22:16 | |
so to assist us with thy grace, | 1:22:19 | |
that we may continue in that holy fellowship, | 1:22:23 | |
and do all such good works as thou hast prepared for us | 1:22:26 | |
to walk in; | 1:22:29 | |
through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom, with thee | 1:22:31 | |
and the Holy Ghost, be all honor and glory, | 1:22:35 | |
world without end. | 1:22:39 | |
Amen. | 1:22:41 | |
(solemn music) | 1:22:48 | |
(muffled singing) | 1:23:26 | |
(muffled singing) | 1:26:04 | |
(muffled singing) | 1:26:15 | |
- | The grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, | 1:27:12 |
the love of God, and the fellowship and communion | 1:27:17 | |
of the Holy Spirit be with you | 1:27:21 | |
and with those whom you love this day and forevermore. | 1:27:25 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:27:34 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:27:41 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:27:48 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:27:51 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:27:56 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:28:02 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:28:11 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:28:26 | |
(joyous music) | 1:28:45 |