James T. Cleland - "The Happiest Day in Jesus' Life?" (April 3, 1977)
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| - | Duke University Chapel service of worship | 0:04 |
| Palm Sunday, April 3rd, 1977, 11 o'clock. | 0:07 | |
| (serene organ music) | 0:15 | |
| (serene organ music continues) | 1:21 | |
| (serene organ music continues) | 2:16 | |
| (choir singing) | 3:47 | |
| ♪ Son of man ♪ | 4:07 | |
| (choir sings) | 4:14 | |
| ♪ Now and forever more ♪ | 4:28 | |
| ♪ Now and forever more ♪ | 4:40 | |
| - | Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord. | 5:09 |
| (congregation chants) | 5:14 | |
| It is right to praise you all mighty God | 5:17 | |
| for the acts of love | 5:20 | |
| by which you have redeemed us through your son, | 5:22 | |
| Jesus Christ, our Lord. | 5:24 | |
| On this day, he entered the holy city of Jerusalem | 5:27 | |
| in triumph and was proclaimed as king of kings | 5:30 | |
| by those who spread their garments | 5:34 | |
| and branches of palm along his way. | 5:36 | |
| Let these branches be for us signs of his victory. | 5:39 | |
| And grant that we who bear them in his name | 5:43 | |
| may ever hail him as our king | 5:46 | |
| and follow him in the way that leads to eternal life, | 5:50 | |
| who lives and reigns in glory with you, | 5:54 | |
| and the holy spirit, now and forever. | 5:57 | |
| - | Amen. | 6:01 |
| - | Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. | 6:02 |
| (congregation chants) | 6:07 | |
| (serene organ music) | 6:10 | |
| (organ playing over singers) | 6:51 | |
| (organ playing over singers) | 7:37 | |
| (organ playing over singers) | 8:23 | |
| (upbeat organ music) | 9:13 | |
| (organ playing over singers) | 9:24 | |
| (organ playing over singers) | 10:10 | |
| (organ playing over singers) | 11:31 | |
| - | We really don't want you to sit in each other's lap, | 12:04 |
| nor do we want you to make yourself uncomfortable. | 12:09 | |
| But we would like to ask you | 12:12 | |
| if there is space in the pew where you were sitting | 12:14 | |
| to please move toward the center aisle | 12:17 | |
| so that some of those who are waiting may be seated. | 12:20 | |
| I think there is some extra space. | 12:25 | |
| My friends in Christ, | 12:42 | |
| seeing that indeed, we do have a great high priest | 12:46 | |
| who has passed into Heaven. | 12:49 | |
| Even Jesus, the Christ, the son of God, | 12:51 | |
| let us now together, come boldly unto the throne of grace | 12:56 | |
| that we may obtain mercy. | 13:03 | |
| That we may find grace | 13:06 | |
| to help in this and every time of need. | 13:09 | |
| Together, let us humbly confess our sin to all mighty God. | 13:14 | |
| - | Oh God, we who proclaim with loud Hosannas | 13:20 |
| that Jesus is our Lord. | 13:23 | |
| Our people who like Peter | 13:26 | |
| will deny you three times and more. | 13:28 | |
| We sing your glory and praise, | 13:32 | |
| but have difficulty being obedient to your love | 13:35 | |
| and goodwill. | 13:38 | |
| We comfort ourselves with a thousand easy slogans | 13:40 | |
| and heroic fantasies, | 13:44 | |
| we forget those who suffer because of us. | 13:47 | |
| We do not see our involvement in social crime. | 13:51 | |
| We substitute benign indifference for active love. | 13:55 | |
| Teach us the joy of gratitude | 14:00 | |
| expressed in waving of the palm branches. | 14:02 | |
| May this joy replace the bitterness of resentment | 14:06 | |
| in all our lives. | 14:09 | |
| Amen. | 14:12 | |
| - | Now with your own words | 14:14 |
| and in your own relationship with God, | 14:15 | |
| let us make our personal confession to all mighty God. | 14:19 | |
| (baby cries) | 14:32 | |
| Lord have mercy upon us. | 14:54 | |
| Christ have mercy upon us. | 14:57 | |
| Lord have mercy upon us. | 15:01 | |
| May the almighty and ever merciful God | 15:06 | |
| grant unto us pardon and forgiveness of our sins, | 15:10 | |
| intention to lead a new life, | 15:17 | |
| and the grace and comfort of the holy spirit. | 15:20 | |
| Amen. | 15:26 | |
| (serene organ music) | 15:31 | |
| (organ playing over singers) | 16:06 | |
| (dramatic organ music) | 16:23 | |
| (upbeat organ music) | 16:43 | |
| (men singing) | 16:47 | |
| (women singing) | 17:00 | |
| (congregation sings) | 17:04 | |
| (congregation sings) | 18:01 | |
| (ethereal organ music) | 18:47 | |
| (women singing) | 19:11 | |
| (men singing) | 19:14 | |
| (congregation sings) | 19:17 | |
| - | Let us stand for the reading of the gospel. | 19:57 |
| The gospel for today is from the 21st chapter of Matthew, | 20:06 | |
| beginning at the first verse. | 20:10 | |
| "And when they drew near to Jerusalem | 20:13 | |
| and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, | 20:16 | |
| then Jesus sent two disciples saying to them, | 20:20 | |
| 'Go into the village, opposite you. | 20:24 | |
| And immediately you will find an ass tide, | 20:26 | |
| and a colt with her. | 20:29 | |
| Untie them and bring them to me. | 20:30 | |
| If any man says anything to you, | 20:33 | |
| you shall say the Lord has need of them. | 20:36 | |
| And he will send them immediately.'" | 20:40 | |
| This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet | 20:44 | |
| saying, "Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, | 20:47 | |
| your king is coming to you, | 20:51 | |
| humble and mounted on an ass and on a colt, | 20:52 | |
| the foal of an ass." | 20:55 | |
| The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them. | 20:58 | |
| They brought the ass and the colt | 21:01 | |
| and put their garments on them, and he sat there on. | 21:03 | |
| Most of the crowds, | 21:08 | |
| spread their garments on the road | 21:09 | |
| and others cut branches from the trees | 21:11 | |
| and spread them on the road. | 21:13 | |
| And the crowds that went before him and that followed him, | 21:15 | |
| shouted, "Hosanna to the son of David. | 21:18 | |
| Blessed be he who comes in the name of the Lord, | 21:21 | |
| Hosanna in the highest." | 21:24 | |
| And when he and a Jerusalem, | 21:27 | |
| all the city was stirred saying, "Who is this?" | 21:29 | |
| And the crowd said, | 21:32 | |
| "This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth of Galilee." | 21:34 | |
| Here ends the reading of the gospel. | 21:38 | |
| (serene organ music) | 21:41 | |
| (congregation sings) | 21:50 | |
| - | Let us affirm what we believe. | 22:26 |
| - | We believe in God who has created and is creating, | 22:29 |
| who has come in the truly human Jesus | 22:34 | |
| to reconcile and make, | 22:37 | |
| new who works in us and others by the spirit. | 22:41 | |
| We trust God, | 22:45 | |
| who calls us to be the church to celebrate life | 22:47 | |
| and its fullness, to love and serve others, | 22:51 | |
| to seek justice and resist evil. | 22:56 | |
| Our judge and our hope, in life, in death, | 22:59 | |
| in life beyond death, God is with us. | 23:04 | |
| We are not alone. | 23:09 | |
| Thanks be to God. | 23:11 | |
| - | The Lord be with you. | 23:14 |
| (congregation chants) | 23:16 | |
| Let us pray. | 23:18 | |
| On this holy day, oh God. | 23:30 | |
| We come together to celebrate, | 23:35 | |
| to celebrate the blessedness of the life of Christ | 23:39 | |
| given to us shared for us, lived with us, | 23:43 | |
| died for us and raised for us. | 23:51 | |
| All that we might know and understand ourselves more truly, | 23:59 | |
| and might know the fullness of that abundant life | 24:06 | |
| which comes from you and that we might know and love you. | 24:10 | |
| And know also how deeply we are loved by you. | 24:17 | |
| Even as a father or a mother loves and cares for a child. | 24:22 | |
| We take our place, oh God, | 24:31 | |
| among those who cheer and praise and shout, | 24:34 | |
| "Blessed are you, oh Christ." | 24:37 | |
| Blessed be he who comes in the name of the Lord. | 24:39 | |
| Stir us now, stir us from our complacency | 24:44 | |
| and our callousness. | 24:49 | |
| We might be alert and caring. | 24:52 | |
| We sing our hallelujahs and Hosannas. | 24:56 | |
| Keep us, keep us from hollow, | 25:02 | |
| and half-hearted allegiance to you, oh God. | 25:06 | |
| In spite of the crowds and the noise of the way, | 25:12 | |
| it was a lonely road for our Lord, | 25:17 | |
| help us now to have such an intimate relationship with him | 25:22 | |
| that he might know our faithfulness | 25:27 | |
| and that we might know his love. | 25:31 | |
| Keep us, oh God, ever in tune with the needs of others, | 25:36 | |
| those closest and dearest to us and those unknown to us. | 25:42 | |
| As others walk this day for those who are hungry. | 25:48 | |
| May we all know and care for those who are hungry | 25:53 | |
| in body and in spirit. | 25:57 | |
| And may we reach out and touch their lives in some way, | 25:58 | |
| with the love and with the spirit of our Lord, Jesus Christ. | 26:05 | |
| Help us to become Christ to our neighbor, oh God. | 26:09 | |
| Food to the hungry, health to this sick, | 26:14 | |
| friend to the lonely, | 26:17 | |
| freedom to the bound in all of our daily living. | 26:18 | |
| And then oh Lord may we know, | 26:24 | |
| yes, may we know the life of love, | 26:29 | |
| the presence of joy and the hope of glory | 26:32 | |
| through the risen and triumphant Christ, | 26:39 | |
| our Lord, we pray these words and the prayer, | 26:42 | |
| which he has told all his disciples to pray, | 26:46 | |
| praying our father- | 26:48 | |
| - | Who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name. | 26:52 |
| Thy kingdom come, | 26:56 | |
| thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. | 26:59 | |
| Give us this day, our daily bread, | 27:03 | |
| forgive us, our trespasses. | 27:07 | |
| As we forgive those who trespass against us | 27:09 | |
| and lead us not into temptation, | 27:14 | |
| deliver us from evil. | 27:17 | |
| Thy is the kingdom, power, and the glory forever. | 27:19 | |
| Amen. | 27:25 | |
| - | It is my understanding that come rain or otherwise | 27:30 |
| this afternoon, the crop walk will be held. | 27:34 | |
| So that those of you who have agreed to walk | 27:39 | |
| are invited to come and join. | 27:41 | |
| Some of us have made that commitment | 27:45 | |
| and are still waiting to see what the weather's going to do, | 27:47 | |
| but we're all encouraged to come and walk. | 27:50 | |
| And if you have made a commitment | 27:53 | |
| to pledge something for every mile, a given person walks, | 27:55 | |
| your contributions are greatly needed to help care for those | 27:58 | |
| both in our own community | 28:02 | |
| and around the world who are hungry. | 28:04 | |
| May I remind you of the special services | 28:08 | |
| in the chapel this week. | 28:10 | |
| Thursday evening, the Maundy Thursday, | 28:12 | |
| communion service, Friday at noon, | 28:15 | |
| our Good Friday service | 28:19 | |
| followed by two hours of organ music, | 28:21 | |
| Easter Sunday morning, the sunrise service at 6:00 am | 28:24 | |
| in the gardens | 28:28 | |
| and at nine and 11:00 am worship here in the chapel. | 28:29 | |
| And then at seven o'clock next Easter Sunday night, | 28:33 | |
| the North Carolina Symphony and the choir will bless | 28:36 | |
| and thrill us all. | 28:38 | |
| You and your friends and neighbors | 28:40 | |
| are invited to share in these very, very special services | 28:42 | |
| this holy week, | 28:46 | |
| if you would like one of the palms | 28:48 | |
| following the service this morning, | 28:49 | |
| there will be ministers and ushers at the doors | 28:50 | |
| to distribute these to you | 28:53 | |
| so that you might have this memento | 28:55 | |
| of this particular service. | 28:57 | |
| There will be a communion service in the Memorial Chapel | 28:59 | |
| immediately following this service, | 29:02 | |
| for those of you who would like to share in that. | 29:04 | |
| Dr. James T Cleland some time ago, | 29:10 | |
| officially retired from the university. | 29:13 | |
| Those of us who know him and love him and appreciate him | 29:16 | |
| know that there will only come one moment when he retires | 29:19 | |
| his most recent contributions to us was | 29:26 | |
| his most recent contribution was his reading | 29:31 | |
| of the scripture during the presentation of the word | 29:34 | |
| became flesh recently, very moving and rich experience | 29:37 | |
| for all of us. | 29:42 | |
| So today we welcome again, | 29:44 | |
| the beloved and greatly anticipated preacher for today. | 29:46 | |
| Dean Emeritus of Duke Chapel, Dr. James T Cleland, | 29:52 | |
| who's sermon topic is "The Happiest Day in Jesus' Life?" | 29:57 | |
| Jim, thank you. | 30:03 | |
| - | Let us pray. | 30:38 |
| Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts | 30:40 | |
| be acceptable in thy sight. | 30:47 | |
| Oh Lord, our strength and our Redeemer. | 30:51 | |
| Amen. | 30:57 | |
| For many years, | 31:03 | |
| the story of Jesus coming to Jerusalem | 31:05 | |
| after his Galilean ministry on the first Palm Sunday, | 31:09 | |
| whatever it was named then, | 31:16 | |
| it has been referred to as the triumphal entry. | 31:19 | |
| It was a strange procession. | 31:25 | |
| According to St. Matthew, as we heard in the lesson, | 31:29 | |
| Jesus rode in on two animals, a donkey and a colt, | 31:34 | |
| thus fulfilling an Old Testament prophecy. | 31:41 | |
| My own visualization is that he sat on the donkey sidesaddle | 31:46 | |
| with his feet on the colt. | 31:52 | |
| A kind of moving chair and footstool. | 31:55 | |
| It's something of a minor miracle, | 32:00 | |
| which is not inappropriate in the New Testament. | 32:04 | |
| It was for Hosannas, oh, glory Lord and honor, | 32:10 | |
| and rousing anthem as the folk of his own countryside, | 32:15 | |
| escorted Jesus into Jerusalem, | 32:22 | |
| the religious capital, | 32:26 | |
| making certain that the prophet Jesus | 32:29 | |
| from Nazareth of Galilee | 32:32 | |
| was linked with God through the great King David. | 32:35 | |
| Now, how did Jerusalem react? | 32:40 | |
| They were accustomed to processions, small and large, | 32:45 | |
| especially before the Passover, | 32:52 | |
| when Jews from all over the ancient world, | 32:55 | |
| throng to the Holy City, for many of them, | 32:59 | |
| an annual pilgrimage. | 33:03 | |
| As you might expect, | 33:07 | |
| Judaism was conservative, the people of a book, | 33:09 | |
| which Christians call the Old Testament, | 33:16 | |
| Pharisees controlled the synagogues. | 33:20 | |
| They were teachers and were deeply respected. | 33:23 | |
| The Sadducees, the priestly aristocracy control the temple | 33:28 | |
| and neither Pharisee nor Sadducees was very enthusiastic | 33:36 | |
| about the Profit of Nazareth. | 33:43 | |
| They tried to argue with them, | 33:47 | |
| but they could not phase this amazing mentor | 33:52 | |
| who was just as interesting as he was brilliant. | 33:58 | |
| However, when Jesus moved from teaching | 34:04 | |
| to cleaning up the temple in no gentle fashion, | 34:09 | |
| they sought how they might destroy him. | 34:15 | |
| You know how they acted. | 34:20 | |
| They bribed one disciple, Judas, to betray Jesus | 34:23 | |
| and turn Jesus over to Pontius Pilate, | 34:30 | |
| the Roman procurator of Judea. | 34:34 | |
| How did Jesus react to all this? | 34:40 | |
| And there's a sad passage in Luke 19, | 34:44 | |
| "When he entered Jerusalem, he wept." | 34:51 | |
| And then he prophesied, | 34:58 | |
| "If you reject me, it will be the end of the city. | 35:00 | |
| Your enemies will not only murder your children. | 35:09 | |
| They will not leave in Jerusalem, one stone upon another." | 35:14 | |
| And that's exactly what happened about 40 years later. | 35:21 | |
| That's why I placed a question mark | 35:28 | |
| after the title of the sermon, | 35:32 | |
| "The Happiest Day in Jesus' Life?" | 35:36 | |
| Several interpreters look upon Palm Sunday | 35:42 | |
| as the happiest day in his life. | 35:46 | |
| I doubt it. | 35:49 | |
| I doubt it because I think Jesus doubted it too. | 35:51 | |
| Consider what Jesus was up against: Church and state. | 36:00 | |
| Now it's a serious business for a loner to take on either, | 36:08 | |
| but to find the two united against you | 36:14 | |
| is enough to make most folk pause and withdraw. | 36:19 | |
| Moreover Jesus' Jewish opponents had managed to bribe Judas, | 36:26 | |
| one of the disciples, to betray him. | 36:31 | |
| So the Pharisees and the Sadducees had won that round. | 36:34 | |
| Having brought Jesus to Pontius Pilate, | 36:41 | |
| who following a perfunctory examination of the case, | 36:44 | |
| suggested that Jesus be released. | 36:49 | |
| The Jewish adversaries would have nothing of this. | 36:54 | |
| So Pilate evidently somewhat unwillingly, | 37:00 | |
| passed Jesus over to the military | 37:05 | |
| to be scourged and crucified. | 37:10 | |
| Crucifixion was so torturous and terrible | 37:18 | |
| a means of death that no Roman under went it, | 37:23 | |
| unless perhaps treason was the charge. | 37:30 | |
| When Saint Paul was arrested, tried, found guilty, | 37:37 | |
| he pointed out that he was a Roman citizen. | 37:44 | |
| So he was not crucified. | 37:48 | |
| He was beheaded. | 37:51 | |
| Either the Carthaginians or the Phoenicians | 37:54 | |
| invented crucifixion. | 37:58 | |
| They had another technique, | 38:01 | |
| which even the Romans were hesitant to use, | 38:03 | |
| to stake the condemned criminal on the desert sand | 38:08 | |
| with arms and legs bound tight | 38:13 | |
| and the face always toward the sun. | 38:18 | |
| And the last exquisite piece of torture | 38:24 | |
| was to cut off the eye lids. | 38:28 | |
| And how did Jesus' intimate followers react? | 38:34 | |
| They disappeared. | 38:39 | |
| That is the men did with the exception of John. | 38:42 | |
| He, with the Galilean women, stayed by to look after Mary, | 38:49 | |
| the mother of Jesus. | 38:56 | |
| Jesus had asked John to look after his mother and he did, | 38:58 | |
| but then two leaders of the Jews, Joseph of Arimathea, | 39:06 | |
| and Nicodemus, secret disciples, | 39:15 | |
| took charge of the disposal of the body. | 39:20 | |
| Joseph went to Pilate and asked that he might take over | 39:24 | |
| and Pilate agreed. | 39:30 | |
| Jesus was laid in Joseph's own new tomb | 39:33 | |
| where never man had yet lain. | 39:41 | |
| The happiest day in Jesus' life? | 39:45 | |
| (speaking in foreign language) Jesus of Nazareth. | 39:51 | |
| Now what do we make of all this from the viewpoint of what | 39:57 | |
| it means to us, it's hardly a Christmas story. | 40:00 | |
| It is not at this point in the history of Jesus, | 40:08 | |
| a success story. | 40:12 | |
| And yet there are some rich insights. | 40:15 | |
| Judaism was, as it still is, a noble religion. | 40:20 | |
| One ancestor of Christianity. | 40:29 | |
| The Reformed Christian tradition | 40:34 | |
| is a younger offshoot of the synagogue, temple. | 40:36 | |
| Judaism is an older religion than Christianity, | 40:43 | |
| as respectable, as efficacious, | 40:48 | |
| as worthy as its younger relative, | 40:54 | |
| to which most of us belong. | 40:58 | |
| Moreover, Rome was a great empire, | 41:02 | |
| believing and practicing the motto, | 41:08 | |
| (speaking in foreign language), let justice stand | 41:12 | |
| even if the sky comes down, | 41:21 | |
| even if the Heavens fall. | 41:26 | |
| It was unwillingly, perhaps in somewhat cowardly fashion, | 41:29 | |
| but pilot put Jesus to death. | 41:35 | |
| Jesus found that in the eyes of the Roman empire, | 41:40 | |
| He, the prophet of Nazareth was from one aspect, a nuisance. | 41:44 | |
| And from another aspect, a criminal, | 41:52 | |
| if he'd have lived a few years longer, | 41:57 | |
| he might have been well aware that a wise man | 42:01 | |
| doesn't tackle church and state at the same time. | 42:05 | |
| Now what has happened is that a new inspiration | 42:13 | |
| is in conflict with custom and habit. | 42:17 | |
| When you tackle church and state, | 42:21 | |
| it's almost always difficult for ordinary goodness to know | 42:25 | |
| what to do with unusual goodness. | 42:31 | |
| And if Jesus was anything, he was unusual goodness. | 42:37 | |
| Now next Lord's day will be Easter Sunday. | 42:46 | |
| The real birthday of the church. | 42:50 | |
| No Easter, no Christian Church is that as we known | 42:54 | |
| down the centuries, | 42:58 | |
| I sometimes feel that no one should be allowed in church | 43:00 | |
| on Easter Sunday, | 43:05 | |
| unless they have been in church for three hours around noon | 43:08 | |
| on Good Friday, which for me, | 43:13 | |
| will always be Bad Friday. | 43:17 | |
| It makes one aware of the daily dangers of unusual goodness. | 43:22 | |
| As I wrote this sermon that came to my mind a hymn, | 43:31 | |
| which I learned as a small boy in a Scottish Sunday school. | 43:36 | |
| It's a bit mushy, but I'll read, not sing, | 43:42 | |
| (congregation laughs) | 43:49 | |
| just the first verse and then paraphrase the last | 43:50 | |
| line of that verse. | 43:53 | |
| I think when I read that sweet story of old, | 43:58 | |
| when Jesus was here among men, | 44:02 | |
| how he called little children as lambs to where the fold, | 44:06 | |
| I should liked to have been with them then. | 44:12 | |
| And that reminds me of another Sunday school episode | 44:19 | |
| in Glasgow, though I only have it by hearsay. | 44:23 | |
| Sunday school teacher there once upon a time | 44:27 | |
| having read the story of the entry into Jerusalem, | 44:30 | |
| asked her class why the onlookers had spread their garments | 44:34 | |
| and their palms in front of Jesus. | 44:41 | |
| A small boy answered courteously and without hesitation, | 44:45 | |
| "Please miss, to trip the donkey." | 44:52 | |
| (congregation laughs) | 44:56 | |
| And you know, he came awfully close to the truth, | 45:00 | |
| the donkey he was tripped that week | 45:05 | |
| and Jesus was dead at the end of that week. | 45:09 | |
| Maybe he wasn't so very, very far wrong. | 45:13 | |
| Would I like to have been with Jesus on that Palm Sunday | 45:21 | |
| visit to Jerusalem? | 45:24 | |
| I'm not sure that I would have had the courage. | 45:28 | |
| Maybe it's worth a second thought between now | 45:35 | |
| and Maundy Thursday and Good or Bad Friday and Easter. | 45:41 | |
| It may well be worthwhile to open our gospels | 45:49 | |
| and read the passages there | 45:55 | |
| about that last week in the life of our Lord. | 45:58 | |
| And so let me pray again with you | 46:06 | |
| the prayer that I opened this sermon with. | 46:07 | |
| Let us pray. | 46:12 | |
| Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts | 46:14 | |
| be acceptable unto the, | 46:20 | |
| oh Lord, our strength and our Redeemer. | 46:25 | |
| Amen. | 46:31 | |
| (ethereal organ music) | 46:40 | |
| (congregation sings) | 47:34 | |
| (congregation singing continues) | 48:29 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 49:25 | |
| (ethereal organ music) | 50:49 | |
| (ethereal organ music) | 51:24 | |
| (ethereal organ music) | 52:37 | |
| (men singing in foreign language) | 53:58 | |
| (women singing in foreign language) | 54:56 | |
| (choir singing in foreign language) | 55:00 | |
| (ethereal organ music) | 56:05 | |
| (choir vocalizes) | 56:57 | |
| (women sing in foreign language) | 57:25 | |
| (men sing in foreign language) | 57:28 | |
| (women sing in foreign language) | 57:32 | |
| (men sing in foreign language) | 57:35 | |
| (women sing in foreign language) | 57:38 | |
| (men sing in foreign language) | 57:42 | |
| (choir vocalizes) | 57:49 | |
| (woman sings in foreign language) | 58:03 | |
| (man sings in foreign language) | 58:07 | |
| (choir vocalizes) | 58:52 | |
| (choir sings) | 59:35 | |
| (choir vocalizes) | 59:58 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 1:00:25 | |
| (ethereal organ music) | 1:01:06 | |
| (congregation sings) | 1:02:03 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 1:02:35 | |
| - | Oh, Lord, our God. | 1:02:47 |
| From whom we receive all | 1:02:50 | |
| and upon whom we really are dependent, | 1:02:52 | |
| accept this offering, | 1:02:57 | |
| which we give now of ourselves, | 1:02:58 | |
| use our being and our doing, our gifts and our good, | 1:03:01 | |
| for your glory and the care of our neighbors, | 1:03:08 | |
| through Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen. | 1:03:13 | |
| (ethereal organ music) | 1:03:20 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 1:04:28 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 1:05:23 | |
| (ethereal organ music continues) | 1:06:28 | |
| - | And now without bowing our heads or closing our eyes, | 1:07:16 |
| will you receive this blessing | 1:07:22 | |
| which I offer in the name of Christ, | 1:07:24 | |
| the grace of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. | 1:07:30 | |
| The love of God and the fellowship of the holy spirit | 1:07:34 | |
| be with you this day and forever. | 1:07:41 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 1:07:48 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 1:07:55 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 1:08:02 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 1:08:15 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 1:08:23 | |
| ♪ Amen ♪ | 1:08:35 | |
| (upbeat organ music) | 1:08:56 | |
| (upbeat organ music continues) | 1:10:21 | |
| (upbeat organ music continues) | 1:10:37 | |
| (upbeat organ music continues) | 1:11:34 | |
| (upbeat organ music continues) | 1:12:52 | |
| (upbeat organ music continues) | 1:13:59 |
