William H. Willimon - "He's Back" Easter Service 11:00 am (April 15, 1990)
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- | We welcome you on this glorious Easter | 3:30 |
here at Duke Chapel. | 3:32 | |
We're glad you're here. | 3:33 | |
Those of you who are seated in the pews, | 3:35 | |
if you could try to sort of slide towards the center, | 3:37 | |
that often makes a few more seats for people on | 3:40 | |
the sides so we would love for you to do that if you will. | 3:42 | |
Closeness is a virtue. | 3:47 | |
(congregation laughing) | 3:50 | |
I want to particularly thank our predominantly | 3:56 | |
student choir for their work here | 3:59 | |
at Holy Week in the Chapel. | 4:01 | |
Next Sunday is the last Sunday that our | 4:03 | |
choir will be with us for the school year | 4:05 | |
and they have planned a special service of music | 4:07 | |
and we hope that you will be back for that service as well. | 4:11 | |
And now let us continue our praise of God. | 4:16 | |
(choir singing) | 4:27 | |
(organ playing) | 5:23 | |
(choir and congregation singing) | 6:10 | |
(band playing) | 9:13 | |
(choir singing) | 9:29 | |
- | Please be seated. | 13:09 |
Please join me in the prayer for illumination. | 13:17 | |
Oh loving God, bring us forth from death | 13:21 | |
to life so that as the scriptures are read | 13:25 | |
and your word is proclaimed we might be brought | 13:28 | |
to assure in living faith and your Lordship, Amen. | 13:32 | |
The first lesson comes from the Book of Acts, 10:34-43. | 13:37 | |
Peter proclaimed, "Truly I have perceived that | 13:46 | |
God shows no partiality. | 13:50 | |
But in every nation, anyone who fears God | 13:53 | |
and does what is right is acceptable to God. | 13:56 | |
You know the word which God sent to Israel, | 13:59 | |
preaching good news of peace by Jesus Christ. | 14:02 | |
The word which was proclaimed throughout all Judea | 14:06 | |
beginning from Galilee after | 14:09 | |
the baptism which John preached. | 14:11 | |
How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with | 14:14 | |
the Holy Spirit and with power. | 14:17 | |
How Jesus went about doing good and healing | 14:20 | |
all that were oppressed by the devil, | 14:23 | |
for God was with him. | 14:25 | |
And we are witnesses to all that Jesus did, | 14:28 | |
both in Judea and in Jerusalem. | 14:30 | |
They put Jesus to death by hanging him on a tree, | 14:33 | |
but God raised Jesus on the third day | 14:37 | |
and made Jesus manifest. | 14:40 | |
Not to all the people, but to us who were | 14:42 | |
chosen by God as witnesses, | 14:44 | |
who ate and drank with Jesus after the | 14:47 | |
resurrection from the dead. | 14:49 | |
And Jesus commanded us to preach to the people | 14:51 | |
and to testify that Jesus is the one | 14:54 | |
ordained by God to be judge of the living and the dead. | 14:57 | |
To this one, all the prophets bare witness | 15:02 | |
that everyone who believes in Jesus Christ | 15:04 | |
receives forgiveness of sins through Jesus' name." | 15:07 | |
This ends the fist lesson. | 15:11 | |
(organ playing) | 15:21 | |
(band playing and choir singing) | 15:36 | |
- | Let us stand as we join together in | 19:04 |
singing responsively Psalm 118, verses 14 through 24. | 19:06 | |
Please note that the italicized syllables | 19:11 | |
indicate the moving parts of the psalm tone. | 19:14 | |
♪ The Lord is my strength and my power. ♪ | 19:24 | |
♪ The Lord has become my salvation. ♪ | 19:28 | |
(congregation singing) | 19:33 | |
♪ The right hand of the Lord does valiantly. ♪ | 19:42 | |
♪ The right hand of the Lord is exulted. ♪ | 19:46 | |
(congregation singing) | 19:50 | |
♪ I shall not die but I shall live and ♪ | 19:56 | |
♪ recount the deeds of the Lord. ♪ | 20:00 | |
(congregation singing) | 20:04 | |
♪ Open to me the gates of righteousness that ♪ | 20:15 | |
♪ I may enter through them and give thanks to the Lord. ♪ | 20:19 | |
(congregation singing) | 20:25 | |
♪ I thank you that you have answered me ♪ | 20:34 | |
♪ and have become my salvation. ♪ | 20:38 | |
(congregation singing) | 20:44 | |
♪ This is the Lord's doing. ♪ | 20:52 | |
♪ It is marvelous in our eyes. ♪ | 20:55 | |
(congregation singing) | 20:59 | |
(choir and congregation singing) | 21:20 | |
(organ playing) | 21:25 | |
- | The second lesson comes to us from | 22:13 |
the Book of Colaassions 3:1-4. | 22:14 | |
If then you have been raised with Christ, | 22:21 | |
seek the things that are above, where Christ is. | 22:24 | |
Seated at the right hand of God. | 22:27 | |
Set your minds on things that are above, | 22:30 | |
not on things that are on Earth. | 22:33 | |
For you have died and your life is hid with Christ in God. | 22:36 | |
When Christ, who is our life, appears, | 22:41 | |
then you also will appear with Christ in glory. | 22:44 | |
This is the word of God for the people of God. | 22:49 | |
(organ playing) | 22:58 | |
(choir singing and band playing) | 23:12 | |
- | Hear the Gospel for this Easter. | 26:48 |
Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn | 26:53 | |
of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene | 26:57 | |
and the other Mary went to see the sepulchre. | 27:01 | |
And behold there was a great earthquake | 27:04 | |
and an angel of the Lord descended from Heaven | 27:07 | |
and came and rolled back the stone and sat upon it. | 27:09 | |
His appearance was like lightning. | 27:13 | |
His raiment white as snow. | 27:15 | |
And for fear of him the guards trembled | 27:18 | |
and became like dead people. | 27:20 | |
But the angle said to the women, "Do not be afraid. | 27:22 | |
I know that you seek Jesus, who was crucified. | 27:27 | |
He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. | 27:32 | |
Come, see the place where he lay. | 27:37 | |
Then go quickly and tell the disciples | 27:39 | |
that he is risen from the dead and behold | 27:43 | |
he is going before you into Galilee. | 27:46 | |
There you will see him. | 27:49 | |
Lo I have told you." | 27:52 | |
So they departed quickly from the tomb and | 27:55 | |
with fear and great joy ran to tell his disciples. | 27:57 | |
And behold Jesus met them and said, "Hail." | 28:03 | |
And they came up and they took | 28:08 | |
hold of his feet and worshiped him. | 28:10 | |
And Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. | 28:13 | |
Go and tell my brethren to go to Galilee | 28:17 | |
and there they will see me." | 28:21 | |
Now you know that there are those who charge | 28:30 | |
that we are here this morning | 28:36 | |
out of a kind of collective wish projection. | 28:41 | |
Here's how their argument goes. | 28:45 | |
We Christians just cannot get it through | 28:49 | |
our pre-modern heads that creatures | 28:52 | |
so wonderful as ourselves shall die. | 28:55 | |
That there will be a day when we and | 29:00 | |
all those whom we love will be no more. | 29:05 | |
And so this leads us to fantasize some inexplicable | 29:09 | |
reversal of everything we know about life, | 29:15 | |
namely that it is terminal, | 29:18 | |
which enables people who have once lived | 29:22 | |
and then died to live again. | 29:25 | |
We want to live forever, and so this desire | 29:29 | |
leads us to project our wish as if it were reality. | 29:33 | |
Now although propagated with great subtlety | 29:39 | |
by philosophers like Feuerbach, I call this | 29:41 | |
the Tinker Bell theory of religion. | 29:45 | |
I don't know if you remember the stage production | 29:49 | |
of Peter Pan, but there is that moment | 29:51 | |
in the play when for some reason, I forget just why, | 29:54 | |
Tinker Bell begins to fade away and Peter Pan comes out | 29:57 | |
to the edge of the stage and says, | 30:01 | |
boys and girls, do you believe in fairies? | 30:04 | |
Please believe in fairies. | 30:08 | |
Say that you do. | 30:09 | |
Let's all close our eyes very tightly | 30:10 | |
and say that we believe in fairies and it will come true. | 30:13 | |
And thus someone has called the resurrection, | 30:19 | |
the most selfish of all Christian doctrines. | 30:23 | |
We Christians just cannot get it | 30:29 | |
through our heads that we shall die. | 30:31 | |
So we just close our eyes and believe | 30:34 | |
very hard and with the help of Matthew and Bach, | 30:36 | |
we believe in the resurrection. | 30:41 | |
The trouble with this charge is that | 30:46 | |
that is not at all what we claim to be doing here today. | 30:48 | |
And if nonbelievers are going to dismiss us, | 30:53 | |
they at least ought to do us the courtesy | 30:56 | |
of rejecting what we claim we believe rather | 30:58 | |
than wasting time disbelieving | 31:01 | |
what we don't believe anyway, right? | 31:03 | |
Easter is not first of all about the general | 31:07 | |
resurrection of dead people. | 31:10 | |
And it is never about the immortality | 31:12 | |
of the soul or he will live on in our mysteries | 31:16 | |
or the return of the robin in the spring | 31:21 | |
or other such pagan drivel. | 31:24 | |
No, Easter is first of all about dead Jesus | 31:26 | |
whom we helped condemn and humiliate and whip | 31:34 | |
and crucify and kill and then take down | 31:37 | |
from the cross and wrap in a linen shroud and entomb. | 31:42 | |
This Jesus | 31:45 | |
come back, risen, risen indeed. | 31:49 | |
And for the life of me, I can't see why any of us | 31:56 | |
would have wanted or expected or fantasized or wished that. | 31:59 | |
Because in coming back to us, | 32:05 | |
he did not assume some disembodied ethereal soul, | 32:07 | |
but he came back to us as Jesus. | 32:14 | |
The same one who troubled us so much before | 32:19 | |
Good Friday came back to trouble us again on Easter. | 32:22 | |
Oh his appearance had changed, and not everyone | 32:27 | |
recognized him at first, but still, | 32:29 | |
after they had been with him a while, | 32:32 | |
they said yeah, it's Jesus. | 32:33 | |
And they agreed with those women | 32:37 | |
who ran back from the cemetery on | 32:39 | |
Easter morning shouting, "He's back! | 32:41 | |
Jesus has come back for us." | 32:45 | |
And I ask you, if we had been wishing | 32:51 | |
for something, would we have wished for that? | 32:53 | |
After all, he said enough to challenge | 32:58 | |
and disturb and prod us in the three | 33:01 | |
or four years that he was active among us. | 33:03 | |
He'd said enough to shake us up, | 33:07 | |
so why would we have wanted him back? | 33:09 | |
There are those who claim that the resurrection | 33:13 | |
of Jesus was a kind of myth, | 33:17 | |
propagated by his disciples who had worked | 33:20 | |
themselves up in such a grief over his death, | 33:24 | |
who were so pleased by his presence | 33:27 | |
among them that they just couldn't bear to let him go. | 33:30 | |
And so somehow they got the idea in their heads that | 33:34 | |
well, he never really died. | 33:37 | |
But the trouble with this charge | 33:43 | |
is that is not how the story goes. | 33:44 | |
The story says that he was dead. | 33:48 | |
The disciples knew. | 33:53 | |
They could tell what dead looked like. | 33:55 | |
He was dead. | 33:58 | |
Well we weren't all that near said Matthew. | 34:00 | |
We were standing toward the rear, | 34:03 | |
we told the women to go on up front | 34:04 | |
where they could get a better view. | 34:06 | |
But from what they said, yes he was dead. | 34:07 | |
Yeah, yeah, said the soldiers. | 34:12 | |
We took the spear, he's dead. | 34:14 | |
But more than even that, the amazing thing | 34:18 | |
from our perspective is that all the gospels | 34:22 | |
agree that his disciples fully accepted his death. | 34:25 | |
On Sunday when the women went out to the cemetery, | 34:31 | |
they were carrying spices to dress a dead body. | 34:34 | |
Decaying bodies smell, we know. | 34:39 | |
And they did not go out to the cemetery | 34:43 | |
in the earnest hope that it all might | 34:45 | |
have been some bad dream. | 34:47 | |
That in some way, well he's gone | 34:49 | |
but he'll live on in our memories, no. | 34:51 | |
It was the first day of the week and | 34:56 | |
everybody had gone back to work. | 34:58 | |
Mending nets or doing whatever they had | 34:59 | |
been doing before Jesus came among them. | 35:02 | |
The Jesus movement which had begun with | 35:05 | |
such promise was now over. | 35:08 | |
And none of them expected him back. | 35:12 | |
What is more, it appears that none of them wanted him back. | 35:15 | |
Not Jesus. | 35:20 | |
It would've been fine to have back some | 35:22 | |
disembodied phantom who came out mouthing | 35:25 | |
sweet religious cliches like consider the lilies, | 35:28 | |
let the little children come to me, no. | 35:31 | |
But what they had back on their hands was | 35:36 | |
Jesus who manages to work into his sermon stuff like go, | 35:38 | |
sell everything you've got, give it to the poor. | 35:43 | |
Or he who loves father and mother more | 35:46 | |
than me isn't worthy of me. | 35:48 | |
And to have that once dead man back | 35:52 | |
on your hands on Sunday morning was something else again. | 35:56 | |
And maybe that's why in the Gospels have you noticed, | 36:02 | |
the main thing the risen Christ tells | 36:06 | |
his disciples is do not fear. | 36:08 | |
Peace be onto you. | 36:13 | |
Don't be afraid. | 36:14 | |
Earlier his disciples had said he's dead. | 36:20 | |
Now what's gonna become of us? | 36:27 | |
But after Easter they said, he's risen. | 36:29 | |
Now what's gonna become of us? | 36:34 | |
The predominant emotion on that first Easter | 36:37 | |
was not joy, it was fear. | 36:39 | |
So we ought to give nonbelievers a break. | 36:45 | |
Their disbelief in Easter is dumb if | 36:49 | |
they are disbelieving in some collectively | 36:52 | |
projected Santa Claus return to pat us on the | 36:54 | |
head and give us everything we want and soothe us. | 36:57 | |
But that wasn't Jesus before Easter, | 37:02 | |
and it was the risen Christ after Easter. | 37:07 | |
There were plenty of folk who agreed with that | 37:13 | |
troubled man upon meeting Jesus for the first time. | 37:15 | |
Get out of here, Jesus of Nazareth, | 37:19 | |
what have you to do with us? | 37:21 | |
Now if you've managed to be here on | 37:24 | |
Sundays other than Easter, you may have | 37:26 | |
heard some of the stories told by the pre-Easter Jesus. | 37:29 | |
You may have watched him work. | 37:32 | |
And so you know enough about Jesus to empathize | 37:36 | |
with those first disciples who were less | 37:39 | |
than pleased to go out to the cemetery to visit | 37:42 | |
the grave of a dead man only to be encountered there | 37:46 | |
by the not at all dead post-Easter Christ. | 37:50 | |
They were scared, frightened, half out of their wits. | 37:54 | |
He's back. | 37:59 | |
Wish projection my eye. | 38:02 | |
The real comfort comes not from believing in the | 38:04 | |
resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, | 38:07 | |
but from believing that he's gone. | 38:10 | |
Because then we could, after a decent period of mourning, | 38:13 | |
proceed right on with business as usual. | 38:18 | |
And we would be free now to be as cynical | 38:22 | |
or as naively optimistic or whatever your personality lies, | 38:25 | |
we could just be whatever we chose to be because | 38:30 | |
it really doesn't matter now that we're on our own anyway. | 38:34 | |
Now it's all left up to us to figure out | 38:39 | |
what to do on Monday since our world | 38:42 | |
with Jesus ended on Friday. | 38:46 | |
And so we could say well let's just all | 38:50 | |
get back to the status quo, | 38:52 | |
back to the comfort of things as they were | 38:55 | |
and always had been before Jesus, | 38:57 | |
before this Jesus came intruding into our settled | 39:00 | |
arrangements and our conventional judgements | 39:04 | |
and we can just go right on killing in El Salvador | 39:07 | |
or separating in South Africa or having sex | 39:11 | |
with other people's spouses right here | 39:14 | |
in good old Durham and right on with our own death loving, | 39:15 | |
death dealing ways and who would there be to stop us, | 39:19 | |
to judge us, to call our hand? | 39:22 | |
But if the women are right, | 39:26 | |
if this thing isn't ending but just beginning, | 39:30 | |
if it's Jesus again, well, | 39:35 | |
whither shall I go from thy spirit? | 39:42 | |
Whither shall I flee from thy presence? | 39:46 | |
If I make my bed in Hell, thou aren't there, Psalm 139. | 39:49 | |
If I take the wings of the morning and I fly to the | 39:55 | |
uttermost parts of the sea, surprise. | 39:58 | |
I tell you if there is one thing we fear | 40:06 | |
more than the death of God, | 40:08 | |
it is a fear of a God who refuses to stay dead, | 40:12 | |
who keeps intruding and hounding and prodding | 40:16 | |
and following us and coming back for us. | 40:19 | |
They had come all the way out to the cemetery | 40:24 | |
to show a little respect for poor dead Jesus | 40:27 | |
but by the time they got there, | 40:32 | |
they were told by the angel he isn't here, | 40:33 | |
he's already beaten you back to town. | 40:36 | |
Even now he is prodding and nudging the disciples, | 40:39 | |
it's gonna be just like the good old days. | 40:42 | |
He isn't here, said the angel. | 40:46 | |
Don't come out of the cemetery looking, he is risen. | 40:49 | |
I remember when I was a student seeing a play. | 40:55 | |
I don't remember the name of the play or where I saw it, | 40:59 | |
but I remember seeing it, | 41:02 | |
and it was about this troubled, tortured man | 41:04 | |
and he spent his whole life tortured by feelings | 41:07 | |
of his own inadequacy, burdened by guilt, | 41:10 | |
just obsessed by God. | 41:12 | |
And finally you get to the end of the play | 41:15 | |
and he's finally gotten up the nerve to | 41:17 | |
walk down that lonely path of suicide | 41:19 | |
and he picks up a revolver and he points | 41:23 | |
it towards his head and there is a bang | 41:25 | |
and the lights go down and it's totally dark. | 41:28 | |
And then the lights come back up | 41:35 | |
and he's lying on the front of the stage | 41:37 | |
and here's the revolver near him, | 41:39 | |
but now behind him there's this man sitting at a desk. | 41:40 | |
A bald headed man going through papers at a desk, | 41:44 | |
and the man at the desk says, | 41:48 | |
"Gabriel bring me the file on Smith. | 41:51 | |
That's J.A. Smith." | 41:53 | |
And the man kind of gets up off the floor | 41:55 | |
and looks around kind of stupidly | 41:58 | |
and the man at the desk says to him, | 42:00 | |
"Well now Mr. Smith, are we through with the theatrics? | 42:03 | |
Can we talk? | 42:07 | |
Can we get down to business? | 42:09 | |
We've got all the time in the world." | 42:12 | |
What if the real Hell of life | 42:21 | |
is not that we are without God, | 42:25 | |
but that it's tough to be rid of God? | 42:28 | |
What if our business with God isn't over | 42:34 | |
until God says it's over? | 42:36 | |
If I make my bed in Hell, | 42:40 | |
if I take the wings | 42:45 | |
of the morning and fly to the | 42:46 | |
uttermost parts of the sea, thou art there. | 42:48 | |
I tell you herein is our hope, | 42:56 | |
our fear, but our hope. | 43:00 | |
He wouldn't leave us be in life, we know that. | 43:05 | |
But on Easter we know to our surprise, yes, | 43:10 | |
and even to our fear, that he has absolutely | 43:14 | |
no intention of leaving us be in death. | 43:18 | |
He has come back and he will come back. | 43:22 | |
Whenever your life is caught back up against a wall, | 43:26 | |
dead end, dead habits, dead social arrangements, | 43:30 | |
lies, deceit, of whether it be the death that | 43:35 | |
comes on the last day of your life, | 43:38 | |
Easter says he just won't let you be. | 43:42 | |
Y'all go on out to the cemetery and take these flowers | 43:48 | |
and why don't you fix up the grave real nice? | 43:51 | |
And we'll be on out later. | 43:54 | |
And the angel said to the women, "Don't be afraid. | 43:58 | |
You seek Jesus. | 44:02 | |
Dead, crucified, Jesus. | 44:03 | |
Well he isn't here. | 44:06 | |
He's risen. | 44:08 | |
Go, tell the rest of them. | 44:09 | |
He's risen from the dead, he's gone on ahead of you." | 44:12 | |
And they ran all the way back from the cemetery with joy, | 44:15 | |
yes, and with fear, saying, | 44:20 | |
"He's back." | 44:26 | |
(organ playing) | 44:33 | |
(choir and congregation singing) | 45:01 | |
- | God of joy, God of fear, God of life. | 47:45 |
You have revealed the power of your saving love | 47:52 | |
and once again we proclaim with conviction | 47:56 | |
I know that my redeemer lives, | 47:59 | |
enlivened by the truth which the empty tomb has laid bear, | 48:02 | |
we lift our prayers unto you, | 48:07 | |
fervently praying that the promise of new life, | 48:10 | |
even as we are surrounded by its freshness | 48:13 | |
and beauty this Easter morning, | 48:16 | |
may be made manifest throughout the world. | 48:18 | |
Let us pray for all who are forlorn, forsaken, | 48:23 | |
or stricken with grief, like Mary Magdalene | 48:27 | |
may they be restored in their weariness | 48:30 | |
and comforted in their sorrow | 48:32 | |
through a life giving encounter with you. | 48:35 | |
Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer. | 48:38 | |
Let us pray for the hungry and the homeless, | 48:42 | |
the sick and the dying. | 48:45 | |
Like the disciples in their time of need, | 48:48 | |
may the be empowered to find hope in the midst of despair. | 48:51 | |
Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer. | 48:56 | |
Let us pray for those who are victims of poverty, | 49:00 | |
oppression, violence, or prejudice, | 49:03 | |
even as Christ was unjustly accused, | 49:07 | |
may they find the strength to persevere | 49:11 | |
in the face of injustice, discovering even | 49:13 | |
the capacity to forgive. | 49:16 | |
Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer. | 49:19 | |
Let us pray for those who are attentive | 49:23 | |
to the needs of others, yet go unnoticed in our busy world. | 49:25 | |
Like the women at the tomb, | 49:30 | |
may they be rewarded for their unassuming acts of Love. | 49:32 | |
Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer. | 49:36 | |
Let us pray for those who seek to know | 49:41 | |
you yet question the faith. | 49:43 | |
Like Thomas who sought proof of your resurrection, | 49:45 | |
may they be sustained through their times | 49:49 | |
of doubting and may they receive | 49:51 | |
reassuring signs of your presence in their lives. | 49:53 | |
Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer. | 49:58 | |
Let us pray for all who live surrounded | 50:02 | |
by political strife and turmoil. | 50:04 | |
As you showed us the way to true community | 50:07 | |
through service one to another, | 50:10 | |
may they find resolutions to their conflicts | 50:12 | |
by a common desire to serve and not simply to overpower. | 50:15 | |
Lord in your mercy, hear our prayer. | 50:20 | |
Oh savior of the world who rose again, | 50:24 | |
arise and live within each of us now, | 50:27 | |
that we may become your body in the world. | 50:30 | |
That we may be your feet to walk into the world's pain. | 50:34 | |
That we may be your hands to heal, | 50:38 | |
your heart to break if need be for love of the world. | 50:41 | |
Oh risen Christ, make Christ of us all, Amen. | 50:45 | |
As a joyous people proclaiming the good news | 50:54 | |
of our Lord's resurrection, | 50:56 | |
let us offer our gifts and ourselves | 50:58 | |
unto God with thanksgiving. | 51:00 | |
(organ playing) | 51:08 | |
(choir singing and band playing) | 51:29 | |
(organ playing) | 56:11 | |
(choir singing) | 58:05 | |
Oh ever living God who through the resurrection | 58:53 | |
of Jesus Christ has freed us from the power | 58:56 | |
of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of your love, | 58:59 | |
we thank you for the good news which | 59:03 | |
you have revealed to us this day. | 59:05 | |
We pray that our gifts may give testimony | 59:07 | |
to the one ordained by God to be judge | 59:10 | |
of the living and the dead, pour out your spirit | 59:13 | |
in our midst that we may be equipped to carry out your work. | 59:17 | |
We cannot keep the good news to ourselves. | 59:20 | |
Empower us to pass it on. | 59:23 | |
This we pray in the name of our risen Lord, | 59:26 | |
to whom with you and the Holy Spirit be power, | 59:29 | |
honor, and glory forevermore, Amen. | 59:32 | |
And now let us pray with the confidence of children, | 59:36 | |
[Congregation And Cantor] Our Father, | 59:38 | |
who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name, | 59:39 | |
thy kingdom come, thy will be done, | 59:43 | |
on Earth as it is in Heaven. | 59:46 | |
Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our | 59:48 | |
trespasses as we forgive those who trespass | 59:52 | |
against us and lead us not into temptation | 59:55 | |
but deliver us from evil. | 59:58 | |
For thine is the kingdom, the power, | 1:00:01 | |
and the glory, forever, Amen. | 1:00:03 | |
- | And now go forth in joy to love and | 1:00:08 |
serve God in all that you do and may the God | 1:00:11 | |
of peace who raised to life the great shepherd | 1:00:14 | |
of the sheep make us ready to do his will | 1:00:17 | |
in every good thing. | 1:00:20 | |
Through Jesus Christ to whom be glory forever and ever. | 1:00:22 | |
(choir singing) | 1:00:30 | |
(organ playing) | 1:01:34 | |
(choir and congregation singing) | 1:02:13 | |
(organ playing) | 1:05:31 |