WEBVTT 00:00:06.879 --> 00:00:10.320 Blessed be the Lord who forgiveth all of our sin. 00:00:11.119 --> 00:00:13.919 God's mercy endureth forever. 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:22.480 Almighty and everlasting God, you hate nothing you have made, and forgive the sins of all who are penitent. 00:00:23.039 --> 00:00:42.880 Create and make in us new and contrite hearts that we, worthily lamenting our sin and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of you the God of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. 00:00:43.359 --> 00:00:44.000 Amen. 00:00:44.799 --> 00:01:14.319 Holy God, Creator of heaven and earth, holy and mighty, redeemer of the world, holy immortal one, sanctifier of the faithful, holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity, one God, from all evil and mischief, from pride, vanity, and hypocrisy, from envy, hatred and malice, and from all evil intent. 00:01:15.040 --> 00:01:33.439 Saved from curse, from sloth, worldliness and love of money, from hardness of heart and contempt for your word and your laws, from sins of body and mind, from deceits of the world, flesh, and the devil. 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:42.000 Saved deliver us from famine and disaster, from violence, murder, and dying unprepared. 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:44.239 Savior and deliver us. 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:51.680 In all times of sorrow, in all times of joy, in the hour of our death and at the day of judgment. 00:01:52.000 --> 00:02:02.640 Savior deliver us by the mystery of your holy incarnation, by your birth, childhood and obedience, by your baptism, fasting and temptation. 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:04.719 Savior deliver us. 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:20.639 By your ministry in word and work, by your mighty acts of power, by the preaching of your reign, saved and deliver us, by your agony and trial, by your cross and passion, by your precious death and burial. 00:02:21.039 --> 00:02:22.560 Savior deliver us. 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:29.280 By your mighty resurrection, by your glorious ascension, and by your ascending of the Holy Spirit. 00:02:31.520 --> 00:02:33.919 Hear our prayers, O Christ our God. 00:02:36.319 --> 00:02:38.639 Govern and direct your holy church. 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:43.599 Fill it with love and truth and grant it that unity which is your will. 00:02:45.840 --> 00:02:51.919 Give us boldness to preach the gospel in all the world, and to make disciples of all the nations. 00:02:54.560 --> 00:03:03.199 Enlighten your bishops, priests, and deacons with knowledge and understanding, that by their teaching and their lives they may proclaim your word. 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:12.000 Give your people grace to witness to your word and bring forth the fruit of your spirit. 00:03:12.319 --> 00:03:13.840 Hear us, Socrates. 00:03:14.319 --> 00:03:19.199 Bring into the way of truth all who have erred and are deceived. 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:20.960 Hear us, Socrates. 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:22.960 Strengthen those who stand. 00:03:23.439 --> 00:03:25.680 Comfort and help the faint-hearted. 00:03:25.919 --> 00:03:30.400 Rise up the fallen and finally beat down Satan under our feet. 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:32.319 Hear us, Socrates. 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:37.439 Give the leaders of the nations into the ways of peace and justice. 00:03:37.759 --> 00:03:38.879 Hear us, Silver. 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:54.319 Give your wisdom and strength to Joe, the President of the United States, Greg, the governor of this state, and Sale the mayor of this city, that in all things they may do your will for your glory and the common good. 00:03:54.879 --> 00:03:56.240 Hear us, suffer us. 00:03:56.560 --> 00:04:08.560 Give to the Congress of the United States, the members of the President's Cabinet, those who serve in our state legislature, and all others in authority the grace to walk always in the ways of truth. 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:10.240 Hear us, Supreme. 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:21.279 Bless the justices of the Supreme Court, and all those who administer the law, that they may act with integrity and do justice for all your people. 00:04:21.920 --> 00:04:23.519 Hear us, Sekrist. 00:04:23.759 --> 00:04:29.279 Give us the will to use the resources of the earth to your glory and for the good of all. 00:04:29.759 --> 00:04:31.040 Hear us, Supreme. 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:33.600 Bless and keep all your people. 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:40.399 Hear us, comfort and liberate the lonely, the bereaved, and the oppressed. 00:04:42.240 --> 00:04:46.079 Keep in safety those who travel and all who are in peril. 00:04:48.240 --> 00:04:55.680 Heal the sick in body, mind, or spirit, and provide for the homeless, the hungry, and the destitute. 00:04:57.839 --> 00:05:01.600 Guard and protect all children who are in danger. 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:09.839 Shower your compassion on prisoners, hostages and refugees, and all who are in trouble. 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:17.680 Hear us, forgive our enemies, persecutors and slanderers, and turn their hearts. 00:05:19.839 --> 00:05:26.399 Hear us as we remember those who have died, and grant us with them a share in your eternal glory. 00:05:26.800 --> 00:05:28.399 Hear us, Sacrist. 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:31.040 Give us true repentance. 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:36.000 Forgive us our sins of negligence and ignorance and our deliberate sins. 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:41.839 And grant us the grace of your Holy Spirit to amend our lives according to your word. 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:49.680 Holy God, Holy and Mighty, Holy Immortal One, have mercy on us. 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:23.759 Let all the inhabitants of the land quake. 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:28.079 For the day of the Holy God is coming, it is near. 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:37.279 Yet even now, says the Holy One, return to me with all your hearts, with fasting, with weeping, and with lamenting. 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:40.879 Tear your hearts and not your clothing. 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:54.240 Return to the Holy One, your God, for God is gracious and loves as a mother, slow to anger, and abounds in faithful love, and reluctant to impose harm. 00:06:55.040 --> 00:07:00.079 Who knows whether God will not turn and relent and leave a blessing behind? 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:04.720 For a grain offering and a drink offering to the Holy One, your God. 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:09.360 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast. 00:07:10.399 --> 00:07:22.720 Call a solemn assembly, gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even breastfeeding babies. 00:07:23.040 --> 00:07:27.279 Let the bridegroom leave his room and the bride her canopy. 00:07:27.759 --> 00:07:33.839 Between the portico and the altar, let the priests of the ministers of the Holy One weep. 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:42.959 Let them say, Spare your people, O Holy One, and do not offer your heritage as a mockery, a byword among the nations. 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:45.839 Why should it be said among the peoples? 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:47.360 Where is their God? 00:07:47.920 --> 00:07:53.920 Fear not, O land, be glad and rejoice, for the Holy One has done great things. 00:07:54.240 --> 00:08:05.279 Fear not, O animals of the field, for the pastures of the wilderness are green, the tree lives up its fruit, the fig tree and vine give their riches. 00:08:05.600 --> 00:08:07.040 The word of the Lord. 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:09.040 Thanks be to God. 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:21.920 The psalm for today, Psalm 90, we will read responsibly by the half verse. 00:08:22.639 --> 00:08:29.759 Mother of the mountains, you have been our refuge, from one generation to another. 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:38.399 Before the mountains were born, where you writhed the land and the earth into birth, from age to age, you are God. 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:45.759 You turn mortal flesh back to the dust and say, Turn back, you who are woman-born. 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:53.840 For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night. 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:57.759 You sweep them aside, they are an illusion. 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:03.200 In the morning, flourishing, and in the evening wilting and withering. 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:06.240 In the morning it is green and flourishes. 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:09.840 In the evening it is dry up and withered. 00:09:10.399 --> 00:09:13.440 For we are consumed in your displeasure. 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:17.679 We are afraid because of your wrathful indignation. 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:25.360 Our iniquities have set before you, and our hidden sins in the light of your countenance. 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:28.960 When you are angry, all our days are gone. 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:32.720 We bring our years to an end like a sigh. 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:38.799 The span of our life is seventy years, perhaps in strength, even eighty. 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:45.519 Yet the sum of them is but labor and sorrow, for they pass away quickly, and we are gone. 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:52.000 So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom. 00:10:35.360 --> 00:10:38.639 The last Adam became a spirit that gives life. 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:44.159 But it is not the spiritual that is first, but the physical, and then the spiritual. 00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:47.519 The first human was from the earth, dust. 00:10:47.840 --> 00:10:50.240 The second human is from heaven. 00:10:50.559 --> 00:10:59.360 As was the one of dust, so are those who are of dust, and is the one of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:06.399 Just as we have borne the image of the one of dust, we will also bear the image of the one of heaven. 00:11:07.120 --> 00:11:08.559 Thanks be to God. 00:13:13.840 --> 00:13:22.399 Jesus said now, beware of practicing your justness before other people, in order to be seen by them. 00:13:22.720 --> 00:13:26.639 Surely lest you have no reward from your Creator in heaven. 00:13:26.960 --> 00:13:37.440 So when you give alms, do not trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, in order that they may be praised by other people. 00:13:38.080 --> 00:13:41.200 Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. 00:13:41.840 --> 00:13:53.600 But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, in order that your alms may be secret, and your Creator who sees in secret will reward you. 00:13:54.159 --> 00:14:04.320 And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and on the street corners, in order that they may be seen by other people. 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:08.639 Truly I tell you, they have received their recompense. 00:14:09.039 --> 00:14:18.559 But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Creator who is in secret, and your creator who sees in secret will reward you. 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:28.320 And when you fast, do not be sullen like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces in order to show other people that they are fasting. 00:14:28.559 --> 00:14:32.159 Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. 00:14:32.720 --> 00:14:46.879 But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, in order that your fasting may be seen, not by others, but by your creator who is in secret, and your creator who sees in secret will reward you. 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:50.080 The Gospel of the Lord. 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:27.600 In the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:28.639 Amen. 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:31.200 Please be seated. 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:42.559 One of my Baptist colleagues this afternoon texted me, Happy Ash Wednesday, question mark. 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:51.279 And it's an interesting thing, right, that we have a tradition of this being a dower day. 00:15:52.879 --> 00:15:59.759 And even the readings talk about people disfiguring themselves with their acts of repentance. 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:06.000 But a reminder that Jesus encourages us to avoid doing that. 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:16.559 So there is this tradition that we are dust, and to dust we shall return, and we better get it right, or God will speed that up for us. 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:26.639 But I would like to suggest to you something that one of my teachers at Emray said, which is that repentance is joyful sorrow. 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:34.080 How is it that we avoid being like the hypocrites that we so often are? 00:16:34.720 --> 00:16:39.679 It's not that we disfigure ourselves in repentance. 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:45.039 It's that we choose to repent and we do it joyfully. 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:50.240 The world does not need more misery, you know this already. 00:16:54.399 --> 00:16:56.399 You know that already. 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:14.559 Rather, this is our opportunity to claim the joy that God has had for us all along. 00:17:15.279 --> 00:17:20.799 But for this reason or that, we just chose not to grasp. 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:32.160 Jesus warns us not to practice our acts of justness publicly to be seen by others. 00:17:32.400 --> 00:17:38.720 How ironic that we're going to get ashes on our head, which will be seen by others. 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:40.799 It's late enough in the day you'll probably be okay. 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:45.680 The 645 people this morning, you know, actually, that's my preferred time. 00:17:46.160 --> 00:17:49.119 Because then you get to walk around with these all day. 00:17:50.079 --> 00:17:56.559 And why is that good when the gospel tells us not to practice acts of justness publicly? 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:01.680 Because the world deeply needs not more acts of justice to be seen. 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:05.920 It needs acts of reconciliation and repentance. 00:18:06.640 --> 00:18:12.000 And having ashes on our head, of course, is makes us a walking billboard. 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:14.799 And I hope somebody did ask me today. 00:18:14.960 --> 00:18:19.119 Usually when you wear one of these collars, people don't ask you anything at all. 00:18:19.599 --> 00:18:22.960 But somebody asked me today, why are you doing that? 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:34.799 I don't know what your elevator speech is, but mine often is because the church has made a lot of mistakes, and we choose to do it better. 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:44.559 I've made plenty of mistakes, and I want to do better. 00:18:47.920 --> 00:19:05.519 And it's an interesting thing that it's Valentine's Day, and I've mentioned this before, but if you've been married more than two years, and I think that's an important piece of data, if you've been married more than two years, sometimes the best way to say I love you is I'm sorry. 00:19:07.680 --> 00:19:09.200 I'm sorry, God. 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:16.960 Not because I've broken your heart, but because I want to return to you. 00:19:17.519 --> 00:19:21.920 I want to return to you, and I want to return to your love. 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:29.200 And I want to enjoy the life you've given me, and I want to be a joy to others. 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:32.319 This, I think, is how we mark our Lenten journey. 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:33.920 And I'll tell you, I'm a runner. 00:19:34.000 --> 00:19:40.480 You may be a swimmer, you may be an instrumentalist, you may have done dance, or you may just be a rider. 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:45.200 And the truth is, no matter what it is you enjoy, you have to return to. 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:47.920 And it isn't always fun. 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:50.480 There is discipline in running. 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:54.319 I feel like running about seven days of the year. 00:19:54.799 --> 00:19:56.640 I really feel like it. 00:19:57.200 --> 00:20:03.279 And I do it anyway because once I get into it, I do find joy. 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:12.240 Even at the worst of the days that is running for me, at the end of the run, I'm glad I did it. 00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:21.839 So if we waited until we felt like it, Ash Wednesday might be in July. 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:25.200 It might be in December. 00:20:25.759 --> 00:20:35.920 We've chosen this day to be the day we say we're going to do this, and we do it publicly, not to show off, but frankly, because we all need the same thing. 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:39.119 We all need reconciliation. 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:47.039 We all need to lay down burdens we've been carrying for weeks or days or even years. 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:53.519 We need that so that we can enjoy our lives. 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:58.720 And this then is our opportunity. 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:06.480 It's also our opportunity to do this publicly, I think, because that means, number one, we're not alone. 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:08.559 You could put ashes on your head at home. 00:21:08.720 --> 00:21:09.359 You could. 00:21:09.920 --> 00:21:11.519 There's nothing special about these. 00:21:11.759 --> 00:21:13.119 They came from palms. 00:21:13.519 --> 00:21:15.359 You could burn your own palms. 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:28.079 We do this in a group so that you know, in the middle of your return to God, and I'm using that on purpose, your return to God, because God's never left you. 00:21:29.119 --> 00:21:31.759 In your return to God, you're not alone. 00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:36.960 You're not seeing that there were 74 people who drove through today. 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:38.960 But I'm telling you, there were. 00:21:47.519 --> 00:21:56.240 You're with Christians all over the world who are saying, We will do this better if we do it together. 00:21:57.039 --> 00:21:59.920 And we will do this better if we do it together. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:01.200 It together. 00:22:01.519 --> 00:22:06.000 And not only is there solidarity, there's also accountability. 00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:15.599 Now, Joel says something interesting to us, and this is why we read it. 00:22:15.759 --> 00:22:21.680 Blow the trumpet in Zion, and that trumpet being mentioned is something called a shofar. 00:22:22.079 --> 00:22:25.440 It's how you signal the beginning of a high holy day. 00:22:25.599 --> 00:22:26.640 It's an announcement. 00:22:26.799 --> 00:22:28.000 The holy day has begun. 00:22:28.079 --> 00:22:35.119 But Joel is saying, hey, the church bell or the sanctus bell, instead of hearing that it's time to go to church. 00:22:38.960 --> 00:22:42.880 Or there's something special happening at the wine and the bread. 00:22:44.400 --> 00:22:49.039 That's supposed to mean, oh my gosh, life is too short for me to live it the way I'm doing. 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:53.200 Because I don't want to miss out on what God has in store for me. 00:22:53.519 --> 00:22:59.119 This is not a thing we do to prove to God how faithful we are. 00:22:59.279 --> 00:23:01.599 This is not a thing we do to earn God's love. 00:23:01.839 --> 00:23:03.200 This is an alarm. 00:23:03.759 --> 00:23:05.359 That life is short. 00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:11.039 And we have not longed to gladden the path of those who walk with us. 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:14.400 So we ought to make haste to be kind. 00:23:15.519 --> 00:23:18.799 We ought to make haste to be gracious. 00:23:19.759 --> 00:23:22.960 Because life is too short to live small. 00:23:25.920 --> 00:23:29.200 Sure, it's dust, and we're reminded. 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:31.839 We came from the dust, and the dust we will return. 00:23:31.920 --> 00:23:33.759 We're reminded of that, and Paul wrote that. 00:23:33.920 --> 00:23:38.559 Paul wrote that, hey, actually we have this duality, ORB. 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:45.599 We came from the earth, but we also came from the stars and from the universe. 00:23:45.920 --> 00:23:56.720 And this is our opportunity to say, God, as much earth is in me, I'd like to see as much star and light and universe coming out of me. 00:23:59.279 --> 00:24:06.799 And with your help, God, I'd like to do something about that the next 46 days. 00:24:08.480 --> 00:24:10.720 So this is our opportunity. 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:18.319 It's interesting to think that this is a traditional and antiquated practice. 00:24:18.640 --> 00:24:25.440 The Christians have been doing this for a long time, and sometimes we might find ourselves in the rhythm. 00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:29.039 But I want you to hear from me, good on you. 00:24:30.160 --> 00:24:34.000 Good on you for showing up to say today. 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:36.720 Whatever's on your mind or whatever's on your heart. 00:24:36.880 --> 00:24:38.799 Maybe you're giving up Lent for Lent. 00:24:38.880 --> 00:24:40.319 Maybe that's your decision. 00:24:40.559 --> 00:24:42.400 Maybe you haven't thought hard about it. 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:43.680 And here you are. 00:24:44.079 --> 00:24:48.319 Here you are in a place saying, God, I'd like more. 00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:50.240 I'd like more. 00:24:51.200 --> 00:24:53.519 I'd like to shine more brightly. 00:24:54.960 --> 00:25:00.960 I'd like other people to be illuminated by the light that you've put in me. 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:04.559 This is our opportunity. 00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:13.119 Our opportunity, frankly, to do something that no politician in this country is willing to do of late. 00:25:13.359 --> 00:25:16.000 To say, I might have been wrong. 00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:18.400 And I'm sorry. 00:25:20.480 --> 00:25:25.359 If you want to be more married for more than two years, you better learn how to apologize. 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:28.720 I'd like to be here more than two years. 00:25:28.799 --> 00:25:30.000 I've been here nine. 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:32.319 Apologies are often in order. 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:35.680 And I'd like to live with God a whole lot more than two years. 00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:40.799 So this is our holy opportunity not to do this with sorrow. 00:25:41.440 --> 00:25:43.279 We don't have to do this. 00:25:44.240 --> 00:25:45.440 We get to. 00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:51.200 And thank you for choosing to do this together. 00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:53.440 This journey in faith. 00:25:53.839 --> 00:26:02.240 This journey in repentance because we know God can do more than we can ask or imagine whatever we do we don't. 00:26:03.839 --> 00:26:09.920 Our prayers today for a holy 46-day journey into Lent. 00:26:19.119 --> 00:26:31.440 Dear people of God, the first Christians observed with great devotion the days of our Lord's Passion and Resurrection, and it became the custom of the church to prepare for them by a season of penitence and fasting. 00:26:31.759 --> 00:26:37.519 This season of Lent provided a time in which converts to the faith were prepared for holy baptism. 00:26:37.759 --> 00:26:49.920 It was also a time when those who, because of notorious sin, had been separated from the body of the faithful and were reconciled by penitence and forgiveness and restored to the fellowship of the church. 00:26:50.160 --> 00:27:03.359 Thereby, the whole congregation was put in mind of the message of pardon and absolution set forth in the gospel of our Savior, and of the need which all Christians continually have to renew their repentance and faith. 00:27:03.680 --> 00:27:30.799 I invite you, therefore, in the name of the Church, to the observance of a holy lent, by self-examination and repentance, by prayer, fasting, and self-denial, and by reading and meditating on God's holy word, and to make a right beginning of repentance, and as a mark of our mortal nature, let us now kneel before the Lord in our hearts, if not also our bodies, our Maker and Redeemer. 00:27:36.400 --> 00:27:41.200 Almighty God, you have created us out of the dust of the earth. 00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:46.960 Grant that these ashes may be to us a sign of our mortality and our penitence. 00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:55.279 Through Jesus Christ our Savior. 00:27:55.759 --> 00:27:56.400 Amen. 00:27:56.880 --> 00:28:08.400 And I invite you during the reading of the psalm to come to the rail, kneeling or standing as your piety and body dictates for the reception of these ashes. 00:28:19.599 --> 00:28:22.640 My sister bright be a good face for the world. 00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:51.279 In your great compassion, blow not out my offences. 00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:58.400 Wash me through and through from my wickedness of the world. 00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:01.200 And cleanse me from my sin. 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:09.359 For I know my transgressions and my sin before me. 00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:19.200 Against you only have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight. 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:29.519 So you are justified when you speak and upright in your judgment. 00:29:32.400 --> 00:29:40.880 Indeed, I have been wicked from my birth sinner from my mother's world. 00:29:41.279 --> 00:29:57.039 For behold, you look for truth deep within us and will make me understand wisdom and purge me from my sin and I shall be pure. 00:29:58.400 --> 00:30:02.000 Wash me and I shall be clean and deep. 00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:07.119 Make me here of joy and gladness. 00:30:08.480 --> 00:30:12.240 That the body you have broken may rejoice. 00:30:17.839 --> 00:30:21.200 And blot out all my iniquities. 00:30:22.160 --> 00:30:27.839 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your loving kindness. 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:32.880 Great compassion, brought out my offensive. 00:31:29.440 --> 00:31:36.160 God pardons and absolves all those who truly repent, and with sincere hearts believe the holy gospel. 00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:41.680 Therefore we beseech God to grant us true repentance and the Holy Spirit. 00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:52.799 Those things may please God which we do on this day, that the rest of our life hereafter may be pure and holy, so that at the last we may come to eternal joy. 00:31:53.039 --> 00:31:55.200 Through Jesus Christ our Lord. 00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:56.319 Amen. 00:31:59.599 --> 00:32:02.079 The peace of the Lord be always with you. 00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:28.079 God's not going to give us holy work without giving us nourishment to do so. 00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:30.960 So in a few moments, we'll be nourished at God's table. 00:32:31.119 --> 00:32:34.079 If you'd like to receive bread, just put your hands out. 00:32:34.400 --> 00:32:42.799 The bread you can either dip in the chalice or you can eat and drink directly from the chalice, or you can skip either and receive a blessing. 00:32:42.960 --> 00:32:50.079 But please know that all are welcome to be nourished at God's table for whatever journey you find yourself on. 00:35:06.159 --> 00:35:09.199 This is the table not of the church, but of God. 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:15.440 It is to be ready for those who seek relationship with God, so come and make this journey. 00:35:15.760 --> 00:35:18.559 You who have much faith and you who have little. 00:35:19.199 --> 00:35:24.960 You who have been here often and you who have not been in a long time, or ever before. 00:35:25.280 --> 00:35:32.079 You who have tried to follow and you who have lost your way, come and make this journey not because I invite you. 00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:33.599 God invites. 00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:36.639 It is God's desire that we gather here. 00:35:37.119 --> 00:35:42.559 Our service continues on page 340 of your red prayer book. 00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:44.800 Page 340. 00:36:03.440 --> 00:36:04.960 Lift up your hearts. 00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:07.280 We lift them also to the Lord. 00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:10.000 Let us give thanks unto our Lord God. 00:36:13.039 --> 00:36:30.960 It is very meet right, and our bound in duty that we should in all times and in all places give thanks unto thee, O Lord, Holy Father Almighty, everlasting God, who dost bid thy faithful people cleanse their hearts, and prepare with joy for the Paschal feast. 00:36:41.920 --> 00:36:53.679 Therefore, with angels and archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we law and magnify thy glorious name, evermore praising thee and saying, Holy Spirit. 00:37:58.079 --> 00:38:07.920 And of thy tender mercy didst give thine only Son, Jesus Christ, and take our nature upon him, and to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption. 00:38:08.239 --> 00:38:23.039 He made the air a full, perfect sacrifice for the whole world, and that institute, and in his holy gospel command us to continue, in perpetual memory of that, his precious death and sacrifice, until his coming again. 00:38:23.599 --> 00:38:27.039 For in the night in which he was betrayed, Jesus took bread. 00:38:27.199 --> 00:38:32.800 And when he given thanks to thee, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take, eat. 00:38:33.039 --> 00:38:35.440 This is my body which is given for you. 00:38:35.679 --> 00:38:37.840 Do this in remembrance of me. 00:38:39.679 --> 00:38:47.599 Likewise, after supper, Jesus took the cup of wine, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, Drink this, all of you. 00:38:47.760 --> 00:38:53.280 This is my blood of the renewed covenant which is shed for you and for all for the remission of sin. 00:38:53.599 --> 00:38:57.039 Do this as often as ye shall drink it in remembrance of me. 00:38:59.360 --> 00:39:21.599 Wherefore, O Lord and Heavenly Father, we thy people do celebrate and make with thee thy holy gifts which we now offer unto thee, the memorial thy son hath commanded us to make, having in remembrance his blessed passion and precious death, his mighty resurrection and glorious ascension, and looking for his coming again with power and great glory. 00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:36.719 We most humbly beseech thee, O merciful Father, to hear us, and with thy word and Holy Spirit to bless and sanctify these gifts of bread and wine, that they may be unto us the body and blood of thy dearly beloved Son, Jesus Christ. 00:39:37.039 --> 00:39:50.880 And we earn thy fatherly goodness to accept this, our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving, whereby we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, ourselves, our souls and bodies. 00:39:51.360 --> 00:40:03.119 Grant, we beseech thee that all who partake of this holy communion may worthily receive the most precious body and blood of thy Son, Jesus Christ, and be filled with thy grace and heavenly benediction. 00:40:03.599 --> 00:40:12.400 And also that we and all thy whole church may be made one body with him, that he may dwell in us and we in him, through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. 00:40:12.960 --> 00:40:21.840 By whom and with whom and in whom, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, all honor and glory be unto thee, O Father Almighty, world without end. 00:40:22.320 --> 00:40:22.960 Amen. 00:40:23.599 --> 00:40:27.519 And now, as our Savior Christ hath taught us, we are bold to pray. 00:40:27.840 --> 00:40:38.880 Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:59.199 Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. 00:40:59.679 --> 00:41:00.320 Amen. 00:41:03.760 --> 00:41:12.239 These are the gifts of God, for you, the people of God, feed on them in your hearts by faith and with thanksgiving. 00:44:54.800 --> 00:44:55.519 Let's pray together. 00:44:57.440 --> 00:45:31.360 Almighty and ever living God, we most heartily thank thee for that thou dost feed us in these holy mysteries, with the spiritual food of the most precious body and blood of thy son, our Savior Jesus Christ, and dost assure us thereby of thy favor and goodness towards us, and that we are very members incorporate in the mystical body of thy Son, the blessed company of all faithful people, and are also heirs through the hope of thy everlasting kingdom. 00:45:31.599 --> 00:45:55.199 And we humbly beseech thee, O Heavenly Father, so to assist us with thy grace, that we may continue in that holy fellowship, and do all such good works as thou hast prepared for us to walk in, through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honor and glory, world without end. 00:45:55.679 --> 00:45:56.079 Amen. 00:45:56.880 --> 00:45:59.519 Do not pray for easy lives. 00:46:00.159 --> 00:46:03.119 Pray to be more deeply rooted in grace. 00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:12.079 Do not pray for relentant disciplines equal to your power, but for the courage and nourishment equal to your opportunities. 00:46:12.639 --> 00:46:19.039 And the keeping of your discipline will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle. 00:46:19.519 --> 00:46:37.679 Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life that has come to you and through you by the grace of God, and the blessing of God Almighty, that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit be with you these forty-six days and remain with you always. 00:46:38.079 --> 00:46:38.719 Amen.