WEBVTT 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:33.200 What wondrous love is there all my soul, all my soul, what wondrous love is there, all my soul. 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:05.840 Bless the Lord who forgives all our sin. 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:10.159 Amen. 00:01:10.719 --> 00:01:12.159 Let's pray together. 00:01:12.480 --> 00:01:15.200 Almighty God to you all the heart. 00:01:18.239 --> 00:01:19.760 And from you the secret. 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:26.159 By the inspiration of your Holy Spirit. 00:01:26.400 --> 00:01:33.760 And we may perfectly love you and find your name through Christ our Lord. 00:01:34.079 --> 00:01:34.719 Amen. 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:33.360 The Lord be with you. 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:34.960 And also with you. 00:02:35.360 --> 00:02:36.719 Let us pray. 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:45.280 Almighty Father, whose dear son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the sacrament of his body and blood. 00:02:45.680 --> 00:03:00.400 Mercifully grant that we may receive it thankfully in remembrance of Jesus Christ our Lord, who in these holy mysteries gives us a pledge of eternal life, who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:01.520 Amen. 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:33.360 It shall be the first month of the year for you. 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:42.719 Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth of this month they are to take a lamb for each family, a lamb for each household. 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:50.080 If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining one. 00:03:50.319 --> 00:03:54.719 The lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat of it. 00:03:55.199 --> 00:03:57.520 Your lamb shall be without blemish. 00:03:57.759 --> 00:03:59.280 A year old male. 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:02.400 You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:06.319 You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month. 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:11.520 Then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. 00:04:12.159 --> 00:04:18.720 They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorstops and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:21.920 They shall eat the lamb that same night. 00:04:22.079 --> 00:04:26.720 They shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 00:04:26.959 --> 00:04:35.040 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire with its head, legs, and inner organs. 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:38.399 You shall let none of it remain until the morning. 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:41.759 Anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:44.079 This is how you shall eat it. 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:51.839 Your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it hurriedly. 00:04:52.079 --> 00:04:54.480 It is the Passover of the Lord. 00:04:54.720 --> 00:05:03.839 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals. 00:05:04.079 --> 00:05:07.279 On all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment. 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:09.680 I am the Lord. 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:13.519 The blood shall be assigned for you on the houses where you live. 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:21.199 When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:24.639 Hear what the Spirit is saying to God's people. 00:05:25.279 --> 00:05:26.639 Thanks be to God. 00:05:36.240 --> 00:05:40.560 I love the Lord because the Lord has heard the voice of my supplication. 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:45.040 And incline an ear to me whenever I cry out. 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:47.519 How shall I repay you, O Lord? 00:05:47.759 --> 00:05:50.720 For all the good things you have done for me. 00:05:50.959 --> 00:05:56.160 I will lift up the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. 00:05:56.480 --> 00:05:58.800 I will fulfill my vows to the Lord. 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:01.680 In the presence of all the general people. 00:06:02.160 --> 00:06:04.160 Precious in your sight, O Lord. 00:06:04.560 --> 00:06:06.639 In the death of your servants. 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:09.519 O Lord, I am your servant. 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:13.040 I am your servant as a child of command. 00:06:13.920 --> 00:06:16.399 You free me from my bones. 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:20.240 I will offer you the sacrifice of thanksgiving. 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:22.959 And fall upon the name of the Lord. 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:25.839 I will fulfill my vows to the Lord. 00:06:26.079 --> 00:06:30.959 In the presence of all the people, in the courts of the Lord's house. 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:33.839 In the midst of you, O Jerusalem. 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:20.639 But the Lord Jesus, on the night when he was betrayed, took a loaf of bread. 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:26.160 And when he given thanks, he broke it and said, This is my body that is for you. 00:07:26.399 --> 00:07:28.560 Do this in remembrance of me. 00:07:29.199 --> 00:07:35.839 In the same way he took the cup also after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:39.839 Do this as oft as you drink it in remembrance of me. 00:07:40.560 --> 00:07:46.720 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:50.160 Hear what the Spirit is saying to God's people. 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:52.720 Thanks be to God. 00:11:05.440 --> 00:11:13.919 On the first day of unleavened bread, the disciples came to Jesus saying, Where do you want us to make the preparations for you to eat the Passover? 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:19.759 Jesus said, Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, The teacher says, My time is near. 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:23.519 I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples. 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:29.759 So the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover meal. 00:11:30.159 --> 00:11:38.240 When it was evening, he took his place with the twelve, and while they were eating, he said, Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me. 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:44.960 And they became greatly distressed and began to say to him one after another, Surely not I, Lord. 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:48.960 He answered, The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me. 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:55.039 The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that one by whom the Son of Man is betrayed. 00:11:55.279 --> 00:11:58.240 It would have been better for that one not to have been born. 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:05.279 Judas, who betrayed him, said, Surely not I, Rabbi, Jesus replied, You have said so. 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:13.440 While they were eating, Jesus took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat. 00:12:13.759 --> 00:12:15.279 This is my body. 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:26.720 Then he took a cup, and after giving thanks, he gave it to them, saying, Drink from it all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:34.080 I tell you, I will never drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it with you in my Father's kingdom. 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:37.200 The gospel of the Lord. 00:13:04.399 --> 00:13:07.279 In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:08.159 Amen. 00:13:08.799 --> 00:13:10.000 Please be seated. 00:13:13.519 --> 00:13:18.240 This is one of those days that is sort of filled with holiness. 00:13:18.720 --> 00:13:23.279 Often we cram the foot washing uh into uh the Eucharist. 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:24.559 Tonight we split them. 00:13:24.639 --> 00:13:31.600 I don't know if that was the right thing to do or not, but here we are to talk about the imposition of the Lord's Supper or the Eucharist. 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:35.679 And um, I want to start at the beginning, if you don't mind. 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:38.159 Well, you're here. 00:13:38.720 --> 00:13:41.360 If you mind, uh you can protest. 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:52.960 Um something we don't often realize is that uh what we have here has its basis in every Jewish home every Friday night for thousands of years. 00:13:53.200 --> 00:13:54.159 Thousands. 00:13:54.639 --> 00:14:03.440 There are two candles on the table, and it would be the practice that the oldest Jewish woman in the room would light these candles with a song. 00:14:05.120 --> 00:14:12.879 We're going to have a silver cup that our Jewish brothers and sisters call the kiddish, and that is passed around the table every Friday night. 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:14.320 There is wine in it. 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:17.919 It is a symbol in the in the Hebrew scriptures of joy. 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:21.120 Not of alcohol, of joy. 00:14:21.600 --> 00:14:34.080 And so it is common practice that as that kiddish is passed around the Shabbat table, that each person might say something that they are grateful for or something that they have truly enjoyed during the week. 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:36.879 And then, of course, there's always the loaf of bread. 00:14:37.039 --> 00:14:38.799 This is the for the children to bless. 00:14:38.879 --> 00:14:46.879 I forgot to mention the oldest man in the room blesses the cup, the kiddish, and it is the children that bless the bread, and maybe you've seen it. 00:14:47.039 --> 00:14:50.799 Typically, it is chala, which is a braided strand, right? 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:53.600 Represents many being one community. 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:56.080 The children bless it and they eat it. 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:59.679 Not so during Passover, of course, and many of you know the story. 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:03.679 In order to prepare for Passover, this is still practiced today. 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:05.440 We often forget the setting. 00:15:05.679 --> 00:15:09.120 The Hebrew people have been slaves for a few generations. 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:12.240 And this is the night where they're gonna go free. 00:15:12.399 --> 00:15:14.799 And they're gonna take all their stuff with them. 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:17.519 And they're gonna walk a really long time. 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:20.000 A really long time. 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:25.600 And their deliverance is gonna be so sudden that there's no time for the bread to rise. 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:29.200 Remember, there's no Fleischmann's yeast, there's no red star. 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:32.879 It comes from the air, it comes from sourdough, there's no time. 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:34.639 So they bake it before. 00:15:34.799 --> 00:15:36.240 Look, it's not yeast-free. 00:15:36.399 --> 00:15:39.440 They bake it before it has time to rise, so it's flat. 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:42.960 I don't know if you notice this. 00:15:43.120 --> 00:15:46.639 They eat standing up, and they eat quickly. 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:50.320 And they eat this lamb in a way that not even a Cajun person would eat. 00:15:50.399 --> 00:15:52.080 I mean, Cajuns will eat about anything. 00:15:52.639 --> 00:15:55.679 So you notice the organs and entrails are inside. 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.639 There's not even time to gut the lamb. 00:15:58.720 --> 00:15:59.919 That's gonna be really gross. 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:03.600 I just want to make sure you know that's gonna be a not a tasty meal. 00:16:04.639 --> 00:16:12.559 And one of the things we fundamentally misunderstand is that we think Jesus is the Passover lamb, so he must be a sacrifice for sin. 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:18.320 And friends, that is not at all what our Jewish brothers and sisters understand at the Passover meal. 00:16:18.559 --> 00:16:23.120 The sin offering happens on Yom Kippur, and it is only done by the high priest. 00:16:24.080 --> 00:16:27.519 If you've read these instructions, every family kills their own lamb. 00:16:27.600 --> 00:16:29.440 This is no sacrifice to God. 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:31.519 This is a sacrifice of an animal. 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:38.320 They are giving up the life of a lamb that could otherwise provide them years' worth of wool and milk. 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:44.320 They are foregoing economics because they need the calories. 00:16:44.799 --> 00:16:46.320 This is the bottom line. 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:52.399 The Paschal lamb is not a sacrifice for sin, it is food for the journey. 00:16:53.200 --> 00:16:55.679 Well, why would they put the blood on the door? 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:02.240 If you know anything about kosher food laws, our Jewish brothers and sisters are forbidden from eating the blood of any animal. 00:17:02.480 --> 00:17:10.160 In fact, kosher meat has not just been drained, it has been salted one, two, three times to wring all of the blood out. 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:17.519 And that is because in the Hebrew Bible and frankly throughout the New Testament, blood is a symbol for life. 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:21.359 You can eat the animal, but you do not own its life. 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:28.400 You return the life force to the animal, the qi of the animal, you return it to God by pouring it to the earth. 00:17:28.559 --> 00:17:32.319 In this case, you show God, I didn't eat the life. 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:34.319 The life is yours, God. 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:39.119 I bear testimony, it is not my life, it is yours. 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:46.400 This is a different frame I put it before you on what happens at this meal with the disciples. 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:51.359 Jesus does not tell him, I am your sin offering. 00:17:52.559 --> 00:17:55.279 He says, You need energy. 00:17:56.319 --> 00:18:00.319 You need energy for the journey out of bondage, and it starts now. 00:18:01.599 --> 00:18:03.440 It starts now. 00:18:08.559 --> 00:18:10.799 Jesus does something pretty dramatic. 00:18:11.359 --> 00:18:13.839 He confuses his disciples. 00:18:14.480 --> 00:18:19.680 This bread is my body, my life force. 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:22.559 Given to build yourself. 00:18:24.400 --> 00:18:26.319 This wine is my qi. 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:38.720 Drink down the qi of Jesus so that you have energy for the journey out of bondage and to help one another find the liberation God intends. 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:42.240 This is what we're going to receive. 00:18:43.759 --> 00:18:50.400 Sometimes we get so fixated on the words we forget that they point to something deeper than themselves. 00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:58.240 Now I tell our kids every year when we do chapel, we eat bread to give our body energy. 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:02.640 What we do here is we say, God, there are parts of our body we don't see. 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:04.400 They are invisible to the eye. 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:08.160 You can call that emotions or thoughts, you can call that your spirit. 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:12.640 Lord, we could use some holy energy on those parts. 00:19:13.440 --> 00:19:15.920 For this reason, we return. 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:28.880 Maybe you've noticed in the instructions to Moses that the lamb offered must be blemish-free. 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:36.079 That is to say, when you make a sacrifice, don't give cheaply. 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:42.319 But I ran into a poem this week, and this line caught me. 00:19:43.200 --> 00:19:44.960 I don't know what you're here to do tonight. 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:46.559 I don't know what your need is. 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:55.759 But I hope you will sacrifice your idea of what is perfect so that you can live life on its own terms. 00:19:56.480 --> 00:19:59.839 This I suggest is what God would have you put on the altar. 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:03.680 Your notions of being perfect or being good enough. 00:20:04.079 --> 00:20:12.720 Sacrifice those to God so that you can be who God made you to be, which is fine and perfect as it is against all of its faults. 00:20:13.279 --> 00:20:18.160 This is a poem by Jared Manley Hopkins called Pied Beauty. 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:31.279 Glory be to God for dappled things, for skies of couple color as a brindled cow, for rose moles all in stipple upon trout that swim. 00:20:31.839 --> 00:20:43.680 Fresh fire coal, chestnut falls, finches wings, landscape plotted in peace fold, fallow and plough, and all traits, their gear and tackle and trim. 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:48.880 All things counter original, spare, strange. 00:20:49.920 --> 00:20:54.240 Whatever is fickle, freckled, who knows how. 00:20:54.960 --> 00:21:02.880 With swift, slow, sweet, sour, a dazzled dim, God fathers forth whose beauty is past change. 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:04.880 Praise God. 00:21:06.640 --> 00:21:12.000 Even as we dine at the Lord's table, I offer to you to put on the Lord's altar. 00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:16.640 Standards you were never meant to live up to in the first place. 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:26.240 To accept the beauty that lies in the mirror instead of the airbrushed beauty top of the magazine. 00:21:27.440 --> 00:21:31.359 Sacrifice the magazine so that you can worship what God has made. 00:21:31.839 --> 00:21:33.039 That you live in. 00:21:34.160 --> 00:21:36.160 You will need energy for that journey. 00:21:36.799 --> 00:21:38.720 That is what we are here to do. 00:21:39.519 --> 00:21:43.759 Receive energy from God's table. 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:50.400 Sometimes we think when we hear this story, Jesus is calling Judas out. 00:21:51.440 --> 00:21:53.519 The one who's going to betray me is at the table. 00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:55.599 The truth is, all 12 of them betrayed him. 00:21:55.839 --> 00:21:57.599 I've read the story, you have too. 00:21:57.759 --> 00:21:58.720 They all run away. 00:21:58.880 --> 00:21:59.599 There's no one. 00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:04.799 And here's the highlight of the story. 00:22:04.960 --> 00:22:07.039 Jesus knows this somehow. 00:22:08.079 --> 00:22:09.680 He doesn't scold them. 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:14.400 He doesn't say, you're not good enough for me to wash your feet. 00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:22.319 No, precisely because you're going to betray me, that's why I will wash your feet. 00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:28.319 And that's why I will share my life force with you because you will need it when you are done. 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:36.960 You will need it so when the pieces are broken, you will have the energy to put them back together. 00:22:37.599 --> 00:22:40.960 This is the invitation to the disciples. 00:22:43.279 --> 00:22:47.359 And what a wonder it is, it's something as ordinary as bread and wine. 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:56.799 And keep in mind that in the time of Jesus, the average diet, 90% of your calories was a two-pound loaf of bread every day. 00:22:57.920 --> 00:22:58.640 90%. 00:23:01.519 --> 00:23:07.039 Yeah, maybe water wasn't as clean, so do hear that another part of your nutrition was wine. 00:23:07.920 --> 00:23:12.640 Think not of a fine Bordeaux. 00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:14.720 Those did not exist. 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:18.640 Think of two buck chuck that's been left in the car in Houston. 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:20.880 That's what people drank. 00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:24.000 They drank it for the nutrients. 00:23:24.240 --> 00:23:27.920 They drank it for the energy, and they drank it every day. 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:34.720 And Jesus says, whenever you eat bread, remember me. 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:37.200 That doesn't happen just once a week. 00:23:37.359 --> 00:23:40.799 Well, maybe you're on like the Atkins diet and you don't eat any bread. 00:23:40.880 --> 00:23:48.559 But I think what Jesus invites is he's not to be found just, well, once a week or once a quarter in something we do in church. 00:23:48.720 --> 00:23:55.119 The invitation is when we nourish our bodies, think on how we might nourish those parts of ourselves we cannot see. 00:23:57.920 --> 00:24:02.160 We decided in the Episcopal Church we were not going to call this the Lord's Supper. 00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:07.359 We weren't even going to call this communion, which is nice, communion, our common unity. 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:15.039 We decided we would call this the Eucharist, which is just a fancy Greek word for thanksgiving. 00:24:17.200 --> 00:24:18.799 Sometimes we forget. 00:24:18.960 --> 00:24:24.640 We think only about how we are supposed to be thankful for what God has given us. 00:24:24.880 --> 00:24:33.039 What we forget is that God is exactly thankful for who you are, regardless of what you do or don't. 00:24:34.400 --> 00:24:35.359 We forget. 00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:43.680 Which is why Jesus says, every time you eat, remember my thanksgiving for you. 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:51.680 Every time you eat, be nourished with my thanksgiving for you. 00:24:53.440 --> 00:24:56.079 I don't even know if that is enough for me. 00:24:57.200 --> 00:24:59.680 I wish I could tie it to my breathing. 00:25:01.039 --> 00:25:03.359 But that still might not be enough. 00:25:04.000 --> 00:25:07.200 This is the invitation of the Eucharist. 00:25:07.680 --> 00:25:16.240 And of course, when we can fully accept God's gratefulness and thankfulness for who we are, then we can start to return thanks. 00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:22.720 But I suggest to you, until we are grateful for who God has made us, our thanksgiving is hollow. 00:25:27.759 --> 00:25:30.319 This energy is invited to take us somewhere. 00:25:30.400 --> 00:25:36.960 And I know I've told you this story before if you've been here in years past, but I probably will never get rid of this memory. 00:25:39.599 --> 00:25:43.920 When I was in seminary, we were assigned supervised ministry. 00:25:44.079 --> 00:25:46.160 We called it SM for short. 00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:57.119 And my supervised ministry, my first year at Emory in Atlanta, was to be a chaplain at a drug rehab facility for homeless black crack addicts. 00:25:57.279 --> 00:25:59.599 It was called the Carpenter's House. 00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:01.200 I was 21. 00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:04.559 Of course, I was maybe even whiter than I am now. 00:26:04.640 --> 00:26:05.359 I don't know. 00:26:05.680 --> 00:26:08.880 I had never seen or used drugs in my life. 00:26:09.200 --> 00:26:13.359 And I was invited to be this chaplain to these homeless men. 00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:19.119 I asked the director, what does our chaplain see? 00:26:19.599 --> 00:26:21.279 What are we supposed to do? 00:26:22.160 --> 00:26:28.960 The director said, I would hate to compromise your ministry by telling you what I expect. 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:33.119 Thank God I just kept my mouth shut. 00:26:34.480 --> 00:26:37.039 Maybe for the only time in my life. 00:26:37.839 --> 00:26:43.920 I listened as these men told stories of their rock bottom. 00:26:44.240 --> 00:26:46.319 This is the first step in NA. 00:26:46.799 --> 00:26:48.079 Their rock bottom. 00:26:48.319 --> 00:26:50.799 My rock bottom was getting a B minus. 00:26:51.759 --> 00:26:59.039 I sat and listened to somebody who had a gun pulled on them in the presence of their girlfriend and children and a Kentucky fried chicken. 00:26:59.200 --> 00:27:00.960 The drug dealer tried to shoot them. 00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:02.480 The gun misfired. 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:04.000 They left. 00:27:05.599 --> 00:27:07.839 They left their girlfriend and their kids behind. 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:08.799 They fled. 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:11.519 That was not their rock bottom. 00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:21.839 They had a chapel service because this was face-based. 00:27:23.279 --> 00:27:25.359 What do you say to those men? 00:27:25.759 --> 00:27:28.160 But I heard them say this was their song. 00:27:28.240 --> 00:27:29.200 This was their theme song. 00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:32.240 They sang it every time in chapel. 00:27:33.039 --> 00:27:35.839 It's a hymn by Fanny Crosby, maybe you know it. 00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:37.039 Pass me not. 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:43.279 Pass me not, oh gentle save you. 00:27:44.319 --> 00:28:19.839 Hear my humble cry while on others you are calling do not pass me by save you save you my hums you who are calling do not pass me by. 00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:30.000 Telling stories that made me shudder that were not even their rock bottom. 00:28:31.680 --> 00:28:36.240 There was a visceral field that they had been passed by. 00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:47.039 Part I think of the tritot and the invitation to these holy mysteries is that there have been enough Passovers. 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:56.480 There have been enough people passed over because they didn't have a sponsor. 00:28:57.519 --> 00:29:03.039 Because they didn't have what I have, a family with resources who would not allow me into the gutter. 00:29:03.599 --> 00:29:05.200 If that's where I was veering. 00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:18.240 We hear this story of the Salvific Passover, and we are also salvifically called to stop the Passovers for people who have no one behind them. 00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:31.200 I don't know of any of these stuff for you, but what I do know is that in all of them I hear the need for energy I don't have. 00:29:32.160 --> 00:29:36.160 Energy that comes, frankly, from the life force of Jesus. 00:29:36.480 --> 00:29:40.640 That comes from God's thanksgiving for dappled things. 00:29:43.599 --> 00:29:46.640 To see the beauty of God and dappled things. 00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:48.880 And to give thanks. 00:29:50.960 --> 00:29:54.160 And then to protect the beauty of the dappled things. 00:29:56.079 --> 00:29:58.640 I hear that as a holy mystery tonight. 00:30:00.079 --> 00:30:06.880 So whether you have been passed over or you are called to stand aside those who have been passed over. 00:30:12.720 --> 00:30:15.279 May the body of Jesus build you up. 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:21.599 May the life force of Jesus fill you. 00:30:22.400 --> 00:30:26.960 Not only with life, but with energy to give life. 00:30:30.559 --> 00:30:31.519 Somehow. 00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:45.359 Even in the moment of betrayal or pain, perhaps we the church can do what Jesus did on this night with a group of twelve people who didn't like each other and got them to sit down at the same table. 00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:48.559 Maybe that would be enough. 00:30:50.240 --> 00:30:53.119 I know God would be grateful for it. 00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:10.319 Please join me as we pray our faith in the words of the Nicene Creed. 00:31:11.920 --> 00:31:20.720 We believe in one God, the Father of the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is seen and unseen. 00:31:21.279 --> 00:31:51.759 We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only Son of God, eternally begotten of the Father, God begotten, life common, through God, begotten, upon being with the Father, through all the head, for us and for heaven, on the holy spiritual, you can come and put it on the head. 00:31:58.400 --> 00:32:07.359 On the third, in the word is the head, and speak that to the father. 00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:14.160 You accomplish the word, and speak of health. 00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:21.359 We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord in Border Father, the Father and the Son. 00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:25.200 With the Father and the Son, we have to worship and glorified. 00:32:25.680 --> 00:32:28.000 We have worshiped to the prophets. 00:32:28.319 --> 00:32:31.839 We believe in one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. 00:32:32.079 --> 00:32:35.359 We acknowledge one baptism for the freedom of the sin. 00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:40.240 We look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world of God. 00:32:40.960 --> 00:32:41.599 Amen. 00:32:57.359 --> 00:33:00.559 We pray for God to fill us with the Holy Spirit. 00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:06.240 Generous God, we thank you for your power to create discomfort and wrestling within us. 00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:13.119 We ask that you disturb us so that we may be stretched to serve you and our neighbors better. 00:33:13.599 --> 00:33:24.880 When we are too well pleased with ourselves, when our dreams have come true because we dream too little, when we arrive safely because we sail too close to the shore. 00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:34.160 When the abundance of things we possess, we have lost our thirst for the waters of life. 00:33:34.480 --> 00:33:39.119 Having fallen in love with life, we have ceased to dream of eternity. 00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:45.759 In our efforts to build a new earth, we have allowed our vision of the new heaven to dim. 00:33:46.640 --> 00:33:58.480 Deserve us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas where storms will show your mastery, where losing sight of land we shall find the stars. 00:33:58.799 --> 00:34:06.640 We ask that you push back the horizons of our hopes and to push us forward with strength, courage, hope, and love. 00:34:07.119 --> 00:34:18.960 This is our Lord, so that while we are in health, we may be steadfast in prayer for the healing of others, especially for the celebrations and petitions of this parished family. 00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:30.000 May we not only pray for the sick among us, but also give them the gifts of personal contact and visits. 00:34:32.639 --> 00:34:41.360 When we strive to be anything less than agents of reconciliation and wholeness in a world where there is division, sickness, and sorrow. 00:34:43.760 --> 00:34:50.800 Until we be others and each be them, until we become the precious error. 00:34:51.199 --> 00:34:53.440 Until we all have to love. 00:34:54.320 --> 00:34:57.920 Let us humbly confess our sin unto Almighty God. 00:35:01.599 --> 00:35:07.119 Holy God, creator of all the earth, don't worry, don't you? 00:35:17.679 --> 00:35:20.880 We have to be allowed to go. 00:35:21.519 --> 00:35:28.320 For fear and our heart and for fear we need to protect God. 00:35:29.039 --> 00:35:31.679 You call us to protect our heart. 00:35:32.079 --> 00:35:37.280 To be over to each other, to all us with each other and with you. 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:44.320 Mend us we pray and make us do creates the power and love of Christ. 00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:46.800 And in whose name we pray. 00:35:47.119 --> 00:35:47.760 Amen. 00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:50.159 Friends, hear this good news. 00:35:50.960 --> 00:35:56.960 The love and thanksgiving of God is beyond measure, and you are included in that love. 00:35:57.760 --> 00:36:00.079 I know that you are forgiven. 00:36:01.119 --> 00:36:03.679 And thus free to love and serve. 00:36:32.559 --> 00:36:35.599 Good evening, Pete, and thank you for worshiping with us this evening. 00:36:35.760 --> 00:36:39.599 Um you're holding in your hand a pretty substantial booklet. 00:36:39.840 --> 00:36:47.280 Uh that's intentional because these three holy days we call the triduum, they're not actually meant to be separate. 00:36:47.360 --> 00:36:48.880 They really go together. 00:36:48.960 --> 00:36:53.920 And so uh, if we were running a relay series, this would be your first medal. 00:36:54.480 --> 00:37:03.039 And there's another one to be had tomorrow, and then there's another one Saturday, and then on Sunday you get the one that ties them all together at the vigil. 00:37:03.119 --> 00:37:11.280 Now, uh, a little bit uh just aside, but to be honest, the story really only works when we hold it all together. 00:37:11.679 --> 00:37:22.559 So opportunities to join that story at home through stream or here in person tomorrow at noon, and at six we'll have the um the Good Friday Liturgy. 00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:28.159 And uh you may know this, there are two days in the Episcopal Church where the Eucharist cannot be celebrated. 00:37:28.480 --> 00:37:29.199 Cannot. 00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:31.360 Tomorrow and Saturday. 00:37:31.679 --> 00:37:43.280 Hence I'm going to consecrate way more than we need so that you can receive reserved sacrament tomorrow. 00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:46.320 I do perceive it to be a dark day. 00:37:46.559 --> 00:37:51.360 And on dark days especially, holy energy could really come in handy. 00:37:51.519 --> 00:37:53.679 So I make it available tomorrow. 00:37:53.840 --> 00:38:05.440 On Saturday, it's morning prayer, and many of us don't uh necessarily do this, but uh, having lived in Germany and Bavaria, this is actually the holiest day of the year, holy Saturday, uh, even more so than Easter. 00:38:05.519 --> 00:38:07.599 It is a day when Jesus is in the tomb. 00:38:07.760 --> 00:38:09.119 You decide what he's doing. 00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:10.960 I'll speak to that briefly. 00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:16.800 Um, but it's a morning prayer, and we'll be also uh nourished by the reserved sacrament. 00:38:17.119 --> 00:38:20.480 On Sunday, of course, we have a few opportunities for worship. 00:38:20.639 --> 00:38:30.559 At 6:30 in the morning, we'll start outside, we kindle a new fire, and we come in in the darkness uh with candles, and uh we do the readings with candles. 00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:32.559 I mean, you're gonna be holding a candle for a little bit. 00:38:32.719 --> 00:38:34.159 I just want you to be prepared. 00:38:34.239 --> 00:38:37.039 Uh, that is part of the beauty of the service, to be honest. 00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:41.199 It is absolutely gorgeous, and there is no service like it. 00:38:41.360 --> 00:38:50.480 And then as the sun becomes uh apparent outside the windows, the clearbook drumline will play something like the great noise, which simulates the earthquake. 00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:52.719 And the space will be transformed. 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:56.000 Uh, you'll have an opportunity to renew your baptismal vows. 00:38:56.079 --> 00:38:58.960 And look, there's no magic in the water, there isn't. 00:38:59.039 --> 00:39:03.360 Um, but if it helps you remember God's love for you, I'll invite you up and I'll splash you. 00:39:03.599 --> 00:39:10.559 So um, you won't need goggles, but you might need water-resistant mascara if you choose to wear that. 00:39:10.719 --> 00:39:14.400 Uh that'll be on Sunday morning at 6.30 when we do the vigil. 00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:18.159 It is a longer service because we hear a few extra readings. 00:39:18.239 --> 00:39:21.440 I just want you to be prepared, but there is no service like it. 00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:22.960 There truly is not. 00:39:23.360 --> 00:39:29.679 Um, and then of course at 8:30 and 10:30, we'll have something that appears like our more regular Sunday services. 00:39:29.760 --> 00:39:34.960 Uh, there will be baptisms at 10.30 at least, and um I will do them on the spot. 00:39:35.119 --> 00:39:40.960 So if this is a thing that you feel called to do, you can tell me in advance, or you can just come to the font. 00:39:41.199 --> 00:39:44.800 Um, but this is what we are looking at the next few days. 00:39:44.960 --> 00:39:49.599 I hope that you will indeed uh take time to make them holy. 00:39:51.679 --> 00:40:02.480 And I want to say this uh because I think so often, depending on the way you've grown up, we might approach these holy mysteries with a sense of guilt or shame. 00:40:02.719 --> 00:40:06.000 And as your priest, I would discourage you from doing this. 00:40:07.360 --> 00:40:09.920 Shame and guilt take us nowhere with God. 00:40:10.159 --> 00:40:13.519 If you need something, then let it be gratitude and empathy. 00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:17.039 Gratitude and empathy are our invitations. 00:40:17.599 --> 00:40:19.920 Those are the holiest mysteries. 00:40:20.159 --> 00:40:23.760 I find nothing holy or mysterious about shame. 00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:28.239 Gratitude and empathy are gifts from God. 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:35.119 In a few minutes after celebrating the Eucharist, just so you know, this isn't an accident. 00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:36.960 It's going to get dark. 00:40:37.440 --> 00:40:46.559 Because we know that even though Jesus had this meal with his friends on his way to the garden to pray, we know that one of his friends handed him over. 00:40:47.440 --> 00:40:48.719 This is dark. 00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:50.960 It will be dark. 00:40:52.880 --> 00:40:55.039 And everything will come out of here. 00:40:55.679 --> 00:41:02.400 And it will stay this way until the Easter vigil, so that we can live into that story. 00:41:02.480 --> 00:41:05.440 And truth be told, this is a story we've all walked. 00:41:05.599 --> 00:41:08.400 This is not just a story that Jesus did one time ago. 00:41:08.559 --> 00:41:12.159 We know what it is like both to betray and to be betrayed. 00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:16.800 And we understand that those moments are not moments when we're alone from God. 00:41:16.960 --> 00:41:23.440 Precisely we connect to the story God on there, God goes with us, and tonight we go with God. 00:41:23.519 --> 00:41:24.800 So walk in love. 00:41:25.039 --> 00:41:30.320 As Christ first loved us, he gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God. 00:43:57.840 --> 00:43:59.760 And of your own happy given. 00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:21.199 Were you blessed? 00:44:27.840 --> 00:44:30.400 Sit. 00:44:35.840 --> 00:44:36.639 Tranquil. 00:44:38.320 --> 00:44:39.199 Tranquil. 00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:56.320 This is the table not of the church, but of Jesus Christ. 00:44:56.559 --> 00:45:01.199 It is made ready for those who love him and those who want to love him more, so come. 00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:04.719 You who have much faith and you who have little. 00:45:05.280 --> 00:45:10.079