WEBVTT 00:00:07.200 --> 00:00:11.119 Blessed be God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:16.559 Let's pray together. 00:00:16.879 --> 00:00:37.280 Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid, cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee and worthily magnify thy holy name through Christ our Lord. 00:00:37.600 --> 00:00:38.240 Amen. 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:40.000 The Lord be with you. 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:42.960 Let us pray. 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:54.880 Almighty God, you built your church upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief cornerstone. 00:00:55.200 --> 00:01:09.680 Grant us so to be joined together in unity of spirit by their teaching, that we may be made a holy temple acceptable to you through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:10.799 Amen. 00:01:18.959 --> 00:01:21.680 A reading from 2 Samuel. 00:01:22.239 --> 00:01:35.200 After the death of Saul, when David had returned from defeating the Amal Amal Amal Amalkele Amalekites, excuse me, David remained two days in sick land. 00:01:35.840 --> 00:01:40.560 David intoned its lamentation over Saul and his son Jonathan. 00:01:40.799 --> 00:01:45.120 He ordered that the song of the bow be taught to the people of Judah. 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:47.599 It is written in the book of Jaskar. 00:01:48.319 --> 00:01:53.680 He said, Your glory, O Israel, lies plain upon your high places. 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:56.079 How the mighty have fallen. 00:01:56.480 --> 00:02:04.799 Tell it not in God, proclaim it not in the streets of Ascalon, or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice. 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:08.639 The daughters of the uncircumcised will exult. 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:16.639 You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew arraign upon you, nor bounty his fields. 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:24.560 For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, anointed with oil no more. 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:35.360 From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, the bow of Jonathan did not turn back, nor the sword of Saul returned empty. 00:02:35.840 --> 00:02:43.199 Saul and Jonathan, beloved and lovely, in life and in death they were not divided. 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:47.680 They were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. 00:02:48.240 --> 00:03:02.719 O daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you with crimson in luxury, who put ornaments of gold on your apparel, how the mighty have fallen in the midst of battle. 00:03:03.039 --> 00:03:06.639 Jonathan lies slain upon your high places. 00:03:06.879 --> 00:03:09.919 I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan. 00:03:10.159 --> 00:03:12.639 Greatly beloved were you to me. 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:15.599 Your love to me was wonderful. 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:18.080 Passing the love of women. 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:23.360 How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war perished. 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:27.120 Hear what the Spirit is saying to God's people. 00:03:33.039 --> 00:03:35.039 Psalm 130. 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:38.319 We will read responsibly by the half verse. 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:42.080 Out of the depths have I called to you, O Lord. 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:43.840 Hear my voice. 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:51.759 If you, Lord, were to note what is done amiss. 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:56.560 For there is forgiveness with you. 00:03:59.439 --> 00:04:01.280 I wait for you, O Lord. 00:04:01.439 --> 00:04:03.360 My soul waits for you. 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:10.719 My soul waits for the Lord more than centuries for the morning. 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:16.480 O Israel, wait for the Lord. 00:04:19.120 --> 00:04:22.560 There is plenteous redemption with the Lord. 00:04:48.959 --> 00:05:00.959 As you excel in everything, in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in utmost eagerness, and in our love for you, so we want you to excel also in this generous undertaking. 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:08.319 I do not say this is a command, but I am testing the genuineness of your love against the earnestness of others. 00:05:09.120 --> 00:05:19.839 For you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for our sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich. 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:22.319 And in this manner I am giving my advice. 00:05:23.279 --> 00:05:29.519 It is appropriate for you who began last year not only to do something, but even to desire to do something. 00:05:29.920 --> 00:05:35.519 Now finish doing it so that your eagerness may be matched by completing it according to your means. 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:43.439 But if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have. 00:05:44.079 --> 00:05:59.920 I do not mean there should be relief for others and pressure on you, but it is a question of a fair balance between your presence uh present abundance and their need so that their abundance may be for your need in order that there may be a fair balance. 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:08.160 As it is written, the one who had much did not have too much, and the one who had little did not have too little. 00:06:08.639 --> 00:06:10.959 Hear what the Spirit is saying to God's people. 00:06:43.040 --> 00:06:50.800 When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, a great crowd gathered around him, and he was by the sea. 00:06:51.040 --> 00:07:01.120 Then one of the leaders of the synagogue named Jairus came, and when he saw Jesus fell at his feet and begged him repeatedly, My littered little daughter is at the point of death. 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:05.519 Come and lay your hands on her so that she may be made well and live. 00:07:05.839 --> 00:07:07.439 So Jesus went with him. 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:11.040 And a large crowd followed Jesus and pressed in on him. 00:07:11.199 --> 00:07:14.879 Now there was a woman who'd been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years. 00:07:15.040 --> 00:07:21.680 She'd endured much under many physicians and had spent all that she had, and she was no better, but rather grew worse. 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:30.800 She heard about Jesus and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, for she said, If I but touch his clothes, I will be made well. 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:36.160 Immediately her hemorrhage stopped, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:43.680 Immediately aware that power had gone forth from him, Jesus turned about in the crowd and said, Who touched my clothes? 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:48.000 And his disciples said to him, You see the crowd pressing in on you? 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:50.079 How can you say who touched me? 00:07:50.319 --> 00:07:52.959 Jesus looked all around to see who had done it. 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:59.839 But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling, fell down before Jesus and told him the whole truth. 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:04.160 He said to her, Daughter, your faith has made you well. 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:07.759 Go in peace and be healed of your disease. 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:14.720 While he was speaking, some people came from the leader's house to say, Your daughter is dead, why trouble the teacher any further? 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:21.199 But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the leader of the synagogue, Do not fear, only believe. 00:08:21.439 --> 00:08:25.680 He allowed no one to follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James. 00:08:25.920 --> 00:08:32.399 When they came to the house of the leader of the synagogue, he saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. 00:08:32.639 --> 00:08:36.559 When Jesus had entered, he said to them, Why do you make a commotion and weep? 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:38.960 The child is not dead but sleeping. 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:41.039 And they laughed at him. 00:08:41.759 --> 00:08:49.279 Then Jesus put them all outside and took the father, the child's father and mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was. 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:55.919 He took her by the hand and said to her, Talifa kum, which means, little girl, get up. 00:08:56.320 --> 00:08:59.840 And immediately the girl got up and began to walk around. 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:02.080 She was twelve years of age. 00:09:02.320 --> 00:09:04.559 At this they were overcome with amazement. 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:09.919 He strictly ordered them that no one should know this and told them to give her something to eat. 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:12.799 The gospel of the Lord. 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:40.080 I know I'm a week late with this prayer, but I saved it on purpose for the readings and the celebration today. 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:43.600 So this is a prayer from last week for Juneteenth. 00:09:43.919 --> 00:09:45.279 Let us pray. 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:49.600 Almighty God, you rescued your people from slavery in Egypt. 00:09:49.759 --> 00:09:54.080 And throughout the ages, you have never failed to hear the cries of the captives. 00:09:54.399 --> 00:10:04.000 So we remember before you our sisters and brothers in Galveston, Texas, who on the 19th of June received the glad tidings of their emancipation from slavery. 00:10:04.399 --> 00:10:08.480 Forgive us for the many grave sins that delayed that liberating word. 00:10:08.639 --> 00:10:26.799 Anoint us with your spirit to bring good news to the poor and proclaim release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free and proclaim the year of your favor through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:27.919 Amen. 00:10:42.080 --> 00:10:47.360 This is a photo of the scene of the hemorrhaging woman touching Jesus' fringe of his garment. 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:52.639 We saw this painting when we went to Israel four years ago as a group. 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:54.480 It's in a place called Middal. 00:10:55.519 --> 00:11:03.679 What's not abundantly clear from the reading is that the woman doesn't actually touch the hem of Jesus' clothes. 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:04.960 She touches him. 00:11:05.200 --> 00:11:10.559 I don't know if you're familiar with this, if you're a Jewish man, particularly if you're Orthodox. 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:13.120 This is something that you wear over your head when you pray. 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:14.480 It's called a talit. 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:16.320 Perhaps you've seen this before. 00:11:16.559 --> 00:11:22.720 And then is now there are a certain number of fringes on the edge of the talet. 00:11:23.440 --> 00:11:24.639 613. 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:32.240 And that's because there are 613 commands, if you're Jewish, that are extrapolated from the Hebrew Bible. 00:11:32.399 --> 00:11:41.440 There are 365 do's, like honor your father and mother, one for every day of the solar year, and there are 248 don'ts. 00:11:41.519 --> 00:11:46.000 And tradition says that there is a don't for every bone in your body. 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:48.000 You don't have that many, it's tradition. 00:11:49.279 --> 00:11:57.120 So there are 613 of these strands, and they're worn on your head when you pray. 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:05.279 But if you've seen the movie Fiddler on the Roof, depending on your level of orthodoxy, you would wear this under your clothes at all times. 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:11.360 And these fringes are to remind you how it is that you keep God's intention for living together. 00:12:11.519 --> 00:12:16.720 Now you might hear this and say, oh, it's so legalistic, 613 rules. 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:18.399 That wasn't the perception. 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:27.519 These were sort of God's gifts for how it is that you treat one another joyfully and fairly and frankly enjoy life. 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:30.480 It's sort of like when we make marital vows. 00:12:30.639 --> 00:12:35.279 Sometimes we keep the vows, but quite honestly, more often than not, the vows keep us. 00:12:35.519 --> 00:12:37.840 This is the understanding of Torah. 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:47.919 Well, one of these fringes says, when a woman is bleeding, she's to be put outside of the camp. 00:12:48.240 --> 00:12:50.240 It's just one of these rules. 00:12:50.879 --> 00:12:52.000 You heard the story. 00:12:52.080 --> 00:13:00.480 The lady's been haorrhaging for twelve years, and the word that we get in Greek does suggest that she's bleeding. 00:13:01.600 --> 00:13:04.080 This is like an unstopped menstrual flow. 00:13:04.159 --> 00:13:16.320 So you have to consider that according to the law that she's wearing, you see, the fringe is on her own dress, and that Jesus is also wearing on his own clothes. 00:13:17.440 --> 00:13:19.039 She can't touch him. 00:13:20.080 --> 00:13:35.519 This is a woman who spent every penny she has paying extra like crisis fees to physicians because when they touch her, they'll be unclean and have to go outside for a night to kind of sleep off the cooties. 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:40.960 She spent all of her money and she only got worse. 00:13:42.240 --> 00:13:46.480 This is a woman who hasn't been touched in 12 years. 00:13:48.559 --> 00:13:56.559 And the garment that's supposed to keep her in a spec of joy and community is what's keeping her from it. 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:02.399 She goes up to Jesus, and here's the part we don't always get. 00:14:02.639 --> 00:14:05.519 When she touches him, she's going to make him unclean. 00:14:06.480 --> 00:14:10.639 He's not going to be allowed to go into the synagogue ruler's house. 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:20.799 He's not going to be allowed to go into the synagogue because, sort of like germs, the ritual impurity can be passed on. 00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:28.480 So once this happens, she's essentially dishonored Jesus and kept him from this healing mission. 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:30.960 This is what's going on in the story. 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:36.080 And when she touches his clothing, she touches one of the fringes. 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:42.559 And I think it's very fair to say she touches the very same fringe that says she's not allowed to touch him. 00:14:44.720 --> 00:14:48.080 And Jesus says, I mean, it's quite ironic, isn't it? 00:14:48.320 --> 00:14:50.639 And Jesus says, Who touched me? 00:14:50.879 --> 00:14:52.480 And she's terrified. 00:14:52.720 --> 00:14:53.919 Because what's she going to say? 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:55.919 You can't heal that little girl anymore. 00:14:56.159 --> 00:14:57.679 I did that to you. 00:14:58.320 --> 00:15:03.200 Does she come to Jesus in faith or does she come to him in desperation? 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:06.480 And quite honestly, is there a difference most of the time? 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:08.960 This is a good question to ask. 00:15:10.799 --> 00:15:15.279 And Jesus makes her say what she did publicly. 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:22.559 I want to tell you, I think probably this is because if she just got better, people might not actually trust that she got better. 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:30.320 Here it is in front of everybody that's told her that no, she's unclean and can't be touched and can't even come into town. 00:15:31.519 --> 00:15:37.440 Jesus is going to recognize communally that she's been healed. 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:40.480 She's terrified. 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:45.200 But when she says, I touched you, Jesus says, Your faith has healed you. 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:49.279 And I want you to hear, I don't think Jesus is just talking about her ailment. 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:56.799 I think Jesus is also inviting her in the community to recognize since the ailment's gone, now she's touchable. 00:15:57.600 --> 00:15:59.039 She's touchable. 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:06.000 She's fit for community interaction for the first time in 12 years. 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:10.159 And Jesus does this publicly for her good and for theirs. 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:19.519 The story proceeds where Jesus goes to a little girl, and you know the people come out and say, don't bother, the teacher's time, she's already dead. 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:21.840 I don't know if you read the story carefully. 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:24.000 Doesn't say she was dead. 00:16:24.639 --> 00:16:26.399 Doesn't say she was dead. 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:31.200 So what if this girl's so sick they've just written her off? 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:36.399 And what if Jesus is the only one who bothers to look at her? 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:46.480 Who is it Jesus inviting us to go in and see that we've written off as not worth it? 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:56.000 And then all of this intersects gloriously as we celebrate the feast of Pauli Murray. 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:58.399 You may or may not know Pauli Murray. 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:05.279 She was the first black female ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church. 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:12.240 She's written a memoir called Hope is a Song in a Weary Throat that I recently finished. 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:14.319 It was really quite fascinating. 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:23.039 This was a woman who was ultimately raised by her aunt because her father got meningitis and was institutionalized. 00:17:24.240 --> 00:17:27.440 Her single mother died quite early. 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:30.960 The father was completely unable to take care of the five children. 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:34.240 They were all split up among different family members. 00:17:34.400 --> 00:17:42.640 And Polly Murray would learn to read at the age of four by going to school with her aunt, who was a teacher, and just sitting in the classroom with third graders. 00:17:42.799 --> 00:17:50.880 She listened and read at the third grade level by the time she was turned five, having gone to school all year. 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:58.400 So she became a teacher, and then she was recruited to be a law student at Howard University. 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:09.119 And it was really controversial at the time because while Howard was training young black men in the law, she was one of two female law students. 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:19.039 And this is when Polly Murray discovered not only was there something called Jim Crow, which undoubtedly you've heard of, she discovered there was something called Jane Crow. 00:18:19.839 --> 00:18:26.240 And she decided that she's one of the reasons we use this word intersectionality. 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:38.559 Not only was there discrimination against people in the South, particularly just for being black, but even in the black community there was strong discrimination against women. 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:51.519 So for example, at Howard, uh there was one of those legal fraternities that offered internships and national recognition, and it was only for men, and there was no female equivalent, and she fought it. 00:18:52.240 --> 00:18:55.119 And she didn't win, but she fought it. 00:18:55.359 --> 00:18:58.160 She graduated Howard and there was nowhere to go. 00:18:58.480 --> 00:19:04.319 She applied to Harvard Law School and they wouldn't accept her both because she was a female and because she was black. 00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:07.440 And the Board of Trustees ruled against her on both grounds. 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:12.960 So she went the only place she could go to earn a master's degree in law with the hope of being a teacher. 00:19:13.200 --> 00:19:14.799 She went to Berkeley. 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:19.759 Berkeley's like the Episcopal Church in some ways, right? 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:28.160 So uh so Berkeley took her, and um, here is where she did something uh most people don't even recognize her for. 00:19:28.319 --> 00:19:33.519 Perhaps you've heard of this landmark Supreme Court decision called Brown versus the Board of Education. 00:19:33.839 --> 00:19:49.680 And um the way that argument was won, Thurgood Marshall argued it, uh, was that separate but equal was deemed unequal because they psychologically examined black children who felt inferior by their separation. 00:19:49.839 --> 00:19:55.279 And this is the way they countered the idea that you could have separate and equal. 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:57.119 Psychological trauma. 00:19:57.279 --> 00:20:04.400 That was Polly Murray's idea, and she came up with it in the 30s, and the rest of the Howard Law community thought it was crazy. 00:20:05.519 --> 00:20:13.519 But not only did she come up with the idea that overturned Plessy Ferguson, that was what created separate but equal. 00:20:14.079 --> 00:20:20.720 She also created a resource, it was like the Bible for every single law she could find. 00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:28.480 The United Methodist Church paid her to do this, uh, that resulted in both Jim and Jane Crow laws in the South. 00:20:28.559 --> 00:20:38.240 And by creating this manual, within three years of making it, it was rendered useless because of the Supreme Court's decision. 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:40.160 That's a good thing. 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:46.480 She created more ammunition for Thur Grid Marshall to make this reverse. 00:20:47.359 --> 00:20:58.559 Interesting life, she somehow became incredibly good friends with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1943, and that friendship extended throughout their life. 00:20:59.359 --> 00:21:01.440 She ended up with multiple posts. 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:04.240 She taught law to people in Nigeria. 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:10.079 She ended up being the first black female also at Brandeis University. 00:21:10.240 --> 00:21:17.599 Many of you know Brandeis was founded in 1948 and Out the Gate was an incredibly influential institution, right? 00:21:17.759 --> 00:21:26.400 The reputation is still incredible, not just for being thorough, but also for being accepting and for pushing civil rights. 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:28.400 That's the legacy of Brandeis. 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:32.160 And uh and Polly Murray was a lecturer there as well. 00:21:32.480 --> 00:21:49.759 Her career sort of flittered around, and what's interesting is that upon burying her best friend, she went to her best friend's room in the hospital and she read her uh The Rites, Ministration of the Time of Death. 00:21:49.920 --> 00:21:53.119 We don't call them rites of the last rites any longer. 00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:59.759 Doing this with her best friend, she realized. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:02.079 She'd been called to the priesthood. 00:22:02.960 --> 00:22:10.640 And so she entered into the ordination process before Episcopal folks were ordaining women. 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:23.359 And somehow she squeezed in, went into seminary at the Episcopal Divinity School, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1977. 00:22:23.599 --> 00:22:27.279 Keep in mind that the first women had only been ordained in 1976. 00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:32.640 There were six white women that were ordained before the National Church allowed that. 00:22:32.880 --> 00:22:42.960 So some rogue bishops ordained some women to the priesthood, and then the General Convention figured out whether they want to do that or not. 00:22:43.759 --> 00:22:44.880 It had already been done. 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:47.119 I want you to make sure you understand, right? 00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:49.519 Sometimes this is how change happens. 00:22:49.680 --> 00:22:56.960 And then she was ordained to the priesthood the next year and spent the rest of her life, only six years left, serving in the church. 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:02.079 An incredibly, incredibly educated woman. 00:23:02.160 --> 00:23:05.759 She earned a PhD in law at Yale as well. 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:17.519 We celebrate her, and I think these texts are really, really important, not just because she was the first, because don't you see in this text, she did exactly what this hemorrhaging woman did. 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:26.000 She was isolated based on custom and law, both by the church, who would not only refuse to ordain women, but wouldn't allow them in the chancel. 00:23:26.160 --> 00:23:28.160 I don't know if you've got memories of this. 00:23:28.400 --> 00:23:30.960 Women couldn't trod in the chancel. 00:23:31.359 --> 00:23:33.920 They couldn't be altar girls or acolytes. 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:37.279 They couldn't be laid Eucharistic ministers, they couldn't hold the chalice. 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:40.640 This is when 80% of people who come to church are women. 00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:43.119 By the way, that's still true. 00:23:47.279 --> 00:23:51.279 Custom and tradition kept her separated. 00:23:52.400 --> 00:24:02.480 And she chose to continue to reach out and touch those same customs and traditions, not only for her healing, but for the healing of the world. 00:24:03.119 --> 00:24:07.119 And that's the same reversal that happens in the story, don't you see? 00:24:07.599 --> 00:24:19.599 This woman who's been segregated for 12 years and spent everything she has and gets no better, she touches Jesus exactly at the place that says she can't touch Jesus. 00:24:21.440 --> 00:24:26.720 And this is, I put to you, the difference between Jesus and just solid tradition. 00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:34.079 Jesus somehow knows that the tradition is keeping her from the joy and peace and community it's supposed to uphold. 00:24:34.640 --> 00:24:42.720 And instead of honoring tradition, Jesus honors community, joy, and connection. 00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:47.599 This has to be our call to ministry, don't you think? 00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:50.559 This has to be our call. 00:24:50.799 --> 00:25:02.000 And to say we've done it this way so long, so go outside is no longer acceptable when we read this gospel. 00:25:02.640 --> 00:25:03.519 Don't you hear? 00:25:10.480 --> 00:25:24.960 Jesus goes on to raise up a girl who everybody else has written off as dead and not worth his time. 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:30.880 I don't even know that I need to say anything else. 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:32.720 This is the gospel. 00:25:34.160 --> 00:25:36.319 So who are we in the story? 00:25:38.799 --> 00:25:42.720 Maybe we're the sick girl that everybody else has given up on. 00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:44.319 We might be. 00:25:46.799 --> 00:25:54.400 Maybe we're the disciples, the people who follow Jesus and say, come on, there's way too many people out there. 00:25:54.640 --> 00:25:55.599 Just keep going. 00:25:55.759 --> 00:25:57.680 Don't stop for this lady. 00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:01.359 As if you're going to restore the breach of the community. 00:26:02.559 --> 00:26:05.599 Maybe we're the people who say, don't waste the teacher's time. 00:26:05.759 --> 00:26:08.240 There's no hope for this. 00:26:09.279 --> 00:26:11.440 Fill in the blank who it is for you. 00:26:13.599 --> 00:26:18.079 But the story challenges us, I think. 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:23.599 Challenges us to consider who can live again. 00:26:25.519 --> 00:26:27.920 Who are we unwilling to touch? 00:26:30.160 --> 00:26:40.160 In the words of Carla Polly Murray, he said, I intend to destroy segregation by positive and embracing methods. 00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:49.119 When my brothers try to draw a circle to exclude me as a woman, I shall draw a larger circle to include them. 00:26:50.640 --> 00:26:59.200 Where they speak out for the privileges of a puny group, I shall shout for the rights of all humankind. 00:27:00.559 --> 00:27:11.599 The legacy of Polly Murray is in the middle of a story like this gospel where a woman is continually taken from financially and kept away. 00:27:14.319 --> 00:27:23.440 People who are desperately in need of the Savior's touch, whether from the Savior directly or from the church who claims to follow him. 00:27:28.880 --> 00:27:30.400 Sometimes angering. 00:27:35.680 --> 00:27:38.720 Don't get mad, but get smart. 00:27:39.119 --> 00:27:49.359 And I think we're called to touch those fringes of God's guidance to us until we figure out what it is God's guiding us into. 00:27:50.000 --> 00:27:52.160 It's new life in this story. 00:27:52.640 --> 00:28:07.839 It's not just a second chance for the hemorrhaging woman or the sick daughter, it's a second chance for the village to recognize a God and a person that they thought God could not be. 00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:24.720 But it also has everything to do with denominations, with politics. 00:28:29.039 --> 00:28:30.319 But it's about that. 00:28:31.440 --> 00:28:36.079 This has everything to do with inter-office and gossip. 00:28:37.279 --> 00:28:43.519 This is about who the Savior touches, who the savior can bring your life to. 00:28:55.759 --> 00:29:03.599 What is often called exceptional ability, says Polly Murray, is nothing more than persistent endeavor. 00:29:14.640 --> 00:29:18.640 Please join me as we pray our faith in the words of an I seeing creed. 00:29:20.480 --> 00:29:24.559 We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty. 00:29:29.440 --> 00:30:13.119 We believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Son of God, eternally coming to the Father, coming from God, from God, true God, and true God, the name, and the name of the Father, our salvation, became heaven, and the power of the Holy Spirit, you can find the virtue of the man, and our saints crucified and justified, on the very name of God's hand, and Christmas, in heaven, and received the heart of the Father. 00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:19.039 In Lord and Lord, just living in the dead, and happy man. 00:30:19.599 --> 00:30:29.680 We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord given of God, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who the Father and Son is glorified. 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:32.160 He has spoken to the prophets. 00:30:32.400 --> 00:30:35.920 We believe in the Holy Happy Health of the Church. 00:30:36.079 --> 00:30:39.440 We in the Holy Happy Sins. 00:30:39.839 --> 00:30:44.240 We hope for God to be dead and the life of the world to come. 00:30:44.720 --> 00:30:45.359 Amen. 00:31:02.400 --> 00:31:06.319 Hear us as we pray, saying, Lord, hear our prayer. 00:31:06.880 --> 00:31:08.799 Let our cry come to you. 00:31:09.200 --> 00:31:20.319 Direct the counsel and knowledge of our leaders, Almighty One, that they may confront injustice and discrimination with words and acts of wisdom and compassion. 00:31:20.799 --> 00:31:22.799 Lord, hear our prayer. 00:31:23.200 --> 00:31:25.119 Let our cry come to you. 00:31:25.839 --> 00:31:32.160 Revive our souls, O gracious one, and fill our communities with perseverance and enduring faith. 00:31:32.400 --> 00:31:37.440 When we encounter defeat, may we live on to see our loss cause found. 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:39.680 Lord, hear our prayer. 00:31:40.160 --> 00:31:41.839 Let our eye come to you. 00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:50.880 We commend to you all those who have died, especially those whose lives were taken by the violence of systemic racism. 00:31:51.119 --> 00:31:59.920 Comfort all who grieve, uphold those whose lives are filled with fear, and uplift those for whom justice has too long been denied. 00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:02.480 Lord, hear our prayer. 00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:14.799 Loving God, help us to know ourselves to be held in the gaze of your love, that we might learn to love and to embrace all of creation itself. 00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:17.680 Lord, hear our prayer. 00:32:20.640 --> 00:32:26.000 Into your abundant heart, O God, we offer the cares and thanksgiving of our hearts. 00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:28.640 For what shall we give thanks today? 00:32:33.920 --> 00:32:35.759 For whom shall we pray? 00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:46.960 We give thanks for those who have gone before us. 00:32:47.200 --> 00:32:50.079 For whom shall we remember and not forget. 00:32:54.960 --> 00:32:57.039 Lord, hear our prayer. 00:33:00.799 --> 00:33:07.200 Liberating God, we thank you for the steadfast courage of your daughter, Paul Murray, who fought long and well. 00:33:07.759 --> 00:33:21.920 Unshackle us from bonds of prejudice and fear, so that we may show forth your reconciling love and true freedom, which you revealed through your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with you in the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. 00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:23.359 Amen. 00:33:24.000 --> 00:33:27.039 Please join me in the mutual confession. 00:33:28.240 --> 00:33:37.680 Before God, with the people of God, I confess to my own brokenness, to the ways I wound my life, the lives of others, and the life of the world. 00:33:38.480 --> 00:33:44.400 May God forgive you, Christ renew you, and the spirit enable you to grow in love. 00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:45.759 Amen. 00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:03.359 Christ renew you, and the spirit enable you to grow in love. 00:34:04.079 --> 00:34:04.720 Amen. 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:16.079 The peace of the Lord be always with you. 00:34:40.719 --> 00:34:43.280 Just a few announcements I'd like to call to your attention. 00:34:43.440 --> 00:34:45.920 You'll see many of these in your e-news. 00:34:46.800 --> 00:34:54.800 One is huge thanks to the community for honoring a truly lovely person yesterday at Martha Halliburton's funeral. 00:34:54.880 --> 00:35:02.559 And our Daughters of the King, as always, showed tremendous, tremendous generosity and hospitality with a lovely, lovely reception. 00:35:02.719 --> 00:35:04.400 Many of you knew Martha. 00:35:04.480 --> 00:35:08.480 She's been gone from us for about three and a half years in assisted living. 00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:15.519 But really an incredible and inspiring lady and a joy, a joy to honor her continued legacy here. 00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:22.880 There's an ECW meeting tomorrow night at 7 here at Christ Hall. 00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:24.400 You may say, I don't even know what that is. 00:35:24.559 --> 00:35:26.239 It's the Episcopal Church Women. 00:35:26.400 --> 00:35:28.719 And there's a couple of things going to happen at the meeting. 00:35:28.800 --> 00:35:36.159 One is to talk about the opportunities with the nearly new thrift shop, but also to talk about going forward as COVID conditions continue to allow. 00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:38.320 What's going to be helpful for our ECW? 00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:47.360 There's tremendous work going on, including a grant from the diocesan ECW to help us help students and families at McWorders. 00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:53.360 So I hope you'll make time, ladies, to join this meeting tomorrow night at 7. 00:35:53.679 --> 00:35:55.519 Is there anything else to say about it? 00:35:55.840 --> 00:35:56.159 Okay. 00:35:57.760 --> 00:36:07.119 Normally we celebrate a fresh food distribution on the first Saturday of the month, but because next week is the 4th of July, the food bank is closed. 00:36:07.280 --> 00:36:10.400 So we'll be pushing that distribution to the end of July. 00:36:10.480 --> 00:36:14.000 It'll be July 31st, and then we'll do two in a row. 00:36:14.079 --> 00:36:16.480 We'll do one on August 7th as well. 00:36:16.639 --> 00:36:18.639 So two in a row. 00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:34.320 Canons for mission development and canons for all kinds of things. 00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:49.679 And look, we're not a cathedral, but if you know Christine Alexander, well you may not know her, but she's the one who not only dreamt up but fabricated these windows and is working on a few more with us, along with contributions to guiding art. 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:56.079 Levestry has very excitedly and unanimously named Christine Alexander our artist in residence. 00:36:56.239 --> 00:37:06.400 This is a win-win for us because it helps her, but it also helps us because uh it means we take art seriously here, and we do. 00:37:06.880 --> 00:37:12.400 And so um so I'm really excited to say that Christine Alexander has agreed to be our artist in residence. 00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:14.800 And these these little cards, this is just kind of for fun. 00:37:14.960 --> 00:37:19.039 Christine's got some work uh at a place called TXRX Labs. 00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:25.920 Uh the theme is called the Quadrivium, and she's going to be docenting me on Wednesday at one. 00:37:26.320 --> 00:37:28.719 If you have any interest, you can come along too. 00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:45.199 Uh so that's this Wednesday at one, but the installation is there for a while, and uh and Christine's work, what I love about it, it's it's always grounded in these really incredible, inviting, mature theological uh discourses. 00:37:45.280 --> 00:37:47.440 I mean, it's really, really splendid. 00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:54.400 You can just spend hours looking at those windows, and the same with this exhibit, which is about uh sacredness and number. 00:37:54.480 --> 00:38:00.079 So if this appeals to you at all, I've got some cards out there, and if you see Christine, please thank her for the ministry. 00:38:00.159 --> 00:38:06.480 She continues, not just to make herself, but uh you may not know this when we had the icon exhibition. 00:38:06.559 --> 00:38:12.719 She made the website, she made the booklets, um, she's made guidelines for uh artistic displays in the hallway. 00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:21.280 I mean, she really just continues to do a great deal for us, and uh so it's an honor that that she's willing to serve as our artist in residence. 00:38:21.920 --> 00:38:24.960 Um I gave a handout today. 00:38:25.039 --> 00:38:28.719 Uh it's on the back of the life of Pauli Murray. 00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:33.199 Again, it's easy not to know people that you haven't heard of before. 00:38:33.360 --> 00:38:35.679 How many of you heard of Polly Murray before? 00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:36.320 Okay. 00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:37.519 I'm grateful. 00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:39.760 I'm grateful to see some hands if I am. 00:38:39.920 --> 00:38:52.159 The rest of you, I hope, I really hope uh you'll enjoy reading more about the sheet and getting to know somebody who was underneath uh some tremendous moments in our own history. 00:38:52.880 --> 00:38:59.920 Continue to walk in love as Christ first loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God. 00:39:38.159 --> 00:39:41.280 This is the table not of the church, but of Jesus Christ. 00:39:41.440 --> 00:39:54.400 It is made ready for those who love him and those who want to love him more, so come, you who have much faith and you who have little, you who have been here often, and you who have not been for a long time or ever before. 00:39:54.639 --> 00:39:58.239 You who have tried to follow and you who have failed, come. 00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:01.440 Not because the church invites you, it is Christ. 00:40:01.840 --> 00:40:03.760 He invites you to meet him here. 00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:06.719 The Lord be with you. 00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:09.599 Lift up your hearts. 00:40:11.039 --> 00:40:13.360 Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. 00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:48.719 It is very meet, right, in our bounding duty that we should at all times and in all places give thanks unto thee, O Lord, Holy Father Almighty, everlasting God, through Jesus Christ our Lord, according to whose true promise the Holy Ghost came down from heaven, lighting upon the disciples to teach them and lead them into all truth, uniting peoples of many languages and worldviews in the confession of one faith, giving to thy church the power to serve thee as a royal priesthood, and to preach the gospel to all nations. 00:40:49.599 --> 00:41:06.000 Therefore, with archangels and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious name, evermore praising thee and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory. 00:41:06.320 --> 00:41:09.119 Glory be to thee, O Lord Most High. 00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:14.719 Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest. 00:41:20.719 --> 00:41:27.679 All glory be to thee, O Lord our God, for that thou didst create heaven and earth, and didst make us in thine own image. 00:41:27.920 --> 00:41:36.480 And if thy tender mercy didst give thine only Son Jesus Christ to take our nature upon him, and to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption. 00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:51.280 He made there a full and perfect sacrifice for the whole world, and did institute, and in his holy gospel command us to continue, a perpetual memory of that, his precious death and sacrifice, until his coming again. 00:41:51.519 --> 00:42:00.559 For in the night in which he was betrayed, Jesus took bread, and when he given thanks to thee, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take, eat. 00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:03.280 This is my body which is given for you. 00:42:03.599 --> 00:42:05.679 Do this in remembrance of me. 00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:15.920 Likewise, after supper, Jesus took the cup of wine, and when he given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, Drink this, all of you. 00:42:16.079 --> 00:42:21.599 This is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for you and for all for the remission of sins. 00:42:21.760 --> 00:42:25.199 Do this as oft as ye shall drink it in remembrance of me. 00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:48.639 Wherefore, our Lord and Heavenly Father, we thy people do celebrate and make with these 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. 00:42:49.280 --> 00:43:03.280 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. 00:43:03.519 --> 00:43:16.400 And we earnestly desire 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. 00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:28.320 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. 00:43:28.639 --> 00:43:37.679 And also that we and all thy whole church may be made one body with Him, that He might dwell in us and we in Him, through the same Jesus Christ our Lord. 00:43:38.079 --> 00:43:47.519 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. 00:43:48.000 --> 00:43:48.639 Amen. 00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:59.360 And now, as our Savior Christ has taught us, we are bold to pray our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come. 00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:03.599 Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 00:44:03.840 --> 00:44:12.159 Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. 00:44:12.480 --> 00:44:22.159 Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. 00:44:22.559 --> 00:44:23.199 Amen. 00:44:23.440 --> 00:44:30.320 Please join me in the spirit of Pentecost as we pray that prayer in a retranslation from the Aramaic language. 00:44:30.800 --> 00:44:35.119 O breathing life, your name shines everywhere. 00:44:35.360 --> 00:44:38.639 Release the space to plant your presence here. 00:44:39.119 --> 00:44:41.440 Imagine your possibilities now. 00:44:41.920 --> 00:44:45.360 Embody your desire in every life and form. 00:44:45.840 --> 00:44:49.039 Grow through us this moment's bread and wisdom. 00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:56.320 Untie the knots of failure binding us as we release the strands we hold of others' thoughts. 00:44:56.559 --> 00:45:02.159 Help us not forget our source, yet free us from not being in the present. 00:45:02.480 --> 00:45:08.960 From you arises every vision, power, and song, from gathering to gathering. 00:45:09.280 --> 00:45:09.920 Amen. 00:45:10.239 --> 00:45:13.199