WEBVTT 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:04.160 Bless the Lord who unburdens all of our sin. 00:00:07.519 --> 00:00:09.119 Let's pray together. 00:00:09.439 --> 00:00:30.719 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. 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:31.679 Amen. 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:33.280 The Lord be with you. 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:36.399 Let us pray. 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:44.960 Almighty Father, whose dear son, on the night before he suffered, instituted the sacrament of his body and blood. 00:00:45.280 --> 00:00:59.840 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, and who now lives and reigns with you in the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever. 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:01.200 Amen. 00:01:26.079 --> 00:01:28.879 It shall be the first month of the year for you. 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:40.319 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. 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:47.760 If a household is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join its closest neighbor in obtaining one. 00:01:48.159 --> 00:01:53.439 The lamb shall be divided in proportion to the number of people who eat it. 00:01:53.840 --> 00:01:58.079 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year old male. 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:02.079 You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 00:02:02.879 --> 00:02:06.959 You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month. 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:14.080 Then the whole assembled congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:23.039 They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 00:02:24.080 --> 00:02:26.719 They shall eat the lamb the same night. 00:02:26.960 --> 00:02:33.199 They shall eat it roasted over the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:42.879 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire, with its head, legs, and inner organs. 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:46.719 You shall let none of it remain until the morning. 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:50.879 Anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 00:02:51.599 --> 00:03:04.240 This is how you shall eat, how you shall eat it, your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it hurriedly. 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:07.439 It is the Passover of the Lord. 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:17.759 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. 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:22.080 On all the gods of Egypt, I will execute judgment. 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:24.400 I am the Lord. 00:03:25.039 --> 00:03:29.439 The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live. 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:38.479 When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. 00:03:39.599 --> 00:03:42.800 Hear what the Spirit is saying to God's people. 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:08.560 How shall I repay you, O Lord? 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:17.839 I will lift up the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:24.319 I will fulfill my vows to the Lord in the presence of all the chosen people. 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:27.519 Precious in your sight, O Lord. 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:32.720 O Lord, I am your servant. 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:36.480 I am your servant and the child of your heaven. 00:04:40.480 --> 00:04:47.600 I will offer you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call upon the name of the Lord. 00:04:47.920 --> 00:04:56.399 I will fulfill my vows to the Lord in the presence of all the people in the courts of the Lord's house. 00:05:45.199 --> 00:05:51.279 That the Lord Jesus, on the night when he was betrayed, took a loaf of bread. 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:58.319 And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, This is my body that is for you. 00:05:59.279 --> 00:06:01.279 Do this in remembrance of me. 00:06:02.480 --> 00:06:10.000 In the same way he took the cup also after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood. 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:16.079 Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. 00:06:17.519 --> 00:06:24.480 For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes. 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:29.279 Hear what the Spirit is saying to God's people. 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:52.639 Glory be to thee, O Lord. 00:06:52.959 --> 00:07:00.319 Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:04.079 Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:10.160 The accuser had already put it into the heart of Judah, son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:30.240 And during supper, Jesus, knowing the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he'd come from God and was going to God, got up from the table, took off his outer robe, and tied a towel around himself, and then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was tied around him. 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:36.160 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, Lord, are you going to wash my feet? 00:07:36.480 --> 00:07:43.040 Jesus answered, You do not know now what I am doing, but later you will understand. 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:47.120 Peter said to him, You will never wash my feet. 00:07:47.439 --> 00:07:52.000 Jesus answered, Unless I wash you, you have no share with me. 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:58.480 Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not only my feet only, but also my hands and my head. 00:07:58.720 --> 00:08:04.720 Jesus said to him, One who is bathed does not need to wash except for the feet, but is entirely clean. 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:07.279 And you are clean, though not all of you. 00:08:07.600 --> 00:08:09.759 For he knew who was to betray him. 00:08:10.079 --> 00:08:12.879 For this reason Jesus said, Not all of you are clean. 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:20.480 After he'd washed their feet, had put on his robe, and had returned to the table, he said to them, Do you know what I've done to you? 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:25.519 You call me teacher and lord, and you are right, for that is what I am. 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:32.960 So if I, your Lord and teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:38.240 For I've set you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:45.440 Very truly I tell you, servants are not greater than their master, nor are messengers greater than the one who sent them. 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:48.559 If you know these things, you're blessed if you do them. 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:52.799 Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:59.919 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and will glorify him at once. 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:02.720 Little children, I am with you only a little longer. 00:09:02.879 --> 00:09:09.120 You will look for me, and as I said to the Jewish leaders, so now I say to you, where I am going, you cannot come. 00:09:09.840 --> 00:09:13.279 I give you a new commandment that you love one another. 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:17.840 Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. 00:09:18.159 --> 00:09:23.840 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another. 00:09:25.840 --> 00:09:27.600 The gospel of the Lord. 00:09:34.480 --> 00:09:41.759 Acknowledge, we humbly beseech you, a lamb of your own fold, a sheep of your own flock, a sinner of your own redeeming. 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:44.960 In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:45.919 Amen. 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:47.759 Please be seated. 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:59.360 I'm grateful to celebrate today that has so much bandwidth packed into such short time with you. 00:09:59.600 --> 00:10:04.639 The name of the day, of course, is Monday Thursday, and it comes directly from this reading from John. 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:07.200 The Latin word, of course, is mandate. 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:11.519 The mandate is love one another as I've loved you. 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:16.480 I want to unpack that a little bit and then talk about the next thing we celebrate today. 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:22.240 Not only is the mandate to serve one another, but the mandate comes around God's table. 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:27.840 And then, of course, Jesus knew the ending himself, so I don't want to spoil the ending for you. 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:37.840 We're coming in in light, and we're going to go out in dark because we know the evening ends in darkness, with one of Jesus' best friends handing him over unto his death. 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:41.519 He knew it, so I haven't ruined the story by telling you. 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:50.559 In fact, perhaps maybe it makes Jesus' invitation to love one another all the greater to consider he knows what's coming to happen. 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:53.200 First thing is about foot washing. 00:10:53.600 --> 00:10:55.759 Depends on which scholar you read. 00:10:56.480 --> 00:11:04.559 Some scholars believe you could not even command a slave to wash someone else's feet, so dirty and low that job was considered. 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:10.000 But certainly never would a rabbi wash his disciples' feet. 00:11:10.080 --> 00:11:22.720 It would be like you going to the Oval Office and Joe Biden seeing that you've got some crumbs around your mouth and him getting his own sleeve wet and wiping your mouth for you as an adult. 00:11:22.879 --> 00:11:25.200 Of course, you say that's preposterous, right? 00:11:25.279 --> 00:11:33.440 Because you could easily tell an adult person or even a grown child, you could say, you've got food on your mouth, just wipe that off. 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:44.320 You could say to the disciples, because there's a basin in the room, look, y'all, uh, I'm glad you feel at home, but this isn't our home. 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:48.879 So let's go ahead and y'all take care of that and we'll come back to the table. 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:59.440 What Jesus chose to do, though, from his position of privilege, is to use his privilege to serve people who maybe could have served themselves but didn't choose to. 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:04.399 I don't know how to love that way most of the time. 00:12:04.879 --> 00:12:17.039 Most of the time, I like to think my privilege is in telling people what to do instead of seeing a need, whether someone can meet it themselves or not, and immediately doing what I can. 00:12:17.200 --> 00:12:22.159 And Jesus suggests that this is how we are to love one another. 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:25.120 It undoes a lot of my parenting strategies. 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:26.720 I have to be honest. 00:12:26.960 --> 00:12:29.039 I'm trying to relearn. 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:35.600 Jesus does not shame his disciples, he washes them. 00:12:35.840 --> 00:12:43.519 And I read an incredible quote this morning that says, Giving from the hand and giving from the heart are entirely different. 00:12:43.759 --> 00:12:47.519 When you give from your hand, you give until it's empty. 00:12:47.840 --> 00:12:50.799 And when you give from your heart, you give until it's full. 00:12:53.279 --> 00:13:07.759 And Jesus, if you'll remember, on Palm Sunday, I suggested that Jesus spends the week emptying himself, emptying his hands, and filling his heart. 00:13:09.039 --> 00:13:12.159 And all of this becomes all the more consequential. 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:15.679 I mean, consider this isn't even just wiping somebody's mouth. 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:19.039 This is like going to somebody in the hospital and changing their diaper. 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:24.879 That's the equivalent of what Jesus does to these people who could do it themselves. 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:32.000 And I don't know if you noticed, Jesus knows Judas is going to betray him, but Judas is in the room. 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:39.200 Imagine this is your last meal and you know it. 00:13:40.399 --> 00:13:48.159 With your best friends from your fraternity or your sorority, the members of your family you actually really get along with. 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:56.399 And you start to do this lovely gift, and then you get to somebody who you know is not going to receive it. 00:13:56.879 --> 00:14:09.759 You get to somebody who you know is not only going to refuse to receive it for what you'd like to give, they're going to turn you in at the end of the night and get you in jail and throw away the keys and get you on death row. 00:14:12.240 --> 00:14:13.919 I don't know about you. 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:18.399 My heart wouldn't be real excited about serving that person. 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:22.320 John is really clear. 00:14:24.879 --> 00:14:30.480 Judas is in the room and he gets his feet washed by Jesus. 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:39.919 And I want to return to that phrase because Jesus doesn't wash his disciples' feet in any kind of transaction. 00:14:40.159 --> 00:14:41.679 This is not an investment. 00:14:42.879 --> 00:14:49.200 He's not trying to show them just a way of being, and they better get it right. 00:14:49.919 --> 00:14:59.919 Jesus is giving a gift because his heart was filled to give it, regardless of how or if it was received. 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:10.879 And that's the mandate to love one another, to give gifts from a full heart, because it's a joy to give. 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:20.639 And to enter into the spiritual discipline of not worrying how it's received. 00:15:24.799 --> 00:15:32.000 Not only is it godly, but all the research I've read suggests our lives would be happier if we gave that way. 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:46.240 It's so difficult for me and my own spirituality and pettiness that it brings us to the second institution of the day, which has to do, of course, with the Eucharist. 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:49.440 And Eucharist is that fancy Greek word which means thanksgiving. 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:50.480 And we do it every week. 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:59.279 We come in and we say, God, we're thankful and grateful for who you've made us and all the gifts you've given us, but we often forget that the Eucharist works both ways. 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:05.120 We're grateful for God, and God is grateful for us. 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:09.600 God is thankful for who you are. 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:16.240 And the Eucharist is the celebration of God's thankfulness and our own. 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:19.039 And it begins, many of us miss this. 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:22.480 We think Jesus just made this up. 00:16:24.240 --> 00:16:36.240 And I don't know if you know it, it helps having a family member who's Jewish, but um you know every Friday night in the Jewish household, the scene plays out just like it would have that night in Jerusalem. 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:39.440 There's two candles on the table. 00:16:40.559 --> 00:16:44.000 A woman lights the candles and she says a blessing. 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:47.440 So yes, there were women there. 00:17:22.240 --> 00:17:32.000 And then every Friday night the oldest man in the house takes a silver cup that looks a lot like this one, except instead of calling it a chalice, they call it a kiddish. 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:53.759 And the oldest man holds up the cup and says, Blessed are you, O God, ruler of the universe, for giving us the fruit of the vine. 00:17:54.160 --> 00:18:05.680 And the cup is passed around the table, and our Jewish and brothers and sisters have been drinking out of a common silver cup for millennia. 00:18:06.079 --> 00:18:22.559 And when the cup comes to you, you might drink from it, you might not, but you're able to say, voice out loud, gratitude, not just for things that have gone your way, but for the presence of the divine in your life that day, that week. 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:27.440 And lastly comes the bread. 00:18:28.079 --> 00:18:32.880 And this is for the children of the table to bless, even if they're 97 years old. 00:18:33.519 --> 00:18:39.039 Many of you know that most of the year our Jewish brothers and sisters eat chala, which is braided. 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:41.680 It's rich, it has eggs and sugar in it. 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:48.640 But during the Passover, and we're about to track back with the story, of course, it's matzah's flat. 00:18:49.039 --> 00:18:53.119 And the children pray this blessing out loud, and the family joins them. 00:18:53.279 --> 00:18:55.759 You'll hear it in English and Hebrew in the same song. 00:18:56.000 --> 00:19:01.599 Hamutzilehem in Haarritz, we give thanks to God for bread. 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:07.200 Our voices rise in joyful chorus as our simple prayer is said. 00:19:18.319 --> 00:19:28.240 And a common piece of bread, whether round or braided, both of which show unity and inclusion, is broken and shared. 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:37.599 The line from the rabbis is that more than the Jewish people have kept the Sabbath, the Sabbath has kept the Jewish people. 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:44.640 That's the normal order for every Friday night, but in Exodus we hear the story is a little bit different. 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:51.519 In Exodus, the people are ready to get out of the land. 00:19:51.839 --> 00:20:01.279 There have been plagues, Moses has argued with Pharaoh, it's gone nowhere, and now the word is you're leaving tonight, so you better get ready. 00:20:01.519 --> 00:20:06.880 Instead of reclining at the table, you're gonna eat standing up. 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:19.200 You're gonna have your staff in your hand because after the meal's over, you're out the door, and you're not just gonna have bread and wine, you're gonna have those things like you always would. 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:22.480 There's gonna be something special about them, though, the bread. 00:20:22.720 --> 00:20:26.880 You know, they didn't have Fleischmann's yeast back then, they didn't have red star. 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:34.400 Yeast came from the air, and it took time for the yeast to leaven the dough, or it came from sourdough. 00:20:34.720 --> 00:20:38.400 So you see, there's nothing wrong with yeast, they just didn't have time for it to work. 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:40.240 They had to bake it flat. 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:44.079 And there's another thing that's interesting in this story. 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:55.279 Normally, killing any kind of livestock, back then people ate meat probably seven or eight times a year, and it was always on high holy days, and you always took it to a priest. 00:20:55.680 --> 00:21:02.160 And in this story, you don't even have time for that, so everybody gets to be their own priest and kill their own lamb. 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:04.240 And you've got to eat all of it. 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:09.119 And if you've ever had lamb, it's pretty fatty. 00:21:10.480 --> 00:21:16.000 And you know what fat has that carbs and protein don't calories. 00:21:16.559 --> 00:21:19.359 Like three more calories per gram. 00:21:20.720 --> 00:21:27.839 And when you're gonna go on a journey for the next 40 years, what you could really use is some nutrition. 00:21:28.559 --> 00:21:30.000 What about the blood business? 00:21:30.160 --> 00:21:40.240 You know, it's really early on in the scriptures that we hear the blood represents the life of the animal, and the life belongs to God, so you can't drink it. 00:21:40.559 --> 00:21:42.640 This still happens today on the black market. 00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:48.240 People do things like eat black rhino horns so they can have the animal's powers. 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:53.839 We know in the United States we say that's unscientific and it's silly, and I'm glad we do that. 00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:56.960 But you have to realize that attitude is still prevalent today. 00:21:57.279 --> 00:21:59.759 So drinking the blood of the animal was. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:08.640 A way of taking its qi into yourself, and the scriptures are clear you can't do that because that life is not yours, it belongs to God. 00:22:10.559 --> 00:22:13.599 You can't have blood, you can't have that life. 00:22:13.759 --> 00:22:17.200 You give it back to the earth and you give it back to God. 00:22:17.359 --> 00:22:22.400 There's nothing in Exodus about this lamb taking on your sin. 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:24.160 That happens on Yom Kippur. 00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:33.359 This story is about a people who are in bondage on the cusp of liberation, and what they need is energy for the journey. 00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:44.799 So Jesus sits with his disciples and they light the candles and they bless the wine and they bless the bread, and Jesus says something kind of different. 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:48.079 He says, Hey, look, this bread is like my life. 00:22:49.359 --> 00:22:56.000 So look, this bread, I can tell you right now, it doesn't have a lot of nutrition in it. 00:22:56.400 --> 00:22:58.480 It doesn't really taste much like bread. 00:22:58.559 --> 00:22:59.279 It's pretty flat. 00:22:59.440 --> 00:23:01.519 Have you had church bread before? 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:11.519 We understand, though, that bread goes into our body and gives our body energy to regenerate, to recuperate, to grow. 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:20.559 And Jesus says, hey, this bread, I want you to think about our lives together. 00:23:21.519 --> 00:23:26.960 And particularly, I want you to think about the way I just showed love for you. 00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:38.319 And if you'll remember, I don't mean a fact that happened ten years ago or a fact that happened before you were born. 00:23:38.559 --> 00:23:51.759 If you will reattach that way of loving into your life right now, when you eat this bread, it won't just nourish your body, it'll nourish your spirit for the journey that God has in front of you. 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:54.160 This wine. 00:23:55.119 --> 00:24:01.680 We often say things that we're grateful for when we pass this wine around, every Shabbat. 00:24:02.240 --> 00:24:07.519 When you drink this wine, I want you to think about my life poured out into yours. 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:13.279 Yeah, tomorrow there's going to be some real blood, but not yet tonight. 00:24:13.440 --> 00:24:17.039 Tonight it's about my life being shared with you. 00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:22.880 I want you to think about the way Jesus says, I've shared my life with you. 00:24:23.119 --> 00:24:27.680 And when you drink this wine, you won't just have the flavor of the grapes. 00:24:27.759 --> 00:24:30.799 And wine, by the way, is a symbol of joy if you're Hebrew. 00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:39.200 You won't just have the joy of the wine, you'll have the joy of my love and my life shared with you. 00:24:40.160 --> 00:24:56.559 And it will give your body energy, but it will nourish your spirit so that you can love enough to focus on the joy of giving instead of being worried about what other people will do with your gift. 00:24:57.680 --> 00:25:05.519 So that you can include people who don't even want to be included by you, but might actually be mad enough to hurt you. 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:10.880 That takes a special kind of energy. 00:25:12.079 --> 00:25:14.559 It takes holy energy. 00:25:15.599 --> 00:25:17.680 And that's why we come back here tonight. 00:25:17.759 --> 00:25:34.559 And that's why we come back every Sunday, so that God can give us energy for us to move out of whatever bondage we find ourselves in and away from whatever pharaohs there are that hold us back. 00:25:35.119 --> 00:25:58.799 Whether those pharaohs be the new Jim Crow or the old one, whether those pharaohs be glass ceilings, whether those pharaohs be our own anxieties and shame and guilt, God would deliver us from our bondage so we can go forward on a journey and love as Christ has loved. 00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:24.480 We know what's coming, so did Jesus, to be renewed also in our baptismal vows. 00:26:24.640 --> 00:26:39.519 We're not washing feet this year because of COVID, so it will be my privilege to help you remember your baptism by asperging you with this holy water that will later be used to clean God's table after it's stripped. 00:26:39.839 --> 00:27:01.839 So, in order to prepare for the journey of the next few days, please join me as we confess our sins against God and our neighborhood. 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:17.039 We have not loved you with our whole heart. 00:27:17.359 --> 00:27:20.319 We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. 00:27:20.640 --> 00:27:24.079 We are truly sorry, and we humbly repent. 00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:36.400 For the sake of your Son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us and forgive us, that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways to the glory of your name. 00:27:36.720 --> 00:27:37.359 Amen. 00:27:37.920 --> 00:27:49.200 The Almighty and Merciful Lord grant you absolution and remission of all your sin, true repentance, amendment of life, and the grace and consolation of the Holy Spirit. 00:27:49.599 --> 00:27:50.240 Amen. 00:27:50.559 --> 00:27:57.519 I invite you to join me in standing as you're able, as we renew our baptismal covenant, knowing what lies ahead of us. 00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:02.559 Do you believe in God the Father? 00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:05.440 I believe in God the Father Almighty. 00:28:07.599 --> 00:28:10.640 Do you believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God? 00:28:11.119 --> 00:28:14.319 I believe in Jesus Christ, the only Son of the Mirror. 00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:20.319 He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. 00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:22.400 He suffered the God. 00:28:26.079 --> 00:28:28.000 He descended to the dead. 00:28:28.319 --> 00:28:30.640 On the third day, he rose again. 00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:35.680 He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. 00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:38.960 He will come again to judge the living and the dead. 00:28:39.200 --> 00:28:41.839 Do you believe in God the Holy Spirit? 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:43.920 I believe in the Holy Spirit. 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:54.000 The Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. 00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:59.920 Will you continue in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, in the breaking of bread and in the prayers? 00:29:02.079 --> 00:29:04.319 Will you persevere in resisting evil? 00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:08.400 And whenever you fall into sin, repent and return to the Lord. 00:29:08.720 --> 00:29:10.240 I will be a side. 00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:15.039 Will you proclaim by word and example the good news of God in Christ? 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:17.039 I will still. 00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:22.640 Will you seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving your neighbor as yourself? 00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:24.559 I will still. 00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:31.200 Will you strive for justice and peace among all people and respect the dignity of every human being? 00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:40.160 And just for tonight, will you strive to give not only with your hands, but also with your heart? 00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:43.359 I will, with God's help. 00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:01.119 Let us now pray to renew this sacrament of new birth. 00:30:01.839 --> 00:30:05.519 Deliver us, O Lord, from the way of sin and death. 00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:07.519 Lord, hear our prayer. 00:30:07.839 --> 00:30:10.720 Open our hearts to your grace and truth. 00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:12.640 Lord, hear our prayer. 00:30:12.960 --> 00:30:16.160 Fill us with your holy and life-giving spirit. 00:30:16.480 --> 00:30:18.079 Lord, hear our prayer. 00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:22.079 Keep us in the faith and communion of your holy church. 00:30:22.480 --> 00:30:24.079 Lord, hear our prayer. 00:30:24.400 --> 00:30:27.839 Teach us to love others in the power of the Spirit. 00:30:28.160 --> 00:30:29.759 Lord, hear our prayer. 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:33.119 Send us into the world in witness to your love. 00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:35.279 Lord, hear our prayer. 00:30:35.599 --> 00:30:38.799 Bring us to the fullness of your peace and glory. 00:30:39.279 --> 00:30:41.279 Lord, hear our prayer. 00:30:41.759 --> 00:30:55.680 Grant, O Lord, that all who are baptized into the death of Jesus Christ, your Son, may live in the power of his resurrection and look for him to come again in glory, who lives and reigns now and forever. 00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:56.640 Amen. 00:31:06.079 --> 00:31:13.920 Water is a symbol for hydration, for refreshment, for growth, and for cleansing. 00:31:20.240 --> 00:31:22.160 Receive these gifts from God. 00:31:24.400 --> 00:31:28.480 Not only in your body, but especially in your spirit. 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:17.440 Maudi Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, concluding with the Easter vigil. 00:33:17.519 --> 00:33:21.680 So I just want to make sure you know the opportunities for worship in the next couple of days. 00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:27.279 Tomorrow we'll have Good Friday opportunities both at noon and 6 p.m. 00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:29.759 Not 6.30, but 6 p.m. 00:33:31.839 --> 00:33:34.000 Saturday's a quiet day. 00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:44.240 And then Sunday morning at 6.30, we'll have a service unlike any other in the Episcopal calendar, which is the Easter Vigil. 00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:50.880 So we'll come in in darkness, we'll bring our candles in, and we'll be holding a candle for a good 30 minutes. 00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:59.200 I want to prepare you that the morning of there was an earthquake, and apparently it was really loud, and there'll be a drumline. 00:33:59.759 --> 00:34:04.480 So you may want to be prepared to turn your hearing aids down. 00:34:04.640 --> 00:34:07.200 It is going to be very loud, that earthquake. 00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:10.400 And when it's over, we'll all be very happy and it'll be very joyous. 00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:13.679 So that'll be the Easter vigil in the morning. 00:34:13.840 --> 00:34:23.119 And then there's opportunities for worship at with different readings, a different liturgy and different sermons at 8:30 and 10:30 as well. 00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:28.480 And of course, we're streaming all of these services on YouTube as well. 00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:54.960 My hope is that you will carve out a little bit of extra time, not just to contemplate things that have happened in the history of the Lord and of the church, but to allow these stories and the new life that they offer us to resonate with your own story and thereby truly make these holy days. 00:34:56.400 --> 00:35:03.199 Continue to walk in love as Christ first loved us and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God. 00:36:49.519 --> 00:36:52.639 This is the table not of the church, but of Jesus Christ. 00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:57.039 It is made ready for those who love him and those who want to love him more. 00:36:57.360 --> 00:36:58.239 Succumb. 00:36:58.880 --> 00:37:07.440 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. 00:37:07.760 --> 00:37:11.199 You who have tried to follow and you who have failed, come. 00:37:11.440 --> 00:37:17.519 Not because the church invites you, it is Christ, and he invites you to meet him here. 00:37:18.639 --> 00:37:20.239 The Lord be with you. 00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:23.440 Lift up your hearts. 00:37:25.599 --> 00:37:28.000 Let us give thanks unto our Lord God. 00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:59.039 It is very meet right and are bound in duty that we should at all times and in all places give thanks unto thee, holy, O Lord, Holy Father Almighty, everlasting God, who just bid by faithful people cleanse their hearts and prepare with joy for the Paschal feast, that fervent in prayer and in works of mercy, and renewed by thy word and sacraments, they may come to the fullness of grace which thou hast prepared for those who love thee. 00:37:59.280 --> 00:38:16.320 And therefore, with angels and archangels and with all the company of heaven, we Lord 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. 00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:19.519 Glory be to thee, O Lord Most High. 00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:25.280 Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, Hosanna and the highest. 00:38:25.920 --> 00:38:33.119 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. 00:38:33.360 --> 00:38:42.400 And of 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. 00:38:42.719 --> 00:38:56.480 He made there a full and perfect sacrifice for the whole world, and did institute, and in its holy gospel command us to continue a perpetual memory of that, his precious death and sacrifice, until his coming again. 00:38:57.039 --> 00:39:05.840 For in the night in which he was betrayed, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks to thee, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take, eat. 00:39:06.079 --> 00:39:08.559 This is my body which is given for you. 00:39:08.800 --> 00:39:10.880 Do this in remembrance of me. 00:39:13.280 --> 00:39:16.400 Likewise after supper, Jesus took the cup of wine. 00:39:16.559 --> 00:39:20.480 And when he given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, Drink this, all of you. 00:39:20.719 --> 00:39:25.920 This is my blood of the new covenant, which is shed for you and for all, for the remission of sins. 00:39:26.159 --> 00:39:29.679 Do this as oft as ye shall drink it in remembrance of me. 00:39:32.239 --> 00:39:53.119 Wherefore, O Lord and Heavenly Father, we thy people do celebrate and make with these thy holy gifts, which we now offer unto thee, the memorials 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. 00:39:53.760 --> 00:40:06.400 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. 00:40:06.880 --> 00:40:19.679 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. 00:40:20.239 --> 00:40:40.960 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, 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. 00:40:41.840 --> 00:40:50.639 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. 00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:51.840 Amen. 00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:56.559 And now, as our Savior Christ hath taught us, we are bold to pray. 00:40:56.960 --> 00:41:07.679 Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:27.599 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. 00:41:28.079 --> 00:41:28.719 Amen. 00:41:30.400 --> 00:41:33.519 Christ, our Passover, is sacrificed for us. 00:41:36.559 --> 00:41:38.559 These are the gifts of God. 00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:51.199 I invite you to receive bread or a blessing by coming to the aisle closest to your right, coming down forward in socially distanced intervals and returning to your seats on the far side. 00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:45.440 Let's pray together. 00:45:47.519 --> 00:46:07.760 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 thus assure us thereby of thy favor and goodness towards us. 00:46:08.000 --> 00:46:20.800 And that in the mystical body of thy son, the blessed company of all faithful people, and are also airs to the hope of thy everlasting kingdom. 00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:44.320 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 woman through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost, be Father and Glory, world without end. 00:46:44.880 --> 00:46:45.280 Amen. 00:50:35.519 --> 00:50:37.119 Yet you are the holy one. 00:50:47.119 --> 00:50:49.440 They cried out to you and were delivered. 00:50:53.760 --> 00:50:54.880 But that's for me. 00:50:55.039 --> 00:50:57.440 I am a worm and less than human. 00:51:09.599 --> 00:51:12.239 You trusted in God for deliverance. 00:51:18.320 --> 00:51:21.760 You are God are the one who took me out of the wood. 00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:29.199 I have been entrusted to you ever since I was born. 00:51:34.159 --> 00:51:36.880 Be not far from me for trouble, it's near. 00:51:40.159 --> 00:51:42.000 Young bulls encircle me. 00:51:52.559 --> 00:51:54.159 I am poured out like water. 00:51:54.719 --> 00:51:56.719 All my bones are out of joint. 00:52:01.360 --> 00:52:03.760 My mouth is trying out like a posture. 00:52:50.880 --> 00:52:52.880 Declare your name to my people. 00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:12.320 For you do not despise our poor the poor in their poverty. 00:53:12.559 --> 00:53:14.719 Neither do you hide your face from them. 00:53:19.280 --> 00:53:21.760 Praise the view in the Great Assembly. 00:53:27.920 --> 00:53:30.239 Or shall lead and be satisfied. 00:53:30.480 --> 00:53:33.119 And those who seek you shall praise you. 00:53:37.199 --> 00:53:40.480 The ends of the earth shall remember and turn to you.