WEBVTT 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:43.680 Blessed be God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:47.759 And blessed be God's family now and forever. 00:05:48.079 --> 00:05:48.720 Amen. 00:05:49.199 --> 00:05:50.319 Let's pray together. 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:58.560 Almighty God, to you all hearts are open, all desires known, and from you no secrets are hid. 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:10.240 Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love you and worthily magnify your holy name through Christ our Lord. 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:11.199 Amen. 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:13.040 The Lord be with you. 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:15.600 Let us pray. 00:06:16.879 --> 00:06:23.600 Almighty God, you've given your only Son to be for us a sacrifice for sin and also an example of godly life. 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:31.439 Give us grace to receive thankfully the fruits of his redeeming work and to follow daily in the blessed steps of his most holy life. 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:38.560 Through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. 00:06:39.199 --> 00:06:39.839 Amen. 00:06:53.279 --> 00:06:57.839 Joseph could no longer control himself before all those who stood by him. 00:06:58.480 --> 00:07:01.759 And he cried out, Send everyone away from me. 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:04.399 So no one stayed with him. 00:07:04.879 --> 00:07:11.600 When Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard it. 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:14.079 And the household of Pharaoh heard it. 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:20.560 Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph, is my father still alive? 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:23.600 But his brothers could not answer him. 00:07:24.079 --> 00:07:26.399 So dismayed were they at his presence. 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:31.199 Then Joseph said to his brothers, Come closer to me. 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:33.279 And they came closer. 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:39.279 And he said, I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt. 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:46.399 And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here. 00:07:47.519 --> 00:07:50.800 For God sent me before you to preserve life. 00:07:52.399 --> 00:08:01.279 For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are five more years in which there will be neither ploughing nor harvest. 00:08:02.399 --> 00:08:11.279 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:15.439 So it was not you who sent me here, but God. 00:08:16.480 --> 00:08:25.439 He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and Lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt. 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:35.679 Hurry and go to my father and say to him, Thus says your son Joseph, God has made me Lord of all of Egypt. 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:38.799 Come down to me, do not delay. 00:08:39.440 --> 00:09:03.840 You shall settle in the land of Goshen, and you shall be near me, you and your children and your children's children, as well as your flocks, your herds, and all that you have, I will provide for you there, since there are five more years of famine to come, so that you and your household and all that you have will not come to poverty. 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:12.720 And now your eyes and the eyes of my brother Benjamin see that it is my own mouth that speaks to you. 00:09:13.360 --> 00:09:19.679 You must tell my father how greatly I am honored in Egypt and all that you have seen. 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:23.440 Hurry and bring my father down here. 00:09:24.639 --> 00:09:31.759 Then he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, while Benjamin wept upon his neck. 00:09:32.000 --> 00:09:36.240 And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them. 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:40.000 And after that his brothers talked with him. 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:43.039 The word of the Lord. 00:09:49.919 --> 00:09:54.639 Please join me as we read Psalm 133 responsively by the half-birth. 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:58.399 Oh, how good and pleasant it is. 00:10:02.480 --> 00:10:07.279 It is like fine oil upon the head, and stand upon the beard. 00:10:07.759 --> 00:10:09.200 Upon the beard of Aaron. 00:10:18.000 --> 00:10:20.240 For there the Lord has ordained the blessing. 00:10:29.039 --> 00:10:31.360 A reading from Paul's epistle to the Romans. 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:33.440 Yes, then. 00:10:33.679 --> 00:10:35.759 Has God rejected God's people? 00:10:36.000 --> 00:10:37.120 By no means. 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:42.639 I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. 00:10:42.960 --> 00:10:46.159 God has not rejected God's people whom God foreknew. 00:10:46.879 --> 00:10:50.320 The gifts and calling of God are irrevocable. 00:10:50.559 --> 00:11:02.879 Just as you were once disobedient to God, but have now received mercy because of their disobedience, so they have now been disobedient in order that, by the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy. 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:08.320 God has imprisoned all in disobedience, so that God may be merciful to all. 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:12.399 Thanks be to God. 00:11:37.919 --> 00:11:43.600 It is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles. 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:51.120 Then the disciples approached and said to Jesus, Do you know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard what you said? 00:11:51.759 --> 00:11:57.039 Jesus answered, Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. 00:11:57.200 --> 00:11:58.240 Let them alone. 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:00.639 They are blind guides of the blind. 00:12:00.879 --> 00:12:04.240 And if one person guides another, both will fall into a pit. 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:08.000 But Peter said to Jesus, Explain this parable to us. 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:13.120 Then Jesus said, Are you also still with an understanding? 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:18.240 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and goes out into the sewer? 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:23.039 What comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles. 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:25.519 For out of the heart come evil intentions. 00:12:26.080 --> 00:12:31.039 Murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander. 00:12:31.360 --> 00:12:33.279 These are what defile a person. 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:36.399 But to eat with unwashed hands does not defile. 00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:40.879 Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre in Sidon. 00:12:41.039 --> 00:12:50.799 Just then a Canaanite woman from that region came out and started shouting, Have mercy on me, Lord, son of David, my daughter is tormented by an unclean spirit. 00:12:51.120 --> 00:12:53.360 But Jesus did not answer her at all. 00:12:53.679 --> 00:12:59.919 And his disciples came and urged him, saying, Send her away for keep shouting after us. 00:13:00.159 --> 00:13:05.360 Jesus answered, I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. 00:13:05.840 --> 00:13:09.840 But she came and knelt before him, saying, Lord, help me. 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:16.480 Jesus answered, It is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs. 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:22.720 She said, Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table. 00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:26.879 And then Jesus answered her, Woman, Great is your faith. 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:29.120 Let it be done for you as you wish. 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:31.759 And her daughter was healed instantly. 00:13:32.960 --> 00:13:34.639 The Gospel of the Lord. 00:13:52.879 --> 00:14:00.240 I want to suggest to you, though, that Jesus really sets an interesting hinge on which to operate the story. 00:14:00.559 --> 00:14:03.279 In the optional reading, that's what we've got to hear first. 00:14:03.440 --> 00:14:07.279 It's what comes out of the mouth that defiles, not what goes into it. 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:12.080 And then there's this case study of a woman who comes to Jesus. 00:14:12.320 --> 00:14:17.360 I want to suggest to you, maybe not in faith, but rather in desperation. 00:14:18.159 --> 00:14:23.279 She comes desperate because her daughter is sick and there is no one who can help her. 00:14:24.799 --> 00:14:30.399 And I suppose it depends on how we hear Jesus as to what we might take home today. 00:14:31.840 --> 00:14:40.000 The mentorship of my early faith taught me that Jesus is testing this woman to see if she will have adequate faith. 00:14:45.600 --> 00:14:53.519 And if you follow that, then I think about three weeks ago there was a really interesting case study that happened within the House of Congress. 00:14:53.759 --> 00:15:02.320 One member said to, called another member of the House of Congress, an epithet reserved for women only on the steps of Capitol Hill. 00:15:02.639 --> 00:15:09.600 And there was really two very striking addresses to Congress that followed this incident. 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:24.559 One was her, this is Congresswoman AOC, who talked about whether particular language is not only appropriate within Congress, but as Americans, and the other who apologized to her that her feelings got hurt. 00:15:24.879 --> 00:15:27.840 This is really interesting because it's not actually an apology. 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:31.600 I'm so sorry your feelings got hurt by what I said. 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:40.480 That's actually a backhanded slap that says, it's your fault your feelings got hurt, not my fault that I said something that was injurious to you. 00:15:40.639 --> 00:15:42.559 I don't know if you've seen these addresses. 00:15:42.720 --> 00:15:48.320 I commend them to you though because they're actually really interesting to watch, this level of dialogue. 00:15:48.639 --> 00:16:00.799 Perhaps, and I grew up hearing it this way, Jesus is saying to the lady, you're supposed to endure no matter what happens, and I'm just going to play that out. 00:16:01.039 --> 00:16:08.960 In this case, Jesus is the hero because his master, he is able to get her to have the right faith response. 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:21.600 But I want to suggest to you there's a different way to hear the story, and I think it is one that invites us, I think, into transformation that I think is really more about who Jesus is, at least in my own faith journey now. 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:31.840 What if it is Jesus' response to the woman, not his initial thought that is for us to emulate? 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:43.279 This may sound a little bit heretical, but I want to suggest to you Jesus calls this woman a dog, and in Greek this is a female dog, and we have a word in English for that. 00:16:43.440 --> 00:16:54.559 It's extremely pejorative and diminutive anytime a man uses that to a woman, because what it does is it separates men from women and puts women always beneath. 00:16:54.720 --> 00:17:07.599 When a man uses that word, the man is demonstrating that he has power over the woman, no matter how educated she is, no matter how arudite her she is, no matter what kind of manner she has. 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:12.559 This is a word that always separates and subjugates women from men. 00:17:13.279 --> 00:17:19.359 This is going to sound like a stretch because Jesus is like us in every way, but without sin. 00:17:20.240 --> 00:17:24.799 But I want to suggest to you, this is where it was really helpful to read John Wesley for me. 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:30.880 John Wesley says that ignorance isn't a sin unless it's willful. 00:17:32.480 --> 00:17:59.119 And I think given what's going on in our country and given the radical call for discipleship that God is always putting out to us, what if Jesus, who is God incarnate, is raised in a system, just like we are, in which there are these abilities to take away the dignity of other beings that God has created with our word choice? 00:17:59.359 --> 00:18:05.680 And so what if Jesus, as John Wesley says, is ignorant? 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:13.200 What if he starts this story calling this woman, and this is intersectionality, right? 00:18:13.359 --> 00:18:19.119 Because she's a foreigner and she's a woman, so she's got two knocks against her. 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:23.359 He calls her a female dog. 00:18:24.640 --> 00:18:33.599 And what if it when she falls to her knees and says, Lord, even the dogs are members of the family? 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:36.799 Even the female dogs belong to the family. 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:47.599 What if we're supposed to emulate the fact that Jesus sees, perhaps for the first time in his life, humanity in somebody who's other from him? 00:18:48.880 --> 00:18:50.319 And he changes. 00:18:51.519 --> 00:19:03.519 What I would be suggesting is that what's sacramental in the story is that Jesus starts wrong and repents and learns. 00:19:05.759 --> 00:19:11.920 I have to say that it's not one of the seven sacraments learning, but I'm convinced it is. 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:17.599 The ultimate sacrament is learning and reorienting our lives. 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:24.160 If we read the story this way, please notice that there is somebody desperate. 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:31.279 Desperate for God, desperate for community, who even is bold enough to cry out. 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:34.960 And she says, Have mercy on me. 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:46.480 And she, like so many of us, so often, whether as individuals or institutions, Jesus is able to ignore her. 00:19:48.000 --> 00:19:49.359 He doesn't respond. 00:19:50.240 --> 00:19:57.119 And maybe it's no coincidence that ignore might be very similar to the word ignorance. 00:19:57.359 --> 00:19:58.960 He ignores her cries for help. 00:19:59.119 --> 00:20:01.200 The disciples say, tell her to be quiet. 00:20:01.279 --> 00:20:03.039 And then there's this pontification. 00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:10.160 You're the wrong ethnicity, you're the wrong national identity. 00:20:10.319 --> 00:20:12.880 I don't have anything to do with you. 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:15.440 She upps the Annie. 00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:18.319 She says, Please, Lord. 00:20:18.480 --> 00:20:20.880 So she uses this word, Lord. 00:20:21.759 --> 00:20:23.759 And Jesus then uses the epithet. 00:20:23.839 --> 00:20:28.160 It's not right to take children's bread and give it to dogs like you. 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:32.799 Then she does this really curious thing. 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:35.519 She doesn't say, Jesus, you're wrong. 00:20:35.759 --> 00:20:37.359 You've used evil speech. 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:45.519 She does, I'm afraid, what all people who are discriminated against for one reason or another have to do. 00:20:45.759 --> 00:20:49.680 She has to give Jesus a correction without bruising his ego. 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:54.880 Because if she drew up the conversation, undoubtedly he would be very tempted to walk away. 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:57.759 Instead, what she says is, fine, I'm a dog. 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:03.759 Dogs belong in the household, and the master of the house feeds the dogs. 00:21:05.839 --> 00:21:15.839 And then I wonder if Jesus doesn't have this aha moment where he realizes who's in the house. 00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:20.240 The house is not just adults and children. 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:26.960 The house is made up of people perhaps he's never met before. 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:44.480 The house is made of people who are of different gender, of different ethnicity, of different race, of different denomination, of different sexuality, of different ability. 00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:56.079 I wonder if Jesus doesn't have a turning point because it's very possible in his 30 ish years as an adult, he's never met a Canaanite woman before. 00:21:56.240 --> 00:21:59.519 It's very possible because Jesus grew up in a village of about a hundred. 00:22:00.160 --> 00:22:03.119 Families, undoubtedly all of whom were Jewish. 00:22:05.039 --> 00:22:08.720 If we read it this way, there's an opportunity for us. 00:22:09.119 --> 00:22:12.160 And I think it runs parallel to the Joseph story. 00:22:12.480 --> 00:22:16.880 Remember, the lectionary presumes we know the story already. 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:22.400 In the story, Joseph's brothers have sold him into slavery. 00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:28.160 And through ironic reversal, he's become second in command of Egypt, and now they need something. 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:34.640 If we read carefully, I want to tell you, my character study says Joseph intends to get revenge. 00:22:34.880 --> 00:22:37.519 He intends to destroy his brothers. 00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:45.279 But this week he looks at them and realizes they're part of the family as well. 00:22:45.839 --> 00:22:48.640 And he has, I think, the most immmuable thing. 00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:53.680 It's not that he's testing their faith, they're testing his repentance. 00:22:55.200 --> 00:23:03.839 The brothers show up and they're terrified, and for some reason Joseph, instead of getting revenge, after all, that's what they did to him. 00:23:04.400 --> 00:23:05.759 Sold him away. 00:23:06.559 --> 00:23:11.680 Instead of getting vengeance, Joseph has compassion. 00:23:12.160 --> 00:23:18.079 And at the end of the story, a family of one is once again a family of twelve. 00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:25.119 And I want to suggest if we read both stories that way, then there's an actual opportunity for us. 00:23:26.000 --> 00:23:35.920 One is it's incumbent upon us to listen, to make time for voices that, frankly, because of who we are, we don't have to. 00:23:37.759 --> 00:23:46.079 The second, and this is the preamble that Jesus gives to the story, is that the words we use matter. 00:23:47.680 --> 00:23:54.400 We can disagree about policies and politics, but the words we use matter. 00:23:55.440 --> 00:24:11.279 Because behind the words we use is power, power to either recognize our fellow family members in God's household, or to implicitly tell other people you don't belong in God's family. 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:25.920 And especially when we're wearing one of these collars, or when it's known that we go to church, we have extra power not just to represent our own prejudice, but to speak on behalf of the church, which is scary. 00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:38.400 And just as a specific, and again, I I have to tell you, I've been working really hard since hearing these two um these two congressional responses. 00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:44.799 If there's only one takeaway from today, I think this is really valuable. 00:24:45.039 --> 00:24:55.839 Saying that you were born, that you're that you love your mother, and that you were um you have sisters and you have daughters uh does not justify your use of prejudicial words. 00:24:56.160 --> 00:25:03.680 So uh as a man, I'm convinced I should never use the B word to describe anybody. 00:25:03.920 --> 00:25:08.640 I think it's the equivalent of using the N-word as a white person. 00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:12.799 Because that word only applies to women. 00:25:13.039 --> 00:25:23.680 I can say it to another man, and what I'm trying to do is womanize and denigrate and subjugate him with that word. 00:25:27.279 --> 00:25:36.960 And once I heard AOC say this to Congress, I couldn't ignore the word anymore. 00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:40.480 I couldn't be ignorant. 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:48.880 If I was going to continue to use it, it would be willful and it would be therefore sinful. 00:25:49.359 --> 00:26:06.079 And this, I think, is our opportunity is to think really hard about whether or not our language is creating and reflecting the kingdom of God and the family of God as God intends. 00:26:06.640 --> 00:26:50.240 And we have this opportunity, and this is where I think this story, even though challenging, is one of the most hopeful stories in all of the gospels, is that even God can be raised in systems of inequity, and it is not too late to learn or change, and it is not too late for us, regardless of our age, our gender, our education, you name it, it's not too late, and it is in fact critical, not just in restoring a broken family that God has created and intends, but enlivening it. 00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:59.200 So I invite you to join in the unofficial eighth sacrament learning and repentance. 00:27:05.839 --> 00:27:10.240 Please join me as we pray our faith in the words of the Nicene Creed. 00:27:11.839 --> 00:27:16.079 We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty. 00:29:01.440 --> 00:29:29.519 Almighty and ever-living God, who in thy holy word has taught us to make prayers and supplications and to give thanks for all men, receive these our prayers which we offer into thy divine majesty, beseeching thee to inspire continually the universal church with the spirit of truth, unity, and concord, and grant that all those who do not confess their holy name may agree in the truth of thy holy word and live in unity and godly love. 00:29:32.880 --> 00:29:45.440 Give grace, O Heavenly Father, to the clergy and laity of the diocesan church, together with Andy, Hector, Jeff, Kay, our bishops in the diocesan cycle of prayer, St. 00:29:45.519 --> 00:29:47.200 Paul's Waco, St. 00:29:47.359 --> 00:30:04.240 Thomas Rockdale, and Waco Church Plant, Waco, Justin, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Michael, our presiding bishop, that they may both by their life and doctrine set forth thy true and lively word and rightly and duly administer thy holy sacraments. 00:30:07.599 --> 00:30:09.839 We pray for our parish and our vestry. 00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:16.799 Source of wisdom guide us, source of strength support us, source of love unify us. 00:30:17.039 --> 00:30:21.759 We pray that our community may discern clearly and minister effectively. 00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:40.880 And to all thy people give thy heavenly grace, and especially to this congregation here present, that with meek heart and due reverence they may hear and receive thy holy word, truly serving thee in holiness and righteousness all the days of their lives. 00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:44.960 We pray for St. 00:30:45.039 --> 00:31:00.240 Thomas the Apostle School, that those who teach and those who learn may rejoice in the knowledge of your truth, that we may teach our students to love whatever is just and true and good, and that we may be bearers of your grace to all who come through our doors. 00:31:04.720 --> 00:31:14.640 We beseech thee also to rule the hearts of those who bear the authority of government in this and every land, especially Donald, our president, and Greg, our governor. 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:25.920 We pray for the families of the nations and for all who struggle for peace and justice, that they may act with prudence and vision to plant the signs of thy dominion everywhere. 00:31:26.160 --> 00:31:37.519 Strengthen and comfort, we pray you, the members of the armed forces, and so guide their leaders that they may be led to wise decisions and right actions for the welfare and the peace of the world. 00:31:41.279 --> 00:31:53.680 Open, O Lord, the eyes of all people to behold thy gracious land and all thy works, that, rejoicing in the whole creation, they may honor thee with their substance and be faithful stewards of thy bounty. 00:31:57.200 --> 00:32:24.640 And we most humbly beseech thee of thy goodness, O Lord, to comfort and succour all those who in this transitory life are in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity, especially Chris, Jerry, Sean, Jerome, Chris, Susie, Ted, Andrea, Kevin, Ron, Joe, and Nancy. 00:32:25.440 --> 00:32:30.400 The congregation is invited to name their prayers and celebrations silently or aloud. 00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:54.559 And we also bless thy holy name for thy servants departed in this life in thy faith and fear, beseeching thee to grant them continual growth in thy love and service, and to grant us grace so to follow the good examples of all thy saints, that with them we may be partakers of thy heavenly kingdom. 00:32:58.000 --> 00:33:03.680 Grant to these our prayers, O Father, for Jesus Christ's sake, our only mediator and advocate. 00:33:04.559 --> 00:33:05.200 Amen. 00:33:09.920 --> 00:33:13.279 Let us humbly confess our sins unto Almighty God. 00:33:16.880 --> 00:33:21.440 We confess, our Father, that we do not live up to the family name. 00:33:21.759 --> 00:33:37.680 We are more ready to resent than to forgive, more ready to manipulate than to serve, more ready to fear than to love, more ready to keep our distance than to invite and welcome, more ready to compete than to help. 00:33:37.920 --> 00:33:40.799 At the root of this behavior is mistrust. 00:33:41.119 --> 00:33:47.200 We do not love one another as we should, because we do not believe that you love us as you do. 00:33:47.599 --> 00:33:55.519 Forgive us our cold unbelief, and make more vivid to us the meaning and depth of your love at the cross. 00:33:55.839 --> 00:34:02.079 Show us what it costs you to give up your Son, that we might become your daughters and sons. 00:34:02.319 --> 00:34:05.680 We ask this in the name of Jesus our righteousness. 00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:06.640 Amen. 00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:17.280 The Almighty and Merciful Lord grant you absolution and remission of all your sins, true repentance, amendment of life, and the grace and consolation of the Holy Spirit. 00:34:17.840 --> 00:34:18.480 Amen. 00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:22.239 We'll do this socially distanced. 00:34:23.199 --> 00:34:25.760 The peace of the Lord be always with you. 00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:26.960 And also. 00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:49.519 So thank you for being here. 00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:54.480 Reminder that we are streaming, and this is really wonderful that we have Bob. 00:34:54.559 --> 00:35:06.559 If you look right back up there behind that clock, you'll see Bob Ketchum and Todd Parker are helping us to stream live and to have this available after the service on YouTube as well. 00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:16.320 And just to tell you a little bit of the fruits of their ministry, they've worked tirelessly, I mean, for weeks, not only designing but getting this put together. 00:35:16.559 --> 00:35:21.199 Yesterday we had a funeral that we'd had to put off for five months because of COVID. 00:35:21.440 --> 00:35:24.159 It was scheduled and we had to actually cancel it. 00:35:24.239 --> 00:35:32.639 And we were able to have it yesterday, and at least 15 households were able to join the family because of this streaming. 00:35:32.800 --> 00:35:36.400 So, Bob and Todd, really grateful for your tireless ministry. 00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:40.159 That part of the system was made available through a diocesan grant. 00:35:40.239 --> 00:35:49.519 And what's wonderful is that this is not just a stopgap in COVID, but it enables us to stay connected to parishioners who have moved physically from the area. 00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:56.320 So this is really just a wonderful thing and reminder that next week it'll be available on YouTube as well. 00:35:56.719 --> 00:36:07.920 There's a placeholder that'll be there, and you can click that on our YouTube page 10, 5 minutes ahead of the service, and then the stream will just sort of come right there. 00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:12.639 So if you're ever away or you're not feeling well, this will serve your needs. 00:36:12.800 --> 00:36:14.880 So thanks, Bob and Todd, for doing that. 00:36:15.440 --> 00:36:19.760 Reminder that we do a fresh food distribution once a month here at St. 00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:26.400 Thomas that feeds about 468 people by serving 110-ish cars. 00:36:26.559 --> 00:36:31.360 And the next time we're going to do that is actually Saturday, August 29th. 00:36:31.599 --> 00:36:34.960 Normally we would do a Labor Day weekend, but the food bank is closed. 00:36:35.039 --> 00:36:40.719 We're normally the first Saturday of the month, so we're we're doing it the last Saturday as our September distribution. 00:36:41.039 --> 00:36:48.159 To do that, you just show up at 7.45 and we're normally done with setup, cleanup, and service by 10.30. 00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:51.599 The last bit is that uh Eucharist is a little different. 00:36:51.679 --> 00:36:55.920 We're going to be taking the Eucharist of bread only today. 00:36:56.000 --> 00:36:59.679 Um it's going to be a little bit before the chalice is opened up. 00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:05.599 Uh, and the way we'll do that is um I'll come to each row. 00:37:05.760 --> 00:37:11.920 So when I come to the row that's to your right hand side is when you should proceed down. 00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:17.920 I'll give you the bread, and please just consume the bread as you go back around to your seat. 00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:24.639 So I'll start here in the middle, I'll come here next, and I'll come to our service musicians last. 00:37:26.719 --> 00:37:27.599 Walk in love. 00:37:27.920 --> 00:37:32.960 As Christ first loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God. 00:39:50.639 --> 00:39:56.000 All things come of thee, O Lord, and of thine own have we given thee. 00:39:56.239 --> 00:39:59.039 This is the table not of the church, but of Jesus Christ. 00:39:59.280 --> 00:40:03.599 It is made ready for those who love him and those who want to love him more, so come. 00:40:03.920 --> 00:40:11.920 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. 00:40:12.239 --> 00:40:15.519 You who have tried to follow, and you who have failed, come. 00:40:15.760 --> 00:40:20.719 Not because the church invites you, it is Christ, and he invites you to meet him here. 00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:24.559 The Lord be with you. 00:40:26.559 --> 00:40:28.159 Lift up your hearts. 00:40:30.239 --> 00:40:32.639 Let us give thanks unto our Lord God. 00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:44.239 It is very meet right in our bound in duty that we should at all times and in all places give thanks unto thee, O Lord, Holy Father Almighty, everlasting God. 00:40:44.480 --> 00:41:00.239 And therefore, with angels and 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. 00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:03.199 Glory be to thee, O Lord Most High. 00:41:03.440 --> 00:41:08.639 Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord, Hosanna in the highest. 00:41:08.960 --> 00:41:24.239 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, 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. 00:41:24.559 --> 00:41:37.760 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. 00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:41.440 For in the night in which he was betrayed, Jesus took bread. 00:41:41.599 --> 00:41:46.880 And when he given thanks to thee, he broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, Take eat. 00:41:47.119 --> 00:41:49.440 This is my body which is given for you. 00:41:49.679 --> 00:41:51.840 Do this in remembrance of me. 00:41:54.159 --> 00:42:01.440 Likewise, after supper, Jesus took the cup of wine, and when he had given thanks, he gave it to them, saying, Drink this, all of you. 00:42:01.599 --> 00:42:06.639 This is my blood of the new covenant which is shed for you and for all for the remission of sins. 00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:10.239 Do this as oft as you shall drink it in remembrance of me. 00:42:12.639 --> 00:42:32.559 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 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. 00:42:32.800 --> 00:42:45.760 And 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. 00:42:46.079 --> 00:42:59.280 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. 00:42:59.679 --> 00:43:27.039 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, 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. 00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:28.079 Amen. 00:43:28.960 --> 00:43:42.480 And now as our Savior Christ hath taught us, we are bold to pray, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 00:43:42.719 --> 00:43:59.840 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. 00:44:00.880 --> 00:44:01.519 Amen. 00:44:03.119 --> 00:44:06.559 Hallelujah, Christ, our Passover is sacrificed for us. 00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:15.920 O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. 00:44:16.239 --> 00:44:21.679 O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. 00:44:22.000 --> 00:44:25.280 O Lamb of God that takest away the sins of the world. 00:44:25.599 --> 00:44:27.280 Grant us thy peace. 00:44:29.119 --> 00:44:32.239 These are the gifts of God for you, the people of God. 00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:38.320 Take them in remembrance that Christ died for you and feed on them in your hearts by faith with thanksgiving. 00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:29.760 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 dost assure us thereby of thy favor and goodness towards us, and that we are very members incorporate in the mystical body of thy Son, the blessed company of all faithful people, and are also heirs through hope of thy everlasting kingdom. 00:48:29.920 --> 00:48:50.400 And we humbly beseech thee, O Heavenly Father, so to assist us with thy grace, that we may continue in that holy fellowship and do all such good works as thou hast prepared for us to walk in, through Jesus Christ our Lord, to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honor and glory, world without end. 00:48:50.719 --> 00:48:51.360 Amen. 00:48:52.000 --> 00:49:10.559 May God, who by the Holy Spirit caused those with many languages and world views to proclaim Jesus as Lord, strengthen your faith, and send you out to bear witness to God in word and deed, and the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit be upon you this day and remain with you forever. 00:49:10.880 --> 00:49:11.519 Amen. 00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:33.760 May the sun shine upon your face, and in also to find and until we meet her. 00:51:08.079 --> 00:51:17.280 May the sun shine on your face, and the rain falls against you for me. 00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:45.840 And then we're gonna go to the body.