Waldo Beach - "Identity and Vocation" (January 31, 1971)
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(switch clicking on) | 0:03 | |
(electricity humming) | ||
(static hissing) | 0:09 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 0:11 | |
- | Come, let us worship. | 0:29 |
For he is our maker. | 0:32 | |
We our his evil and the sheep of his pasture. | 0:34 | |
Serve the Lord with gladness | 0:39 | |
and come before his presence. | 0:41 | |
Singing. | 0:44 | |
Singing the worship of God. | 0:46 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 0:49 | |
(joyful orchestral music) | 0:53 | |
(chorus singing) | 2:24 | |
- | When Christians come together to worship | 4:23 |
for the Lord, (indistinct). | 4:26 | |
Make confession of our sins. | 4:29 | |
We open ourselves in trust and healing. | 4:32 | |
Power, presence (indistinct). | 4:35 | |
Just remember the ancient promise of God to his people. | 4:40 | |
"If my people, which are called by my name, | 4:45 | |
"shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face | 4:48 | |
"and turn from their own ways, | 4:54 | |
"then will I hear from heaven, | 4:56 | |
"I'll forgive them and will heal their land." | 4:59 | |
Let us begin now to meet the conditions. | 5:04 | |
When (indistinct). | 5:07 | |
To forgive and to heal. | 5:12 | |
We offer to God our prayers, confession, and our heart. | 5:15 | |
Let us pray together. | 5:20 | |
Oh God, our heavenly father. | 5:23 | |
We have sinned against thee, | 5:26 | |
and are not worthy to be called thy children. | 5:28 | |
We are guilty of committing specific acts of sin. | 5:32 | |
We're even more guilty of having | 5:36 | |
a sinful attitude in general. | 5:38 | |
We have argued in times we should've prayed. | 5:41 | |
We have pretended to have the wisdom | 5:45 | |
of experience (indistinct). | 5:47 | |
We have been selfish, competitive | 5:51 | |
when Christ desired us to be cooperative. | 5:54 | |
We have dealt proud criticism when we should have | 5:57 | |
attempted the ability to understand. | 6:01 | |
Forgive us, beseech thee (indistinct). | 6:05 | |
Renew us the strength of thy grace. | 6:09 | |
Jesus Christ, our Lord, amen. | 6:12 | |
This here (indistinct). | 6:18 | |
Jesus said, "Be of good cheer, | 6:23 | |
"your sins are forgiven." | 6:27 | |
"Go and (indistinct)." | 6:30 | |
And I say to you knowing that we are received by God, | 6:34 | |
let us choose his acceptance of us. | 6:38 | |
Accept the fact that you are accepted | 6:43 | |
by God's amazing grace. | 6:45 | |
If anyone is in Jesus Christ, (indistinct). | 6:49 | |
The old is cast away. | 6:54 | |
You must come. | 6:57 | |
The chain of complicity linking | 6:59 | |
our lives' past guilt (indistinct). | 7:01 | |
The door of our freedom is open. | 7:07 | |
Walk forward. | 7:11 | |
Live by the power of the spirit. | 7:15 | |
Let us also walk in the spirit (indistinct). | 7:18 | |
(singing in foreign language) | 8:25 | |
The lesson for this day is taken from the book of Isaiah. | 12:14 | |
Chapter six, verse one. | 12:19 | |
"In the year that king Uzziah died, | 12:26 | |
"I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, | 12:29 | |
"high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. | 12:32 | |
"Above it stood the seraphims. | 12:37 | |
"Each had six wings, two covered his face, | 12:40 | |
"two covered his feet, | 12:45 | |
"two did flew. | 12:48 | |
"One called to another, | 12:50 | |
"and said, 'Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts.' | 12:52 | |
"The whole earth is full of his glory. | 12:57 | |
"The foundations, the thresholds shook (indistinct). | 13:02 | |
"The house is filled with smoke. | 13:07 | |
"I said, 'Woe to me, for I am lost, | 13:11 | |
"'for I am a man of unclean lips.' | 13:16 | |
"Well in the midst (indistinct). | 13:20 | |
"My eyes have seen the King, (indistinct). | 13:24 | |
"Then flew one of the seraphs to me, having in his hand | 13:29 | |
"a burning coal, which he had taken with tongs | 13:34 | |
"from the altar. | 13:36 | |
"And he touched my mouth and said, | 13:38 | |
"'Behold, this has touched your lips. | 13:42 | |
"'Your guilt is taken away, your sin forgiven.' | 13:46 | |
"I heard the voice of the Lord saying, | 13:53 | |
"'Whom shall I send? | 13:56 | |
"'Who will go for us?"' | 13:58 | |
"And I said, 'Here I am, send me!'" | 14:00 | |
Here ends the reading (indistinct). | 14:07 | |
(grand orchestral music) | 14:11 | |
The Lord be with you. | 14:51 | |
Let us pray. | 14:54 | |
Let us offer unto God our prayers of thanks giving. | 15:08 | |
Almighty God, | 15:16 | |
thou of a hundred names, | 15:18 | |
but ever the same (indistinct). | 15:21 | |
Our hearts are lifted (indistinct) praise of thy glory. | 15:25 | |
Seen by these are (indistinct). | 15:30 | |
Shared (indistinct) of our understanding. | 15:34 | |
Our father, God, bless thy name for every gift | 15:41 | |
despite (indistinct) the humble things | 15:46 | |
to (indistinct) grace. | 15:49 | |
For Earth itself, bodies we bear. | 15:51 | |
The universe (indistinct). | 15:57 | |
For all that sustains (indistinct). | 16:00 | |
Give thee our thanks. | 16:03 | |
For the spirit by which material things are enlivened, | 16:06 | |
filled with the beauty of holiness, | 16:10 | |
with the hope of (indistinct). | 16:14 | |
For the heart and mind of man. | 16:17 | |
For the miracle and mysteries (indistinct). | 16:21 | |
For the companionship, love, (indistinct). | 16:26 | |
Give thee thanks. | 16:31 | |
Breathes in us the spirit of our Lord. | 16:34 | |
I share our joy. | 16:37 | |
It's him that I praise. | 16:40 | |
For all things. | 16:42 | |
God's son has taught us (indistinct). | 16:48 | |
Take our place in the kingdom of heaven (indistinct). | 16:54 | |
In God, each of us brings (indistinct). | 17:05 | |
Our brother whose face (indistinct). | 17:14 | |
Some are in far places. | 17:21 | |
Some (indistinct). | 17:23 | |
Hardship (indistinct). | 17:28 | |
Some (indistinct) or weary by monotonous (indistinct). | 17:31 | |
All of them worth bearing the burden (indistinct). | 17:36 | |
Striving everywhere to live (indistinct). | 17:42 | |
Those who stand in the circle of our hearts deserve God. | 17:50 | |
Prey thy (indistinct). | 17:55 | |
The outpouring of thy (indistinct). | 17:59 | |
Might my love penetrate (indistinct). | 18:02 | |
We offer our prayers and (indistinct). | 18:19 | |
The outcast (indistinct). | 18:27 | |
Children unwanted in their homes. | 18:31 | |
Prisoners of exile, | 18:36 | |
for all those who are persecuted (indistinct). | 18:39 | |
The sick, suffering mind (indistinct). | 18:44 | |
Those made slaves by drugs. | 18:48 | |
For those who are dying and have died, | 18:53 | |
whether (indistinct). | 18:55 | |
Call on thy spirit. | 19:00 | |
Cast thy presence, (indistinct). | 19:02 | |
Lord, we pray for all (indistinct). | 19:08 | |
Tyrants, for those who create instruments of war, | 19:13 | |
death, (indistinct). | 19:18 | |
And we would pray for all who we fear, | 19:25 | |
resent, or cannot love. | 19:28 | |
May thy love be (indistinct). | 19:32 | |
Pray for doctors, and nurses, and social workers. | 19:43 | |
Ministers to the poor, for organizers of students, poets, | 19:46 | |
for all (indistinct). | 19:51 | |
Pray for all (indistinct). | 19:57 | |
They may realize (indistinct). | 19:59 | |
Pray that our (indistinct). | 20:05 | |
That every person in this world may learn to express | 20:11 | |
a child's vision (indistinct). | 20:16 | |
Pray (indistinct). | 20:20 | |
We ask the Lord that each one enters our hearts. | 20:26 | |
We receive the hospitality of Christ (indistinct). | 20:31 | |
Pray that the passion (indistinct). | 20:37 | |
And he bound in solidarity all who would (indistinct). | 20:46 | |
Creator in the name of God (indistinct). | 21:00 | |
Seeking to share. | 21:06 | |
We have known the anguish of (indistinct). | 21:09 | |
Tasted the bitterness of failure. | 21:13 | |
We have dreamed dreams and seen visions. | 21:16 | |
Our brains and our hands (indistinct). | 21:19 | |
Lured by something beyond our failure, | 21:25 | |
something beyond our small successes. | 21:28 | |
Strung along (indistinct). | 21:32 | |
For all thing in (indistinct). | 21:38 | |
Grant us patience to endure our failures | 21:44 | |
and humility (indistinct). | 21:48 | |
Lord, within each of us there are prayers | 21:57 | |
that know (indistinct). | 22:00 | |
Joys that seem to come from some kind heaven above here. | 22:03 | |
Bringing new life into our very souls (indistinct). | 22:08 | |
There are sorrows that stand | 22:18 | |
forever inside of us (indistinct). | 22:20 | |
Humbled by a mystery in life (indistinct). | 22:23 | |
There are exultations (indistinct). | 22:30 | |
Burning (indistinct). | 22:37 | |
There are remembrances (indistinct). | 22:45 | |
Hear us, oh God. | 22:59 | |
As we speak (indistinct). | 23:01 | |
Hear us, oh God (indistinct) our silence. | 23:06 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 23:34 | |
Our Father, who art in heaven, | 23:39 | |
Hallowed be thy name. | 23:42 | |
Thy kingdom come. | 23:44 | |
Thy will be done, | 23:46 | |
on earth as it is in Heaven. | 23:47 | |
Give us this day our daily bread. | 23:50 | |
And forgive us our trespasses, | 23:53 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 23:55 | |
Lead us not into temptation, | 23:59 | |
but deliver us from evil. | 24:02 | |
For thine is the kingdom, the power, | 24:04 | |
and glory, forever. | 24:07 | |
- | Divine (indistinct). | 24:31 |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 24:36 | |
And detachments from evil (indistinct). | 24:42 | |
It's a single, constant residing (indistinct). | 24:47 | |
What's my faith? | 24:55 | |
What am I cut out for? | 24:58 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 25:01 | |
Some of you are blessed with having (indistinct). | 25:05 | |
College on the wave of (indistinct). | 25:10 | |
Maybe to escape social stigma attached to people | 25:14 | |
who don't go to college. | 25:18 | |
You may have doubts (indistinct) | 25:22 | |
as to whether you'll find yourself (indistinct). | 25:27 | |
To justify displacing someone else. | 25:31 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 25:34 | |
Your fraternity or sorority (indistinct) whenever it comes | 25:40 | |
yourself from crowd to crowd looking for yourself | 25:46 | |
in one or another of them. | 25:51 | |
Despite the bland assurance of (indistinct). | 25:56 | |
Suspect this is more (indistinct). | 26:05 | |
Maybe you'll find yourself better (indistinct). | 26:12 | |
Or at home among the barbarians (indistinct). | 26:17 | |
You are upperclassmen pushed by the system | 26:24 | |
declaring your major | 26:29 | |
long before you're sure that (indistinct) | 26:32 | |
or sociology is really your thing. | 26:35 | |
And is this too strong to say that the majority of you | 26:41 | |
may graduate in the senior year | 26:46 | |
not much closer to self discovery than when you came. | 26:51 | |
You may (indistinct) your father's line of work | 26:58 | |
or by inertia than by (indistinct) excitement. | 27:04 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 27:10 | |
But a large part | 27:25 | |
college is a protected identity (indistinct). | 27:28 | |
For all of us. | 27:33 | |
Late bloomers or early (indistinct). | 27:36 | |
Night people or morning people | 27:40 | |
it's a life of quiet desperation. | 27:44 | |
This search for identity. | 27:49 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 27:52 | |
In a manner almost as intense and fierce | 27:55 | |
but as frantic as the nomadic circling of the dogs | 27:59 | |
on the (indistinct). | 28:06 | |
Some cultures it dwells permanently (indistinct). | 28:09 | |
There are many forces (indistinct). | 28:17 | |
The answers more elusive than (indistinct). | 28:25 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 28:31 | |
Some of the troubles are in the cultural lag | 29:11 | |
in the kind of education that goes on here. | 29:14 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 29:21 | |
Psychological, spiritual. | 29:26 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 29:31 | |
They reflect the cultural crisis of our time. | 29:41 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 29:48 | |
The American premise of (indistinct) | 29:58 | |
is that personal happiness is everyone's birthright. | 30:01 | |
That any man's universe should be so (indistinct) | 30:08 | |
as to yield a maximal of satisfaction | 30:13 | |
for his days on the Earth. | 30:16 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 30:21 | |
Everything, dormitory facilities, university governance, | 30:25 | |
course requirements, should be designed to make | 30:30 | |
the inmate comfortable and happy. | 30:35 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 30:40 | |
Permanent happiness hereafter. | 30:45 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 30:49 | |
This happiness complex has not always been the assumption | 30:53 | |
of our life together. | 30:58 | |
It's interesting to trace the historical shift | 31:03 | |
in facing life's trials. | 31:07 | |
The answers given (indistinct). | 31:11 | |
In an earlier age, | 31:19 | |
where Christian premises | 31:23 | |
were taken so seriously (indistinct) taken for granted. | 31:25 | |
The self is bound in identity | 31:31 | |
along the vertical plane of existence. | 31:36 | |
In his response to the call of God (indistinct). | 31:39 | |
He found his (indistinct) in the ideal to do good. | 31:46 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 31:53 | |
A life of service. | 31:56 | |
Through the slow seepage of the process of secularization. | 32:00 | |
Our religious vocabulary still (indistinct). | 32:08 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 32:14 | |
Identity was to be found by making a name for yourself | 32:29 | |
by luck, and luck, and favor of a god (indistinct). | 32:35 | |
This in turn gave way to the mid-20th Century American ideal | 32:44 | |
of organization man. | 32:52 | |
The TV ethic of the operator (indistinct). | 32:55 | |
According to this gospel, you found yourself | 33:03 | |
(indistinct) living up to the expectations | 33:06 | |
of the social (indistinct). | 33:09 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 33:16 | |
Keeping up with the Joneses | 33:24 | |
requires scrupulous observance of respectability | 33:27 | |
in public relations, | 33:34 | |
appearance, (indistinct), packaging, | 33:37 | |
seeming (indistinct). | 33:41 | |
Ideal (indistinct). | 33:47 | |
They were here, engaged in a four-year (indistinct) | 34:00 | |
provide them some (indistinct) respectability. | 34:06 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 34:10 | |
Now we've shifted to still another lifestyle. | 34:14 | |
We are far down another path (indistinct). | 34:20 | |
A 10-minute saunter on this campus | 34:28 | |
between classes would quickly dispel the impression | 34:32 | |
that the ideal of the American undergraduate | 34:38 | |
is to look good. | 34:41 | |
Quite the opposite. | 34:46 | |
The ideal rather is to (indistinct) | 34:49 | |
against the whole phony plastic apparatus | 34:53 | |
of the establishment. | 34:59 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 35:03 | |
Through respectability (indistinct). | 35:07 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 35:12 | |
All hypocrisy, all seeming to strip off | 35:16 | |
all artificiality and pretense, | 35:23 | |
and be natural. | 35:27 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 35:31 | |
An outward, visible (indistinct) | 35:36 | |
or conviction. | 35:41 | |
We should be, not seen. | 35:42 | |
Simplicity. | 35:51 | |
Be yourself. | 35:53 | |
(speaker drowned out by hissing) | 35:57 | |
Protest by rebellion against tradition, custom, | 36:00 | |
the past, the system, all alien authority | 36:07 | |
in the romantic hope. | 36:13 | |
And that if I keep stripping off the layers | 36:16 | |
of custom, and not doing what society expects, | 36:19 | |
I'll finally come to my authentic self. | 36:27 | |
I'll find my glorious thing, and do it. | 36:31 | |
Yet, the happiness complex still holds. | 36:39 | |
Instead of the ideal of the organization man | 36:44 | |
that we find the meaning of our existence | 36:47 | |
in looking good, the ideal of the new youth culture | 36:49 | |
is to feel good. | 36:55 | |
In pursuance of this ideal, | 36:59 | |
he will go about the daily search for identity. | 37:03 | |
For some scratch for whatever be his present itch. | 37:09 | |
To use whatever device at hand, aesthetic, chemical, | 37:16 | |
sexual, mystical, to keep his soul | 37:22 | |
in a continued state of euphoria. | 37:28 | |
From a Christian standpoint, this progression of stages, | 37:37 | |
to do good, to make good, to look good, | 37:42 | |
to feel good, is a kind of cultural skid row. | 37:48 | |
A downhill decline. | 37:55 | |
A movement away from, rather than toward, the answer | 37:58 | |
to the problem of identity. | 38:05 | |
For it ends with the self looking in | 38:08 | |
on its own emptiness. | 38:12 | |
A will turned in upon itself, | 38:15 | |
all the time naval-gazing. | 38:18 | |
All the time, sticking a thermometer into its soul, | 38:22 | |
and asking, "Oh my soul, am I happy today? | 38:27 | |
"Am I down, am I up?" | 38:32 | |
So devoutly preoccupied with the sacred self | 38:37 | |
as to be oblivious of everybody else, | 38:41 | |
and incapable of disciplined action. | 38:45 | |
Well, it's a long time | 38:53 | |
since the year that King Isaiah died. | 38:56 | |
And a far distance between here | 39:01 | |
and the temple where Isaiah | 39:06 | |
saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up. | 39:08 | |
But you could say there's some faint reminiscent odor | 39:16 | |
of similarity between here and there. | 39:22 | |
That house, it says, was filled with smoke. | 39:25 | |
This house was filled with smoke a few days ago. | 39:29 | |
The passage from Isaiah | 39:35 | |
is the prototype of the Biblical idea | 39:40 | |
of vocation, or calling. | 39:43 | |
Psychologically speaking, the concept of vocation | 39:51 | |
corresponds to the modern concept of identity. | 39:56 | |
In Biblical and Protestant terms, | 40:01 | |
a person is to be identified by his name. | 40:06 | |
He is who he is called to be by God. | 40:12 | |
His name is given him by the Lord, the creator. | 40:18 | |
The experience of Isaiah repeated by all the prophets | 40:27 | |
is a sense that in the sacred place of worship, | 40:34 | |
though sometimes it comes in secular places, | 40:41 | |
to shepherds in the field, | 40:45 | |
or to Amos trimming his sycamore trees, | 40:49 | |
that he is called out from the people | 40:56 | |
for a distinctive task to do for the people. | 41:00 | |
"Whom shall I send? | 41:06 | |
"Who will go for us?" | 41:08 | |
There is this double movement in vocation. | 41:12 | |
The call out from the community | 41:15 | |
to a distinct identity, | 41:20 | |
the individuating movement. | 41:23 | |
Then the commission of service to the community | 41:26 | |
with the assignment to recall the people to the Lord's | 41:33 | |
covenant terms of community. | 41:37 | |
The call to involvement with the meeting | 41:40 | |
of human need. | 41:45 | |
Can one draw any sort of plausible line now | 41:50 | |
from this Biblical concept of vocation | 41:57 | |
to us milling and stewing around in our identity crisis? | 42:02 | |
I would hazard to draw the line of connection | 42:11 | |
by saying that, | 42:17 | |
within the choices of friends, fraternities, | 42:18 | |
courses, escapes, dates, majors, | 42:23 | |
graduate school, job openings, | 42:29 | |
the question to be put in them all is not, | 42:34 | |
"Which makes me feel better?" | 42:40 | |
But, "What does God call me to do in service?" | 42:42 | |
In the Protestant tradition, religious vocation | 42:52 | |
does not mean a church profession, | 42:56 | |
becoming a minister or priest. | 43:00 | |
It means the lay ministry. | 43:03 | |
It means, for the undergraduate, | 43:05 | |
to look away from this tight circle of self concern. | 43:10 | |
To look up from naval-gazing. | 43:20 | |
To ask, "What are the desperate needs of men today? | 43:23 | |
"Needs of body, mind, soul?" | 43:27 | |
It is in voices of men's despair and hunger | 43:33 | |
that God's call is heard. | 43:38 | |
In the needy faces. | 43:42 | |
The face of the Appalachian mine-worker's widow. | 43:45 | |
A Vietnamese peasant. | 43:52 | |
Or children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup. | 43:56 | |
That's where God's call is glimpsed. | 44:04 | |
And then to ask, "What talents, gifts, knacks | 44:10 | |
do I possess that can match these needs?" | 44:15 | |
Then to go about the whole business of college, | 44:21 | |
to study, to equip one's self | 44:27 | |
with the technical skills to fulfill | 44:30 | |
one's divine vocation in work that keeps strong | 44:33 | |
the fabric of community. | 44:39 | |
In discovering one's talents, or gifts, | 44:42 | |
or skills, technical wisdom and common sense | 44:46 | |
are needed to save one's self from romantic | 44:52 | |
and foolish vision. | 44:57 | |
But technical wisdom does not give the dynamics | 45:01 | |
for how one sustains meaning and worth in one's work. | 45:04 | |
That comes from a sense of being needed | 45:11 | |
and of fulfilling the need. | 45:17 | |
In the vast interdependence of life with life, | 45:21 | |
there are no higher or lower callings. | 45:27 | |
Integrity in plumbing is as needful a skill as teaching | 45:33 | |
or preaching, to maintain the quality of common life. | 45:43 | |
The answer, finally, as to the problem of identity | 45:51 | |
is to be found then by a curious indirection of grace. | 45:57 | |
When you go at the problem of finding yourself | 46:05 | |
by heading toward yourself as the goal of your search, | 46:08 | |
you miss the mark. | 46:15 | |
For the gospel word here is wiser | 46:18 | |
than the conventional wisdom of men. | 46:22 | |
He who seeks his life will lose it. | 46:27 | |
He who loses his life for my sake | 46:31 | |
and the gospel, will find it. | 46:35 | |
Our identity is the sense of integrity, | 46:39 | |
singleness, and fulfillment is handed back to us | 46:47 | |
by surprise, precisely when we have ceased | 46:54 | |
to be anxious for it. | 47:00 | |
In our anxiety to meet human need, | 47:04 | |
ruled in the silent, secret places | 47:09 | |
to say, "Here am I, send me." | 47:14 | |
Amen, let us pray. | 47:24 | |
Almighty God, who at the far and near edges | 47:31 | |
of our hearts, dost ever haunt us | 47:38 | |
with a summons to the tasks of thy Kingdom. | 47:44 | |
Grant us by thy grace | 47:50 | |
in this sacred place | 47:53 | |
vision to see thee | 47:57 | |
and a heart to hear and heed thy call | 48:00 | |
to serve the children of men, | 48:06 | |
that in being found of thee, we may find ourselves enjoy | 48:09 | |
through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen. | 48:21 | |
(grand orchestral music) | 48:29 | |
(pensive orchestral music) | 51:02 | |
(cheerful orchestral music) | 52:39 | |
(singing in foreign language) | 52:57 | |
(choral music) | 58:17 | |
(singing in foreign language) | 58:47 | |
- | Almighty God, we accept the vocation you have given us | 59:33 |
in your son, Jesus Christ. | 59:38 | |
We offer our gifts and ourselves to you | 59:41 | |
in the service of all men. | 59:44 | |
Grant us peace with the deep restlessness of God. | 59:47 | |
And grant us grace in that paradox of discipline of freedom. | 59:54 | |
Grant us courage for all the necessary struggles | 1:00:00 | |
that will lie ahead. | 1:00:05 | |
In the name of thy son, our Lord Jesus Christ. | 1:00:07 | |
Depart now, enter the world to serve. | 1:00:15 | |
May the blessing of God, our almighty, | 1:00:20 | |
the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit be among you, | 1:00:23 | |
be with you always, amen. | 1:00:29 | |
(bell ringing) | 1:00:33 | |
(grand orchestral music) | 1:00:51 | |
(footsteps rapidly approaching) | 1:04:33 |
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