James T. Cleland - Maundy Thursday Service (April 11, 1968)

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	(church music)	0:03
-	Beloved let us hear the words of the scripture	0:58
	as we prepare our hearts for the spiritual feast,	1:00
	which the Lord has put before us and whose guests we are.	1:04
	I am the living bread, which came down from heaven,	1:12
	if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.	1:18
	And the bread which I shall give	1:22
	for the life of the world is my flesh.	1:25
	The cup of blessing, which we bless,	1:30
	is it not a participation in the blood of Christ?	1:34
	The bread which we break,	1:38
	is it not a participation in the body of Christ?	1:41
	Because there is one loaf,	1:46
	we who are many are one body	1:48
	for we all partake of the same loaf.	1:52
	Beloved, let us love one another for love is of God	1:57
	and he who loves is born of God and knows God.	2:04
	In this the love of God was made manifest among us	2:11
	that God sent his only son into the world	2:14
	so that we might live through him.	2:19
	Amen.	2:25
	May we join together our hearts and our voices	2:28
	in the Collect for Purity.	2:31
	Let us pray.	2:33
	Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open,	2:36
	all desires known and from whom no secrets are hid,	2:40
	cleanse the thoughts of our hearts	2:45
	by the inspiration of thy holy spirit,	2:47
	that we may perfectly love thee	2:51
	and worthily magnify thy holy name	2:53
	through Jesus Christ our Lord.	2:56
	Amen.	2:59
	Hear what our Lord Jesus Christ said.	3:02
	The first commandment is hear oh, Israel,	3:06
	the Lord our God, the Lord is one	3:09
	and thou shall love the Lord thy God with all thy heart	3:13
	and with all thy soul and with all thy mind	3:17
	and with all thy strength.	3:20
	The second is this, thou shall love thy neighbor as thyself.	3:23
	There is none other commandment greater than these.	3:28
	(indistinct chanting)	3:33
	A new commandment I give unto you that ye love one another,	3:39
	even as I have loved you and that ye also love one another.	3:46
	(indistinct chanting)	3:53
	Almighty God, father of our Lord Jesus Christ,	4:02
	maker of all things, judge of all men,	4:07
	we acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness,	4:11
	which we from time to time most grievously have committed	4:15
	by thought, word and deed against thy divine majesty	4:19
	provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us.	4:24
	We do earnestly repent	4:29
	and are heartily sorry for these our misdoings.	4:31
	The remembrance of them is grievous unto us,	4:35
	have mercy upon us, most merciful father	4:38
	for thy son, our Lord Jesus Christ's sake.	4:42
	Forgive us all that is passed	4:45
	and grant that we may ever hereafter serve	4:48
	and please thee in newness of life	4:51
	to the honor and glory of thy name	4:54
	through Jesus Christ our Lord.	4:56
	Amen.	4:59
	Almighty God, our heavenly father	5:03
	who of thy great mercy has promised forgiveness of sins	5:06
	to all of them that with hearty repentance and true faith,	5:11
	turn unto thee,	5:14
	have mercy upon us,	5:17
	pardon and deliver us from all our sins,	5:20
	confirm and strengthen us in all goodness,	5:23
	and bring us to everlasting life	5:27
	through Jesus Christ our Lord.	5:29
	Oh God, the creator and preserver of all mankind,	5:35
	we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of man	5:40
	that thou wouldst be pleased	5:44
	to make thy ways known unto them,	5:46
	thy saving health unto all nations.	5:49
	More especially we pray for thy holy church universal	5:52
	that it may be so guided and governed by thy good spirit	5:57
	that all who profess and call themselves Christians	6:01
	may be led into the way of truth	6:04
	and hold the faith in unity of spirit,	6:06
	in the bond of peace and in righteousness of life.	6:11
	Finally, we command thy father the goodness,	6:18
	all those who are in any way afflicted or distressed	6:21
	in mind, body or estate that it may please thee to comfort	6:24
	and relieve them according to their several necessities,	6:29
	giving them patience under their suffering	6:33
	and a happy issue out of all their afflictions.	6:36
	And this we ask for Jesus Christ's sake.	6:41
	Amen.	6:46
	Let us hear the word of God	7:05
	as it is contained in the scriptures of the new Testament	7:08
	in the gospel according to St. Luke,	7:12
	the 22nd chapter reading from verses 14 to 23.	7:15
	And when the hour came,	7:24
	Jesus sat a table and the apostles with him.	7:26
	And he said to them,	7:31
	I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover	7:33
	with you before I suffer.	7:37
	But I tell you, I shall not eat it	7:40
	until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.	7:45
	And he took a cup and when he had given thanks He said,	7:50
	take this and divide it among yourselves	7:54
	for I tell you that from now on	8:00
	I shall not drink of the fruit of the vine	8:02
	until the kingdom of God comes.	8:05
	And he took bread and when he had given thanks He broke it	8:11
	and gave it to them saying,	8:17
	this is my body.	8:20
	But behold, the hand of him who betrays me	8:24
	is with me on the table.	8:27
	For the son of man goes as it has been determined,	8:31
	but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed.	8:36
	And they began to question one another,	8:43
	which of them it was that would do this.	8:47
	Amen and may God bless unto us the reading of his holy word.	8:53
	♪ Glory be to the Father ♪	9:08
	♪ And to the Son ♪	9:12
	♪ And to the Holy Ghost ♪	9:14
	♪ As it was in the beginning ♪	9:19
	♪ Is now and ever shall be ♪	9:23
	♪ World without end ♪	9:28
	♪ Amen, amen ♪	9:31
	We celebrate tonight the institution of the Lord's supper,	9:53
	remembering the last meal which Jesus ate with his disciples	9:58
	before he was cruelly done to death.	10:04
	Let us think about him and two of his followers	10:09
	before we break bread together.	10:15
	Did Jesus have any knowledge, any inkling,	10:20
	any anticipation of what might happen to him	10:24
	on the (indistinct).	10:29
	He had failed in Galilee.	10:32
	He had fled that country.	10:35
	He had tackled Jerusalem, but he had wept over that city.	10:39
	There had been no real uprising to support him.	10:47
	And now during the evening meal with his intimate friends,	10:53
	he had shared a loaf with them,	10:58
	distributing it with these strange words.	11:02
	This is my body, which is for you.	11:06
	Whereas Monsignor Knox translates the verse.	11:13
	This is my body on your behalf.	11:16
	Was he conscious of the possibility,	11:22
	the likelihood, the certainty of death?	11:25
	Does one back the ecclesiastical powers	11:31
	and the political authorities	11:34
	and still expect to die in vain?	11:37
	Does the preaching of good news and goodwill	11:42
	inevitably engender indignation?	11:46
	Does the parable of the prodigal son	11:52
	anger the legally righteous?	11:54
	And does the parable of the good Samaritan	11:59
	inflame the racially righteous?	12:02
	It is expedient for you that	12:08
	one man should die for the people	12:11
	said Caiaphas the high priest.	12:15
	Did God agree with Caiaphas?	12:20
	Did Jesus consent?	12:24
	It sometimes takes a death to drive home the message	12:29
	that a life has failed to get across.	12:33
	And so he was crucified on a hill called Golgotha	12:38
	the place of a skull.	12:42
	We don't know exactly where it was	12:45
	or why it was called the place of a skull,	12:48
	but there his body was broken on our behalf.	12:53
	Centuries later on another Friday,	13:04
	two days before another Easter,	13:08
	a man was shot in Fox Theater in Washington	13:11
	and died without uttering a word.	13:18
	The date was April 14th, 1865.	13:21
	The victim was Abraham Lincoln, the president who had just	13:26
	brought his country to the end of a bloody civil war.	13:29
	What kind of a man was he?	13:35
	We know his gospel.	13:37
	He summed it up at Gettysburg.	13:39
	Four score and seven years ago	13:43
	our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation,	13:45
	conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition	13:52
	that all men are created equal.	13:57
	To what end, the government of the people	14:04
	by the people and for the people	14:10
	should not perish from the earth.	14:14
	He was a devout man in an unorthodox fashion.	14:17
	He was a committed man who never believed	14:22
	that he had God in his pocket.	14:26
	He was a man who was well aware	14:30
	that his life might end forcibly.	14:32
	You remember his dream of the dead president	14:36
	laid out in the East room of the White House	14:40
	just a few days before the dream became a nightmare.	14:44
	In fact, read again, Walt Whitman's, O Captain, My Captain	14:48
	or Vachel Lindsay's, Abraham Lincoln Walks At Midnight	14:55
	or Edwin Markham's, Lincoln The Man Of The People,	15:00
	or just remember the Negro mother	15:03
	lifting her baby high in the air	15:07
	as Lincoln's funeral procession passed.	15:10
	With these words, take a long look honey,	15:14
	he died for you.	15:21
	This was his body on our behalf.	15:25
	On another bad Friday,	15:30
	a week ago tonight, another man was shot	15:35
	in the Lorraine Motel at Memphis, Tennessee	15:40
	on April 4th, 1968.	15:45
	He was a minister of the gospel, a PhD of Boston University,	15:49
	a Nobel prize winner,	15:56
	The Man of the Year for Time magazine in 1964.	15:59
	A Negro.	16:05
	He was the apostle of non-violence.	16:07
	His approach to life in turbulent,	16:12
	idealistic puzzled America	16:14
	may be expressed in two short sentences.	16:17
	From my background, I gained my regulating Christian ideals.	16:21
	From Gandhi I learnt my operational technique.	16:28
	He was an organizer with the heart of a poet,	16:35
	a preacher with the worldly wisdom of a politician,	16:40
	a criminal with the imagination of a Saint.	16:45
	A Negro second, a human being first.	16:51
	He knew that he would probably die a violent death.	16:59
	He also knew that he would live.	17:03
	He was both a Good Friday and an Easter Christian.	17:06
	He was buried before the eyes of the whole world.	17:12
	His hearse was a farm cart drawn by two razorback mules.	17:18
	As lowly ordinary animals as the donkey,	17:24
	which carried Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.	17:28
	This was Martin Luther King's body	17:35
	martyred on our behalf.	17:39
	Are you ready to accuse me of heresy	17:45
	or impiety or bad taste	17:49
	because of the coupling of Jesus and Lincoln and King?	17:53
	I would ask St. Paul to be the council for my defense.	18:00
	You know his words.	18:05
	I have been crucified with Christ.	18:08
	The life I now live is not my life,	18:12
	but the life which Christ lives in me	18:16
	and my present bodily life is lived by faith	18:20
	in the son of God who loved me	18:24
	and sacrificed himself for me.	18:27
	Lincoln and King let Jesus the Christ live in them.	18:31
	Moreover, they carried out the work of the Christ,	18:38
	even unto death, violent death.	18:41
	Their bodies on his behalf	18:46
	and on our behalf.	18:50
	Do you remember one question asked	18:54
	in the epilogue to Shaw's, Saint Joan?	18:56
	Listen, must then a Christ perish in torment in every age	18:59
	to save those who have no imagination?	19:08
	Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age	19:14
	to save those that have no imagination?	19:19
	And the answer of history is, yes.	19:25
	Yes.	19:31
	What shall we say to Jesus and Lincoln and King?	19:35
	We shall soon receive the symbol of one body	19:42
	given on our behalf.	19:46
	We could respond in the words of a great Good Friday hymn,	19:49
	love so amazing, so divine,	19:55
	demands my soul,	20:01
	my life, my all.	20:04
	Let us pray.	20:10
	Oh God, that made us this beautiful earth.	20:14
	When will it be ready to receive thy saints?	20:19
	How long oh Lord?	20:26
	How long?	20:29
	How long?	20:33
	(church music)	20:51
	(choir singing)	22:03
	Almighty God, as we present here at thyne alter,	27:56
	these monetary gifts	28:00
	and these symbols of the death of our Lord to be dedicated,	28:03
	we present ourselves	28:09
	asking that we may be open-mindedly ready to hear thy word,	28:12
	to feast at thy table	28:19
	and to receive the blessings which we do not deserve,	28:22
	but which thou does desire to give us	28:26
	through Jesus Christ, our Lord.	28:30
	Amen.	28:32
	Lift up your hearts.	28:46
-	We lift them up unto the Lord.	28:48
-	Let us give thanks unto our Lord God.	28:51
-	It is meet and right so to do.	28:55
-	Let us pray.	28:58
	It is very meet, right and our bounden duty	29:07
	that we should at all times and in all places	29:11
	give thanks unto thee, oh Lord,	29:14
	Holy father, almighty everlasting God.	29:17
	♪ Therefore with angels and archangels ♪	29:25
	♪ And with all the company of heaven ♪	29:28
	♪ We laud and magnify thy glorious name ♪	29:32
	♪ Evermore praising thee, and saying ♪	29:36
	♪ Holy, holy, holy ♪	29:42
	♪ Lord God of hosts ♪	29:48
	♪ Heaven and earth are full of thy glory ♪	29:53
	♪ Glory be to thee, O Lord most high ♪	30:01
	♪ Amen ♪	30:09
	Almighty God, our heavenly father,	30:16
	who of thy tender mercy didst give thine only Son	30:19
	Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the cross	30:22
	for our redemption,	30:25
	who made there, by his one oblation of himself once offered	30:27
	a full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice	30:31
	for the sins of the whole world and did institute	30:35
	and in his holy gospel command us to continue,	30:40
	a perpetual memory of his precious death	30:44
	until his coming again	30:47
	and who in the same night that he was betrayed took bread	30:51
	and when he had given thanks, he broke it	30:54
	and gave it to his disciples saying, take,	30:57
	eat, this is my body, which is given for you.	31:01
	Do this in remembrance of me.	31:08
	Likewise, after supper he took the cup	31:13
	and when he had given thanks,	31:16
	he gave it to them saying,	31:17
	drink of it all of you	31:19
	for this is my blood of the new covenant,	31:22
	which is poured out for many, for the forgiveness of sins.	31:25
	Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me.	31:31
	Hear us, oh, merciful father, we most humbly beseech thee,	31:38
	and grant that we receiving these	31:42
	thy creatures of bread and wine according to thy son,	31:44
	our savior Jesus Christ's holy institution	31:47
	in remembrance of his death and passion	31:50
	may be partakers of his most blessed body and blood.	31:53
	That Christ may dwell in our hearts by faith, amen.	31:58
-	Amen.	32:02
-	We do not presume to come to this thy table,	32:08
	oh merciful Lord trusting in our own righteousness,	32:11
	but in thine manifold and great mercies.	32:15
	We are not worthy so much as to gather up	32:19
	the crumbs under thy table,	32:21
	but thou art the same Lord whose mercy is unfailing	32:24
	grant us therefore gracious Lord	32:28
	so to partake of these memorials of thy son, Jesus Christ	32:31
	that we may be filled with the fullness of his life,	32:35
	may grow into his likeness and may evermore dwell in him	32:39
	and he in us.	32:44
	Amen.	32:46
	(church music)	33:04
	♪ Our Father, who art in heaven ♪	33:37
	♪ Hallowed be thy Name ♪	33:41
	♪ Thy kingdom come ♪	33:45
	♪ Thy will be done ♪	33:46
	♪ On earth as it is in heaven ♪	33:48
	♪ Give us this day our daily bread ♪	33:54
	♪ And forgive us our trespasses ♪	33:59
	♪ As we forgive those who trespass against us ♪	34:02
	♪ And lead us not into temptation ♪	34:07
	♪ But deliver us from evil ♪	34:10
	♪ For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory ♪	34:14
	♪ Forever ♪	34:19
	♪ Amen ♪	34:25
	Beloved, hear the invitation,	36:27
	which our Lord extends to those	36:30
	who would draw near to his table.	36:34
	Ye who do truly and earnestly repent of your sins	36:37
	and are in love and charity with your neighbors	36:41
	and intend to lead a new life,	36:44
	following the commandments of God	36:47
	and walking from henceforth in his holy ways,	36:49
	draw near with faith and take this holy sacrament	36:53
	to your comfort.	36:58
	Jesus said, this is my body, which is given for you,	37:12
	take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for you	37:19
	and feed on him in your heart by faith with Thanksgiving.	37:24
	Jesus said, this cup is the new covenant in my blood,	37:36
	which is shed for you,	37:42
	drink this in remembrance that Christ died for you	37:45
	and be thankful.	37:49
	(church music)	38:03
	(priest coughs)	45:27
	Let us now unite in our prayer	47:23
	of Thanksgiving and dedication.	47:25
	Let us pray.	47:27
	Almighty and ever living God, we most heartily thank thee	47:30
	that thou dost vouchsafe to feed us	47:35
	who have duly received these holy mysteries	47:38
	with the spiritual food of the most precious	47:41
	body and blood of thy son, our savior Jesus Christ,	47:44
	and dost assure us thereby	47:48
	of thy favor and goodness towards us.	47:50
	And that we are very members incorporate	47:53
	in the mystical body of thy Son	47:56
	which is the blessed company of all faithful people,	47:59
	and are also heirs through hope of thy everlasting kingdom,	48:03
	by the merits of his most precious death and passion.	48:07
	And we humbly beseech thee oh, heavenly father,	48:11
	so to assist us with thy grace,	48:15
	that we may continue in that holy fellowship.	48:17
	And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord ourselves,	48:21
	our souls and bodies to be a reasonable,	48:26
	holy and lively sacrifice under thee,	48:30
	humbly beseeching thee that all we who are partakers	48:33
	of this holy communion may be filled with thy grace	48:37
	and heavenly benediction through Jesus Christ our Lord,	48:40
	by whom and with whom in the unity of the holy spirit,	48:45
	all honor and glory be under thee,	48:50
	oh father almighty, world without end, amen.	48:53
	The peace of God, which passeth all understanding,	49:02
	keep your hearts and minds in the knowledge and love of God	49:05
	and of his son Jesus Christ, our Lord,	49:10
	and the blessing of God almighty	49:13
	the father, the son, and the holy spirit	49:15
	be amongst you and remain with you always.	49:18
	(church music)	49:23
	♪ Amen ♪	49:27
	♪ Amen ♪	49:34
	♪ Amen ♪	49:40
	♪ Amen ♪	49:53
	♪ Amen ♪	49:57
	♪ Amen ♪	50:09
	(bell rings)	50:39
	(church music)	51:12
	(indistinct chatter)	51:56

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James T. Cleland - Maundy Thursday Service (April 11, 1968)

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April 11, 1968

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Cleland, James T. (James Tough), 1903-1974

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