Helen G. Crotwell - "Nothing Can Separate" (July 30, 1978)

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-	Duke University Chapel service of worship, July 30, 1978.	0:06
	(inspirational organ music)	0:13
	(inspirational choir music)	14:57
-	If we say we have no sin	18:29
	then we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us,	18:32
	but if we confess our sins before God	18:37
	he is just and he can be trusted to forgive.	18:40
	Therefore, let us confess our sins before almighty God.	18:45
	Oh God, we confess that we have failed in many ways.	18:51
	We have tried to hide from you,	18:55
	from one another	18:58
	and even from ourselves.	18:59
	There have been times	19:03
	when we have drawn back from the right	19:04
	because it was a difficult experience.	19:07
	Too often we have involved ourselves	19:10
	in a meaningless round of activities	19:13
	that lead nowhere and do not bring satisfaction.	19:16
	We have treated persons as things	19:21
	and things as gods.	19:23
	We have strayed far from the fullness	19:26
	of life that you have made possible for us.	19:28
	Forgive us for our self centeredness	19:33
	and our weakness	19:36
	and give us the courage to accept the pain	19:37
	of complete commitment	19:40
	which brings new birth and healing of our brokenness.	19:42
	In the name of Jesus, amen.	19:47
	Now hear the gracious words of our Lord Jesus Christ.	19:51
	Unto all that repent and turn to him,	19:55
	he says come unto me all that labor	19:59
	and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.	20:02
	Whoever comes to me I will not cast out.	20:06
	So, now the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ	20:10
	be with all of you.	20:13
	I declare to you our sins are forgiven.	20:14
	Let us give thanks for God is good	20:19
	and God's love is everlasting.	20:21
	(congregation chanting)	20:25
	Let us pray.	20:39
	Lord, God open our hearts and our minds	20:42
	that we may be good soil for the seeds of faith	20:44
	that you sow there through your holy word, amen.	20:48
	The Old Testament lesson this morning comes	20:56
	from Isaiah, the 55th Chapter, verses one through three.	20:58
	Let us listen to the word of God.	21:09
	Everyone who thirsts come	21:18
	to the waters and he who has no money	21:21
	come and buy and eat.	21:24
	Come, buy wine and milk without money	21:28
	and without price.	21:30
	Why do you spend your money for that	21:33
	which is not bread and your labor	21:35
	for that which does not satisfy?	21:38
	Harken diligently to me and eat what is good	21:41
	and delight yourselves in fatness.	21:46
	Incline your ear and come to me.	21:49
	Hear that your soul may live	21:52
	and I will make with you an everlasting covenant.	21:55
	My steadfast sure love for David.	21:59
	The New Testament scripture comes to us from Paul's letter	22:04
	to the Romans, the 8th Chapter beginning with the 35th	22:09
	and ending with the 39th verse.	22:14
	Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?	22:19
	Shall tribulation or distress or persecution	22:23
	or famine or nakedness or peril or the sword?	22:27
	As it is written for thy sake	22:33
	we are being killed all the day long.	22:35
	We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.	22:39
	Know in all these things we are more	22:43
	than conquerors through him who loved us.	22:45
	For I am sure that neither death nor life	22:49
	nor angels nor principalities	22:53
	nor things present nor things to come	22:56
	nor powers nor height nor depth nor anything else	23:00
	in all creation will ever be able	23:05
	to separate us from the love of God	23:08
	in Christ Jesus our Lord.	23:11
	Thus, ends the reading of scripture.	23:14
	May God give us understanding of his word, amen.	23:17
	(inspirational choir music)	23:41
	Will the congregation please rise for the reading	27:08
	of the gospel?	27:11
	The gospel is Matthew's, Chapter 14, beginning	27:19
	with the 13th and concluding with the 21st verse.	27:22
	Now when Jesus heard this he withdrew from there	27:27
	in a boat to a lonely place apart.	27:30
	But when the crowds heard it they followed him on foot	27:34
	from the towns.	27:37
	As he went ashore he saw a great throng and he had	27:39
	compassion on them and healed their sick.	27:42
	When it was evening the disciples came to him	27:47
	and said, this is a lonely place and the day	27:49
	is now over.	27:53
	Send the crowds away to go into the villages	27:54
	and buy food for themselves.	27:57
	Jesus said, they need not go away.	28:00
	You give them something to eat.	28:04
	And they said to him, we have only five loaves here	28:07
	and two fish.	28:11
	And he said, bring them here to me.	28:12
	Then, he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass	28:16
	and taking the five loaves	28:20
	and the two fish	28:23
	he looked up to heaven	28:25
	and he blessed and broke and gave the loaves	28:27
	to the disciples and the disciples	28:30
	gave them to the crowds	28:33
	and they all ate and they were satisfied.	28:35
	And they took up 12 baskets	28:39
	full of the broken pieces	28:42
	that were left over	28:43
	and those who ate were about 5000 men	28:46
	besides women and children.	28:49
	(inspirational choir music)	28:55
-	Nothing can separate us from the love of God.	30:13
	Paul says, not tribulation nor distress	30:20
	or persecution or famine or nakedness	30:24
	or the sword, not even death nor life,	30:28
	nor things present nor things to come,	30:34
	not powers, not height, or depth	30:38
	nor anything else	30:43
	in all creation.	30:46
	For us we'd say, not hard times or unemployment,	30:50
	not divorce or hunger or loneliness,	30:56
	not illness or boredom or fear,	31:01
	not political powers	31:05
	or even death or death of someone we love.	31:08
	Nothing in or past, our present or our future	31:14
	has the power to separate us from the love of God,	31:19
	nothing.	31:25
	Such assurance was real for Paul at a time	31:28
	when Christians were bein' persecuted,	31:31
	when there were all sorts of forces at work	31:36
	trying to separate people from God's love	31:39
	shown to them in Jesus, the Christ.	31:42
	Our experience may not be identical,	31:47
	but we know similar struggles and conflicts	31:50
	and some of us have the same testimony and hope	31:54
	which Paul expressed in his letter to the Romans.	31:58
	Others of us want to believe, but it sounds unreal,	32:03
	a fanciful dream spinning.	32:08
	Listen to these situations, not about actual	32:13
	individuals, but about real people	32:17
	and the sense of the stories are a composite	32:21
	of many of our stories and so therefore,	32:25
	are pictures of us.	32:28
	A woman is looking for a job which will use her talents	32:32
	and allow her time to be with her family.	32:36
	There're not many available positions	32:41
	because hers is a specialized skill.	32:43
	She is one of the final candidates	32:47
	for two very good positions,	32:49
	but she is rejected by both.	32:53
	She says, how fortunate, for neither of these	32:56
	positions would've allowed me time to be with my family	33:01
	and I was immediately offered a job	33:05
	which used my abilities and did give me	33:08
	the necessary time that I wanted to be with my family.	33:11
	She comments, it is comforting to know	33:15
	of God's love and care for me,	33:20
	that God has a plan for my life.	33:23
	But what about the person	33:28
	with a family who has struggled and skimped	33:31
	and saved so that he could get his PhD	33:34
	only to be told time and time again	33:39
	that he has all the qualifications,	33:43
	but the position is going to someone else	33:46
	who is qualified, a woman or a black?	33:49
	Or, another contrast, a man's wife dies.	33:55
	He is later reunited with a childhood sweetheart.	34:00
	Surely God's love is seen in this.	34:05
	But, what about the woman who has been faithful	34:09
	to her husband, denying her vocational options	34:13
	to care for her family as wife and mother	34:17
	and who is told by her husband	34:21
	that he is leaving because his life	34:24
	can no longer be fulfilled in relationship with her	34:28
	and he has found a young and beautiful	34:33
	and brilliant woman who makes him feel important,	34:36
	like a real man?	34:40
	There are such times of personal anguish and deep suffering	34:44
	when we feel separated from the love of God,	34:48
	the times when we see no hope in the future,	34:52
	the times when we suffer because we cannot fulfill	34:56
	or meet the expectations of someone we love.	35:00
	The husband whose wife wants him to get a promotion,	35:05
	the wife whose husband wants her to look	35:11
	forever 21 years old,	35:14
	the children whose parents want them to make all As,	35:18
	the young woman who has	35:24
	a problem which causes her to be overweight	35:25
	in a society which says all women should wear	35:29
	a size eight dress.	35:33
	We struggle to achieve similar goals	35:37
	to gain them or keep the love of those	35:42
	who are most important to us	35:45
	and in our desperation we often feel separated	35:49
	from these people and often from the love of God.	35:53
	We see God's love as being as conditional	35:58
	as some of our family or our friends seems to be	36:02
	and sometimes we expect that if God really loves us	36:08
	we would be a size eight, or get the promotion,	36:12
	or be whatever seems most important to those	36:15
	we want to please.	36:18
	Now, intellectually we know immediately	36:21
	the absurdity of such expectations.	36:24
	We know that Paul did not,	36:26
	nor in fact does any Biblical witness	36:29
	promise that God's love will bring us success	36:31
	or beauty or a happy marriage or a good job	36:34
	or that God's love is even dependent	36:39
	on our meeting any standard.	36:42
	But on some level at some time we believe	36:46
	like the woman who found the job that if God loves us	36:50
	it will be expressed in our being	36:54
	everything we want to be	36:57
	and having everything we need.	36:59
	So, when this doesn't happen	37:02
	we feel separated from God's love.	37:04
	Now such yearning and questioning is not foreign	37:08
	to our Biblical faith.	37:11
	Hear a paraphrase of the 44th Psalm.	37:13
	Oh God, I have heard so much about how close you were	37:18
	to your children throughout history.	37:22
	They clobbered the enemy and credited you	37:25
	for their victories.	37:27
	It was their persistent faith in you	37:29
	that held them together through the crises	37:31
	of their lives	37:33
	and I am aware of how you have watched	37:36
	over me in the midst of our conflicts.	37:38
	You have enabled me to overcome many	37:42
	of the obstacles in my life.	37:44
	Even when I so miserably failed	37:46
	you set me on my feet again.	37:49
	I am keenly aware of my incapabilities,	37:52
	inadequacies and of how much I need you.	37:55
	I know all this, Lord.	37:59
	I am deeply grateful for your care and concern,	38:02
	but what about now?	38:07
	I am on the spot and I can't reach you.	38:09
	It seems as if you have left the scene	38:12
	and I am left holding the bag.	38:15
	I cry for help	38:18
	and hear only the echo of my own voice.	38:20
	I grope about me and find insurmountable walls	38:24
	and dark corners.	38:29
	The advice of my peers and superiors seems devoid	38:30
	of genuine love and concern.	38:34
	Oh God, if you are truly my God,	38:37
	reveal yourself to me now.	38:40
	I simply cannot bear the shame and pain of my problem.	38:44
	Nobody around me can help me.	38:49
	If people knew about it they would only shun me.	38:52
	I have not forgotten you, oh God.	38:56
	I have dedicated my life to you	38:58
	and your purposes and I am in deep trouble.	39:00
	I have no one else to turn to.	39:04
	Oh God, listen to me. Respond to my cry for help.	39:07
	Deliver me from this terrible conflict	39:11
	before it destroys me.	39:13
	Help me to sense your love and concern.	39:16
	Save me before it is too late.	39:19
	The cry of the Psalmist is our cry.	39:25
	Oh Lord, show us your love.	39:29
	Paul was talking about the love of God	39:34
	as he knew and experienced it through Jesus, the Christ.	39:37
	So, to know this love we look to Jesus	39:42
	who knew the human condition, who suffered himself,	39:45
	who did not escape being human,	39:50
	the agony, the loneliness, the unknown.	39:53
	Jesus endured life to the end.	39:57
	His story is real, not fiction	40:00
	and the ending was not a fairy tale	40:03
	that said he lived happily ever after,	40:06
	but the end, a horrible death.	40:09
	He was forsaken by his friends	40:13
	and he felt abandoned by God.	40:16
	Now, if we do not stop with the cross,	40:20
	but move through it to the assurance	40:24
	that the resurrection of Jesus	40:27
	was to a new life with God we will find hope.	40:29
	It is clear that God who seemed	40:34
	to have abandoned him	40:37
	and from the perspective of the crowd,	40:39
	to have left him without support	40:41
	did in fact, sustain him even through death.	40:44
	God had been with him in what some people call	40:49
	a hidden presence.	40:53
	Now we can find meaning and hope	40:56
	in the face of such senseless suffering and death	40:59
	which in some lesser degree	41:04
	many of us face only as we look to the one	41:07
	who is holy other and yet is at the same time	41:12
	completely present with us in our human condition.	41:16
	Elie Wiesel writes about one of the most horrible	41:21
	of examples of human evil and sin, the Holocaust,	41:24
	in his book, Night, and he recalls an experience	41:30
	from one of the concentration camps	41:34
	when three prisoners were bein' hanged.	41:37
	One, a very young boy who, because he was so light	41:40
	weighted, took so much longer to die.	41:45
	One man kept asking where is God now?	41:50
	Where is God?	41:53
	And Wiesel said he heard a voice within him,	41:55
	where is God? Here is God.	42:00
	God is hanging on this gallous.	42:05
	Such stories, as horrifying as they are,	42:10
	offer us hope knowing that if these people	42:13
	can sense God's presence and these terrible times	42:17
	we too can be assured of God's loving presence	42:21
	in whatever situation we find ourselves.	42:25
	We know there's no way to avoid suffering	42:29
	or anguish or loneliness,	42:33
	but we also know there is a way through these conditions,	42:36
	for our faith is that God is also present	42:43
	participating in our human situation,	42:46
	even at the times of utmost peril and meaninglessness.	42:51
	God, the holy other, is present in our history	42:55
	seeking, searching, standing with us in darkness	42:59
	and futility and in those meaningless moments	43:04
	offering us hope, not a hope of easy escape,	43:08
	but of living through it.	43:13
	God's love does not protect us	43:15
	from all suffering, but it protects us	43:19
	in all suffering.	43:23
	We have the witness to this from countless Christians	43:26
	who have lived out their human existence	43:29
	without looking for cheap consolation.	43:32
	Countless who though incurably sick,	43:36
	have discovered through their illness	43:38
	a new awareness of themselves.	43:41
	Think of the people you know	43:45
	who affirm that God has stood by them	43:47
	when they were faced with overwhelming chaos	43:50
	oppressed by our society, listless	43:55
	because of their boredom	44:00
	paralyzed by fear,	44:02
	forgotten by friends, betrayed by spouses.	44:06
	Not all come out victorious.	44:12
	Some are crushed and broken.	44:14
	Survival is not mechanical and automatic,	44:16
	but nothing can separate us from the love of God	44:20
	which sustains us through such times,	44:25
	nothing except ourselves.	44:28
	Viktor Frankl, another person who survived	44:34
	the horror of the Holocaust says, everything	44:37
	can be taken from a person but one thing,	44:41
	the last of the human freedoms,	44:44
	to choose one's attitude in any set of circumstances.	44:47
	Everything can be taken from a person	44:53
	but one thing, to choose one's attitude	44:56
	in any set of circumstances.	45:01
	We choose how we respond to our human condition.	45:05
	Nothing can separate us from the love of God	45:09
	except ourselves.	45:13
	God's love is ours,	45:17
	but it's not a love which is coercive, overpowering,	45:20
	which negates our will and our freedom.	45:25
	We may be separating ourselves from God's love	45:30
	when we give absolute power and control	45:34
	of our lives to people and institutions	45:38
	which do not have and cannot bear	45:41
	such absoluteness.	45:45
	The husband who is driven to satisfy his wife's need	45:47
	for him to be promoted, the wife who constantly	45:51
	struggles to look 21 years old, the child who cannot	45:55
	fulfill the parents' expectation, the woman who	46:00
	unconditionally accepts culture's picture	46:05
	of what she must look like if she is to be lovable.	46:09
	If these expectations are given ultimate power	46:13
	over us, if they determine how we make our decisions,	46:17
	how we spend our time, our energy, our money,	46:22
	they become all consuming.	46:26
	They have taken the place of God and have become our gods	46:29
	and none of these have the power to sustain us ultimately,	46:33
	especially in times of failure	46:38
	when we can't get promotions, when we get old	46:42
	and wrinkled and even cantankerous, when we stay fat.	46:46
	None of these values stand by us in love no matter what.	46:52
	They may be conditionally and temporarily satisfying	46:58
	when we are able to meet their standards.	47:03
	But we are affirming that nothing can separate us	47:08
	from God's love, even the failure to meet	47:10
	these cultural values of standards and the experience	47:13
	of the people like the man with the PhD who keeps	47:18
	seeking a job, sometimes he finds one,	47:21
	sometimes he has to find another work.	47:26
	Or, the woman whose husband leaves her,	47:29
	sometimes he comes back,	47:32
	sometimes she finds another person	47:34
	with whom to make a new and lasting covenant,	47:36
	but sometimes she has to learn to live her life	47:40
	without a marriage partner, finding new friends	47:44
	and a new way of life.	47:47
	Each of us knows people who have faced	47:50
	similar situations and have come out confident	47:52
	of God's love and were enabled to share this love	47:56
	with others.	48:00
	We also know there are less dramatic, more hidden reasons	48:02
	why we, which cause us to feel separated	48:06
	from the love of God.	48:09
	Some reflected in that paraphrase of the 44th Psalm.	48:11
	I cry out for help and hear only the echo	48:16
	of my own words.	48:21
	When we seem cut off from God,	48:25
	when we cry out and there's no one there,	48:27
	an emptiness, then we trust the God is present	48:30
	though hidden.	48:35
	Our past experience and faith may sustain us	48:37
	and we are comforted in these times when we read	48:41
	the testimony of the people we name saints	48:45
	who have known the dark night of the soul	48:48
	when God seemed absent or remote.	48:52
	We are held when we read about their spiritual	48:55
	pilgrimage knowing they came through	48:59
	affirming God's presence and love.	49:03
	Another of the less dramatic, more hidden dimensions	49:08
	of our experience of the absence of God	49:10
	is reflected again in the Psalm.	49:15
	I cannot bear the shame and the pain of my problem.	49:18
	If people knew about it they would only shun me.	49:22
	Such feeling of separation gnaws at us when we know	49:27
	we have betrayed that which we value most.	49:31
	There is an emptiness.	49:36
	Our insides feel like a hollow shell because of our	49:38
	compromise or fraud or deceit or betrayal.	49:42
	We cannot believe that God would love us.	49:47
	We don't love and respect ourselves and if our family	49:50
	or neighbors only knew they would not respect us.	49:53
	But, the witness of so many people is that God	49:58
	does not abandon us even then.	50:00
	The wonder of the Biblical story is it is often	50:03
	these people who experience God's love	50:07
	in the fullest.	50:10
	God's love often expressed first and forgiveness	50:12
	and acceptance and then often leading to restoration,	50:16
	restitution and renewal.	50:20
	When God is absent to us where do we turn?	50:25
	If the Christian community is the church	50:30
	continuing the work of the Christ,	50:34
	then it is here that we will be gently	50:37
	and lovingly carried through our time	50:41
	of utter darkness to that time when we sense	50:43
	a glimmer of hope.	50:48
	We'll find the undergirding arms during our time of worship,	50:50
	in our prayer and our reflection and our meditation,	50:54
	especially in reading the Psalms.	50:59
	We will know that we are not alone	51:02
	in this experience, that others have shared	51:05
	and share the emptiness we sense.	51:09
	God's love often comes to us at these times	51:13
	through another person,	51:17
	a friend or a counselor, or even a stranger.	51:19
	Being with another	51:24
	at times of deep anguish offers to the other	51:27
	comfort, hope, consolation and helps to lead	51:30
	the other from isolation and separation	51:35
	into the fellowship of love.	51:39
	Hear now the prayers from one of our Eucharistic services.	51:43
	Our community celebration of God's love for us	51:47
	at all times, we thank you oh God,	51:52
	for speaking your word, sending your love to us despite	51:57
	our deafness.	52:02
	Your word is life in many ways,	52:04
	a forgiving word, a reassuring smile,	52:08
	friends who walk mysteriously into our lives	52:12
	and awaken good in us we never knew existed.	52:16
	Your word is hope, creativity, imagination	52:21
	and new beginnings.	52:26
	When we somehow start out again from the ashes	52:29
	of defeat or disappointment,	52:33
	send over us we pray, your Holy Spirit,	52:37
	the Spirit who brings us life,	52:42
	the Spirit who helps us love,	52:46
	the Spirit who makes all that we do	52:50
	not easy but full of meaning.	52:53
	Only with the Spirit's help can we truly be	52:57
	the church of Jesus Christ.	53:00
	The Spirit's presence in our community gives more	53:03
	than human meaning to the support which we show	53:08
	to one another.	53:12
	Let us rejoice and give thanks that nothing	53:14
	can separate us from the love of God,	53:18
	amen and amen.	53:22
	(inspirational organ music)	53:30
	(inspirational choir music)	54:23
-	Let us affirm what we believe.	57:14
	We believe in God	57:18
	who has created and is creating	57:20
	who has come in the truly human Jesus	57:23
	to reconcile and to make new,	57:27
	who works in us and others	57:30
	by the Spirit.	57:32
	We trust God	57:34
	who calls us to be the church	57:36
	to celebrate life and its fullness,	57:39
	to love and serve others,	57:43
	to seek justice and resist evil,	57:45
	to proclaim Jesus	57:49
	crucified and risen,	57:51
	our judge and our hope,	57:53
	in life, in death,	57:56
	in life beyond death	57:59
	God is with us.	58:01
	We are not alone.	58:03
	Thanks be to God.	58:06
	The Lord be with you.	58:08
	Let us pray.	58:12
	Lord God almighty,	58:22
	giver of life	58:25
	and sustainer of those who struggle with it.	58:27
	Hear our prayer for people in need.	58:32
	Help us to have the wisdom,	58:36
	the patience, the courage	58:40
	and the imagination to serve your children,	58:44
	those who are hungry and poor,	58:49
	those who are lonely,	58:53
	who are mourning the loss of a loved one,	58:56
	those who are sick in body and mind,	59:00
	those who are faithless,	59:05
	those who are consumed with anger	59:08
	and those possessed by greed.	59:12
	Come, Spirit of God,	59:16
	live in your church	59:19
	and liven its members that we all	59:21
	may do your will.	59:24
	Inspire our leaders	59:26
	and our lay people that they may be doers	59:28
	of the word and not hearers only	59:30
	and help us, whatever we do,	59:35
	to do it for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ	59:38
	who led us in prayer this way.	59:42
	Our Father who art in heaven	59:46
	hallowed be thy name.	59:49
	Thy kingdom come	59:51
	thy will be done	59:53
	on earth as it is in heaven.	59:55
	Give us this day our daily bread	59:58
	and forgive us our trespasses	1:00:01
	as we forgive those	1:00:03
	who trespass against us	1:00:04
	and lead us not into temptation,	1:00:07
	but deliver us from evil	1:00:10
	for thine is the kingdom	1:00:12
	and the power	1:00:14
	and the glory forever, amen.	1:00:15
	(inspirational organ music)	1:00:23
	(inspirational choir music)	1:02:23
	(inspirational organ music)	1:05:26
	(inspirational choir music)	1:07:04
	Lord God, creator of the universe	1:08:03
	accept we humbly pray	1:08:06
	these gifts which you have given us	1:08:10
	and we now return in your service.	1:08:12
	Use them we pray for the doing of your word	1:08:17
	that every knee should bow and every tongue confess	1:08:23
	that Jesus is Lord, amen.	1:08:26
	(inspirational organ music)	1:08:31
	(inspirational choir music)	1:09:18
	And may the love of God	1:11:40
	the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ	1:11:43
	the fellowship of the Holy Spirit	1:11:45
	be and abide with you now and always, amen.	1:11:47
	(inspirational choir music)	1:11:59
	(inspirational organ music)	1:13:18
	(congregation clapping)	1:21:20

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Title:

Helen G. Crotwell - "Nothing Can Separate" (July 30, 1978)

Description:

Sermon start time: (Part 1) 30:13. Sermon end time: (Part 1) 53:26.
God’s love is always present, and only we can remove ourselves from His love. The sermon is meant to encourage the congregation to shed cultural expectations for happiness (which separate us from His love) and believe in God’s love. (Abstract created by Duke Divinity School staff.)
Key quotation: Nothing can separate us from the love of God which sustains us through such times, nothing except ourselves.

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Date:

July 30, 1978

Speaker:

Crotwell, Helen Gray, 1925-2006

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Ordinary Time

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Duke University. Chapel

Identifier:

UA.17.01.0003 RR-0968
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