Brian S. O'Gorman - "Christmas in August" (August 6, 1961)
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(smooth organic music) | 0:04 | |
(church choir hymning) | 6:07 | |
- | Beloved, let us prepare our hearts | 9:16 |
for having communion and spirit with Jesus Christ. | 9:18 | |
By hearing the words of the holy scriptures, | 9:22 | |
"'Come on to me,' said Jesus, | 9:26 | |
'All ye that labor and are heavy laden, | 9:28 | |
and I will give you rest. | 9:32 | |
I am the bread of life. | 9:35 | |
He that cometh to me, shall never hunger. | 9:38 | |
And he, that believeth on me, shall never thirst.' | 9:41 | |
God commended His love toward us | 9:47 | |
in that while we were yet sinners, | 9:51 | |
"Christ died for us." | 9:53 | |
And now may we join together in offering unto almighty God, | 9:57 | |
our prayer for purity? | 10:01 | |
Let us pray. | 10:03 | |
Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, | 10:05 | |
all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid, | 10:09 | |
cleanse the thoughts of our hearts | 10:14 | |
by the inspiration of thy holy spirit, | 10:16 | |
that we may perfectly love thee | 10:19 | |
and worthly magnify thy holy name | 10:22 | |
through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. | 10:25 | |
Hear about our Lord Jesus Christ said. | 10:29 | |
"The first commandment is here. | 10:32 | |
Oh, Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one, | 10:34 | |
and thou shall love thy Lord thy God with all thy heart, | 10:39 | |
and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, | 10:43 | |
and with all thy strength. | 10:46 | |
The second is this, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. | 10:48 | |
There is no other commandment greater than these.'" | 10:53 | |
(congregation responding) | 10:58 | |
A new commandment I give unto you, | 11:04 | |
that you love one another, | 11:06 | |
even as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. | 11:09 | |
- | By this shall all men know | 11:14 |
that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. | 11:17 | |
- | All mighty God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, | 11:22 |
maker of all things, judge of all men, | 11:26 | |
we acknowledge and be well our manifold sins and wickedness, | 11:30 | |
which we from time to time most grievously have committed, | 11:34 | |
by thought, word, and deed against thy divine majesty. | 11:38 | |
Provoking most justly, thy wrath and indignation against us. | 11:42 | |
We do earnestly repent, | 11:47 | |
and our heartedly sorry for these are misdoings, | 11:49 | |
the remembrance of them is grievous onto us. | 11:52 | |
Have mercy upon us, most merciful Father, | 11:56 | |
for thy I son, our Lord Jesus Christ's sake, | 11:59 | |
forgive us all that is passed | 12:03 | |
and grant that we may ever hear after serve and please thee, | 12:05 | |
in newness of life, to the honor and glory of thy name, | 12:09 | |
through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen. | 12:13 | |
Almighty God, our heavenly father, | 12:19 | |
who have thy great and mercy, | 12:22 | |
has promised forgiveness of sins | 12:24 | |
to all of them that with hearty repentance and true faith, | 12:27 | |
turn on to thee, have mercy upon us. | 12:30 | |
Pardon and deliver us from all our sins. | 12:35 | |
Confirm and strengthen us in all goodness, | 12:39 | |
and bring us to everlasting life | 12:43 | |
through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. | 12:45 | |
Oh God, the creator and preserver of all mankind, | 12:50 | |
we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and conditions of man, | 12:55 | |
that thou wouldest be pleased, | 13:00 | |
to make thy ways known unto them, | 13:01 | |
thy saving health unto all nations. | 13:04 | |
More especially, we pray for thy holy church universal, | 13:07 | |
that it may be so guided and governed by the good spirit, | 13:11 | |
that all who profess and call themselves Christians, | 13:16 | |
may be led into the way of truth, | 13:19 | |
and hold the faith in unity of spirit, | 13:22 | |
in the bond of peace, and in righteousness of life. | 13:25 | |
Finally, we command to thy fatherly goodness | 13:30 | |
all those who are in any way afflicted | 13:32 | |
or distressed, in mind, in body, or a state, | 13:35 | |
that it may pleased thee to comfort and relieve them | 13:39 | |
according to their several necessities, | 13:42 | |
giving them patients under their suffering, | 13:45 | |
and a happy issue out of all their afflictions. | 13:48 | |
And this we asked for Jesus Christ's sake, Amen. | 13:51 | |
- | I shall read the lesson from the new translation, | 14:10 |
which was published in England in March of this year. | 14:15 | |
"When all things began, | 14:22 | |
the word already was, | 14:25 | |
the word dwelt with God, | 14:29 | |
and what God was, the word was. | 14:32 | |
The word of then was with God at the beginning, | 14:39 | |
and through Him, all things came to be. | 14:44 | |
No single thing was created without Him. | 14:48 | |
All that ever came to be was alive with His life, | 14:54 | |
and that life was the light of men. | 15:00 | |
The light shines on in the dark, | 15:05 | |
and the darkness has never quenched it. | 15:09 | |
That appeared a man named John sent from God. | 15:15 | |
He came as a witness to testify to the light, | 15:21 | |
that all might become believers through him. | 15:26 | |
He was not himself the light, | 15:32 | |
he came to bear witness to the light. | 15:36 | |
The real light, which enlightens every man, | 15:41 | |
was even then coming into the world. | 15:45 | |
He was in the world, | 15:51 | |
but the world, though it owed its being to Him, | 15:53 | |
did not recognize Him. | 15:58 | |
He entered his own realm, and his own would not receive Him. | 16:02 | |
But to all who did receive him, | 16:10 | |
to those who have yielded Him their allegiance, | 16:14 | |
He gave the right to become children of God, | 16:19 | |
not born of any human stock, | 16:23 | |
all by the fleshly desire of a human father, | 16:27 | |
but the offspring of God himself. | 16:32 | |
So, the word became flesh. | 16:38 | |
He came to dwell among us, | 16:41 | |
and we saw His glory, | 16:44 | |
such glory as befits the father's only son, | 16:47 | |
full of grace and truth." | 16:53 | |
Here is John's testimony to him. | 16:57 | |
"He cried aloud, | 17:00 | |
'This is the man I meant when I said, | 17:03 | |
He comes after me, | 17:07 | |
but takes rank before me. | 17:10 | |
For before I was born, | 17:14 | |
He already was. | 17:17 | |
Out of his full store, | 17:22 | |
we have all received grace upon grace, | 17:25 | |
for while the law is given through Moses, | 17:29 | |
grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. | 17:33 | |
No one has ever seen God, | 17:39 | |
but God's only son. | 17:43 | |
He who is nearest to the father's heart, | 17:46 | |
He has made him known.'" | 17:51 | |
Here render the lesson, from the first chapter | 17:55 | |
of the gospel according to St. John. | 18:00 | |
(choir hymning) | 18:06 | |
Before I begin the sermon, | 18:45 | |
may I say how delighted I am, | 18:48 | |
as a representative of the British Church, | 18:51 | |
to be sharing in your worship | 18:57 | |
in this lovely church this morning. | 18:58 | |
I come from the industrial Midlands of England, | 19:02 | |
and with my wife and daughters, | 19:08 | |
we are spending about six weeks in the United States | 19:10 | |
as representatives of the British Council of Churches, | 19:15 | |
and seeking to build relationships | 19:20 | |
between all British and American churches. | 19:23 | |
Now, the subject of the sermon this morning, | 19:29 | |
is the strange subject of Christmas in August. | 19:31 | |
There is a very good reason why I have chosen to do this. | 19:39 | |
Sometime ago, I read two interesting criticisms | 19:46 | |
of the way that we in Britain celebrate Christmas. | 19:52 | |
One of the criticisms talked | 19:58 | |
about the highly commercialized English Christmas | 20:01 | |
with its cut price nylon, | 20:07 | |
and its very centers in large stores. | 20:11 | |
And went on to talk about the Christmas cards | 20:17 | |
with that inevitable stage coaches unholy, | 20:22 | |
and their atrocious verse. | 20:28 | |
Now, this criticism of Christmas, as we spend it, | 20:33 | |
is far too near the born to be comfortable. | 20:39 | |
The second comment which I read was this, | 20:46 | |
that for an infant in arms, | 20:49 | |
Christmas means nothing. | 20:52 | |
For a six-year-old, Christmas means father Christmas. | 20:55 | |
For a 12-year-old, Christmas means fun, | 21:02 | |
and games, and presents. | 21:07 | |
For a teenager, Christmas means a holiday, | 21:11 | |
parties, and mistletoe. | 21:16 | |
For a middle-aged person, Christmas means getting exhausted, | 21:20 | |
getting ready for somebody else's Christmas. | 21:25 | |
And for an elderly person, | 21:29 | |
Christmas means, sitting and watching, and memories. | 21:31 | |
Now, most of this second comment is perfectly good. | 21:40 | |
We all enjoy Father Christmas, | 21:46 | |
at whichever end of it we may be. | 21:49 | |
We all enjoy the presents, | 21:53 | |
though it gets increasingly difficult to know what to give. | 21:56 | |
We all enjoy the fun, and the games, and the family frolic. | 22:01 | |
I think we enjoy getting exhausted, | 22:07 | |
getting ready for somebody else's Christmas. | 22:10 | |
And I imagine that when we are old, | 22:14 | |
it must be sheer have to sit and watch, | 22:17 | |
though the memories may be mixed. | 22:22 | |
Now, all that is perfectly wholesome and perfectly good. | 22:26 | |
But it is possible, in all the hurry and scurry, | 22:33 | |
of preparing for Christmas, and enjoying Christmas, | 22:39 | |
to miss the message. | 22:45 | |
And I therefore believe | 22:49 | |
that on this lovely Sunday morning in August, | 22:51 | |
we are right in pausing quietly, | 22:56 | |
to remember what is the absolutely amazing message, | 23:01 | |
which Christmas celebrates all over the world every year. | 23:08 | |
Now, I want to do so by looking through three windows. | 23:18 | |
In order to look through the first window, | 23:24 | |
may I take you back to February | 23:26 | |
of two and a half years ago in England, | 23:31 | |
I got up early one morning, very early for me. | 23:38 | |
It was very cold, | 23:43 | |
the snow had been falling | 23:46 | |
and it was exceptionally cold. | 23:48 | |
And only something that is special | 23:51 | |
would make me get up very early on a morning like that. | 23:54 | |
And I turned on the knob of the radio, | 24:00 | |
and the man said, "It is very hot, very hot indeed." | 24:05 | |
All the women are wearing the summer frocks, | 24:12 | |
All the men are dressed in their summer shirts, | 24:16 | |
and I was feeling so cold. | 24:19 | |
He said, "Freddie Truman is about to bowl | 24:23 | |
his 26 over to Peter May." | 24:26 | |
Now, that may mean nothing to you, | 24:30 | |
but it really meant that we in England | 24:32 | |
were playing cricket against Australia at Brisbane. | 24:34 | |
And I was one of those mad Englishman, | 24:40 | |
who get up and listen to the radio | 24:43 | |
on a cold morning to a cricket match. | 24:46 | |
And I thought, "It's so cold." | 24:50 | |
And he says, "It's so hot." | 24:53 | |
What a wonderful thing it would be, | 24:56 | |
if I could catch one of these modern machine, | 24:59 | |
and I could go to a beach, | 25:03 | |
where it was hot there. | 25:06 | |
Now, if I had been able to do so, | 25:09 | |
I would have found that on this beach, | 25:11 | |
there would be a special bathing enclosure in the sea. | 25:15 | |
But being British | 25:21 | |
and having this dreadful independence strain, | 25:22 | |
I would say, "But I don't walk to bathe in the enclosure, | 25:26 | |
I want to be bathe in the open sea." | 25:29 | |
And they would say, "Well, bathe in the open sea | 25:33 | |
if you wish, but there are shacks." | 25:35 | |
And so, I would bathe in the bathing enclosure. | 25:39 | |
And in the bathing enclosure, | 25:42 | |
I should feel perfectly at home, | 25:44 | |
perfectly comfortable, I should know the rules. | 25:47 | |
But out there, in the open sea, | 25:52 | |
looking below the surface, | 25:56 | |
would be the tiger of the sea, the shack, | 25:59 | |
callousness, cruelty, coldest. | 26:04 | |
Now, you and I spend beyond 50 to a 100 years | 26:11 | |
in an enclosure, we call it this planet. | 26:17 | |
The planet is revealing to us | 26:22 | |
more of its wonders every week, | 26:25 | |
but we know enough to get by. | 26:28 | |
We know the rules. | 26:31 | |
What is outside this enclosure? | 26:34 | |
You were looking at that beautiful child the other day, | 26:40 | |
who was born recently, | 26:43 | |
where did he come from? | 26:46 | |
I don't mean his body, I mean his personality. | 26:47 | |
You're thinking about that man you know so well | 26:53 | |
who died the other day. | 26:57 | |
Where is he gone? | 26:59 | |
And I don't mean his body, I mean his personality. | 27:01 | |
Let us imagine that you were stopped as you came along | 27:08 | |
to this church this morning and somebody said, | 27:11 | |
"Look, you go to worship every Sunday, you're a Christian. | 27:14 | |
We had a bit of a dew in our house yesterday. | 27:20 | |
We were arguing about what there is outside this planet. | 27:22 | |
You're a Christian, what is there?" | 27:27 | |
You must have some belief, | 27:30 | |
what would you have said? | 27:34 | |
So, the first thing that I want to emphasize this morning, | 27:38 | |
is that the message of Christmas, | 27:43 | |
gives us the clue, | 27:47 | |
to walk there is, not only in this planet, | 27:49 | |
but far beyond it. | 27:55 | |
And the clue, is in the first chapter off St. John's gospel. | 27:59 | |
For there it says, "In the beginning, was the word." | 28:06 | |
And so, you say this to your friend you met this morning, | 28:15 | |
you would say, "Well, it says, | 28:18 | |
'In the beginning was the word.'" | 28:20 | |
And they say, "Well, what do you mean by that?" | 28:24 | |
And you say, "Well, of course, it's a translation. | 28:28 | |
I should have said, 'In the beginning was the logos. | 28:32 | |
It's Greek you know." | 28:36 | |
They'd have said, "What do you mean by logos?" | 28:38 | |
Or what do you mean? | 28:43 | |
If your trying to find out what is outside this planet. | 28:45 | |
If you're trying to help people to see | 28:52 | |
that it is not cold and mysterious, | 28:55 | |
and callous and uncomfortable. | 28:59 | |
And if you say to them, "In the beginning was the word," | 29:04 | |
what do you mean? | 29:10 | |
May I get quickly three examples. | 29:13 | |
The word logos appears in many of our words of normal usage. | 29:16 | |
You have a child who comes home, | 29:23 | |
and he's been to college and you say, | 29:26 | |
"Well, what have you been reading today?" | 29:29 | |
He says, or if he lived in England | 29:32 | |
and he might very well say, "Biology" | 29:35 | |
Bios, logos. | 29:40 | |
The logos, the idea, the purpose | 29:43 | |
that governs the development of bios, life. | 29:46 | |
You see, logos, the idea, the purpose that is that in it. | 29:50 | |
Or again, I remember standing | 29:57 | |
in a Shropshire Town in England called Church Stratton, | 29:59 | |
and seeing a large number | 30:03 | |
of university students at the bus stop. | 30:05 | |
I said to a man locally, I said, | 30:08 | |
"What have they been, on a hiking holiday? | 30:10 | |
"No," he said, "they've been on a geological expedition." | 30:15 | |
There you are, you see? | 30:20 | |
Geos-logos, the idea which governs | 30:22 | |
the formation of the Geos, the Earth. | 30:26 | |
Or again, we have a very famous radio and television figure | 30:31 | |
in our country called George Cansdale. | 30:36 | |
And whenever George Cansdale comes on | 30:39 | |
with his animals and reptiles, and birds, | 30:42 | |
the word zoology comes to mind. | 30:48 | |
Zoe-logos, the idea, | 30:52 | |
the principle that governs | 30:55 | |
the development of life generally. | 30:57 | |
So, the first thing which I would say | 31:02 | |
to any inquirer is this, | 31:05 | |
from the very beginning, before you were or I was, | 31:09 | |
before Britain was, | 31:15 | |
before the United States of America were, | 31:17 | |
before any conceivable thing you know was, | 31:21 | |
in the beginning, | 31:25 | |
is the purpose of the living God. | 31:27 | |
Outer space is not mysterious, | 31:32 | |
or cold, or callous, or uncomfortable. | 31:35 | |
It is an area which is governed by the purpose of God. | 31:40 | |
Now, the second window through which we look, | 31:48 | |
is given to us again in this first chapter | 31:52 | |
of St John's gospel. | 31:55 | |
And I think this is absolutely wonderful, | 31:57 | |
and this is what your celebrating at Christmas. | 32:01 | |
This is why it is a tragedy | 32:05 | |
if Christmas goes through, | 32:08 | |
just with the fun, and the games, and the presents, | 32:10 | |
and the highly commercialized store. | 32:13 | |
"For the word became flesh, | 32:17 | |
God has revealed | 32:25 | |
to all mankind once and for all, | 32:29 | |
the purpose, the character to which He has, | 32:35 | |
throughout the universe. | 32:40 | |
It is incredible. | 32:42 | |
And I hope that when you come around to Christmas | 32:45 | |
in a few months time, | 32:48 | |
the central thing in your Christmas arrangements, | 32:50 | |
will be the religious observance. | 32:54 | |
That is the central thing, | 32:58 | |
everything else is secondary. | 33:01 | |
It is, of course, perfectly logical. | 33:05 | |
Many years ago, there was in France | 33:09 | |
an affair called the French Revolution. | 33:11 | |
I gather that the revolution or is, first of all, | 33:14 | |
published a number of primitive, sort of leaflets | 33:18 | |
with their revolutionary ideas on paper. | 33:22 | |
The leaflets got them nowhere, nobody bothered. | 33:25 | |
And then suddenly, the revolutionary ideas | 33:29 | |
became flesh in Volterra, and Russo and so on. | 33:32 | |
And once the ideas became human personality. | 33:38 | |
Once that was the flesh of the eye, | 33:42 | |
once there was the raise of the voice, | 33:45 | |
once personality revealed the revolutionary idea, | 33:48 | |
the revolution was on. | 33:54 | |
And so it is, in our Christian religion, | 33:59 | |
in Jesus Christ you have everything you need | 34:03 | |
to know about God, this side of the grave. | 34:08 | |
In Jesus Christ, you have everything | 34:13 | |
which God desires of you, this side of the grave. | 34:16 | |
The word, the eternal words, | 34:21 | |
the eternal purpose and character of the living God, | 34:25 | |
has been given to you in Jesus Christ. | 34:30 | |
And Jesus Christ is the same in every generation. | 34:35 | |
There are some young intellectuals who say, | 34:40 | |
that Jesus Christ is just a historical figure and no more. | 34:44 | |
My answer, is that Jesus Christ is as much, | 34:49 | |
the revelation of God today, | 34:54 | |
as He was on the day when he walked through Galilee. | 34:58 | |
So, may we mentioned the third thing. | 35:06 | |
I do not think it is ever a good thing to talk like this, | 35:10 | |
unless we make a practical application. | 35:15 | |
And I want therefore to say, | 35:20 | |
the word of God, is being made flesh in you. | 35:23 | |
The only way whereby the word and character | 35:32 | |
and love God are being revealed to this generation, | 35:36 | |
is through you, and me, | 35:41 | |
and people like us, | 35:45 | |
who named the name of Christ as Lord | 35:47 | |
in every town all over the world. | 35:50 | |
And as I represent here today the Council of Churches, | 35:55 | |
I would say that in a sense, | 35:59 | |
the relationships between the churches, | 36:02 | |
both in towns, in countries, and in international realm, | 36:05 | |
are either revealing God in the flesh, | 36:11 | |
or are failing to do so. | 36:15 | |
May I give you two illustrations? | 36:19 | |
In the University of Oxford, | 36:23 | |
we have as one of the professors of mathematics, | 36:25 | |
a very fine Methodist local preacher, | 36:29 | |
Professor Charles E. Coulson. | 36:32 | |
Some six or seven years ago, | 36:36 | |
Professor Charles Coulson published a book | 36:39 | |
called "Science and Christian Belief." | 36:42 | |
It was actually a book of the lectures | 36:46 | |
he had given short time before. | 36:49 | |
And the whole of that book, Charles Coulson, | 36:52 | |
a great scientist says this, | 36:55 | |
"This is as we all know, | 36:57 | |
a very wonderful scientific century. | 37:00 | |
All that God is permitting man to discover, | 37:04 | |
cannot come to its fullness for mankind, | 37:11 | |
say in Jesus Christ." | 37:16 | |
There are plenty of scientists on both sides of the Atlantic | 37:21 | |
who can tell you how, | 37:25 | |
such scientists can be very dangerous. | 37:29 | |
It is good to know how. | 37:34 | |
Obviously, we all glad to know how. | 37:36 | |
But until a scientist moves on from telling you how, | 37:40 | |
to telling you why, that scientist is not a leader. | 37:44 | |
And it is man of a caliber of an of Charles Coulson | 37:49 | |
in every country, in whom the world is being made flesh | 37:53 | |
in a scientific generation. | 37:59 | |
And the other thing is this, | 38:04 | |
a few months ago, I attended a service | 38:06 | |
in a modern cathedral in England in the city of Liverpool. | 38:08 | |
And in this cathedral, there is a magnificent window. | 38:12 | |
And this window is devoted to the memory of Christian women. | 38:16 | |
And walk all off the head and shoulders in the window, | 38:21 | |
there amongst many, is that all Susanna Wesley. | 38:25 | |
Why is she there in a modern British cathedral? | 38:30 | |
Not just because she was the mother of John Wesley | 38:36 | |
and Charles Wesley, though that was enough, | 38:40 | |
but she is in that window representing | 38:44 | |
the finest qualities of Christian motherhood. | 38:48 | |
For in her, as a Christian mother in a family, | 38:53 | |
in a Lincolnshire village, | 39:00 | |
in days when incomes were small and education was meager, | 39:02 | |
the word of God became flesh to her family. | 39:09 | |
And so this morning, though it is August, | 39:17 | |
I ask you to remember, | 39:21 | |
that in the celebration of Christmas time, | 39:24 | |
we celebrate one of the most amazing things | 39:28 | |
that has ever happened on this universe or ever will. | 39:32 | |
We celebrate that from the very beginning of all things, | 39:36 | |
God has a purpose for all mankind and it is good. | 39:40 | |
And second layer that He has revealed it | 39:47 | |
in the human life of Jesus Christ. | 39:50 | |
And Jesus Christ is the revelation now, | 39:54 | |
as much as He was nearly 2000 years ago. | 39:58 | |
Finally, that Jesus Christ your Lord and savior and mine, | 40:02 | |
is calling upon you as an individual, | 40:08 | |
and us, as a fellowship, | 40:13 | |
to reveal God in the flesh of our personalities. | 40:17 | |
(smooth organic music) | 41:01 | |
(church choir hymning) | 44:29 | |
- | Oh, God, accept these offerings of thy people. | 49:00 |
Let the money we offer do much good for thy glory. | 49:05 | |
And may the symbolic bread and wine we dedicate, | 49:08 | |
make vivid the sacrifice of thy son, | 49:12 | |
our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. | 49:15 | |
(smooth organic music) | 49:25 | |
Lift up your hearts. | 49:53 | |
- | We lift them up unto the Lord | 49:55 |
- | Let us give thanks unto our Lord God. | 49:58 |
- | It is right and so to do. | 50:02 |
- | Let us pray. | 50:04 |
It is very neat, right, and our bounded duty | 50:12 | |
that we should at all times, | 50:16 | |
and in all places, give thanks unto thee, oh Lord, | 50:18 | |
holy father, almighty everlasting, God. | 50:22 | |
(church choir hymning) | 50:28 | |
All mighty God, our heavenly father | 51:11 | |
who have thy tender mercy, | 51:14 | |
didst give thine only son Jesus Christ | 51:15 | |
to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption, | 51:18 | |
who made there, by his ablation of himself once offered, | 51:22 | |
a full, perfect, and sufficient sacrifice | 51:27 | |
for the sins of the whole world, | 51:30 | |
and in institute, and in his holy gospel command us | 51:33 | |
to continue a perpetual memory of his precious death | 51:37 | |
until His coming again. | 51:41 | |
And who in the same night that he was betrayed, took bread. | 51:44 | |
And when he had given thanks, He broke it, | 51:48 | |
and gave to his disciples saying, | 51:51 | |
"Take, eat, this is my body, | 51:53 | |
which is given for you. | 51:59 | |
Do this in remembrance of me." | 52:02 | |
Likewise, after supper, he took the cup. | 52:07 | |
And when he had given thanks, He gave it to them saying, | 52:09 | |
"Drink of it all of you, | 52:13 | |
for this is my blood of the new covenant, | 52:16 | |
which is poured out for many, for the forgiveness of sin. | 52:19 | |
Do this as often as you drink it, | 52:25 | |
in remembrance of me." | 52:28 | |
Hear us, oh, merciful Father, we most humbly beseech thee. | 52:31 | |
And grant that we receiving these thy creatures | 52:36 | |
of bread and wine, according to thy son, | 52:39 | |
our savior Jesus Christ holy institution, | 52:43 | |
in remembrance of his death and passion, | 52:46 | |
may be partakers of his most blessed body and blood. | 52:49 | |
That Christ may dwell in our hearts by faith. Amen. | 52:54 | |
We do not presume to come to this thy table, | 53:00 | |
oh, mercy for Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, | 53:03 | |
but in to thy manifold and great mercies. | 53:08 | |
We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs | 53:12 | |
under thy table, | 53:15 | |
but thou the same Lord whose mercy is unfailing. | 53:17 | |
Grant us therefore, our gracious Lord, | 53:21 | |
so to partake of these memorials to thy son Jesus Christ. | 53:24 | |
That we may be filled with the fullness of his life, | 53:29 | |
may grow into his likeness, | 53:33 | |
and may evermore dwell in Him, and He in us. Amen. | 53:35 | |
(smooth organic music) | 53:51 | |
♪ Our father, who art in heaven ♪ | 55:23 | |
♪ Hallowed be thy name ♪ | 55:27 | |
♪ Thy kingdom come ♪ | 55:31 | |
♪ Thy will be done ♪ | 55:33 | |
♪ On earth as it is in heaven ♪ | 55:35 | |
♪ Give us this day our daily bread ♪ | 55:40 | |
♪ And forgive us our trespasses ♪ | 55:45 | |
♪ As we forgive those who trespass against us ♪ | 55:48 | |
♪ And lead us not into temptation ♪ | 55:53 | |
♪ But deliver us from evil ♪ | 55:57 | |
♪ For thine is the kingdom ♪ | 56:01 | |
♪ And power and the glory ♪ | 56:03 | |
♪ For ever, Amen ♪ | 56:06 | |
(smooth organic music) | 56:15 | |
- | He who do truly and earnestly repent of your sins, | 57:17 |
and are in love and charity with your neighbors, | 57:21 | |
and intend to lead a new life | 57:25 | |
following the commandments of God, | 57:27 | |
and walking from henceforth in His holy ways, | 57:30 | |
draw near with faith, | 57:34 | |
and take this holy sacrament to your comfort. | 57:35 | |
Be seated. | 57:39 | |
Jesus said, "This is my body, which is given for you. | 57:49 | |
Take and eat this in remembrance that Christ died for you, | 57:54 | |
and feed on him in your heart by faith with thanksgiving." | 58:00 | |
Jesus said, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, | 58:10 | |
which is shed for you. | 58:15 | |
Drink this in remembrance that Christ died for you | 58:18 | |
and be thankful." | 58:22 | |
(smooth organic music) | 58:34 |
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