Waldo Beach - Music Building Weekend - The Ministry of Music (October 20, 1974)
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(gentle organ music) | 0:05 | |
(gentle organ music continues) | 1:05 | |
- | Dear friends in Christ, will you join with me as we pray? | 2:01 |
Almighty God, | 2:07 | |
in whose presence are pleasures forever, | 2:10 | |
we pray that as redeemed and forgiven children, | 2:14 | |
we may always rejoice in singing your praises. | 2:18 | |
Grant that what we sing with our lips, | 2:22 | |
we may believe in our hearts, | 2:24 | |
and what we believe in our hearts | 2:27 | |
we may practice in our lives, | 2:29 | |
so that we may be doers of the Word and not hearers only, | 2:31 | |
and may receive life everlasting. | 2:37 | |
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. | 2:40 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 2:52 | |
(organ music) | 4:01 | |
(organ music continues) | 4:33 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 4:50 | |
(organ music continues) | 5:21 | |
(choir continues vocalizing) | 5:40 | |
(organ music continues) | 6:13 | |
(choir continues vocalizing) | 6:57 | |
(organ music continues) | 7:29 | |
(choir continues vocalizing) | 8:01 | |
(organ music continues) | 8:29 | |
Grace to you and peace | 9:19 | |
from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. | 9:23 | |
As we have sung the praises of God, | 9:29 | |
it is fitting now that we should accept our humanness | 9:33 | |
as we confess our sins, individually and corporately, | 9:38 | |
in the presence of God, and to God. | 9:44 | |
Let us pray. | 9:48 | |
O God, we are people who live as icebergs. | 9:51 | |
Most of our creativity, our feelings, our love, | 9:56 | |
our potential, lies dormant, submerged. | 10:01 | |
We hide our talents, we have been frozen people | 10:05 | |
living in the narrowly confining security | 10:10 | |
of our present existence. | 10:13 | |
O eternal God, when our eyes are too full of our own vision, | 10:16 | |
when our ears are too full of our own sounds, | 10:21 | |
when our mouths are too full of our own wisdoms, | 10:25 | |
when our hearts are too full of our own concerns, | 10:29 | |
break through. Liberate us from the narrow worlds, | 10:33 | |
which constrict our souls. | 10:38 | |
Liberate us from the fear, | 10:40 | |
which blinds us to the newness of your work. | 10:42 | |
Liberate us from the preoccupation with the trivial | 10:46 | |
and uneasiness with the great. | 10:50 | |
Liberate us into your Kingdom, O God, we pray. Amen. | 10:53 | |
Let us continue with our individual conversations | 10:59 | |
with God Almighty. | 11:05 | |
May the almighty and merciful God grant us pardon, | 11:25 | |
forgiveness, and renewal of life | 11:30 | |
through the remission of our sins. | 11:35 | |
Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. | 11:39 | |
(soft organ music) | 11:56 | |
(soft organ music continues) | 12:44 | |
♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ | 13:02 | |
♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ | 13:21 | |
♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ | 13:36 | |
♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ | 13:42 | |
♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah ♪ | 13:45 | |
♪ Praise be the Lord ♪ | 13:58 | |
♪ Praise God in his temple ♪ | 14:02 | |
♪ Praise be the Lord ♪ | 14:08 | |
(choir singing) | 14:13 | |
(soft organ music continues) | 14:18 | |
♪ And the greatness of his wonders ♪ | 14:24 | |
♪ Oh praise him, praise him ♪ | 14:30 | |
♪ According to his majesty ♪ | 14:36 | |
♪ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord ♪ | 14:42 | |
♪ Praise the Lord with the sound of the drum ♪ | 14:46 | |
♪ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord ♪ | 14:49 | |
♪ Praise the Lord ♪ | 14:51 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 14:54 | |
(soft organ music continues) | 14:57 | |
♪ Praise him, praise him ♪ | 15:19 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 15:23 | |
(soft organ music continues) | 15:31 | |
♪ Praise him, praise him ♪ | 15:36 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 15:40 | |
♪ Praise, praise the Lord ♪ | 15:58 | |
♪ Praise, praise the Lord ♪ | 16:01 | |
♪ Oh praise be the Lord, ♪ | 16:10 | |
♪ Praise God in his temple ♪ | 16:15 | |
♪ Praise be the Lord ♪ | 16:20 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 16:26 | |
(soft organ music continues) | 16:31 | |
♪ And the greatness of his wonders ♪ | 16:37 | |
♪ Oh praise him, oh praise him ♪ | 16:42 | |
♪ According to his majesty ♪ | 16:47 | |
♪ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord ♪ | 16:53 | |
♪ Praise the Lord ♪ | 16:55 | |
♪ Praise the Lord with the sound of the drum ♪ | 16:57 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 17:00 | |
♪ Praise the Lord, praise the Lord ♪ | 17:03 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 17:06 | |
(organ music continues) | 17:09 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 17:14 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 17:18 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 17:22 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 17:29 | |
Oh, sing to the Lord a new song. | 17:49 | |
Sing to the Lord, all the Earth. | 17:53 | |
Sing to the Lord, bless his name. | 17:56 | |
Tell of his salvation from day to day. | 17:59 | |
Declare his glory among the nations, | 18:04 | |
his marvelous works among all the peoples, | 18:07 | |
for great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. | 18:11 | |
He is to be feared above all gods, | 18:16 | |
for all the gods of the peoples are idols, | 18:20 | |
but the Lord made the Heavens. | 18:25 | |
Honor and majesty are before him. | 18:28 | |
Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. | 18:32 | |
Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples. | 18:37 | |
Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. | 18:41 | |
Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name, | 18:44 | |
bring an offering and come into his courts. | 18:48 | |
Worship the Lord in holy array, | 18:52 | |
tremble before him all the Earth. | 18:55 | |
Say among the nations, the Lord reigns. | 19:00 | |
Ye, the world is established. It shall never be moved. | 19:03 | |
He will judge the peoples with equity. | 19:07 | |
Let the Heavens be glad and let the Earth rejoice. | 19:11 | |
Let the sea roar and all that fills it. | 19:15 | |
Let the field exalt and everything in it. | 19:19 | |
Then shall all the trees of the wood sing for joy | 19:23 | |
before the Lord, for he comes, | 19:27 | |
for he comes to judge the Earth. | 19:31 | |
He will judge the world with righteousness | 19:34 | |
and the peoples with his truth. | 19:38 | |
(organ music) | 19:44 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 19:52 | |
Together, let us affirm our faith. | 20:26 | |
We are not alone. We live in God's world. | 20:30 | |
We believe in God, who has created and is creating. | 20:35 | |
Who has come in the true man, Jesus, | 20:40 | |
to reconcile and make new. | 20:43 | |
He works in us and others by his spirit. | 20:46 | |
We trust him. | 20:50 | |
He calls us to be in his church, | 20:52 | |
to celebrate his presence, | 20:55 | |
to love and serve others, to seek justice and resist evil, | 20:58 | |
proclaim Jesus crucified and risen, | 21:04 | |
our judge and our hope in life, in death, | 21:08 | |
in life beyond death, God is with us. We are not alone. | 21:13 | |
Thanks be to God. | 21:19 | |
The Lord be with you. | 21:22 | |
All | Let us pray. | 21:25 |
- | Let us pray. | |
Lord God eternal, giver of all good gifts, | 21:37 | |
we thank you for the world about us. | 21:42 | |
A sheltering roof, a plate of food, a friend. | 21:45 | |
This university with its concerned and sensitive students, | 21:51 | |
faculty, administration, and supporting staff. | 21:56 | |
For the beauty of the buildings and trees and flowers, | 22:00 | |
but especially for this place, | 22:04 | |
where we can be together with our friends and family | 22:08 | |
and neighbors to sing and play and pray and hear your word. | 22:10 | |
We thank you, O God, for the world within our consciences, | 22:18 | |
bothered when things are wrong, assured when they are right. | 22:24 | |
Our hearts, troubled when we or another hurt, | 22:29 | |
but joyful when victory comes. | 22:34 | |
Our minds, dormant when not used, | 22:38 | |
but alive when stimulated or challenged. | 22:41 | |
Our spirits, low when we are burdened, | 22:45 | |
but radiant when we are sure of our strength and yours. | 22:50 | |
Our wills, passive before the small things of life, | 22:57 | |
but determined before the larger demands. | 23:02 | |
For life without and within, | 23:06 | |
we give you, O God, thanks and praise. | 23:09 | |
In this service of worship now, O God, | 23:14 | |
we give thanks for the presence on this campus | 23:18 | |
of the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building. | 23:20 | |
Warm the hearts, inspire the spirits, | 23:24 | |
and enlighten the minds of all who work | 23:27 | |
and study and learn and are inspired there. | 23:31 | |
For those who give this building, | 23:36 | |
for those who planned it and saw it come to reality, | 23:38 | |
for all those and for all students and others | 23:43 | |
who have long for this day and now rejoice in it. | 23:48 | |
We give you thanks and praise. | 23:52 | |
You have taught us in Christ, O God, | 23:57 | |
to care for our neighbors. | 24:00 | |
Now we remember those on the pew beside us, | 24:05 | |
across the hall or across the street from us, | 24:10 | |
or the stranger around the world. | 24:14 | |
Rule our lives in class, in home, in dormitory, | 24:20 | |
in work and in play. | 24:24 | |
Keep, O God, troubling our consciences | 24:27 | |
about the needs of others as long as they have need. | 24:31 | |
Please heal the sick by holding them in your peace. | 24:37 | |
Give the sorrowing great confidence | 24:44 | |
because of your ever present love. | 24:47 | |
Help us now, O God, | 24:52 | |
to answer our own prayers as best we can, | 24:54 | |
and to trust you for answers only you can give. | 25:00 | |
Through Jesus Christ who loves us, | 25:07 | |
cares for us and sustains us, | 25:10 | |
who teaches us to pray as we pray together. | 25:14 | |
Our Father who art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name. | 25:19 | |
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth | 25:24 | |
as it is in Heaven. | 25:29 | |
Give us this day our daily bread | 25:31 | |
and forgive us our trespasses, | 25:34 | |
as we forgive those who trespass against us. | 25:37 | |
And lead us not into temptation, | 25:41 | |
but deliver us from evil. | 25:44 | |
Thine is the kingdom of power and the glory forever. Amen. | 25:46 | |
On this weekend, | 25:56 | |
which has seen so many moving and enriching experiences in | 25:59 | |
the life of this university, | 26:04 | |
I think it is most appropriate, | 26:08 | |
and those who have planned this weekend also feel | 26:12 | |
it most appropriate, | 26:14 | |
that the service of worship in this place | 26:17 | |
should relate in a meaningful way to | 26:21 | |
all that has gone before and, trusting God, | 26:24 | |
all that will come after. | 26:29 | |
In this place, where week after week, Sunday after Sunday, | 26:32 | |
Ben Smith and Lloyd Dooley, and now Finner Douglas, | 26:37 | |
lead us with organ music and with choral music | 26:42 | |
and a choir the likes of which I doubt | 26:48 | |
that any of us have seen or heard. | 26:51 | |
Share themselves and share the beauty | 26:54 | |
and the majesty of music with us. | 26:56 | |
It is fitting that we should worship God in praise | 26:58 | |
and in thanksgiving and in commemoration | 27:01 | |
of the dedication of the Mary Duke Biddle Music Building. | 27:04 | |
We're pleased to have members of the family here, | 27:09 | |
members of the board of trustees, | 27:13 | |
and others who have made it possible for us | 27:16 | |
to come to this high moment. | 27:19 | |
Dr. Waldo Beach, an artist in his own right, | 27:22 | |
in music and in poetry. | 27:28 | |
Professor of Christian ethics and the divinity school will | 27:31 | |
proclaim God's word to us. | 27:34 | |
And we hear you with anticipation and joy, Dr. Beach. | 27:38 | |
- | As all of you are more than fully aware, | 27:59 |
by this time this weekend, | 28:02 | |
we are celebrating the place of music | 28:06 | |
in the life of this university, | 28:11 | |
as we dedicate a new major building | 28:15 | |
for the music department. | 28:18 | |
But since music goes on at many other centers | 28:22 | |
of this campus also, and especially in this chapel, | 28:27 | |
it is fitting to try to frame into words | 28:34 | |
the relation of music to worship | 28:39 | |
in our common university life. | 28:44 | |
Really this service were better sung than said throughout. | 28:50 | |
For what is said in the prose of words | 28:58 | |
cannot do full justice to what the poetry | 29:02 | |
of song would express. | 29:06 | |
But let me try. | 29:10 | |
Why is this chapel at the center of this campus? | 29:13 | |
Not only architecturally, but as a center of | 29:19 | |
emotional attachment for those who come here? | 29:26 | |
And what is it in its worship in organ music, in song, | 29:34 | |
in word proclaimed in prayer? | 29:40 | |
What is it is crucial to our sanity and our health? | 29:44 | |
Worship is the celebration of the power and grace of God | 29:53 | |
in and for our common life together. | 30:00 | |
It is much more than the conventional, | 30:05 | |
often sterile routine of the 11 o'clock Sunday service | 30:09 | |
of nice, comfortable middle-aged people in suburbia, | 30:17 | |
the weary sequence of hymns and announcements | 30:22 | |
and preliminaries leading up to a 20 minute moral daydream, | 30:26 | |
and the closing hymn and escape | 30:33 | |
to pleasant chit-chat with friends at the door. | 30:36 | |
High worship, rather, | 30:44 | |
is the encounter of man with a transcendent source | 30:47 | |
and ground of his existence. | 30:52 | |
It may take a great variety of forms. | 30:56 | |
The high sacramental form of Eastern orthodoxy | 31:01 | |
or of the Roman Catholic mass, | 31:06 | |
or the many Protestant forms with emphasis | 31:09 | |
on congregational participation and the centrality | 31:13 | |
of the word and its interpretation in preaching. | 31:18 | |
Whatever be the variety, | 31:25 | |
there is a constant, | 31:29 | |
a certain dramatic structure in the encounter | 31:32 | |
of God with man, | 31:37 | |
for which a plausible analogy might be | 31:41 | |
a concerto of three movements. | 31:45 | |
The first movement of worship is praise and wonder. | 31:52 | |
The spirit is that of adoration, | 31:57 | |
thanksgiving, honor, reverence, awe. | 32:01 | |
As one comes into the presence of the majesty | 32:06 | |
and the beauty and the power of God | 32:09 | |
and knows that he is standing on holy ground | 32:13 | |
in the midst of the mysterium tremendum, | 32:18 | |
the most apt medium of praise is song. | 32:23 | |
The surging spirit of praise breaks the confines | 32:30 | |
of the spoken word. | 32:35 | |
It bursts into song, | 32:38 | |
(speaking Latin) | 32:41 | |
It is not thus at all strange that worship and music | 32:47 | |
have gone together all the way down through | 32:52 | |
the history of the church. | 32:55 | |
It goes way back. | 32:58 | |
Moses after the Exodus. | 33:02 | |
The Lord is my strength and my song. | 33:05 | |
The legends of David and his harp. | 33:09 | |
Many of the Psalms are songs of David. | 33:13 | |
The sound of trumpets, flutes, stringed instruments, | 33:18 | |
all are hertz striking the notes of praise. | 33:23 | |
There's a mixed choir of 200 voices in the book of Ezra. | 33:28 | |
The New Testament opens with angels singing over Bethlehem | 33:35 | |
in a starlit night. | 33:40 | |
Glory to God in the highest on Earth, peace, goodwill, | 33:43 | |
it ends with the choirs of angels | 33:49 | |
of Heaven singing hallelujah before the throne of God. | 33:53 | |
The medieval church develops the plain song | 34:02 | |
and the mass sung in Latin. | 34:05 | |
With the reformation, there was a great burst of music. | 34:09 | |
The hymns of Luther, | 34:16 | |
the contatas, the motets, | 34:20 | |
and the masses of Johann Sebastian Bach, | 34:23 | |
who took the folk tunes of his day, often, | 34:28 | |
and made them into the chorals. | 34:33 | |
No other musician ever equaled | 34:36 | |
his output of doxologies. | 34:40 | |
I must confess to a personal prejudice here, | 34:47 | |
though it may be one shared by those | 34:52 | |
who are sitting behind me. | 34:55 | |
To say that there is no ecstasy, | 34:58 | |
no Heaven like the continual praise of God in song. | 35:03 | |
The nearest analogy to hell on Earth that I can imagine | 35:12 | |
would it be to be stuck forever in the middle | 35:20 | |
of the Baltimore tunnel with trucks roaring | 35:24 | |
by day and night, | 35:28 | |
consigned to listen to muzak in perpetuity. | 35:30 | |
(congregation laughs) | 35:36 | |
The nearest analogy to Heaven, on the other hand, | 35:41 | |
would be an unending choir rehearsal | 35:46 | |
around the Heavenly throne, | 35:50 | |
singing all of the 295 cantatas of Bach | 35:55 | |
and the masses and the motets and the passion music. | 35:59 | |
If we ever came to the end of the cycle, | 36:06 | |
we would just start all over again. | 36:09 | |
Of course, when I say we, | 36:15 | |
I may be presuming an early admission decision | 36:20 | |
not warranted by my credentials. | 36:24 | |
(light laughter) | 36:27 | |
Be that as it may, | 36:29 | |
there's a wonderful comment of Carl Bart, the theologian. | 36:34 | |
"In Heaven", he said, | 36:40 | |
"on official occasions, | 36:42 | |
"the angels always sing Bach to God. | 36:46 | |
"But", he added, "when off duty, | 36:52 | |
"they play Mozart for each other. | 36:56 | |
" And God sometimes comes in to listen | 37:00 | |
"because they're having so much fun". | 37:02 | |
The first book published in north America, in English, | 37:09 | |
was a hymn book. The Bay Psalm Book. 1640. | 37:16 | |
A translation of the Psalms into metrical form | 37:23 | |
for the congregation to sing. | 37:27 | |
The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay | 37:32 | |
were strictly biblical, of course. | 37:35 | |
Excluding anything that embellished | 37:39 | |
or departed from God's word. | 37:41 | |
As Richard Mather's preface to the book says, | 37:47 | |
"God's alter needs not our polishings. | 37:52 | |
"By attending conscience rather than elegance, | 37:59 | |
"We may sing in Zion the Lord songs of praise, | 38:03 | |
"according to his own will, | 38:08 | |
"until he takes us from hence and wipes away | 38:12 | |
"all our tears and bids us enter into our master's joy | 38:16 | |
"to sing eternal hallelujahs". | 38:22 | |
There is a sparse but lyrics swing in the Bay Psalm Book. | 38:27 | |
It really has to be sung to be felt. | 38:34 | |
The Lord to me a shepherd is, | 38:39 | |
want therefore shall not I. | 38:43 | |
He in the foals of tender grass doth cause me down to lie. | 38:47 | |
To waters calm me gently, leads restore my soul, doth he. | 38:53 | |
He doth in paths of righteousness, | 39:02 | |
for his name's sake lead me. | 39:05 | |
And it ends. | 39:11 | |
Goodness and mercy surely shall all my days follow me. | 39:14 | |
And in the Lord's house, | 39:21 | |
I shall dwell so long as days shall be. | 39:23 | |
Music accompanied the church as it moved in America west | 39:31 | |
with the great revivals, | 39:38 | |
and Charles Wesley's hymns put into song, | 39:40 | |
the fervor of his brother, John Wesley's, | 39:44 | |
revival in England and in America. | 39:47 | |
The romantic movement found in the classic forms | 39:54 | |
of the masses and requiems, | 39:57 | |
the highest expression of religious feeling. | 39:59 | |
Schubert, Brahms, Verdi. Cesar Franck. | 40:05 | |
Negro spirituals voiced the faith of the oppressed. | 40:11 | |
In our own era, | 40:17 | |
we hear tediums cast in the idiom of abrupt angular, | 40:20 | |
even harsh style. | 40:27 | |
Folk music, jazz, jarring atonalities. Yes. | 40:31 | |
But whether it be the jazz mass | 40:37 | |
or the more formal structures of a Poulenc, | 40:39 | |
or Benjamin Britain or Ian Hamilton, | 40:43 | |
the theme always is that of praise. | 40:47 | |
The key is major, the tempo a brisk. | 40:52 | |
Allegro Con Brio. | 40:57 | |
The mood, a joyous wonder that in the presence of | 41:00 | |
the great mystery and the great goodness | 41:04 | |
that surrounds our little life, | 41:09 | |
we are impelled to bow in reverence and sing loud. | 41:12 | |
(speaks Latin) | 41:17 | |
The second movement of worship is subjective. | 41:24 | |
It is the celebration of the human condition, | 41:30 | |
in its needs, it's confusion, | 41:34 | |
it's loneliness, it's sorrow, it's despair. | 41:36 | |
Or for the confession of the sins of petty pride, | 41:44 | |
arrogance, deceit, or deranged devotions. | 41:50 | |
Usually here the mode shifts from major to minor. | 41:58 | |
We come into the house of God, | 42:05 | |
into the presence of the holy one of Israel | 42:08 | |
in praise and wonder, | 42:11 | |
then by the light of infinity, | 42:15 | |
we are made aware of our finitude, | 42:19 | |
as put in the prayer of the Breton Fishermen, | 42:27 | |
O God, thy sea is so great. | 42:32 | |
My boat is so small. | 42:37 | |
The subjective movement of worship is the one in which I | 42:44 | |
acknowledge that I am over anxious for my life, | 42:48 | |
angry with my neighbor, | 42:52 | |
confused about what I'm here for, | 42:56 | |
caught in a bramble of many trivial details, | 43:00 | |
feeling all grungy and messed up inside. | 43:05 | |
What we are most aware of in this movement | 43:12 | |
is the dissonance of our secular existence. | 43:16 | |
It may be the sharp jabbing dissonance of pain. | 43:24 | |
The death or sickness of one dear to us. | 43:30 | |
It may be the dull dissonance of listless living. | 43:35 | |
The vacant tedium of middle years. | 43:42 | |
When the bright shoots of glory | 43:48 | |
and color have faded into gray, | 43:51 | |
it may be a petulant sullen dissonance, | 43:55 | |
evoked by the D in the mid-semester chemistry quiz. | 44:02 | |
Or the quarrel with a roommate, | 44:10 | |
or the nasty political hassle in the fraternity, | 44:12 | |
or a love affair strained or broken. | 44:16 | |
Whatever it is, the structure of full worship contains | 44:22 | |
the confession of sins, | 44:29 | |
the prayers of petition, intercession, | 44:33 | |
the acknowledgement of need, of uncertainty, | 44:36 | |
of despair, in the presence of one who looks on the heart. | 44:40 | |
And music again becomes the fitting medium | 44:49 | |
to voice human need. | 44:54 | |
(speaks Latin) | 44:57 | |
Have mercy. | 45:01 | |
Yet justice shadow cannot be seen for shadow, | 45:06 | |
except by reference to light, | 45:12 | |
just as in architecture we cannot describe | 45:17 | |
something as asymmetrical, | 45:23 | |
except by a prior norm of symmetry. | 45:25 | |
Or as in music, | 45:31 | |
dissonance is heard for such by a prior ear for harmony. | 45:33 | |
So to here is an analogy for the human experience, | 45:41 | |
celebrated in worship. | 45:47 | |
For the awareness of disorder carries | 45:49 | |
also the memory of what was ordered. | 45:52 | |
Estrangement remembers a prior concord | 46:00 | |
of trusted friendship. | 46:03 | |
Prodigal loneliness and lostness recalls how it feels | 46:07 | |
to be at home. | 46:15 | |
In the presence of God, | 46:18 | |
the second movement of worship, the subjective movement, | 46:21 | |
is not then just private disgruntled thumb sucking, | 46:26 | |
or naval gazing. | 46:32 | |
It is the experience of sin, sorrow, and confusion | 46:36 | |
in the light and presence of | 46:40 | |
God's holiness, majesty and order. | 46:43 | |
The third movement in the divine human encounter of worship | 46:51 | |
is where the grace of God comes to meet us | 46:57 | |
at our point of need, and where we are restored. | 47:03 | |
It moves back to a major key. | 47:09 | |
The tempo is bright. | 47:12 | |
For the God of the Christian faith, | 47:17 | |
the God known in Jesus Christ, | 47:20 | |
is a God who heals and restores, | 47:24 | |
who redeems and renews, | 47:28 | |
who provides resources of grace sufficient for every need. | 47:31 | |
Forms in which God's grace meet human need | 47:41 | |
are as varied as the many needs and complexes | 47:44 | |
of everyone in this worshiping congregation. | 47:49 | |
Grace may come as insight of moral guidance | 47:58 | |
on a difficult ethical choice. | 48:02 | |
It may come as solace to loss. | 48:07 | |
It may come as renewal of strength of will | 48:10 | |
to one dispirited and discouraged. | 48:16 | |
To pick up Monday's task with new inspiration and hope. | 48:21 | |
Grace may come as a far perspective on a near event, | 48:30 | |
setting priorities straight again | 48:36 | |
about what is important in life and what is insignificant. | 48:40 | |
In whatever form it comes, | 48:48 | |
grace is the assurance that there is a great yes | 48:51 | |
at the end of all the little nos | 48:58 | |
and little yeses which make up the tangle of our days. | 49:03 | |
Through grace we are made whole by a power not ourselves. | 49:11 | |
Who redeems your life from destruction, | 49:17 | |
who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, | 49:20 | |
who satisfies you with good, | 49:25 | |
as long as you live, | 49:28 | |
so that your youth is renewed like the eagles. | 49:30 | |
Grace resolves the dissonance. | 49:38 | |
Life does not forever go on hung up | 49:43 | |
as though on a dominant seventh in second inversion, | 49:47 | |
or with an A sharp grating against the A natural. | 49:53 | |
By grace it is resolved into a major triad, the tonic, | 50:01 | |
so worship closes with a Gloria or a (speaks Latin). | 50:07 | |
And then amen. | 50:16 | |
This gracious final movement in worship | 50:21 | |
is beautifully put in a poem of Amos Wilder called | 50:26 | |
Discard and Resolution. | 50:33 | |
As in a snow fall, | 50:39 | |
the Vesper bells that call men from the fields | 50:42 | |
to the evening meal come dissonant and muted, | 50:46 | |
their changes jumbled in the swarming dust. | 50:52 | |
As through a swirling fog, | 51:00 | |
the dead clangs of the bell boy swinging to | 51:03 | |
the surges reach us muffled and awry, | 51:09 | |
deranged in the smother. | 51:15 | |
So the totaling of being is damped and untuned. | 51:21 | |
The chime of creation and the diapason of | 51:27 | |
the heart jangled by a swarm, a fate of lesser things, | 51:32 | |
until by some hertless ban, | 51:41 | |
that old world weather clears and | 51:46 | |
that old encroachment is dispelled. | 51:50 | |
And we hear again the clamor of the angelic choirs | 51:55 | |
on true pitch, and their well tempered accords, | 52:00 | |
as when the morning stars sang together | 52:08 | |
and all the sons of God shouted for joy. | 52:13 | |
Amen. Let us pray. | 52:23 | |
All mighty God who has given us minds to know thee, | 52:34 | |
hearts to love thee, and voices to sing thy praise, | 52:41 | |
sustain us ever, we pray thee, | 52:50 | |
by the might of thy grace and renew us daily | 52:55 | |
by thy Holy Spirit, | 52:59 | |
that the work of our hands, | 53:03 | |
the searches of our minds, | 53:06 | |
and the songs of our hearts, | 53:11 | |
may be acts of worship brought to thine alter | 53:15 | |
and found fitting and acceptable in thy sight. | 53:23 | |
Who are the strength and the song of our life. | 53:29 | |
Through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. | 53:36 | |
- | Let the congregation stand for | 53:52 |
the response through dedication. | 53:55 | |
Creativity is inherent in human nature. | 54:03 | |
(overlapped confirmations) | 54:07 | |
In a sense, every person is to be an artist. | 54:10 | |
(overlapped confirmations) | 54:14 | |
We are told to go to work and subdue the Earth. | 54:16 | |
(overlapped confirmations) | 54:19 | |
Groaning in travail, waiting to be saved and made whole. | 54:24 | |
(overlapped confirmations) | 54:29 | |
The world is waiting to receive our work. | 54:32 | |
(overlapped confirmations) | 54:36 | |
Because creation was just the beginning. | 54:40 | |
(overlapped confirmations) | 54:42 | |
And it is part of the artist to bear witness to the | 54:44 | |
potential of all people. | 54:47 | |
(overlapped confirmations) | 54:50 | |
To evoke in our century of vision of human conditions, | 54:56 | |
more worthy of the development of the potential | 55:00 | |
of all people. | 55:03 | |
(overlapped confirmations) | ||
By lifting up our hearts, | 55:09 | |
by reminding us of the courage and honor | 55:11 | |
and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice | 55:13 | |
which have been the glory of the past. | 55:19 | |
(overlapped confirmations) | 55:22 | |
May the universe offer to us the symbol and | 55:27 | |
the form of true harmony and beauty. | 55:30 | |
(overlapped confirmations) | 55:34 | |
What is at stake, Lord? | 55:37 | |
Is the element wherein you will to dwell here on Earth? | 55:39 | |
(overlapped confirmations) | 55:45 | |
(upbeat organ music) | 55:50 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 56:33 | |
(upbeat organ music continues) | 56:51 | |
(choir continues vocalizing) | 57:22 | |
(upbeat organ music continues) | 57:48 | |
(choir continues vocalizing) | 58:30 | |
(organ music continues) | 58:58 | |
(organ music continues) | 59:42 | |
(fast paced organ music) | 1:00:34 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 1:00:58 | |
(choir continues vocalizing) | 1:01:39 | |
(fast paced organ music continues) | 1:02:08 | |
(choir continues vocalizing) | 1:02:16 | |
(fast paced organ music continues) | 1:03:00 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 1:03:27 | |
(fast paced organ music continues) | 1:03:59 | |
(organ music) | 1:04:28 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 1:04:35 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 1:04:45 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 1:04:48 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 1:04:51 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 1:05:02 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 1:05:05 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 1:05:08 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 1:05:11 | |
♪ Hallelujah ♪ | 1:05:16 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 1:05:26 | |
(preacher talking distantly) | 1:05:34 | |
Which we now bring before you. | 1:05:41 | |
consecrate us for the experiences and the needs of this day, | 1:05:44 | |
and lead us in the way of true understanding | 1:05:49 | |
and faithful service, | 1:05:52 | |
through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. | 1:05:54 | |
(organ music) | 1:06:01 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 1:06:40 | |
(choir continues vocalizing) | 1:07:18 | |
(organ music continues) | 1:07:30 | |
(choir continues vocalizing) | 1:08:11 | |
(organ music continues) | 1:08:31 | |
(choir continues vocalizing) | 1:09:10 | |
(organ music continues) | 1:09:33 | |
The grace of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ, | 1:10:05 | |
the love of God, | 1:10:10 | |
the communion and fellowship of the Holy Spirit | 1:10:13 | |
be with you this day and forever. | 1:10:18 | |
(choir vocalizing) | 1:10:27 | |
(choir continues vocalizing) | 1:11:02 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:11:14 | |
♪ Amen ♪ | 1:11:21 | |
(bell tolling) | 1:11:39 | |
(fast paced organ music) | 1:11:52 | |
(fast paced organ music continues) | 1:12:45 |
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