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For for e Jesus said whosoever will come after me let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me Welcome to our celebration of Holy Eucharist write one which can be found on page 319 39 in your book of common prayer during this Linton season we begin with the penitential
Order bless the Lord who forgiveth all our sins his mercy endureth forever hear what our Lord Jesus Christ saith Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind this is the first and great commandment and the second is like unto
It Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself on these two Commandments hang all the law and the prophets kneeling as you are able or sitting let us humbly confess our sins unto almighty God at the bottom of page 30 12 Almighty and most merciful father we have aired and strayed from
Thy have but th Lord Merc us their are Accord to PR we may a God and life to the glory ofly name amen the Almighty and merciful Lord grant you Absolution and remission of all your sins true repentance amendment of life and the grace and consolation of
His holy spirit amen standing as you are able turning to page 324 holy God holy and mighty holy Immortal one have mercy upon us the Lord be with you and with thy spirit let us pray pray oh almighty God who alone can order the unruly wills and affections of
Sinful men Grant unto thy people that they may love the thing which thou commandest and desire that which thou Dost promise that so among the Sury and manifold changes of the world our hearts May surely there be fixed where true Joys are to be found through Jesus
Christ Our Lord who liveth and reth with thee and the Holy Spirit one God now and forever amen please be seated for the readings a reading from the Prophet Jeremiah the days are surely coming said the Lord when I will make a New Covenant with the house of Israel and the house
Of Judah it will not be like the Covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt a covenant that they broke though I was their husband says the Lord but this is the Covenant that I will make with the
House of Israel after those days says the Lord I will put my law within them I will write it on their hearts I will be their God and they shall shall be my people no longer shall they teach one another or say to each other know the
Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest says the Lord for I will forgive their inequity and remember their sins no more the word of the Lord thanks be to God let us say together Psalm 119: 9-16 how shall a young man cleanse his
Ways by keeping to your word with my whole heart I seek you let me not stray from your Commandments I treasure your promise in my heart that I shall sin against you Blessed Are You O Lord instruct me in your statute with my lips I will recite all the
Judgments of your mouth I have taken greater Delight in the way of your decrees than in all manner of riches I will meditate on your Commandments and give attention to your ways my delight is in your statutes I will not forget your word a reading from the letter to the
Hebrews Christ did not glorify himself in becoming a high priest but was appointed by the one who said to him you are my son today I have begotten you as he says also in another place you are a priest forever according to the order of malc in the days of his flesh Jesus
Offered up prayers and supp applications with loud cries and tears to the one who was able to save him from death and he was heard because of his reverent submission although he was a son he learned obedience through what he suffered and having been made perfect he became the source of Eternal salvation
For all who obeyed him having been designated by God a high priest according to the order of mzc the word the Lord thanks be to God the holy Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ according to John glory glory be to thee Lord now among
Those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks they came to Philip who was from Beth SAA in Galilee and said to him sir we wish to see Jesus Philip went and told Andrew then Andrew and Phillip went and told Jesus Jesus answered them the hour has come
For the son of man to be glorified very truly I tell you unless a grain of wheat falls into the Earth and dies it remains just a single grain but if it dies it Bears much fruit those who love their life lose it and those who hate their
Life in this world will keep it for eternal life whoever serves me must follow me and where I am there will my servant be also who soever serves me the father will honor now my soul is troubled and what should I say say father save me
From this hour no it is for this reason that I have come to this hour father glorify your name then a voice Came From Heaven I have glorified it and I will glorify it again the crowd standing there heard it and said that it was Thunder others said
An angel has spoken to him Ang Jesus answered this voice has come for your sake not for mine now is the Judgment of this world now the ruler of this world will be driven out and I when I am lifted up from the earth will draw all people to
Myself he said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die the gospel of the Lord praise be to thee o Christ please be seated my thanks to your recor will and all of you for inviting me this St Patrick’s Day I’m delighted to be here
And talk with you a little bit about John chapter 12 if you’d like to follow along in the bulletin um it might make uh it a little easier I tend to refer to the text more than your average homelist does in the heart of The Gospel according to John chapter 12 presents a
Narrative that is Rich with theological depth with Crystal Clear Old Testament references and with profound prophetic fulfillments As We Gather to delve into the essence of this passage on this fifth Sunday in Lent we are invited to a profounder understanding of Jesus Christ’s Mission and its inextricable interconnection with the Old
Testament this sermon aims to illuminate the text of John 12 through the lenses of the Old Testament texts that It quotes especially Isaiah 53 and Daniel 7 and9 revealing the meaning and implications of Jesus’s suffering death and glorification so at a critical juncture in Jesus’s Ministry
As the shadow of the Cross looms large Good Friday is coming very quickly before we know it Jesus was approached by greeking Gentiles symbolizing the universal reach of his mission their request to see Jesus heralded a pivotal moment not just in the johannine narrative but in the entire Arc of redemption history
Jesus’s response transcended their immediate request announcing the lifting up of the son the son of man it was to be a glorification a lifting up as the text says from the earth that is a resurrection and an Ascension Easter is coming but it would be one a lifting up
That would be achieved through suffering and sacrifice a lifting up onto the cross and Good Friday will be here before Easter Isaiah 52 to 53 describes a unique suffering servant who will be lifted up and highly exalted yet through the path of suffering and sacrifice John 12:32 has Jesus connecting his impending
Crucifixion to this Vision in Isaiah thereby clarifying that the Gentiles seeking his audience were about to receive far more than they wanted Jesus will indeed draw them in He will draw in all people but in the manner of Isaiah’s suffering servant who though who through being lifted up will bring light to many
Nations and atone for many and make many righteous it’s a very inclusive vision of what what’s going on with this lifting up of the servant so there’s a counterintuitive paradoxical nature to the lifting up of Jesus involving both glorification but also the cross suffering and pain it fits the texts in Isaiah and
Daniel but it’s radically different than the audience expects in the John 12 chapter what they ask in verse 34 is all this about the son of man being lifted up on a cross to die Daniel 7 they recall speaks of this son of man figure as a cloud riding hero who receives kingdom
Come directly from God as an eternal Reign Over all reality so what’s up with the suffering and the dying for many pain and loss are a great obstacle to embracing God why does the bible make an innocent person dying so Central to all of this this is a scandal
This Is the Scandal highlighted by John 12 and its double sense that it gives to the phrase lifting up real exaltation by God John insists is not cheap but cost costly Jessica Martin Canon of elely cathedral in England writes Paradise is a place of mercy and restoration where
Tears are wiped away rather that rather than that they were never shed many tears were shed by St Patrick enslaved and taken to Ireland Patrick was forced to work as a shepher out in the unfriendly Irish wilderness in this period of intense deprivation and loneliness isolated by the unforgiving Irish landscape Patrick
Underwent a profound spiritual interconnection the physical labor exposure to the elements and the constant threat of violence all this suffering self-emptying in theology we speak of kosis all of this served as a crucible for a new inter relationship with God A Spiritual Awakening Daniel 7 does present the son
Of man as a Divine figure bestowed with dominion and Glory uniting Heaven and Earth in the culmination of God’s long Redemptive plan yet his glorification in Daniel 7 is just supposed in Daniel 9 with tremendous suffering and sacrifice Daniel 9 at the very end speaks of an
Anointed one being cut off in both Daniel 7 and Daniel 9 the Glorious light of the son of man casts a dark shadow in both texts a counter figure appears opposite antithetical to the Messiah sort of an inevitable evil twin that the bright light of the messiah’s appearance casts as a
Shadow so both texts have this figure and the two texts are thus United together with the same pattern of Bright Light Dark Shadow both Daniel 7 and Daniel 9 so the texts of Daniel like Isaiah 53 unite this notion of lifting up and bearing the cross this paradoxical counterintuitive message that we’re
Struggling with this morning so here is one key reason why there’s this cost to this time of year to our expectation of Easter because Jesus is involved in a fight to the death with this Shadow with this transpersonal demonic force that is almost an inevitable rise against his
Kingdom I don’t know if any of you are fans of tolken there’s a new movie out about his early life in his book The Hobbit there’s a scene that’s starkly reminiscent of Isaiah 53 and our text being lifted up on a cross Bilbo Gandalf and 13 dwarves
Are lifted up as they run from wolves and goblins and they end up scrambling up trees the uh goblins Set Fire to the trees and then they begin to sing a song now they left the song out of the movie but it is there in The Hobbit book and I
Think it’s uh very relevant in terms of kind of bringing to life the gruesome evil that Jesus feels that he cannot ignore but must meet directly and must overcome as part of the glorification and the coming of his resurrection and Ascension I’ll read to you a little bit
Of the poem but I have to warn you it is a little bit gruesome this is the Goblins singing after all 15 birds and five fur trees their feathers were fanned in a fiery breze what funny little birds they have no wings what shall we do with these
Funny little things roast them alive or stew them in a pot fry them boil them and eat them hot there’s more uh but uh I know it’s early I’ll save the rest for the 10 o00 service what dark Spirit launches into song and camaraderie as innocent victims
Burn a beastial spirit of in Instinct rooted in transpersonal darkness What Spirit humiliates and dehumanizes victims facing inhuman death turning them into queer little things that are better off gone well it’s a spirit buffered and siloed cut off from the humanity of its fellows at the Seminary where I teach we
Recently had a British poet Malcolm gu and he writes of there being no path to Glory that circumvents Christ ch’s sufferings and those of our world yet he insists in one poem nor can this blackened sky this darkened scar eclipse the glimpse of how things really are Christ confronts all our sufferings
And the horrors of death conquering and sublating it all as the only possible path to humankind’s best reality the Goblins who are humiliating and dehumanizing Bilbo Gandalf and the dwarves are fully cut off and isolated from what G names as how things really are the Eternal reign of the son of man
Is not com compromised by his death but through this very Act of self-emptying kosis he opens the silos and breaks through to how things really are this emptying allows him to Slough off the buffers the self- protection the egoism all of the things that ego centeredness keep us from embracing that
Spiritual Matrix of human interconnectedness that binds all human Souls by emptying himself he revives C- Humanity what in Theology and German we call MIT Daniel’s son of man perfects the magod Dei the image of God which Shone in England remember God created not just a single human being
But the couple as a co-han interrelated mutuality Oscar wild wrote of this hidden expanse of human mutuality after being imprisoned in England in the 1890s under the homosexuality law wild wrote of his pathos as follows by all forgot we rot and rot with soul and body marred this experience aroused in him a
Tremendous solidarity in suffering such that in writing to a friend he twice repeated whatever happens to another happens to oneself through his personal torment wild began to sense that what Jesus himself emptying allowed Jesus to do was to Bear others sufferings on his shoulders he was able to Bear the pain
Of those quote whose dwelling is among the tombs oppressed nationalities Factory children thieves people in prison outcasts those who are dumb under oppression and whose silence is heard only of God in confronting the perplexity of the crowd and John 12 and their challenge to the notion of a messiah who must suffer
And die Jesus elucidates a fundamental spiritual principle true glorification comes through embracing humility and self-emptying because it deflates the ego to make room for God and other humans to be their true selves and to be interconnected with us our world’s goblins are surprised to find their Victory turned against them
As the night of Faith submits to their violence but conquers death in the words of Isaiah 53 that’s just below the surface of Our Gospel passage the servant divides the spoil with the strong this is the theological motif of Christus Victor who looks death in the face without flinching and
Overcomes it for us all so John 12 illuminated by the texts of Isaiah and Daniel invites us to a deeper appreciation of the profound mystery of Christ’s passion it challenges us to see beyond our fears and our silos and let go of our egos in this we are empowered by the servants
Support which selflessly gives up its own self to uphold us everyone in love as the servant Sil o and buffering that is cocooning all of us collapses interpersonal and even transpersonal co- Humanity Mitch menite triumphs as the buffers and cocoons Fall Away we begin to see just as the
Greek-speaking Gentiles at the start of John 12 longed to see the servant has led the way for us all Isaiah 53:11 out of his anguish he shall see light life’s light in him what Malcolm G calls how things really are is now revealed and opened up Isaiah
531 proclaims that in the servant the arm of the Lord has been revealed Jesus quotes that verse in John 12:38 just after our reading but he quotes it the arm of the Lord has been revealed in a way that is a challenge a question who
Can believe that the arm of the Lord is revealed this way who Among Us Jesus asks can possibly work our way around get our heads around this particular paradoxical perplexing Vision well may we all like St Patrick not despise loneliness and humity but see in them the Lord’s arm leveraging
Them as spiritual instruments of extraordinary empathy and understanding for all with whom we share the image of God St Patrick’s story is a testament to the possibility and the power of such a vision amen please stand as together we affirm our faith in the words of the nying
Creed we believe in one God the Father the Almighty maker of heaven and Earth of all that is seen and unseen we believe in one Lord Jesus Christ the only son of God eternally begotten of the Father God from God light from light true God from true God
Begotten not made of one being with the father through him all things were made for us and for our Salvation he came down from heaven by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary and was made man for our sake he was crucified under pontious
Pilate he suffered death and was buried on the third day he rose again in accordance with the scriptures he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the father he will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no
End we believe in the Holy Spirit the Lord The Giver of Life who proceeds from the father and the son with the father and the son he is worshiped and glorified he has spoken through the prophets we believe in one Holy Catholic and Apostolic church we acknowledge one
Baptism for the Forgiveness of sins we look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come amen let us pray for the church and for the world be with The Universal Church in the Anglican cycle of prayer we pray for the church in Wales in the dasis of
Virginia we pray for Emanuel Brook Hill Richmond North farum Warsaw St Dunston’s mlan and St John’s Warsaw we pray for St Andrews rala Lord in your mercy here our pray enliven the spirit in all of us ministers in your church we pray in particular for Justin Archbishop of Canterbury Michael our presiding Bishop
Bishop Stevenson’s Harris and Chand our Bishops will and Steven our priests Justin our aspirant our Steven ministers and all called to minister in the name of the Gospel Lord in your mercy our Pray when our faith is weak and our hope seem empty come to us
Spirit and fill us again we pray for all who struggle with addiction and other mental health conditions you are rich in Mercy and our need is deep Lord in your mercy lead us to let go of the burdens we carry the guilt the shame the unrealistic expectations lead us to
Depend on you Lord in your mercy here our pray guide each of us in the decision making of our common life in our family relationships our churches and our communities Lord in your mercy here our pray uplift those who need your loving presence we pray for our military civil servants all
Who serve and in particular all who are deployed Lord in your mercy our pray give us grateful hearts for the diversity with which you have given us in the Human family we pray for all the prophetic voices we remember and celebrate may God’s loving Justice abide
In all of us Lord in your mercy our PR pull us closer to your Compassionate Heart we pray for those in pain for those who worry for those whose livelihood is fragile for those who grieve we pray for Bishop Michael Curry John Nancy Andrea Tony Don and Marlene Libby Eve Sally
Claudia Alice Mary Jean Janet Larry Rich Darcy Chris Mary FR Ethan Diane Jesse and Sam we pray for those newly added to our prayer list including Doris and James we pray for all those on our extended Parish prayer list we pray for others we now name out loud or in the Silence of
Our hearts Lord in your mercy here our pray push us into the world to be advocates for your expansive love among all the creatures you have created we pray for parts of our world and Nation torn apart by violence and destruction including Ukraine Israel Palestine Sudan Yemen Haiti and other places we
Name out loud or in the Silence of our hearts Lord in your mercy our pray receive those who have died into the arms of your abundant Mercy we pray for Savannah Hunter family friend of Nikki and Carl Jones Gloria Covington friend of Lula Carpenter and David Arthur ly and those we now name
Out loud or in the Silence of our hearts Lord in your mercy here our pray almighty God to whom our needs are known before we ask help us to ask only what Accords with your will and those good things which we dare not or in our blindness cannot ask grant us for the
Sake of your son Jesus Christ Our Lord amen and now the Peace of the Lord be always with you and with my spirit Grant each other a sign of the peace as you feel safe to do so we have a few brief announcements and first of all welcome if you are new or
Newer or have found Us online uh or maybe you’re new to the 8:00 service and we welcome you here to this wonderful time um and we especially welcome someone brand new who has not been to our building before uh Dr Stephen cook and who uh not very long ago I guess
Taught me Hebrew and I don’t know if you know this but I think Emma may have even picked up more Hebrew than I was able to her brain was a sponge at that time and sat through the entire Hebrew class but I think appropriate to welcome you to
Our community thank you for being here and we will continue to embrace the Wilderness uh after the 10:00 service we will have a forum hour with Dr Cook and encourage you if you want to be and are able to come back at that time to do so
And we have plenty of coffee in the norx directly the room behind us directly afterwards and encourage you to come around and ask all of your difficult Hebrew and Old Testament questions to Dr Cook at that time um and again thank you for being with us I call your attention
To the weekly net the printed and the emailed one if you do not receive our emailed newsletter I encourage you to do so a lot of information does come out uh and I will call your attention especially to Relay for Life which is a little bit far away but it will come
Quickly especially with our yard sale in April somewhat quickly after Easter in addition our Holy Week schedule is published in there and I’ll add one more Holy Week service we have a 9:30 celebration of holy Eucharist every single Wednesday and the Wednesday of holy week next week will also be Holy
Wednesday and a celebration of Eucharist at 9:30 in the morning the donkey will be here uh next week should be arriving probably during the middle of this service so you will see Daisy or whoever they bring directly after the service as we celebrate Palm Sunday and we are in
Need of some readers I believe still I’m looking I saw Julie this morning uh we are going to try to do all of the 17 readings from Mark during the passion narrative gospel next week and encourage any of you to sign up or to volunteer at
That time to read some of those parts it is uh Mark’s gospel was originally intended to be read and often times from what I have studied don’t another way they can attest us at the Seminary was given in a play format in the earliest centuries uh as it was trans uh passed
Down orally prior to it being written down so I call your attention to our week Holy Week Services everything from Monday Thursday all the way through the great vigil and our Easter morning I’ll highlight for this group especially or 8:00 will be at 7:30 a.m. on Easter
Sunday if you would like write one worship on Easter Sunday followed by 9 11:15 and if you want to hunt for eggs it’s in between the two later services and now walk in love as Christ loved us who gave himself for us an offering and sacrif rice to God e e for for
For all things come of thee Oh Lord and of Eucharistic prayer one can be found on page 333 in the book of common prayer the Lord be with you and with thy Spirit lift up your hearts we lift them upto the Lord let us give thanks unto
Our Lord God it is me and right so it is very meat right and are bound in Duty that we should at all times and in all places give thanks unto thee O Lord Holy Father Almighty everlasting God through Jesus Christ Our Lord who was in every
Way tempted as we are yet did not sin by whose Grace we are able to triumph over every evil and to live no longer unto ourselves but unto him who died for for us and rose again therefore With Angels and Archangels and with all the company
Of Heaven We law to magnify thy glorious name ever more praising thee and saying holy holy holy Lord God of hosts Heaven and Earth are full of thy glory glory be to thee O Lord most high blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord hosana in the highest
All glory be to thee almighty God our heavenly father for that thou of thy tender Mercy D give thine only son Jesus Christ to suffer death upon the cross for our Redemption who made there by his one oblation of himself once offered a full perfect and sufficient sacrifice
Oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world and did Institute and in his holy gospel command us to continue a Perpetual memory of that his precious death and sacrifice until his coming again for in the night in which he was betrayed he took bread and when he had
Given thanks he break it and gave it to his disciples saying take eat this is my body which is given for you do this in remembrance of me like likewise after supper he took the cup and when he had given thanks he gave it to them saying drink ye all of for
This is my blood of the new testament which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins do this as often as you shall drink it remembrance of me wherefore O Lord and Heavenly Father according to the institution of thy dearly beloved Son Our Savior Jesus
Christ we thy humble servants do celebrate the make here before thy Divine Majesty with these thy holy gifts which we now offer unto thee the memorial thy son hath commanded us to make having in remembrance his blessed passion and precious death his mighty resurrection and glorious Ascension rendering unto thee most hearty thanks
For the innumerable benefits procured unto us by the same and we most humbly beseech thee Oh merciful father to hear us and of the almighty goodness vou safe to bless and sanctify with Thy word and holy spirit these thy gifts and creatures of bread and wine that we receiving them
According to thy son Our Savior Jesus Christ’s holy institution in remembrance of his death and passion may be partakers of his Most Blessed body and blood and we earnestly desire thy fatherly goodness mercifully to accept this our sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving most humbly beseeching thee
To grant that by the merits and death of thy son Jesus Christ and through faith in his blood we and all thy whole church May obtain remission of our sins and all other benefits of his passion and here we offer and present unto thee Oh Lord
Ourselves our souls and bodies to be a reasonable holy and Living Sacrifice unto thee humbly beseeching thee that we and all others who shall be partakers of this Holy Communion may worthily receive the most precious body and blood of thy son Jesus Christ be filled with thy Grace and Heavenly benediction and made
One body with him that he may dwell in us and we in him and although we are unworthy through our manifold sins to offer unto thee any sacrifice yet we beseech thee to accept this our Bound in Duty and service not weighing our merits but pardoning our offenses through Jesus Christ Our
Lord by whom and with whom in the unity of the Holy Ghost all honor and glory be unto thee oh Father Almighty World Without End Amen and now as our savior Christ hath taught us we are bold to say Our Father Who Art in Heaven hallow be thy name thy kingdom
Come thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us lead us not into temptation Deliver Us from Evil for thine is the kingdom and the power in the glory forever and ever
Amen Christ Our Passover is sacrificed for us therefore let us keep the feast oh Lamb of God that take away the sins of the world mercy upon us oh Lamb of God that Tak Away The Sins of the world have mercy upon us Lamb of God that takest
Away The Sins Of The World grant us peace on page 337 together we do not presume to come to this thy table oh merciful Lord trusting in our own righteousness but in thy manifold and great mercies we are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy table but
Thou Art the same Lord whose property is always to have mercy grant us therefore gracious Lord so to eat the Flesh of thy dear son Jesus Christ and to drink his blood that we may ever more dwell in him be in us the gifts of God for the people of
God take them in remembrance that Christ died for you and feed on him in your hearts by faith with Thanksgiving may be seated and follow the direction of our Usher ch for ch ch ch e e for e the post communion prayer can be found on page 339 let us
Pray Almighty and everliving God we most hearly thank thee for that thou Dost Feed Us in these holy Mysteries with the spiritual food of the most precious body body and blood of thy son Our Savior Jesus Christ and Dost assure us thereby of thy favor and goodness towards us and
That we are very members and corporate in the mystical body of thy son the Blessed company of all faithful people and are also hes through hope of thy Everlasting Kingdom and we humbly beseech thee Oh heavenly father so to assist us with thy Grace that we may
Continue in that Holy fellowship and do all such good works as thou has prepared for us to walk in through Jesus Christ Our Lord to whom with thee and the Holy Ghost be all honor and Glory World Without End Amen and now remember that life is short
And we have too little time to gladen the hearts of those who traveled away with us so be quick to be kind make haste to love may the blessing of God Almighty father son and Holy Spirit be upon you this day and remain with you always amen
Let us go forth in the Name of Christ thanks be to God e e e