Good Shepherd New York • 2.7.21

[Music] [Music] [Music] good morning church happy sunday please join me in this call to worship welcome open your hearts to god's love this day praise be to god who has called us here let the words wash over you and offer you healing and hope praise be to god who continually blesses us place your hope and trust in god with joyful hearts we come to worship and praise god who continually blesses and provides for us amen the sun comes up it's a new daython it's time to sing your song again whatever may pass and whatever lies before me let me be singing when the evening comes bless the lord sing like never before [Music] your name is grace your heart is kind for all your goodness i will keep on singing 10 000 [Music] [Music] worship his holy name sing like never before my soul worship your own [Music] and on that day with my [Music] still my soul will say your praise [Music] 10 000 years and then forever 10 000 years and then forever [Music] worship his sing like never before [Music] worship his holy name sing like never before oh my soul now worship your own [Music] how [Music] and now a reading from psalm 147 verses 1 through 11. praise the lord how good it is to sing praises to our god how pleasant and fitting to praise him the lord builds up jerusalem he gathers the exiles of israel he heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds he determines the number of the stars and calls them each by name great is our lord and mighty in power his understanding has no limit the lord sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground sing to the lord with grateful praise make music to our god on the harp he covers the sky with clouds he supplies the earth with rain and makes grass grow on the hills he provides food for the cattle and for the young ravens when they call his pleasure is not in the strength of the horse nor his delight in the power of human legs the lord delights in those who fear him who put their hope in his unfailing love glory to the father the son and the holy spirit as it was in the beginning will be forevermore amen [Music] shepherd of goodness your mercy has found us here in green pastures where your kingdom grows cleansed by the waters of new birth we offer praise to your goodness that saves and restores [Music] shepherd of goodness your presence is with us when does cold shadows seem too much to bear those who will call to prove that for our comfort point to your goodness through preaching and prayer christ i could share bird lord would you hear our prayers break up in our imaginations lord would you hear our [Music] prayers [Music] a new cup of wine nourished by grace we can face our position led by your goodness [Music] christ our good [Music] [Applause] [Music] even [Music] christ i could share lord would you hear our prayers and break open our imaginations lord would you hear our prayers break open our imaginations you hear our prayers [Music] just so sweet to trust in jesus and to take him at his word chose to rest upon his promise and to know the same [Music] oh how sweet to trust in jesus just to trust his cleansing blood just in simple faith [Music] jesus jesus precious jesus [Music] with me will be with me to me jesus jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] jesus jesus jesus christ [Music] [Music] all are welcome at the table of god every man woman and child for christ brings peace to all tearing down every hostile wall so that the many may become one one heart one family one new humanity for god who is love and christ who is all and in all show no partiality and make no distinction so neither race nor class gender nor sexuality politics nor religion personality nor nationality count for us or against us the light of christ enlightens all christ the prisoner and the naked christ the hungry and the sick christ the thirsty and the stranger christ the other may god's spirit hover over our chaos our hatred and our indifference descend in our hearts with love and pleasure blow us out into the world to listen and to serve and to set us ablaze to forgive and reconcile for all are welcome at the table of god every man woman and child [Music] in the time [Music] there's a dying voice within me reaching out somewhere toiling in the danger and in the morals of despair don't have the inclination to look back on any mistake like cane and now behold this chain of events [Music] [Music] and every leaf that trembles [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i gaze into the doorways of temptation's angry flame and every time i pass the lay i always hear my name [Music] like every grain of sand [Music] i have gone from rocks to riches in the sorrow of [Music] ancient footsteps [Music] i am [Music] is [Music] let's continue our worship with the generosity liturgy godliness with contentment is great gain we bring nothing into this world and we take nothing out of it we who call jesus lord devote ourselves to resisting greed which plunges the human heart into ruin and pierces it with many griefs we are determined to practice generosity with free hearts fixing our hope on god and not the uncertainty of wealth we desire to be rich in good deeds and willing to share all that we have laying up for ourselves treasure that will not decay but will shine in the age to come may this be true of our community well church now is the time in the service where we share grace and peace with each other if you are alone somewhere know that you're not really alone you can send a text message you can share grace and peace with yourself you can give yourself a hug or you can share it with the people in your home and the people around you so grace and peace [Music] and now a reading from mark chapter 1 verses 29-39 as soon as they left the synagogue they went with james and john to the home of simon and andrew simon's mother-in-law was in bed with the fever and they immediately told jesus about her so he went to her took her hand and helped her up the fever left her and she began to wait on them that evening after the sunset the people brought to jesus all the sick and demon possessed the whole town gathered at the door and jesus healed many who had various diseases he also drove out many demons but he would not let the demons speak because they knew who he was very early in the morning while it was still dark jesus got up left the house and went off to a solitary place where he prayed simon and his companions went to look for him and when they found him they exclaimed everyone is looking for you jesus replied let us go somewhere else to the nearby villages so i can preach there also that is why i have come so he traveled throughout galilee preaching in their synagogues and driving out demons the gospel of our lord praise to you lord jesus christ well good morning good shepherd welcome to digital church my name is michael redzina and we're so glad that you've joined us and i'm excited to introduce you to our guest preacher for the day dr chris green dr green is a dear friend the first sermon that he preached at our church was an odd week where i came down with a pretty severe sickness and reached out to him because he happened to be in the city and he preached probably one of the best sermons ever to be preached in our church on almost no notice and so that's the kind of person that dr greene is he's the professor of public theology at southeastern university he's also the director of the saint anthony institute of theology and philosophy he by the way i've taken part in that order and highly recommend the work that they're putting out into the world he's done a number written many books one of his most famous books is called surprise by god along with other academic works including the end is music he has a book coming out later this year called all things beautiful and so we want you to be on the lookout for that he lives currently in tulsa with his wife julie and their three children zoe clive and emery so give a warm welcome and a receptive heart to dr chris green the jesus of the gospels is not the jesus we've imagined we've learned to picture him as nice and wholesome approachable never aloof a marvelous wonder worker and a simple and most importantly politically neutral teacher of simple truths but in fact the jesus of the gospels is a difficult demanding figure a troubled and troubling presence in mark's gospel especially jesus is mystifyingly odd and volatile tense as a cord waiting to be struck as mark tells it jesus is usually met with one or another of three responses the crowds are enthralled by him the priests and pharisees are upset with him mostly by his influence over the crowds and the disciples are devoted to him but all these responses are rooted in profound confusion and misapprehension the disciples are conflicted impressed like the crowds but even more disturbed than the religious leaders and mark apparently believes that this conflictedness is precisely what jesus intended for them and perhaps also for us all along marx was likely the first of the four gospels to have been written between 30 and 40 years after jesus was executed it opens without a lengthy preface or genealogy instead readers are given a terse politically charged title the beginning of the good news of jesus christ the son of god then presented with a montage of events from the first days of jesus ministry by the end of that montage it is clear that jesus fame is spreading fast in today's reading which we've just heard jesus has left the synagogue and left the adoring crowds following his disciples to simon's house there he heals simon's mother-in-law immediately without prayer or or ceremony and again the news of his exploits spreads quickly by sunset the house is thronged mark says the whole city was gathered around the door deep into the night jesus works to heal the sick and to deliver the oppressed and in the morning he escapes into the desert to pray his disciples hunt him down and they urge him to return with them they tell him everyone is searching for you he ignores them he says they have to leave capernaum because his message must be shared with others in the neighboring villages as well mark is an exceptional storyteller a master of suggestive detail earlier in this opening chapter he tells the story of jesus temptation in a single thrilling sentence he was in the wilderness 40 days tempted by satan and he was with the wild beasts and the angels waited on him the reference to the wilderness and the 40 days draws up from the deeps of our memories the stories of moses and elijah the detail about the wild beasts suggests that mark understands jesus as the last adam the one who comes to heal the sick creation to make the blessing flow as far as the curse is found the reference to the ministering angels summons the story of jacob's vision of the latter revealing that christ is for mark the hidden site of god's sudden in breaking so given mark's skill we should be careful not to ignore the smallest details in today's passage we're told the people brought to jesus everyone in the village who was ill or oppressed at sundown this is a reference not to the end of the day but to its beginning the jewish day actually begins at sundown remember in the creation story we're told the evening and the morning were the first day this reference also recalls the exodus story israel as you may remember goes out from egypt at sundown at the beginning of the day not the end we're told that jesus healed many of them but perhaps not all we're told that jesus left in the early morning while it was still very dark to pray in a deserted place we're told that his disciples hunt him down all of these details anticipate the end of mark's gospel and the end of jesus life which it tells in the end jesus is deserted by everyone dies alone in the dark crying out after a god he can no longer find my god my god why have you forsaken me in mark's gospel these are jesus only words from the cross perhaps the most important detail in our passage though is jesus silencing of the evil spirits mark says he would not permit the demons to speak because they knew him mark wants us to know that jesus is guarding a secret again and again in this gospel jesus forbids the crowds and his disciples from speaking about who he is and what he has done and what he means to do but there are strange inconsistencies in jesus actions he sometimes allows the demons or those he has healed to speak at the beginning of chapter 5 for example he delivers the man who had been known as legion who was likely a roman soldier a legionnaire now haunted by the horrors of war strangely jesus allows the platoon of demons to speak as well and commands the healed man once he is delivered to return home and to share his story with his friends but at the end of that same chapter on the opposite shore jesus returns to his usual pattern he raises a synagogue ruler's daughter from the dead and then strictly forbids the few who have witnessed it from speaking about it what is jesus doing here is there a method in this madness if we read uncarefully it may seem jesus wants to keep outsiders from knowing his identity and mission but on closer inspection we realize this cannot be his reasoning the gospel is split into two parts and the hinge is peter's confession which comes in chapter eight after asking what the crowds are saying jesus asks his disciples directly who do you say that i am and peter the only one of the disciples to risk a response answers you are the messiah in matthew's gospel jesus praises peter for this answer but in mark jesus offers no praise he orders peter and the others not to breathe a word to anyone he does however begin to speak openly about his mission now and no sooner has he done this than peter who has just made the confession takes him aside rebukes him and corrects him in this story mark is confronting us with a hard truth those who know jesus best are the first to deny him the first to interfere with his mission insiders not outsiders are the ones who need to be saved and they need to be saved precisely because they think they understand the secret that has been shared with them and not with others the controversies about the various endings of mark's gospel tell this same story originally the gospel almost certainly ended at 16 8 with this strange line so the women went out and fled from the tomb for terror and amazement had seized them and they said nothing to anyone for they were afraid but the first christian scribes were frightened by this ending they added verses to bring the gospel to a lighter less disturbing end aren't you and i sometimes tempted to do the same aren't we tempted to tidy up what god has left messy to touch up what seems to us like unfinished work the gospel won't let us forget god works in the dark but we are afraid of the dark and we are afraid of god so we are desperate for light even artificial light anything that will clear away the shadows rowan williams in his book on mark's gospel argues that it was written to reinforce a faith in the god who does not step down from heaven to solve problems but who is always already in the heart of the world holding the suffering and the pain in himself and transforming it by the sheer indestructible energy of his mercy and that williams believes is why what jesus says and does in mark's gospel is so shocking and bewildering not only for the characters in the story but for us as its readers jesus works miracles sure but he does so in ways that make clear that miracles are decidedly beside the point jesus teaches but he does so in mark's gospel mostly so his hearers and especially his disciples will not understand what he means why does he do this if we trust him and if we trust mark we must assume he does it because there is no other way for us to learn the truths we need to learn williams again i think gets this exactly right jesus in mark's gospel appears as someone wrestling with the difficulty of communicating things that are not communicable in words communicating that they have to think again about how god works and to prepare themselves for greater and greater shocks in understanding what god is doing i'm tempted to think william says that one reason mark's gospel has so little teaching in it unlike matthew or luke or john is that mark wants to draw our attention away from conventional teaching he wants to tell a story and present situation that bring us up short he doesn't want us to go away discussing the interesting details about jesus teaching or the poignant stories jesus tells he wants us to focus on the person of jesus and on the relation we are meant to have with him knowing that only in that relation a disturbing unsettling relation often does radical change come about so it makes sense that there is in this gospel secrets silences misunderstandings and this is a gospel which on every page carries this warning to us we don't have it yet we don't get it yet perhaps i think this is where some of us have gone wrong we've imagined that knowing jesus is an easy affair we've imagined that the truth is simple and that the true or something is the simpler it is we've imagined that god's work is always obvious and we've imagined that we know the secrets of our own hearts and that we can therefore always be trusted with the truth we need god to save us from what we've imagined we need to be saved not so much from darkness but from our fear of it and our use of false lights in the midst of it the other readings today teach this same truth i think isaiah in a familiar passage declares the lord is the everlasting god the creator of the ends of the earth he does not faint or grow weary his understanding is unsearchable he gives power to the faint and strengthens the powerless but then isaiah immediately insists that those who wait for the lord shall renew their strength do you hear the paradox god's power is unlimited his strength is inexhaustible and precisely for that reason god does not do everything at once and what he does do he does in ways true to our creatureliness he does not violate the integrity of our minds and hearts and bodies we are tempted to think that if god were all powerful we would never have to wait for his will to be done but in truth that's not god's power god's power revealed in jesus is a power at work precisely in our waiting in our powerlessness as paul himself comes to learn late in his life god's strength is made perfect only in our weaknesses the psalm for the day psalm 145 147 also celebrates god's uncreated power and wisdom and then concludes with a song to god's slow work he covers the heavens with clouds and prepares rain for the earth he makes grass to grow upon the mountains and green plants to serve mankind he provides food for flocks and herds and for the young ravens when they cry the psalm says once again we are reminded god's power is revealed not only in the miraculous but in the natural the ordinary grace comes not in dramatic interventions from above but secretly from within god creates deep in us an inner creative fire that slowly lights up our lives from the inside and spreads out from us without our awareness of it to our neighbors this is why in today's epistle paul insists that ministry requires becoming weak with the weak rather than trying to make them strong this is good news even if it does not seem like it jesus mark wants us to know is difficult but his difficulty is good for us god does this not to humiliate us but to free us from the fear of humiliation which controls so much of what we do and fail to do in orwell's famous short story a white officer kills an elephant even though he knows he should not do it he kills it precisely because he says he cannot imagine who he is if he is not playing the part of the strong white man in the face of the so-called natives before he kills the elephant he has a moment of almost clarity almost realizing the truth he says to himself that if he decided not to kill the elephant the crowd would laugh at me and he almost realizes the truth in saying to himself that his whole life in india has been one long struggle not to be laughed at he senses that he has worn a mask and that his face has grown to fit it mark reminds us that jesus intends to strip our masks away so our faces can find their true shape mark's gospel ends with the disciples paralyzed in fear the women flee from the tomb silent and terrified but we do not need to be paralyzed bonifer taught his students that the aim of ministry is to make it possible for others to pray and today's reading shows us jesus at prayer notice he does not pray for the strength to work the miracles he prays after that work is done and he prays in secret in a desolate place we do not know what he prays about in fact in mark's gospel jesus never teaches his disciples the prayer we know as the lord's prayer we are told many times that he prayed always in solitude but only at the end are we told anything about what he says in prayer in the garden he prays for a change to come a change he fears is impossible abba father for you all things are possible remove this cup from me yet not what i want but what you want on the cross jesus prays another prayer a line a single line a question to god my god my god why have you forsaken me astonishingly the roman centurion who sees the way jesus dies and hears his scream realizes at last what no one in the gospel has realized up to this point truly this man was god's son paradoxically then it is in the throes of prayer in sorrow fear agony and uncertainty that jesus becomes recognizable to others and his mission is accomplished for them questioning god jesus is shown at last unquestionably to be god and that is the kind of prayer to which you're called to which i'm called in his last teaching in the gospel jesus instructs his disciples that the end is coming and he directs them pray that it does not come in winter he is teaching them that some things cannot be changed god is coming the truth will out but there are things that can be changed that we should want to see changed but only in prayer praying not to jesus but with jesus can we learn the difference asking god to change what can be changed we begin to see the difference between god and everything else between the one who is unchangeable and everything that is changing and needs to be changed and in that way we learn that jesus is not who we've imagined him to be he's better infinitely immeasurably better jesus is good in ways we never could have dreamed well thanks chris for that reflection and now we having heard the gospel and the reflection on the gospel confess our faith this morning we say the apostles creed together and you know it's an interesting thing saying a creed a lot of us assume that to say a creed means we come in full alignment with full agreement with no friction or tension at all and if we don't have that sort of situation then we shouldn't say it at all but our practice is to come to this creed as a tether something that we latch onto and we engage with it's our way of saying we are coming from this tradition rooting ourselves in this tradition and we bring to it all of our trust and faith yes but also our doubt and our questions and our struggles with the very things that it affirms and so consider it your gesture of solidarity with the community that's rooted in this tradition now the apostles creed is a beautiful compression of the story of jesus and so we say it together would you join me we believe in god the father almighty creator of heaven and earth we believe in jesus christ his only son our lord who was conceived by the holy spirit born of the virgin mary suffered under pontius pilate was crucified died and was buried he descended to the dead on the third day he rose again he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of god he will come again to judge the living and the dead we believe in the holy spirit the holy catholic church the communion of saints the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting amen now that we've confessed our faith we pray the prayers of the people would you join your faith as we pray these prayers for our world holy trinity we lift up the global church body of christ that it may operate as such that just as the father son and holy spirit are one that the many parts of this church will truly be one fix our eyes and intentions upon you and remind us daily of your grace and show us how we can emulate that with one another may your character be visible in the words and actions and thoughts of all of your followers as we all pursue your will and we may go about it in different ways give our eyes the visions and the hearts and the ability to understand those we don't agree with open our ears to one another and calm our egos so that we may all listen and understand our brothers and sisters in christ and work together to realize your will lord in your mercy hear our prayer dear lord we thank you for our world we also thank you for the internet would you help humanity as a whole continue to learn how to use the internet for good we thank you for governments would you continue to bless our world leaders and inspire them to serve for the sake of their people and not for the sake of themselves and finally as our world becomes more and more connected would you also increase our grace and patience for one another lord in your mercy hear our prayer lord god place your hand upon new york city to heal and revitalize it we ask that as our city moves forward with vaccinations would you give people in charge insight organization and an equitable distribution of the vaccine we pray that the least among us will be included and not overlooked as we move towards eradicating cohen from our cities use these last stretches of the virus to give us an opportunity to teach us a new way and more meaningful way of life that we may strive not strive for normalcy as things were as before but instead that we take the pains we felt the lessons we've learned and the slowness of this time to forge a new way that was better than the one we left behind lord in your mercy hear our prayer [Music] lord we stubbornly ask for you to intercede in the incredible suffering that happens in our world we pray for the confused we pray for the mentally exhausted and the mentally ill would you give them rest we pray for parents and we ask for your help in raising our children into people that we like we ask for your immediate relief to those suffering from coping and finally lord in your kingdom there is no suffering and we know and trust that you have a plan to end suffering we humbly ask for that plan to be sped up lord in your mercy hear our prayer and now that we've prayed our prayers we take a moment to pause and to reflect on the weak behind us in an act of confession confession isn't you know morbid introspection it's not a cosmic beatdown it's simply an opportunity for us to take responsibility for the ways that we are falling short of love and so we engage in this act of holy memory by looking to the weak behind us and asking god for help to bring one memory to the surface of our minds to our of our hearts and to own it take responsibility for it and to feel ourselves pivoting away from it toward holy possibilities the possibility of love in its place so right now as best as you know how just reflect on the week behind you and together let's invite the help of god's spirit to help us focus in on something that needs repentance right now as you engage in this act of memory it could be a precarious feeling we can experience shame or guilt and right now i just want to encourage you and remind you that even when we stand in a vulnerable space like this before our creator we are safe in the love of god the god that we know in jesus christ is a god who causes the sun to shine on the righteous and the unrighteous the rain to fall on both alike and expresses himself in the world through mercy and so right now remember the kindness of god that leads us to repentance and to change and let that open us up also know that you're not alone right now we engage in a corporate active confession through this ancient prayer would you join me in this prayer of confession most merciful god we confess that we have sinned against you in thought word and deed by what we have done and by what we have left undone we have not loved you with our whole hearts we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves we are truly sorry and we humbly repent for the sake of your son jesus christ have mercy on us and forgive us that we would delight in your will and walk in your ways to the glory of your name amen and now friends hear this word of pardon as high as the heavens are above the earth so great is god's love toward us as far as the east is from the west so far has god removed our transgressions from us you are loved you are welcomed and yes you are forgiven in jesus christ amen and now friends having made space for confession we now turn to the table to this meal which jesus gave us that we call holy communion or even eucharist which means thanksgiving and we begin with things right now i want you to channel gratitude consider the good things of your lives and let's hold on to them as we come and enter into this prayer would you join me in this ancient prayer the lord is here his spirit is with us lift up your hearts we lift them up to the lord let us give thanks to the lord our god it is right to give thanks and praise god it is good and beautiful to say thank you at all times in all places right now we reflect on the goodness of our lives where we see your fingerprints at work in them and we offer our thanks and we lift our eyes as we come to this table to the gift of jesus christ the one sent into the world to reveal the god who is love the one sent into the world to show us the wisdom of god to know what human flourishing really is and looks like and to show us love both the beauty and the sacrifices that love takes on in a world that falls short of love and so right now we consider the promise of your holy spirit and the promises of your word and we pray that by the power of that same spirit and according to that same word that these gifts of bread and cup which we all hold with us in our homes across the city country and even around the world that they would become to us and for us the body and blood of our lord jesus christ who on the night he was betrayed took bread and cup and blessed them on the night jesus was betrayed he took bread and after he gave it to his disciples he said this is my body given for you do this in remembrance of me and so we welcome you risen christ we thank you for this body given and broken we pray that we ourselves might be broken and given for the sake of our neighbor and our world amen likewise jesus took the cup after the supper and having blessed it gave it to his disciples and he said this cup is the cup of a new covenant in my blood shed for the forgiveness of sins do this in remembrance of me and so we welcome you risen christ we thank you for this cup which points us to a different arrangement than the arrangements the unholy arrangements and unholy relationships and unholy communions that we sustain in this world reset our posture reset our hearts reset our imaginations by this cup which points to forgiveness having the last word and peace being the end of history rather than our violence or our revenge or our retaliation amen and now friends we declare the mystery of faith christ is died christ is risen and christ will come again and these are god's holy gifts for god's holy people jesus christ is holy jesus christ is lord to the glory of god the father amen and now friends we invite you to receive holy communion our practice is to take the bread and dip it in the cup and simply say thanks be to god and if you're wondering if this meal is for you we practice an open table which simply means any who are drawn to the love they see in jesus christ are welcome to receive the bread and the cup and let that reception be your gesture of an open heart and a sense of trust in the love you find in christ amen thanks be to god friends thank you so much for joining us at good shepherd new york once more i'd like to thank everybody who put so much hard work into creating this every week from our director jeremy stanley to tyler chester who helps mix and plays in so many of our sort of songs and music that the good shepherd collective creates to our amazing musicians from the good shepherd collective and of course david gunger who works tirelessly to bring this to you jeremy varner who steps in and helps from here to here and there and gabriella who puts together our amazing kids videos each week we are in a debt of gratitude to all the amazing people who contribute each week so thank you there are too many to name you know who you are we give you thanks um i'd like to share with you a few things coming up in the life of our community especially as we pivot toward lent we want you to be prepared for lent and so this week in fact beginning today you can go to our website and you can see the lent groups that we'll be launching over the course of that six week journey to easter lent is after all a season which begins on ash wednesday it's a season where we remember our mortality where we try to have a sense of detachment from our false self where we take on and take up practices that help us do that important work it's a season of fasting and repentance and it's a season to sort of be in touch with how we're really doing and so we want to go on that journey together otherwise i think it's it's kind of overwhelming to do on our own so these groups will exist and meet weekly to help you debrief your experience of lent in addition to that we're going to be putting out a couple of videos this week that address some of the practices of lent maybe you've never fasted and you want to learn more about that how to prepare for it we will be inviting you into a weekly practice of the examine prayer which was created by saint ignatius if you've never done that before we want to give you an orientation to it so that when you practice it each week you kind of have your bearings in addition to that we're going to be releasing a 40-day devotional guide which has a daily scripture reading a daily quote a daily sort of prompt for journaling with question and we'll be releasing that as soon as possible we're so excited about it it will at least be in digital form and we're working very hard if it's possible to get it in print form and available for you to order and have delivered by ash wednesday so be on the lookout sign up on our email list if you're not on it already you'll be the first to know if you're on our email list that these are ready and available for order and delivery also follow us on social media it's a great way to sort of stay in the loop on what's happening we constantly give updates we post music and prayers so if you're not following us on social media we encourage you to do that but we're really excited about the season of lent and i encourage you to just begin preparing your heart for that six week journey to easter and now receive this benediction we are being sent into a world in need of healing we have been given all that we need to be god's messengers of peace go now into the world rejoicing in god's presence with you bring the news of peace and hope to all you meet amen praise god from whom all blessings flow praise him all creatures hear below praise him above ye heavenly hosts praise father son [Music] [Music] go in peace [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] you

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