St. John's Concord - Live Feed

America. Oh, you're getting Yeah. You know, I have They just happen to say good morning. Hello. Thank you. Good morning. Happy There's >> all right. I have small about Yeah. Wonder where you live. Good morning, St. John's. >> I hope I hope you've had a great week. First thing I would like to do is thank all the women that um showed up for our spring fling yesterday and helped make it a success. uh Susan Hayes for uh her tireless energy in trying to um organize it, Bonnie for the wonderful food as usual, and Ellen Goodman for her support. And just I want to thank all of you ladies that were there and prayed for me in me getting through what I had to do. So, thank all of you. I thought it was a great success and St. John's really had a great number there representing them. So, thank you all for that. There's a lot of thank yous and different things in your bulletin, but the one I would really like to highlight is the celebration for a ministry for Katherine Rich. So, please mark and save the date of April 19th. After church, there will be a lunchon for Katherine. And if you have any pictures or stories, I've been asked pictures or stories for a slideshow, please send to Patty Fletcher and the numbers are in there. And please hound Rachel Goodman with anything that you may have or anything questions. Okay, so April the 19th and a lot going on between then and now. Uh, number one, these were put back in the back. And please make sure if you're interested in a virtual Easter lily, the time is very short to get this done so we can get it in the bulletin and everything. Please do and follow the directions for that. But speaking of Holy Week, of course, we will begin with Palm Sunday. The following week there will be of course no service on Wednesday but on Thursday, Monday, Thursday the service will be at seven. Good Friday the service is at 7. Vigil Saturday it starts at 8 and we will start outside and it's a wonderful service. If you weren't there last year it's really nice. Then on Easter day there will be a 7 o'clock sunrise service. I will not see you there. And but there's going to be breakfast in between sunrise and the 10:00 a.m. of course service on Sunday. Then the following week will be a preschool week. So come early and get your seat because you know the first time we did this with the preschool we had over 200 people here. So that is pretty awesome. So, we will be doing that and then of course on April 19th will be Katherine's. So, April is going to be a pretty busy month. And with that, are there any announcements that I need to have open for the floor? Okay, with that, let's prepare our minds and hearts for the service. Thank you. What happened? What are you doing? I work. I invite you to stand as you're able. As we gather this morning in the name of the Father and the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Let us pray. God of all mercy and consolation, come to the help of your people, turning us from our sin to live for you alone. Give us the power of your Holy Spirit, that we may confess our sin, receive your forgiveness, and grow into the fullness of Jesus Christ, our savior and lord. Amen. Let us confess our sin in the presence of God and of one another. Most merciful God, we confess that we are captive to sin and cannot free ourselves. 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 heart. We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. for the sake of your son Jesus Christ, have mercy on us. Forgive us, renew us, and lead us so that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways to the glory of your holy name. Amen. In the mercy of Almighty God, Jesus Christ was given to die for us. And for his sake, God forgives us all our sins. as a called and ordained minister of the church of Christ and by his authority, I therefore declare to you the entire forgiveness of all your sins. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. of God through all his ser to my weakness to the Lord as I want to dream of their ecstasy. of No Angel and All of your cross and I see your crosses. Teach my heart to let me see you and let me teach to love you as holy passing all my Pring that is love and >> the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. and also with you. >> Our song we come to our living us from this. Have mercy on us Christ and wash away our sour grac Mercy on us Lord. Shing heart. >> Let us pray. Almighty God, your son came into the world to free us from sin and death. Breathe upon us the power of your spirit that we may be raised to new life in Christ and serve you in righteousness all our days through Jesus Christ our savior and lord who lives and reigns with you and the holy spirit one god now and forever. Amen. You may be seated. At this time I invite our youngest disciples to come forward. All right. Good morning, everyone. >> How's it going? >> Having a good day. >> Yeah, it's a beautiful day. Spring is in the air, right? You can spend more time outside playing. That's always fun. >> Yeah. Yeah. You like that, don't you? Yeah. I got I got a question for you. Have you ever been late to something? Yeah. >> Yep. >> You have been late to the library. >> You've been late to the library. Oh, yeah. That's That can be rough. Sometimes you can get a fine, right? >> Yeah. Late. You can think of a time you're late. Yeah. >> I I I've been late to church. >> Late to church. Oh, yeah. That was not your fault though, was it? Oh, yeah. Well, you know, we being late can sometimes be a bit of a of a challenge, a disruptor. And today we hear a story about two sisters who thought that Jesus was too late. Too late because Lazarus had died. And they said, "Oh, if only if only Jesus had been here sooner, then he would still be living." >> Absolutely. >> Absolutely. Yeah. if only. But you know what? Sometimes we think that that Jesus is slow or late or not at work, but Jesus proves us very wrong today because Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead. And it's an amazing story about trusting in God when God is right here with us all the time. So sometimes if we think that maybe we're afraid of something or we're sad about something or we're mad about something and we think that that we need God to act well, if we trust that God will, God always does because God loves us and God is here for us. So let us pray. Dear God, >> Dear God, >> thank you for loving us. >> Thank you for >> Thank you for being with us. >> Thank you for being with us. >> And thanking Thank you for raising us. Thank you for >> to new life in you. >> Amen. Well, thank you. Yeah. The first reading comes from the 37th chapter of Ezekiel. The hand of the Lord came upon me and he brought me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the val in the middle of a valley. It was full of bones. He led me all around them. There were very many lying in the valley and they were very dry. He said to me, "Mortal, can these bones live?" I answered, "Oh God, you know." Then he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones and say to them,"Oh dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones, I will cause breath to enter you and you shall live. I will lay senus on you and cause flesh to come upon you and cover you with skin and put breath in you and you shall live and you shall know that I am the Lord. So I prophesied as I had been commanded and as I prophesied suddenly there was a noise a rattling and the bones came together bone to its bone. I looked and there were senues on them and flesh had come upon them and the skin had covered them but there was no breath in them. Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath. Prophesy mortal and say to the breath, thus says the Lord God, come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these that are slain that they may live." I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived and stood on their feet, a vast multitude. Then he said to me, "Mortal, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost. We are cut off completely." Therefore prophesy to them and say, "Thus says the Lord God, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from your graves, oh my people, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel. And you shall know that I am the Lord when I open your graves and bring you up from the graves, oh my people. I will put my spirit within you and you shall live and I will place you on your own soil and you shall know that I the Lord have spoken and will act says the Lord. The word of the Lord. >> Create in me a clean heart, oh God, and renew a right spirit within me. >> Let's read read Psalm 130 responsively. Out of the depths I cry to you, oh Lord. >> Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. >> If you, oh Lord, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand. >> But there is forgiveness with you so that you may be. >> I wait for the Lord. My soul waits. And in his word, I hope. >> My soul waits for the Lord more than those watch for the morning who watch for the morning. >> Oh Israel, hope in the Lord for with the Lord there is steadfast love and with him is great power to redeem. >> It is he who will redeem Israel from all its iniquities. >> The second reading today comes from Romans the 8th chapter beginning with the sixth verse. To set the mind on flesh is death, but to set the mind on the spirit is life and peace. For this reason, the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law. Indeed, it cannot. And those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh. You are in the spirit since the spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ in you, then the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is life because of righteousness. If the spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his spirit that dwells in you. The word of the Lord. >> Create in me a clean heart, oh God, and renew a right spirit within me. inless. >> The Holy Gospel according to John. >> Glory to you, Lord. >> Now a certain man was ill. Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair. Her brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent a message to Jesus. Lord, he whom you love is ill. But when Jesus heard it, he said, "This illness does not lead to death. Rather, it is for God's glory so that the son of God may be glorified through it." Accordingly, though Jesus loved Mary and her sister Lazar m though Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus, after having heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed 2 days longer in the place where he was. Then after he said this to the disciples, he said, "Let us go to Judea again." The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and you are going there again." Jesus answered, "Are there not 12 hours of daylight? Those who walk during the day do not stumble because they see the light of this world, but those who walk at night stumble because the light is not in them." After saying this, he told them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I'm going there to awaken him." The disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will be all right." Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was referring merely to sleep. Then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus is dead. For your sake, I'm glad I was not there so that you may believe. but let us go to him. Thomas, who was called the twins, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go that we may die with him." When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb for 4 days. Now, Bethany was near Jerusalem, some 2 mi away, and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother. When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went and met with him, while Mary stayed at home. Martha said to Jesus,"Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. But even now, I know that God will give you whatever you ask of him." Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day." Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live. And everyone who lives and believes in me, will never die. Do you believe this? She said to him, "Yes, Lord. I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world." When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and told her privately, "The teacher is here and is calling for you." And when she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him. Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw Mary get up quickly and go out. They followed her because they thought that she was going to the tomb to weep there. When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died." When Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who came out with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. He said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to him, "Lord, come and see." Jesus began to weep. So the Jews said, "See how he loved him." But some of them said, "Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?" Then Jesus again greatly disturbed came to the tomb. It was a cave and a stone was lying against it. Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, "Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead four days." Jesus said to her, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for having heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here so that they may believe that you sent me." When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out." The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Unbind him and let him go." Many of the Jews, therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did believed in him. The Gospel of the Lord. >> Praise to you, Christ. >> In the name of God, who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen. There's a certain phrase that I believe haunts us when things go wrong. And it's a phrase that that I have actually heard recently. And it's maybe when we can feel guilty, you know, about how certain series of events unfolded or just at a loss for how to respond to a terrible moment. Two words, but they carry quite a bit of weight. If only. If only. If only I had said something sooner. If only I had just done things a little bit differently. If only God had showed up in the exact way that I needed in the moment. In this morning's gospel text, and it's a long one, Mary and Martha are living in those words. Their brother Lazarus is dead. He's already been in the tomb for 4 days. We hear the shock. It's probably fading. And now it's just pure grief, pure mourning that is in their on their minds right now that's consuming them. And when Jesus finally arrive arrives somewhat late, at least in their eyes, both both sisters say the same thing. Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. I'm sure they're they're thinking this. If you had been here just a little bit earlier, then things things would be so much better. If only, Lord, if only. Sure. This is good, right? They're they're they're suggesting that Jesus is in fact a powerful man, one that could do something. They just believe that he didn't that he didn't make it in time. And now things just feel a little too late. the window in their minds has closed. I believe that we are no strangers to this type of of mentality, right? Because so many of us, as I noted earlier, we carry around this type of feeling, this if only feeling. If only things had gone just a little bit better. If only I had handled this just a little bit differently. If only God had answered that prayer. It's a phrase though that I believe that we need to be very careful about. This two-word phrase, if only, it doesn't just describe our past. It doesn't just describe something that has happened to us. When we use it, when we say it out loud, when we think it, it describes in many ways our faith. our faith today. This phrase, it gets in our brains and it makes us lock on to the idea that perhaps God's best work is behind us. That something has slipped beyond his reach. That there are moments even for God that are just just a little too late. If only. If only. Sure, we believe God can work all sorts of miracles, but you know, he kind of has to be on the scene at the right time to make good things happen, right? Right after this, if you look to verse 24 in your bullets, and I think the most important thing in the entire text happens, I think that this is the moment that people with seemingly strong faith should resonate with Martha. Finally, with Jesus on the scene, acknowledges the powers he has sort of. She says, "Yes, of course, Jesus. I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day." She understands, right? She gets it. That's good. She's got the, you know, the our version of a of a good Sunday school like answer down patch. She's she's got the theology of the resurrection. That's good, right? Sort of. I mean, sure, yes, it's it's good theology to believe in the resurrection, to proclaim the resurrection. But don't you think in this moment with Jesus right in front of her that saying this is a little bit kind of distant kind of just wrote and and routine kind of you know not exactly enough here she has Jesus the Messiah the son of God the the living breathing God in front of her finally God is there and she describes the resurrection to him the power of God but in some kind distant, far off, to be determined kind of way. in her grief and in her sorrow, this someday aspirational academicy type of understanding of the resurrection, I don't really think it it means much to her in the moment in in the midst of all this grief, you know, in the in serious fresh grief, in the type of grief where where you don't even really want to eat because this is just all consuming. ing for shock and for anger type of grief saying, "Yeah, I I believe in the resurrection in the future. I don't know really what good that does for her in this moment." Frankly, I think we hear this kind of stuff all the time in the midst of of of grief, in the midst of sorrow. We try to comfort ourselves. We try to comfort our neighbors and in ways that you know that we believe are true. We repeat these distant truths. We repeat these these phrases that sure you know God will provide all things will eventually be good. The resurrection blah blah blah. It can kind of sound like that. We describe what God did back then as this powerful and great thing. And then we can easily describe what God will do in the future as something that's amazing. But we struggle sometimes in the midst of sorrow, whether it's our own or our neighbors, to describe what exactly God is doing right here, right now. But from Martha this morning, it's a little puzzling because she has Jesus right in front of her. And Jesus, the living God, Jesus, isn't comfortable with God's power being described in some kind of distant or future or academicy kind of way as a power that's reserved for just the future, just something that you hope for because Jesus is there. Jesus is right in front of her. And Jesus says to her wonderfully something that that she should have imprinted on our on her heart. And we too today when we hear this a new should have it as well. Jesus says I am the resurrection and the life. I'm the resurrection and the life. Not I will be not I I'll I'll talk about it. Not I'll describe it. Not this kind of future thing that might happen. Jesus in her midst reorients her. Jesus tells her simply that his powers that the powers of God are not something just to be memorized or hoped for in some, you know, distant future. That the power of God, the very presence of Jesus right there, he's there. He's standing in front of her and he wants her to pay attention. This is important. This changes everything because if only when you've got Jesus in front of you, it's irrelevant. Jesus is not only the resurrection at the end, the resurrection that we hope for. The lifegiving powers of God in the flesh are not far off or to be hoped for. They are right there, right in front of her. And just in a in a few words rather plainly, he he describes this to her and I believe to you and to me this morning. Jesus is not just the resurrection. Jesus is in fact the life too. And Jesus is about to show that even when she had dis dismissed him, dismissed his deathraising powers to the faroff future or to the if only past. If only it' just been here a little bit sooner than things would have worked out. But before Jesus raises Lazarus, he does something I believe just as important. It's one of the shortest verses in the Bible. And though it's translated a little bit longer for us this morning, Jesus wept. Jesus stands at the tomb. He stands with the mourers. And Jesus sheds tears. Jesus is with them, with the people who are grieving, who are just engulfed in sorrow, in grief. Jesus joins them. Jesus sees their love for for their brother, for their friend who is gone. And Jesus slows down in the midst of all of this. Jesus doesn't just, you know, snap his fingers. He doesn't just wave a wand and make all things great and perfect. Jesus meets them exactly where they are. And Jesus weeps with them in the muck, in the mess, in their grief, and this all-consuming bad stuff. Jesus joins them. God in the flesh does what God in the flesh does best. Though, breathes new life into this terrible situation. It's a game-changing moment obviously for them. But I believe for us too, even all these years after this miracle, it's a gamecher because God does not meet us at a distance. God does not just meet us even in some faroff promise. God enters into our lives. God enters into our grief and our sorrow. And God stands in front of death itself. You know, we hear about how how this even happens in dry bones. This is just how God works. Not by avoiding suffering, but by entering into it, straight into it. This is really the way of the cross. So important to our theology. So in the midst of all this shock and sorrow, Jesus orders the stone to be moved and then and then maybe it seems like the tough reality, at least in the moment, hits them because they hear about the stench that comes from that cave of Lazarus's body being in there for 4 days. Martha said, "Lord, already there's a stench because he's been dead for 4 days." In other words, we told you so. It's a little late for the miracle. He's gone. Thank you for showing up, but he's gone. Perhaps we can go ahead and insert an if only here, too. Because for them in the moment, Lazarus is too far gone. Things are just done. But remember, God in the flesh is there and Jesus calls into the tomb, Lazarus, come out. And the dead man comes out. This is not because all of a sudden people were were believing enough. This is not because of any sort of special thing that Mary or Martha did or those who had gathered there in the grief did. It is because Jesus is there. Jesus is there and the power of God is standing right in front of them. The same exact Jesus who called Lazarus out of the grave is here with us this morning. Jesus may not respond in 4 days, four business days. Jesus may not make things happen exactly how we would want them to happen. you know, if we are praying a certain way that, you know, if this just happens, all things will be good. That that's not exactly how Jesus makes things happen. But Jesus is most certainly at work. Even in all of the places in our minds when we think they're just beyond repair, case closed, old news, into all of the places that that we might be labeling too late into the grief that we just learn to deal with that we think is a part of our our daily life because it just is what it is. perhaps into all of the other bad places that we think nothing good can happen. Jesus reminds Mary and Martha, reminds all of those that are standing there grieving that day. And Jesus reminds you and me again this morning. I am the resurrection and the life. Not now, not later. Not just someday in the future. Now, I am the resurrection and the life. And for you and for me, when we have the joy of of witnessing a peer, a baptism, or even just when we remind ourselves of the great fact that that we're baptized, we acknowledge, I believe, a gamecher for us, something pretty crucial to our own faith. That at baptism, we are buried with Christ, but then we're raised with Christ. Not someday, but now. It happens in the moment. Resurrection is God's work. It's what God is in the business of doing. And life, life is God's work, too. But we also, we have a part in all of this. This is not just a story of Jesus's miracles. It happens right at the end of our text. And do not miss it. I want you to know this. Jesus told those gathered around the tomb that day exactly what this job is. And this frankly is what we as a church exist for. At the very end of our text this morning, Jesus says, "Unbind him. Unbind him and let him go. Unbind him." This is what the church exists for. This is what you and me were here to do for one another. To remind each other that the grave does not get the last word. That your regrets, they don't get the last word. That your shame doesn't get the last word. Your anxiety, your worries, whatever it may be, that the worst thing you ever did doesn't get the last word. that death itself, most especially does not get the final word. At church, week after week here at St. John's, we walk in and we're bound to all sorts of things. We're bound to to shame, to our mistakes, to to our worries, to our grief, to our sins, you name it. And week after week, we hear a new the promises of God. We encounter Jesus face to face. We get freed and we get forgiven here week after week. We We get washed. We get reminded of all that God can do for us. never write off what Jesus can do for you in life. Jesus is the the resurrection. Yes. And Jesus is the life for them, for you, and for me. Thanks be to God. And amen. charity and love together. My love with us are bound with grateful joy and holy fear in God. Let us mind and soul in return. Let us recall that in our mouth Christ's holy son as me and let all content and cease because of the glory that we see. He is our only. Let us forive each other's beha. I believe in God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth. I believe in Jesus Christ, God's only son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontious Pilot, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended to the dead. On the third day, he rose again. He ascended into heaven. He is seated at the right hand of the father, and he will come to judge the living and the dead. I 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. Merciful God, we pray for your holy church, >> that we may be one in Christ. >> Grant that every member of our congregation may truly and humbly serve you, >> that your name may be glorified among all people. We pray for bishops, pastors, deacons, and all servants of the gospel >> that they may be faithful stewards of. >> We pray for all who govern and hold authority in the nations of the world >> that there may be justice and peace on earth. >> Give us grace to do your will in all that we undertake >> and that our lives marked by the cross may. Have compassion on those who suffer from any grief or trouble, especially those we now name out loud or in the silence of our hearts that they may be upheld by your steadfast love. Into your hands, gracious God, we commend all for whom we pray, trusting in your mercy through Jesus Christ, our savior. Amen. And now, may the peace of the Lord be with you always. >> And also with you. >> Please share God's peace. Sure. All right. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Thank you. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise. >> Let us pray. God our provider, you have not fed us with bread alone, but with words of grace and life. Bless us in these your gifts with which we receive from your bounty through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Lord be with you. >> And also with you. >> Let us give thanks to the Lord our God. >> It is right to give our thanks and praise. >> And lift up your hearts. >> We lift them to the Lord. >> It is indeed right, our duty and our joy that we should at all times and in all places give thanks and praise to you, almighty and merciful God, through our savior Jesus Christ. You call your people to cleanse their hearts and prepare with joy for the pascal feast that renewed in the gift of baptism, we may come to the fullness of your grace. And so with all the choirs of angels, with the church on earth and the hosts of heaven, we praise your name and join their unending hymn. Holy, holy, holy Lord God. Heat. Heat. Blessed are you, oh God of the universe. Your mercy is everlasting and your faithfulness endures from age to age. Praise to you for creating the heavens and the earth. Praise to you for saving the earth from the waters of the flood. Praise to you for bringing the Israelites safely through the sea. Praise to you for leading your people through the wilderness to the land of milk and honey. Praise to you for the words and deeds of Jesus, your anointed one. Praise to you for the death and resurrection of Christ. Praise to you for your spirit poured out on all nations. In the night in which he was betrayed, our Lord Jesus took bread, gave thanks, and broke it, and gave it to his disciples, saying, "Take and eat. This is my body given for you. Do this for the remembrance of me. And again, after supper, he took the cup, gave thanks, and gave it for all to drink, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, shed for you and for all people, for the forgiveness of sin. Do this for the remembrance of me. With this bread and cup, we remember our Lord's Passover from death to life. As we proclaim the mystery of faith. Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again. Oh God of resurrection and new life. Pour out your Holy Spirit on us and on these gifts of bread and wine. Bless this feast. Grace our table with your presence. Come Holy Spirit. Reveal yourself to us in the breaking of the bread. Raise us up as the body of Christ for the world. Breathe new life into us. Send us forth burning with justice, peace, and love. Come Holy Spirit with your holy ones of all times and places. With the earth and all of its creatures, with sun and moon and stars, we praise you, oh God, blessed and holy trinity, now and forever. Amen. And now, as our savior Christ taught us, we are bold to say, Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever and ever. Amen. Come to the table and feast on God's goodness and mercy. You may be seated. The blood of Christ for you Christ. Body Christ. The body of Christ for you. The body of Christ. The body of Christ for you. The body of Christ for you. Body of Christ for you. Body Christ. The body of Christ for you. The body of Christ for you. Body of Christ for you. Body of Christ. Christ. The body of Christ for you. Body Christ. Body of Christ. Body of Christ. The body of Christ. Body of Christ. Body of Christ. Body of Christ. Body of Christ. Body of Christ. Body of Christ. Christ body Christ. Body of Christ. Body of Christ. Body of Christ. Body Christ. Body of Christ. Body of Christ. Body of Christ. Body of Christ. Body of Christ. Body of Christ. Body of Christ. Body of Christ. The body of Christ. body. The body of Christ. Body of Christ. Body of Christ. is that Yeah. you to stand as you're able. And now may the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ strengthen you and keep you in his grace. Amen. >> Let us pray together. God of our salvation, we give you thanks for this meal that restores our souls, reconciles us to you and strengthens us for the journey. Through the body and blood of your son, may we become Christ's body in the world, bearing witness to your love for all creation through Jesus Christ, our savior and lord. Amen. And may almighty God, who is father, son, and holy spirit bless you now and forever. Amen. Oh God of love, King of May the world to see. Our great and simple strength. Give peace, oh God, give peace again. Remember all your works of old. Remember the sensing sweet give on your faithful word never call on you in vain. Give peace, oh God, give peace again. Where saints and angels dwell, all hearts are written holy. All the heaven, oh God, give me Go in peace. Believe the good news. >> Thanks be to God.