Ecumenical Service

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Will you be seated now, please?
 
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We are now officially welcomed and called to prayer by His Eminence William Cardinal
 
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Baum.
 
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It is my privilege as chairman of the committee of the 41st International Eucharistic Congress
 
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for the participation of Christians of other churches to welcome you this evening, and
 
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it is a great joy to do so.
 
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From the beginning of the preparation for this Congress, it was the hope of the Board
 
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of governors that our friends, our brothers and sisters of other communions would take
 
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part with us in this event, an event which has such meaning for Roman Catholics.
 
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Happily this has been possible.
 
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As many of you know, we have during the past two days had a symposium on Eucharistic theology
 
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and today, the Pilgrim People Day, in which we have reflected upon, prayed upon, the state
 
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of the Christian people, this evening brings to culmination this ecumenical part of the
 
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41st International Eucharistic Congress.
 
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It has been taken with the utmost seriousness.
 
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The presence this evening of so many leaders of the churches is a sign, eloquent testimony,
 
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and we are deeply grateful that the legate of our Holy Father, Cardinal Knox, is with
 
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us to preside, and his Eminence Cardinal Kroll, the Chairman of the Eucharistic Congress.
 
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It's impossible to thank all of those who have participated and worked so generously
 
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for this evening.
 
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But I think all of my fellow members on the committee,
 
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and by the way, the vice chairman of this committee
 
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included Bishop Allen, the presiding
 
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bishop of the Episcopal Church, Dr. Robert Marshall,
 
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president of the Lutheran Church in America,
 
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who are with us this evening, and his eminence,
 
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Archbishop Iakovos, the primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdioces
 
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of North and South America, who is prevented
 
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for being here by illness.
 
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But all the members of the committee I know
 
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would wish to join me in thanking
 
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one man in a special way, the one who
 
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has given of himself tirelessly and has made it all possible.
 
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I speak of Monsignor Charles Devlin.
 
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I cannot let the moment pass without thanking him
 
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in this public way.
 
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Monsignor Devlin.
 
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To open this celebration, may I ask you to join in prayer.
 
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Peace be with you.
 
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And also with you.
 
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Let us pray.
 
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Father of mercies, with this celebration we bring to a close our celebration of
 
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Pilgrim People Day. May our efforts to confess our faith in Christ Jesus as our
 
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our unity and our truth be acceptable to you.
 
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We appear before you tonight as men and women whom you have drawn to your son.
 
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We have seen and believed in him and we hope to have eternal life in him.
 
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We are the bearers of a long history of a faith sustained in a pilgrimage, which today
 
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we have placed before your merciful eyes.
 
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We carry with us the faith of martyrs and saints who have taught us to respond to your
 
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grace.
 
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Yet, as individual believers, we still stand before you as divided.
 
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Father in heaven, help us to understand how this is possible.
 
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Have mercy.
 
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Have mercy upon our history.
 
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Have mercy upon us today.
 
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Remove from us the burden of the sins of infidelity,
 
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which have blocked the pilgrimage of your people.
 
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Forgive the infidelities which we ourselves
 
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have added to this heavy burden.
 
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Let us hear your word tonight.
 
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May he teach us how to respond to your will.
 
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Let us experience the gift of your divine spirit tonight.
 
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May he sustain our efforts to be faithful to the unity for which your son prayed and
 
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died.
 
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Accept our prayer for truth and unity tonight as a summary of the desires which so many
 
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men and women have expressed this day.
 
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purify our intentions, make them acceptable to you,
 
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so that they and each one of us can one day
 
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be part of that sacrificial offering which your son made
 
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for us, and which is the one acceptable prayer,
 
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the one acceptable sacrifice, an offering in spirit
 
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and in truth, the bread of life and the chalice
 
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of eternal salvation.
 
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It is this holy and perfect sacrifice
 
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this Congress celebrates, the Congress in which you have allowed us to take part.
 
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May you be blessed forever. We ask all of this through Christ Jesus, your Son, our
 
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Lord, who is one with you in the communion of the Holy Spirit, God, forever
 
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and ever.
 
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Archbishop John Judeau will now lead us in the official ecumenical prayer composed for
 
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the 41st International Eucharistic Congress.
 
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I am the bread of life.
 
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He who comes to me will never be hungry.
 
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He who believes in me never thirsts.
 
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Anyone who eats this bread will live forever.
 
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And the bread that I shall give is my flesh
 
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for the life of the world.
 
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The eyes of all look hopefully to you, O Lord.
 
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And you will have their food, which we seek.
 
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You open your hand.
 
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and satisfy the desire of every living being.
 
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Let us pray.
 
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Oh, Father, you give food to all your creatures.
 
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Satisfy our hunger, not just for food, but for freedom, truth,
 
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justice, and love.
 
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Oh, risen Christ, you made yourself
 
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known to the disciples in the breaking of the bread at Emmaus.
 
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The bread we break at this table is a sign of the brokenness of all the world.
 
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Through our sharing in the bread of life in our many Christian communities,
 
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open our eyes and hands to the needs of all people.
 
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Let our hearts burn to share your gifts and help us to go forth together with bread.
 
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Bread of hope, bread of life, bread of peace.
 
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O Holy Spirit, divine companion, abide in the hearts of all who participate in the 41st
 
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Eternal Mission of the Eucharistic Congress.
 
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That through it there may be such an outpouring of love and sharing as to make us hunger more
 
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urgently for that ultimate love that we seek in Him, who is the world's living bread,
 
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Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour.
 
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Amen.
 
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In humble prayer, we now beg pardon of God and of one another for our lack of faithfulness
 
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to Christ's will for the Church.
 
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We are led in that prayer by Bishop Basil Lawston and Dr. Thelma Adair.
 
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Let me hear what God the Lord will speak, for he will speak to the people, to his saints,
 
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to those who turn to him in their hearts.
 
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We are so busy, Lord, we have not listened to you.
 
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Spirit of Christ, forgive our closed minds and narrow spirits.
 
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Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
 
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The old has passed away.
 
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Behold, the new has come.
 
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We are so busy, Lord.
 
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We have not stopped long enough to become new.
 
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The spirit of Christ will give us our failure
 
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to seek new life in you.
 
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You will seek me and find me
 
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when you seek me with all your heart.
 
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We are so busy, Lord, we have not set aside enough time
 
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to search for your direction in our lives.
 
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Spirit of Christ, forgive our unwillingness
 
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to seek your will and your way.
 
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Now do please be seated.
 
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Our God and Father answers our pleas to him for help and teaches us in his holy word.
 
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Let us listen with faith to his message in the Old Testament reading by Bishop Kenneth Goodson.
 
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He always said to Abram, leave your country, your family, and your father's house for the
 
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land I will show you.
 
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I will make you a great nation.
 
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I will bless you and make your name so famous that it will be used as a blessing.
 
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I will bless those who bless you.
 
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I will curse those who slight you.
 
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All the tribes of the earth shall bless themselves by you.
 
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Thy word is a lamp unto my feet.
 
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Thy word is a lamp unto my feet.
 
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Saint Paul speaks to us of our oneness in the Spirit
 
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and in the body of Christ.
 
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This lesson is read by Archbishop Torkom Manugian.
 
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The reading is
 
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from the epistle of Saint Paul to the Ephesians
 
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chapter four
 
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verses one to seven.
 
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I, the prisoner in the Lord, implore you, therefore,
 
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to lead a life worthy of your vocation.
 
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Bear with one another charitably in complete selflessness,
 
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gentleness, and patience.
 
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Do all you can to preserve the unity of the spirit
 
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by the peace that binds you together.
 
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There is one body, one spirit, just as you were all called into one and the same hope when you were called.
 
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There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God who is the father of all, over all, through all, and within all.
 
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A reading from the Gospel according to St. Luke, chapter 24, verses 13 to 32.
 
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That very same day two of them were on their way to a village called Emmaus, seven miles
 
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from Jerusalem, and they were walking, talking together about all that had happened.
 
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So as they talked this over, Jesus himself came up and walked by their side.
 
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But something prevented them from recognizing him.
 
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He said to them,
 
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What matters are you discussing as you walk along?
 
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They stopped short, their faces downcast.
 
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Then one of them, called Cleophas, answered him,
 
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You must be the only person staying in Jerusalem who does not know the things that have been
 
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happening there these last few days.
 
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What things, he asked?
 
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All about Jesus of Nazareth, they answered, who proved he was a great prophet by the things
 
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he said and did in the sight of God and of the whole people, and how our chief priests
 
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and our leaders handed him over to be sentenced to death and had him crucified.
 
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Her own hope had been that he would be the one to set Israel free.
 
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And this is not all.
 
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Two whole days have gone by since all this happened.
 
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And some women from our group have astounded us.
 
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They went to the tomb in the early morning, and when they did not find the body, they
 
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came back to tell us they had seen a vision of angels who declared he was alive.
 
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Some of our friends went to the tomb and found everything exactly as the women had reported,
 
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but of him they saw nothing.
 
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Then he said to them, You foolish men, so slow to believe the full message of the prophets.
 
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Was it not ordained that the Christ should suffer and so enter into his glory?
 
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Then, starting with Moses and going through all the prophets, he explained to them the
 
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passages throughout the scriptures that were about himself.
 
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When they drew near to the village to which they were going, he made as if to go on.
 
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But they pressed him to stay with them.
 
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It is nearly evening, they said, and the day is almost over.
 
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So he went in to stay with them.
 
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Now while he was with them at table, he took the bread and said the blessing.
 
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Then he broke it and handed it to them.
 
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And their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, but he had vanished from their sight.
 
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Then they said to each other, Did not our hearts burn within us as he talked to us on
 
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the road and explained the scripture to us?
 
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This is the gospel of the Lord.
 
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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
 
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We have listened in the first reading to the call of Abraham, and I will comment upon this
 
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call of the Lord.
 
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The text which tells us about Abraham's vocation in the twelfth chapter of the book of Genesis
 
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follows in that book upon the story of the Tower of Babel in the 11th chapter.
 
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As the sin of the first men alienated him from God, so when human race had multiplied
 
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itself and filled the earth, sin alienated all human society from God and from one another.
 
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They tried, as Holy Scripture says, to make a name for themselves. This refers to rejection
 
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of dependence on God. God confused their language and they were no longer able to understand
 
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each other. The reversal of this movement has been announced by the prophets, especially
 
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by Isaiah and Micah in the vision of the nations gathered on the mount of the temple of God,
 
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the Mount Zion. As Babel is the origin of non-understanding, so Jerusalem becomes the
 
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centre of instruction of the Torah for the nations. Torah, the law of God, will reveal
 
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the way of life as a way toward a time for justice and peace. Universal salvation for
 
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For all the nations is announced by Isaiah when he writes, all the nations will stream
 
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to it, peoples without number will come to it and say, come let us go up to the mountain
 
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of Yahweh.
 
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the reversal of the movement of confusion and alienation
 
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of men from God and from one another,
 
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that reversal is fulfilled on Pentecost,
 
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according to Luke's description of the Pentecost event,
 
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which was formative for the church.
 
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In Holy Scripture, a new period of history of salvation
 
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begins with the patriarch Abraham,
 
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our father in the faith.
 
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Through him, God will bring together all the nations
 
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who from Babel he had scattered
 
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over the whole face of the earth.
 
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In contrast to those who had sinned,
 
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making a name for themselves,
 
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without and against the Lord,
 
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God promised Abraham,
 
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I will make your name so famous that it will be used as a blessing.
 
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So the course of man's history begins in you. The initiative comes from God
 
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and he will probe and test Abraham in many ways.
 
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Abraham has only one response to the calling and the trials of God, his faith.
 
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Through the faith of Abraham, God began to unfold his plan of salvation for all mankind,
 
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first for the Jews and then for the Gentiles, as Mary sang in the Magnificat, according
 
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to the promise he made to our ancestors of his mercy to Abraham and to his descendants
 
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forever.
 
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And St. Paul continues and confirms in his letter to the Galatians, Scripture foresaw
 
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that God was going to use faith to justify the Gentiles and proclaimed the good news
 
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long ago when Abraham was told,
 
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in you all the Gentiles will be blessed.
 
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The context of God's promise is really universal.
 
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All the tribes of the earth shall bless themselves by you.
 
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So the name of Abraham became a blessing
 
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and because of his faith,
 
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He was rewarded to be the father of the nations.
 
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God's calling requires sacrifices.
 
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Abraham was required to leave the land
 
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where he lived in the midst of pagans
 
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and to go to a land which God had chosen.
 
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The response of Abraham was immediate and full obedience.
 
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So Abraham went, as Yahweh told him.
 
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And he was worthy to receive the first theophany after paradise was lost.
 
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We find in Abraham already the obedience of faith, the attitude which recurs so often
 
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in the letters of Saint Paul.
 
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Faith always begins with the hearing of the word of God.
 
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If then man hears and understands it,
 
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it brings him to personal commitment and obedience.
 
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Faith is more than acceptance of monotheism.
 
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It engages the whole man in his relations to God
 
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and to other men, to the world. We do not confess, I believe, about God, but we confess,
 
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I believe, in God. Through this faith, Abraham became a nation.
 
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Faith is the first principle of unity in God of all mankind, created by him and destined
 
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to receive in him its ultimate and existential fulfilment.
 
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Abraham is one of the prophets to whom God has revealed himself
 
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and through whom God has spoken to the ancestors of Israel
 
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before in the fullness of time he spoke to us through his son.
 
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Grace and truth, as St. John writes,
 
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grace and truth have come through Jesus Christ.
 
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With the coming of Christ,
 
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revelation has reached its fullness,
 
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and reconciliation in Christ has brought about
 
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a new creation, a newness of life
 
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for men in a new union with God.
 
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As Abraham's faith originates from hearing the word of God,
 
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so Christian faith begins with hearing God,
 
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who speaks to us through his son.
 
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Abraham expected the fulfillment of the promises
 
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in a blessing to come.
 
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Your father Abraham rejoiced to think that he would see my day,
 
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So Christ said to the Jews,
 
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it is our joy and glory to have seen the day of Christ,
 
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and our faith means full commitment to his person,
 
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our union with God in Christ.
 
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As in Paul says, the life I now live in this body,
 
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I live in faith.
 
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Faith in the Son of God who loved me
 
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and who sacrificed himself for my sake.
 
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Paul's teaching about faith is closely connected
 
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with his teaching on baptism.
 
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If faith gives us a new union with Christ,
 
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it is through baptism that we have grown together with Christ
 
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through the likeness of his death, burial, and resurrection.
 
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According to the doctrine of St. Paul, the essential meaning of baptism is that we are
 
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raised from the dead, live a new life and grow into union with Christ.
 
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This should not be understood as an individual fact or experience, for all those who are
 
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reborn in Christ form one body.
 
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The incorporation into the body of Christ is the primary effect of faith and baptism.
 
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St Paul will always stress that communal character.
 
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He writes, all baptized in Christ.
 
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There are no more distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female,
 
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that all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
 
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And then, after having written these words remarkably enough, he links the new community
 
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in Christ with Abraham when he continues,
 
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merely by belonging to Christ, you are the posterity of Abraham, the heirs he was promised.
 
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Brothers and sisters, all the things we have considered so far are summed up in a beautiful
 
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synthesis in the text we have listened to in the second reading of this service.
 
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The letter of Paul to the Ephesians is often called the epistle of Christian unity.
 
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A sevenfold expression of unity is given by the Apostle.
 
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There is one body, one spirit, just as you were called into one and the same hope when
 
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you were called.
 
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There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
 
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and one God who is Father of all, over all,
 
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through all, and within all.
 
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That is the letter of unity of St. Paul.
 
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Meditating upon this text, we may give thanks to God
 
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for the bond of unity which gathers us as brothers
 
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and sisters in Christ, and allows us to give common witness
 
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of our faith, to pray together with the words
 
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of Holy Scripture, to praise and adore together
 
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our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
 
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At the same time, and in the same spirit,
 
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we must honestly ask ourselves,
 
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How far did we preserve that unity whose source is the Spirit?
 
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Unity in faith, where it all begins in us, taken not only as a personal adherence to
 
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Christ but also as the complete tradition of Christian teaching entrusted to us.
 
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How far have we preserved this oneness in faith?
 
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How far did we remain one body, that is, one visible community in Christ?
 
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Considering the situation of our churches and communities, should we not, with renewed
 
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intend, pray for and aim at that renewal of the Church which essentially consists in an
 
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increase of fidelity to her own calling?
 
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According to the Second Vatican Council lies here the driving force of the movement toward
 
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unity, greater fidelity to the calling of the Church, and we are called to one hope,
 
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one body.
 
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We must every day thank God for the ecumenical movement and never weaken or lose our hope
 
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in its final fruits, described eloquently by St. Paul and prayed for with utmost love
 
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by Jesus.
 
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This brings us to our last point.
 
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The unity of Christians, which has its source in the Holy Spirit, is based upon faith and
 
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baptism and it finds its full achievement and expression through the sacrament of the
 
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Eucharist, the celebration of the Lord's Supper.
 
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St Paul uses the word body of Christ in two senses.
 
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That is, the body of Christ which coincides with the Church and the Eucharistic body of
 
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the Lord.
 
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The two belong inseparably together.
 
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St Paul writes, though there are many of us, we form a single body because we all have
 
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share in this one loaf.
 
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This idea has been cherished and developed in the primitive Church.
 
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We find it in the Didache with St. Justin, St. Irenaeus, St. Augustine and others.
 
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The Second Vatican Council stated, in his Church he instituted the wonderful sacrament
 
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of the Eucharist by which the unity of the Church is both signified and expressed.
 
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Being the accomplishment of faith and baptism, it signifies and brings about the fullness
 
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of unity already given in baptism and faith.
 
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The Eucharist brings that to its achievement and accomplishment.
 
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When the priest gives the Holy Communion to the communicant and says,
 
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the Body of Christ, he expresses a two-fold reality.
 
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The Eucharistic Body of Christ, which forms the Body of Christ that is the Church.
 
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According to Catholic doctrine, we have to say that unless we profess the fullness of unity in faith,
 
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we cannot express and celebrate together the sign and achievement of that fullness.
 
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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, we can hardly take seriously enough the pain and grief
 
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which causes to us the fact that even on the occasion of this Eucharistic Congress, we
 
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cannot celebrate all together the Lord's Supper in the Stadio Orbis.
 
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This fact reveals to us the seriousness of the damage done to the seamless robe of Christ
 
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by our divisions.
 
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It makes clear also that the breadth and length and height and depth of the love of God bestowed
 
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upon us in the ecumenical movement which seeks to repair, to restore that fullness of unity
 
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in faith and unity in Christian celebration and life.
 
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In common prayer, in dialogue, in a new fellowship, we are now hearing together the word of Christ
 
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in the light of the Spirit, so that we may come to that unity in faith which will enable
 
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us to recognize, to confess, to celebrate him together at the breaking of the bread.
 
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This leads us to the rite of repentance, in which we will express together our sinfulness
 
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and our hunger for the common bread, which is the body of Christ in the communion of
 
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his Church.
 
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We had that very useful ecumenical theological symposium.
 
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But if division is the consequence of sin, unity will be the consequence of grace.
 
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It prepares us also for the washing of the feet, that symbolic act of servanthood performed
 
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by our Lord before he received as host and as servant
 
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his disciples for the last supper.
 
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Let us continue in that prayer.
 
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A
 
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The corporate response to God's holy word is now summarized on our behalf by Presiding Bishop John Morey Allen and Dr. Robert Marshall.
 
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In peace let us pray to the Lord.
 
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Let us pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
 
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Lord, we are not worthy that thou shouldst come under our roof,
 
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but speak the word only, and our souls shall be healed.
 
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O Holy Spirit of God,
 
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in the midst of our confusion and distractions,
 
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in the midst of our divisions and separations,
 
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open our ears that we may hear the divine word.
 
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O Holy Spirit of God,
 
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in the light and face of Christ,
 
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help us to behold the glory of God.
 
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O Holy Spirit of God, in the breaking of bread, enable us to be nourished, redeemed, and sustained
 
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by the body of Christ.
 
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Oh Holy Spirit of God, remind us that we must not simply seek to feed ourselves or look
 
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for Thee alone in the most holy sacrament of the altar, but You are also the hungry
 
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and the naked and the imprisoned and the thirsty.
 
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And if we would serve you and know you and follow you
 
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and obey you and love you, we must find you
 
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among those who hunger and thirst and are imprisoned.
 
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We are not worthy that thou shouldst come under our roof.
 
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But blessed Lord, you have come to us.
 
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You are the divine word to cleanse, to enlighten, to strengthen, to relate, to save.
 
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O Holy Spirit of God, help us to see and to receive, to know one another and Thee in the
 
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divine Word.
 
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Jesus Christ, our Lord.
 
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Jesus Christ, the pioneer of our salvation, we praise you that you have
 
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made us recognize you in the breaking of bread in the Eucharist, and we pray that
 
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you will make us recognize your presence as we break daily bread, that we may be
 
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strengthened to go out like the ancient patriarch, taking every risk obedient to
 
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to thy command that we may be a blessing to all people.
 
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In your holy name, amen.
 
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As the pilgrim people of our Lord,
 
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We profess that we are one in the Spirit, yet still walk in the pain of our division.
 
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Nowhere is this pain more evident than when we gather for Eucharist at our separate tables.
 
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At the Last Supper, our Lord broke bread with his disciples and washed their feet.
 
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He was both host and servant.
 
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Until that day when we can meet our Lord together as host, we can express now that unity we
 
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already share as his unworthy servants.
 
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In our sorrow for sin, in our hunger for forgiveness, and in our cleansing for mission, leading
 
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us in our litany are Mrs. Margaret Sonnenday, the Reverend Dr. William Jackson Jarman, the
 
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Reverend Dr. John Shetler, the Reverend Dr. V. Carney Hargroves.
 
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Will you rise, please?

Side 2

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You, O Lord, are enthroned forever.
 
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Your throne stands from age to age.
 
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Why then should you forget us, abandon us so long a time?
 
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Lead us back to you, O Lord, that we may be restored.
 
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Give us anew such days as we had of old.
 
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Lord, we hunger for you, our God.
 
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We have placed idols before you, the golden cup of selfish pleasures.
 
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Our own expectations, our own desires, guide us in your will.
 
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Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread?
 
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Is not this the fast that I choose?
 
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to share your bread with the hungry.
 
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Lord, we hunger for bread.
 
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Every Sunday night, we just don't want to know how to share it.
 
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Transform our young communities to share not the bread of pity,
 
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but the bread of compassion.
 
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All her people grown searching for bread,
 
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give their treasures for food, to retain the breath of life.
 
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Look, O Lord, and see how worthless I have become.
 
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Lord, we hunger for freedom and justice.
 
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Your gift to us is the whole loaf of creation,
 
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the persecuted and the unloved, the poor and the lonely,
 
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the sick and the elderly.
 
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Help us to share the bread of hope with them.
 
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You are the light of the world.
 
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You are the salt of the earth.
 
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You are a city on a hill.
 
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Lord, we hunger for your spirit.
 
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Your spirit is one.
 
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Lead us to that unity.
 
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Help us to recognize the strangers in our midst,
 
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all our brothers and sisters who image the face of Christ.
 
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My priests and elders perished in the city where they sought food for themselves. They found it not.
 
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Lord, we hunger for truth. Truth is something shared, not thwarted. Open the eyes of our blindness to see this truth as we experience it in those around us.
 
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Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise men, but as wise, making the most of time.
 
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Lord, we hunger for understanding. We walk slowly at times. We sometimes stagger and fall. We wait
 
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paralyzed for someone to pick us up. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord.
 
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Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your little ones who faint from hunger at the corner of every street.
 
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Lord, we hunger for peace. Life at times is cheap. We ignore it. We oppress it. We kill it.
 
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Give the bread of peace to the homeless, the war-torn, and the little ones in our midst.
 
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The favours of the Lord are not exhausted. His mercies are not spent. They are renewed
 
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each morning. So great is His faithfulness. My portion is the Lord, says my soul. Therefore
 
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will I hope in Him.
 
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Lord, we hunger for Jesus, the bread of life, our cup, our portion, our lot. He alone satisfies
 
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the hungers of every living being. He is our justice. He is our truth. He is our peace. He is our hope.
 
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Be seated please.
 
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We cannot yet all share the holy Eucharistic bread with one another.
 
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We are still on pilgrimage to that day of perfect unity among Christians for
 
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which Jesus prayed, but let us do what we can as believers in God who was in
 
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Christ. Do you remember the words our Lord Jesus Christ, after he had supped
 
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with his disciples, washed their feet, and said to them,
 
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do you understand what I, your Lord and Master, have done to you?
 
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It is an example I have given you, that you may do as I have done to you.
 
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we realize it is of the first importance that all the participants,
 
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that is all those who initiate and those in the groups of the convention hall floor,
 
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we repeat all participants
 
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participate by washing
 
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and being washed in turn.
 
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In that way it is our intention to symbolize clearly
 
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our equal need
 
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to wash
 
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and be washed,
 
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to serve and be served.
 
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reserved.
 
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on earth as it is in heaven.
 
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Give us this day our daily bread,
 
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and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those
 
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who trespass against us.
 
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and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
 
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The peace of Christ is the fruit of our faith in him.
 
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Introducing the exchange of peace
 
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is his eminence John Cardinal Crowell.
 
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Lord, we have heard your word, one in love.
 
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We have confessed our failure to share with our brothers
 
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and sisters the bread that will satisfy the hungers
 
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of the body, mind, and heart.
 
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In sorrowing love, we have washed one another's feet.
 
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Now we come asking to share your peace.
 
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At the last supper, you pray that all might be one in you.
 
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Truly, in your will is our peace.
 
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Let this sign of peace that we now exchange bring us closer
 
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to the day when we share the bread of life
 
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and heal the hungers of the world.
 
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All present are invited to exchange a sign of peace with their neighbors,
 
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where charity and love abide, God is there.
 
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In our closing meditation, in the bonds of peace,
 
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by the Reverend Dr. J. Ernest Somerville, you remain...
 
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In Paul's letter to Ephesians, the fourth chapter and the third verse,
 
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it is written, spare no effort to make fast with bonds of peace the unity which the Spirit
 
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gives.
 
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There is an old story that tells us that truth stands in the center of a circle surrounded
 
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by men and their opinions.
 
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The farther those men are from the truth, the wider that circle becomes, and the further,
 
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therefore, they are from one another.
 
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The closer they stand to truth in the center, the closer they stand to one another.
 
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And if at last they are close enough to touch the truth, then they are close enough to touch
 
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one another.
 
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Perhaps we should dare to change the imagery and with all boldness say that it is the Christ
 
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who stands there in the center, the Christ who said, I am the truth.
 
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And dare we say that he is surrounded by the broken bits of his divided church.
 
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Each knows in some measure that it is only in union with our Lord that we have life.
 
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For he who said, I am the truth, said also, I am the life.
 
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broken bits can only be justified at all if we have some measure of communion with him.
 
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The farther we are from him, then indeed the wider that circle becomes, and the farther
 
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we are from one another.
 
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So wide is it sometimes that we are completely out of touch with our Lord, and therefore
 
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out of touch with our neighbor. The closer we are to him, of course, the closer then
 
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to one another. Till at the last, if we are near enough to reach and touch our Lord, we
 
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We are near enough to hold each other by the hand.
 
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Spare no effort to make fast with bonds of peace that unity which the Spirit gives.
 
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Amen.
 
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My brothers and sisters, we have blessed God our Father by imitating the example of his
 
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beloved Son.
 
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All the clergy now invoke his blessing upon us all, led by his eminence, James Cardinal
 
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Knox, the papal legate to the 41st International Eucharistic Congress, his eminence, John Cardinal
 
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Crowell, the Archbishop of Philadelphia, the Reverend Dr. John C. Shetler, the
 
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chairman of the Metropolitan Christian Council of Philadelphia. All the clergy
 
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will join them.
 
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with kindness and give you his peace.
 
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Amen.
 
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May almighty God bless you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
 
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Amen.
 
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Amen.
 
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the hungry heart with gift of finest wheat.
 
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Come give to us, O saving Lord, the bread of life to eat.
 
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Satisfy the hungry heart with gift of finest wheat.
 
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Come give to us, O saving Lord, the bread of life to eat.
 
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You satisfy the hungry heart With gift of finest wheat
 
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Them give to us, O saving Lord, the bread of life to eat.
 
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You satisfy the hungry heart with gift of finest wheat.
 
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Come give to us, O saving Lord, the bread of life to eat.
 
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You satisfy the hungry heart with gift of finest wheat.
 
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Come give to us, O saving Lord, the bread of life to eat.
 
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Gift of finest wheat,
 
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Come give to us, O saving Lord,
 
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The bread of life to eat.
 
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Give us love, O God,
 
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And send us one more week,
 
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♪ And the resurrection of the living King,
 
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♪ Be to you and to every being.
 
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♪ You satisfy the hungry heart
 
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♪ With gift of finest wheat
 
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♪ Come give to us, O saving Lord,
 
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The bread of life to eat.