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00:22Let us pray.
00:50Let us pray.
00:54And through your mercy be introduced as an adopted son into the heavenly inheritance.
01:01Praise, honour and glory be to you, O Christ, who in the midst of reproach and injury bore your cross
01:07with excessive pain on your sacred and cut shoulders.
01:13Wearied and panting for breath, you toiled exceedingly under its heavy weight.
01:19Give me grace to take hold of the cross of self-denial with ardent devotion and to imitate with the
01:25most fervent of charity the example of your virtues and to follow you in humility even unto death.
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04:52your praise.
05:22It is he that has made us
05:25and lost me ourselves.
05:28We are his people
05:31and the sheep of his master.
05:35Who do you pray
05:37through his days with thy spring
05:40and into his cross with grace
05:46be thankful unto him
05:49and speak to the Lord of his name?
05:55For the Lord is gracious,
05:59his mercy is everlasting
06:03and his truth endureth
06:08from generation to generation.
06:17Glory be to the Father
06:21and to the Son
06:24and to the Holy Ghost
06:28as it was in the beginning
06:32is now and ever shall be
06:38world without end.
06:45Amen.
06:56Amen.
06:58Amen.
06:59Amen.
07:03Amen.
07:06Amen.
07:07to see him, he is God.
07:14Blessed is the man to whom the Lord
07:18in Joseph could see him,
07:23and he whose spirit there is no God.
07:31O my, I held my tongue,
07:36my words consume the way
07:41through my daily complaint,
07:46for thy hand is heavy upon me
07:50day and night,
07:55and thy moisture is like
08:00a draughty sun.
08:02I will acknowledge thy sin unto thee,
08:11and thine of righteousness
08:13have thy love unto thee.
08:20I say I will confess thy sin
08:23drawn to the Lord,
08:28and so thou forgavest
08:32the wickedness of thy sin.
08:38For this shall every one that is God
08:42be made his prayer unto thee,
08:45in a time when thou mayest be found,
08:52but in the great waterflots
08:56they shall not come like thee.
09:02For what a place to hide thee,
09:06thou shalt preserve me from trouble,
09:11thou shalt compass me about,
09:17with songs of the universe.
09:22I will inform thee and teach thee
09:26in the way where thee thou shalt go,
09:30and I will guide thee in thy life.
09:38He will try to force and cure,
09:43which have no understanding,
09:49whose love does he have with it and crying,
09:54lest they fall upon thee.
09:58Great place we've made for the ungodly,
10:05but who so good at this trust in the Lord,
10:10mercy and praise and evil at every side.
10:16Be glad, be righteous, and rejoice in the Lord,
10:22and be joyful, O Lord,
10:27even as our true Lord.
10:36glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost,
10:49as it was in the beginning,
10:52and be joyful, O Lord,
10:59Amen.
11:23Reading from the Gospel according to St. Luke, chapter 23.
11:30When they led him away, they grabbed one Simon of Cyrene, coming from the country,
11:35and laid him on the cross to carry it after Jesus.
11:40A great multitude of people followed him, including women, who also mourned and lamented him.
11:46But Jesus, turning to them, said,
11:49Daughters of Jerusalem, don't weep for me.
11:52But weep for yourselves and for your children.
11:55For behold, the days are coming in which they will say,
11:59Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nest.
12:05Then they will begin to tell the mountains, Fall on us, and to tell the hills, Cover us.
12:12For if they do these things in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?
12:19There were also others, two criminals, led with him to be put to death.
12:24When they came to the place that is called the Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals,
12:30one to the right and one to the left.
12:34Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.
12:41Dividing his garments amongst them, they cast lots.
12:45The people stood and watched.
12:47The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying,
12:50He saved others, let him save himself.
12:53If this is the Christ of God, his chosen one.
12:58The soldiers also mocked him, coming to him and offering him vinegar, saying,
13:03If you are king of the Jews, save yourself.
13:08An inscription was also written above him, in letters of Greek, Latin and Hebrew.
13:13This is the king of the Jews.
13:19One of the criminals, who is hanged with him, insulted him, saying,
13:24If you are the Christ, save yourself and us.
13:29But the other answered, rebuking him, saying,
13:33Don't you even fear God, saying that you are under the same condemnation?
13:38And we, justly, for we have received the due reward of our deeds,
13:42but this man has done nothing wrong.
13:46He said to Jesus,
13:48Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom.
13:52Jesus said to him,
13:54Most assuredly, I tell you,
13:56today you will be with me in paradise.
14:01It was now about the sixth hour,
14:04and darkness came over the whole land,
14:06until the ninth hour.
14:08The sun was darkened,
14:10and the veil of the temple was torn in two.
14:14Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said,
14:17Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.
14:21And having said this, he breathed his lust.
14:26When the centurion saw what was done,
14:28he glorified God, saying,
14:31Certainly this was a righteous man.
14:35All the multitudes that came together to see this,
14:38when they saw the things that were done,
14:40returned home, beating their breasts.
14:44All his acquaintances,
14:46and the women who followed him from Galilee,
14:48stood at a distance,
14:49watching these things.
14:53This is the word of the Lord.
14:56Thanks be to God.
15:06We have today,
15:08in the opening verses of this passage,
15:09two lessons.
15:12The first is the right and the wrong view
15:14of Christ's passion.
15:16Weep not over me,
15:18but weep for yourselves.
15:21These women were indulging the emotion,
15:23the sentiment,
15:24the luxury of weeping.
15:27They wept,
15:28as all,
15:29as all that is human in us does,
15:32at the sight of pain,
15:34at the spectacle of sorrow,
15:35at the unchecked march of death.
15:39But their weeping was misapplied.
15:42As a merely natural expression
15:44of sorrow,
15:45it was out of place.
15:47There was something in that spectacle above,
15:50beyond and beside the mark of pity.
15:53There was something in that death
15:56which was in danger of being obscured,
15:58and being lost sight of,
16:00if it was going to be wept over.
16:04If they could not see the death
16:06in a higher light than pity,
16:08then they had better turn
16:09their weeping another way.
16:11They had better anticipate
16:12a terrific future
16:14which would claim a monopoly of tears
16:15for themselves
16:16and for their children.
16:19Now these things are our examples.
16:22They were written for our benefit.
16:24The passion of our Lord
16:26is not in itself a thing for tears.
16:29He himself,
16:30long centuries ago,
16:32went back into heaven
16:33of his holiness
16:33and of his glory.
16:35To weep after him,
16:37year after year,
16:38as these daughters of Jerusalem
16:40wept too,
16:42is too much
16:43or too little.
16:46He needs not,
16:47asks not,
16:48nor accepts
16:49our compassion.
16:54If these things are done
16:55in the green tree,
16:56what must happen in the dry?
16:58If he knew,
17:00who knew no sin,
17:01suffered in this way,
17:03then how much more
17:04the wicked than the sinner?
17:07The sufferings of Jesus Christ
17:09say to us,
17:10see, look,
17:11what sin is,
17:12by seeing the sinless
17:13suffer for it.
17:16If the green tree burnt
17:17as it burnt on Calvary,
17:19in misery,
17:20anguish,
17:21and in hiding
17:22under God's countenance,
17:24and the very dying
17:26under that cloak.
17:28If these things
17:29were done in the green tree,
17:30how would it be
17:31in the dry?
17:33How shall anyone
17:35escape the conflagration
17:36who is as ripe fuel
17:38for it?
17:40How shall he escape
17:42the everlasting burnings
17:44who has here despised
17:45the riches of God's goodness
17:47and forbearance
17:48and long-suffering
17:50and treasured up
17:52for himself
17:52wrath
17:53in a day
17:54of wrath?
18:02We read that Jesus prayed.
18:05It is something
18:06to be capable of prayer
18:07in acute anguish of body.
18:10But he prays
18:11not for himself,
18:12that is more.
18:14A cry for pity,
18:16for relief,
18:17for mitigation,
18:17for death,
18:18a cry of patience,
18:19for faith,
18:20for grace,
18:20for heaven,
18:21this might be.
18:23But to forget self
18:24altogether
18:25in suffering,
18:26to think of others
18:27and to use that
18:28breath of life,
18:29each gasp of which
18:31is torture,
18:32in prayer for another life
18:33or another soul,
18:35this is not
18:36of the matter of men,
18:37but it is the prayer
18:38of Christ.
18:42Once again,
18:43to think even then
18:44of some loving
18:45and beloved one,
18:47some life next to our own
18:48and to pray for
18:49its welfare
18:50and its salvation,
18:52this too might be,
18:53might just be.
18:57Jesus prays
18:58for his enemies,
18:59for his murderers,
19:00for his crucifiers.
19:02He prays
19:03and inspires the prayer.
19:05The first master,
19:06Stephen,
19:06prayed it after him.
19:08Lord,
19:09do not lay this
19:09sin to their charge.
19:16Inventive love,
19:17it has been written,
19:18makes ignorance
19:19a plea for mercy.
19:22These rude executioners,
19:24the direct objects
19:25of the intercession,
19:27might not the sufferer
19:28have arraigned them
19:29for that ignorance
19:30which was doing
19:31despite to God himself.
19:35In the display
19:36of every hateful characteristic
19:38of the fallen
19:39and sinful nature.
19:44Evidently,
19:45the ignorance
19:45is no innocence.
19:47Else why the prayer?
19:48Forgive them.
19:50St. Paul's ignorance
19:51was no innocence,
19:52for he speaks of himself.
19:54In the same breath,
19:57thus needing mercy,
19:58and mercy is,
19:59by definition,
20:00kindness to the sinful.
20:03We see in all this
20:05the exceeding love,
20:07the self-forgetfulness
20:08of Jesus Christ.
20:11His considerateness,
20:13stronger than death,
20:14even prevalence
20:15because of death,
20:17toward men who pierce it.
20:20He is unprovoked nature
20:22by slight or insult.
20:24His far-seeing hope
20:26for the ungrateful
20:27and the evil.
20:29He looks to the end,
20:31the eventual state,
20:32the eternity
20:33to be lived through.
20:35Let him see of the travail
20:37of his soul
20:38in that one case
20:39over which
20:40you alone have control,
20:42your own.
20:43It has been written,
20:45one day where you will,
20:47but sooner or later
20:48you must come at last
20:49to the place of a skull.
20:53Let it be to that
20:55Golgotha
20:55where Christ gave himself
20:57to be life
20:59from the dead.
21:03Let us take a look
21:04at the circumstances
21:05of this prayer.
21:07They were surely
21:08as unpropitious
21:09as any in which
21:10a heavy-laden sinner
21:11ever sought the Lord.
21:14How terribly short
21:15is the time he has left
21:17to devote to the business
21:18of eternity.
21:21Think then
21:22how hard it must have been
21:24to fix his thoughts
21:25and to raise them
21:26upward at such a time.
21:29In no case
21:30is a deathbed scene
21:31the fittest place
21:32for serious thoughts
21:33and prayer
21:34and his was no
21:35ordinary deathbed.
21:39But even then
21:40his mind was clear
21:41and his spirit strong.
21:45The urgent demand
21:46of his suffering body
21:47did not hinder
21:48the upward aspiring
21:50of his soul.
21:52Let no one then
21:53throw on his circumstances
21:55the blame
21:56of the neglect
21:57of his soul's concerns
21:58which is all his own.
22:01The spirit
22:02that is truly
22:02in earnest
22:03will press through
22:04all these obstacles.
22:09not only did hell
22:10lie all about him
22:11but close at his side
22:13vexing his soul
22:14with impious blasphemies
22:16and almost
22:18shredding from view
22:19the blessed form
22:20on which he is striving
22:21to fix his eye
22:23in a cloud of scorn.
22:27Yet even these
22:28adverse circumstances
22:29were turned
22:30through the mighty
22:31power of grace
22:32into an instrument
22:34of good.
22:38He is not satisfied
22:39with merely
22:40rebuking
22:41his companion's
22:42blasphemies
22:43he happens to
22:44cast himself
22:45at the same
22:46of his feet
22:46whom he blasphemed.
22:53Let us look at
22:54the nature
22:55of the prayer
22:56of the sinner.
22:58We notice
22:59its brevity.
23:00Such prayers
23:02are the soul's
23:03swift arrows
23:03glowing sparks
23:05thrown off
23:05from the burning heat
23:07gleaming for a moment
23:09and then vanishing
23:09out of sight.
23:12If the words are few
23:14how pregnant
23:15and vast
23:16is the sense
23:17it was an act
23:18of worship
23:19Lord
23:20remember me
23:23it was an act
23:24of supplication
23:25and as such
23:26how all
23:27embrace him
23:29Lord
23:29remember me
23:32what needed
23:33blessing
23:34what conceivable
23:35work and gift
23:36of divine grace
23:37is not included
23:38in it.
23:42And look at
23:42the success
23:43of this prayer
23:44how prompt
23:44how immediate
23:45was the saviour's
23:47reply to the cry
23:48of the penitent thief
23:51no sooner
23:51is the prayer
23:52offered
23:52than it is answered
23:54while he is yet
23:55speaking
23:56the redeemer
23:56hears
23:58he is in haste
24:00to meet
24:00the returning
24:01prodigal
24:01and to present
24:02him with the
24:03blessings
24:03of his goodness
24:04the seals
24:06of his
24:06pardoning
24:07love
24:12let us pray
24:16Lord
24:16we beseech you
24:17to keep your
24:19household
24:19the church
24:20in continual
24:21godliness
24:22that
24:23through your
24:24protection
24:25it may be
24:25free from
24:26all
24:26adversities
24:28devotefully
24:29given to
24:29serve you
24:30in good works
24:31to the glory
24:32of your name
24:33through Jesus
24:35Christ
24:35our Lord
24:36Amen
24:42May the Lord
24:43bless us
24:44and keep us
24:45from all evil
24:46bringing us
24:47to everlasting
24:48life
24:50Amen
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