Good morning and welcome. This is Sunday, October twenty fifth, two thousand and twenty six. You are tuned to the live broadcast of a service for the worship of God, which is coming to you from the Sanctuary of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Virginia. A live audio stream is available at the Grace Covenant website, which can be found at grace-covenant dot org. Just select the radio button, then listen live.Oh, oh, oh.
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Hallelujah, grace and peace, everyone. Good morning, and welcome to Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church. Our co-pastors Joanna and Calvin Sidner are away this weekend on study leave, but my name is Nelson Reevley, and I'm the pastor for discipleship here at Grace Covenant. And it is wonderful to have you all here with us this morning, whether in person or over the airwaves and the internet, and whether you've been here for years or here for the first time. It's a gift to be together to worship the living God.
I want to invite everyone to check out the bulletin for announcements about upcoming ways to grow in God's love together here at Grace Covenant. There are lots of opportunities to join in ministries of fellowship and congregational care, ministries of worship and Christian education, and ministries of service to our neighbors near and far.
So, I do invite you to look through the bulletin and find ways to plug in, and don't be shy. But now, brothers and sisters, let us open our hearts and minds to worship the living God, who created and saved each one of us in and through Jesus Christ. Please stand for the call to worship. The world belongs to God, the earth and all its people. How good it is!
How wonderful to live together in unity. Love and faith come together. Justice and peace join hands. If Christ's disciples keep silent, these stones would shout aloud. Open our lips, O God, and our mouths shall proclaim your praise.
Once again, welcome to the live broadcast of a service for the worship of God. Which is coming to you from the Sanctuary of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church at 1627 Monument Avenue, in Richmond, Virginia. This is the 103rd year of radio ministry at Grace Covenant, and today's broadcast is number 5,268. This morning's sermon, entitled "Love God," will be delivered by the Reverend Dr. Nelson Reevley.
Assisting in the service today are Carson Glossop, Carol Wagner. Chris Martin, director of music and organist, and the Chancel Choir, our opening hymn is "Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise," which is number two hundred and sixty-three in the Presbyterian Hymnal. I promise I'll be true to thee. I pledge that I'll stay with thee. I'll be faithful and always faithful.
I'll be true to thee. If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. But if we confess our sins, God, who is faithful and just, will forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. In humility and faith, let us confess our sins to God using the prayer of confession. Merciful God, we confess that we sinfully stray from Your life-giving ways in thought, word, and deed.
We fall short of following you with all our heart, soul, and might, and as a result, we fall short of loving our neighbors as ourselves. Graciously reform us in your mercy, create in us a wise heart, and grow your steadfast spirit within us, so that we may delight in your will and walk in your life-giving ways. Amen. Hear the good news. Who is in a position to condemn?
Only Christ. Christ died for us. Christ rose for us. Christ reigns in power for us. Christ prays for us.
Anyone who is in Christ is a new creation. Let us rejoice in this good news and grow in love with God and with our neighbors as ourselves. Please be seated, and we are especially blessed this morning to have the junior choir singing for us and helping glorify God together. And this morning, they are going to be singing all things bright and beautiful. All things bright and beautiful.
All things great and all things small. All things bright and wonderful. God will come and claim them all. Each little flower that opens, each little bird that sings, God made the flowing colors, through the tiny wings. A day besides to see them in the list that we might have.
Great is God Almighty, who doeth all things well. All things bright and wonderful. All things great and all things small. All. Amen.
Hallelujah. Thank you all so much for leading us in worship this morning. And the kids are going to come now to head to Children's Chapel and to Youth Chapel, and the youth will be back in to worship after the sermon, and the children will be down in the Fellowship Hall for pickup after worship. Praise God for our little ones and for music. We all please join me now in the prayer for illumination.
Open our hearts and our minds, Lord.
Now by Your Word and Your Spirit, that in Your light we may see lights, in Your truth find freedom, and in Your will discover peace. Through Christ our Lord, Amen. Our Old Testament reading this morning comes from Genesis chapter thirty-three. Listen to God's word for us.
Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming, and four hundred men with him.
So Jacob divided the children among Leah and Rachel and the two maids, and he put the maids with their children in front, then Leah with her children, and Rachel and Joseph last of all. And he himself went on ahead of them, bowing himself to the ground seven times, until he came near his brother. But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced Jacob, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept. And when Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, he said, "Who are these with you?" And Jacob said, "The children whom God has graciously given to your servants." And then the maids drew near, and they and their children and bowed down. Leah likewise and her children drew near and bowed down.
And finally, Joseph and Rachel drew near and bowed down. And Esau said, "What do you mean by this company that I met?" And Jacob answered. To find favor with my lord, but Esau said, "I have enough, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself." But Jacob said, "No, please. If I find favor with you, then accept my present from my hand.
For truly, to see your face is like seeing the face of God. Since you have received me with such favor." Please accept my gift that is brought to you, because God has dealt graciously with me, and because I have everything I want.
So Jacob urged him, and Esau took it. This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Our second scripture reading this morning comes from the Gospel of Matthew, chapter twenty-two. Listen again to God's word for us.
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, an expert in the law, Asked Jesus a question to test him. Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest? And Jesus said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the greatest and first commandment. And the second is like it.
You shall love your neighbor as yourself." On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. Please join me again in prayer. Gracious Lord, the preaching of your word.
With the blessing of your spirits, granted in so far as it is true to your everlasting goodness, it shall be undergirded by your power and by your love. Granted in so far as it is false, it shall be swiftly forgotten and do no harm. Above all, God, grant that this sermon and our whole worship service may glorify you, growing us in your love and our love for one another through Christ our Lord. Amen. In our New Testament passage this morning, Jesus was asked which commandment is the greatest, and he responds, as any Jewish person would know, by quoting Scripture, in particular a passage from Moses' final speech and teaching to the Israelites before his death.
Jesus pointed back to that famous passage in Deuteronomy chapter six. Hear, O Israel: The Lord is God, the Lord alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. Loving God, this is what it's all about. Because loving God orients and orders, it guides and it directs, it instructs and it inspires how we love everything else.
Just as surely as loving an idol would distort and degrade how we love everything else, but when we truly love God with all all the other loves in our lives, they become integrated and oriented towards God's goodness, and we realize that the things we love in creation, they're expressions of God's infinite goodness. We realize that the people we love and we ourselves are expressions of God's infinite goodness. We realize the things we love culturally in our work, in our play, from storytelling and music to art and science, from sports and games to fellowship and food. These are expressions of God's infinite goodness. When we love God, we realize that the talents that we have to share with others and constructive work and restorative play are expressions of God's goodness.
We realize that God is both present and at work every step of every day with us. We realize that we live and move and have our being in God. That everything we are, everything we have, everything we do depends on God's goodness, God's grace, God's love for us, as our Creator and our Savior. When we talk about loving God, though, it can be helpful to first get a grip on what we mean by the word love. What is love?
Defining it can be confusing because it's a word that often gets pigeonholed as romantic love. The vast majority of TV shows, movies, pop music that hit on love tend to focus on romantic love. But beyond that, we tend to think of love usually in terms of the bonds between family and friends. We tend to think of the care and the support and the warmth between siblings, between parents and children, grandparents, aunts and uncles and cousins, close friends. This kind of love is a good place for us to examine what love entails.
Consider for a moment when a parent loves a child. In its fullest expression, that love has got three parts. First, if you love a child, it means you take action for that child's well-being. Second, if you love a child, it means you want the best for that child. You desire good things for them.
And third, if you love a child, it means that you delights in them. You delights in being with them, and you rejoice in their doing well, and you grieve when they're doing poorly. You grow angry at the things that hurt them, and you have a whole host of emotions that are oriented around their good, their flourishing, their well-being. And for instance, on this front, do you remember the time recounted in Scripture when parents were bringing their kids to Jesus to receive a blessing? And the disciples, seeing all these parents bringing their kids, were shooing them away from Jesus, as though Jesus had better and more important things to do than hold these babies, hug these kids, pray over them and their parents.
And do you remember what Jesus did when he saw the disciples shooing the parents and the kids away? He said, "Hey, guys, let the little children come to me." And he welcomed those kids in. He blessed them. He took action for the kids' good. He desired their good.
He delighted in being with them. Action, desire, delight—these three things made up Jesus' love for those little ones. And their parents likewise showed that action, desire, and their delight in taking their kids to Jesus, in desiring a blessing for them from Jesus. And undoubtedly, smiling deeply as Jesus sweetly held each child in prayer, we can immediately feel too how something would be significantly missing if one of these parents said that they loved their child, but then never took action for their child's well-being, or did not desire to see their child doing well. Or could not stand to be around them.
We can see too how crucial crucial action is to love. And the words from John's first letter, when John famously writes, "Quote: This is how we know what love is. Jesus Christ laid down his life for us." And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or a sister in need, but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? Dear children, let us love not with words or speech, but with actions and in truth.
We can see also how crucial desire for someone's well-being is to love. In the prophet Ezekiel's message from God to the Israelites, when the prophet Ezekiel proclaimed, "Repent and turn from all your transgressions; otherwise, iniquity will be your ruin." Cast away from you all the transgressions that you have committed against me, and and get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of anyone," says the Lord God. Turn then and live.
We can also see how central delight is to love. When we look in Scripture to Genesis one, when there is this beautiful moment when God looks at all the elements of creation. And declares it good, even very good, and then takes Sabbath rest to simply delights in the goodness of creation. It's a bit wild to think, but God gets to enjoy the beauty of creation all the time—from sunrises to supernovas, from newborns to majestic works of art. God gets to delight in it all the time.
And Dallas Willard. In his book, The Divine Conspiracy, he beautifully writes about this reality of God getting to enjoy creation. When he was noting a time that he was visiting South Africa, and he was going to see a beach, and he writes, "I had seen beaches before, or so I thought, but when we came over the rise where the sea and the land opened up to us." I stood in stunned silence. I saw space and light, texture and color, and power that seemed hardly of this earth. And then, there crept into my mind the realization that God sees this all the time.
God sees it, experiences it, knows it from every possible point of view. This and billions of other scenes like it and unlike it, and this and billions of other worlds around the universe, great tidal waves, great tidal waves of joy, must constantly wash through God's being. And Willard continued, "It's perhaps strange to say, but suddenly I was extremely happy for God." And thought that I I had some sense of what an infinitely joyous consciousness God is, and of what it might have been like for Him to look at His creation and find it very good. Of all the good and beautiful things from which we occasionally drink tiny droplets of soul exhilarating joy. God continuously experiences in all their breadth and their depth and their richness, delighting in the goodness of another, desiring the good of another, taking action for the good of another.
This is love in its fullest expression. But when we talk about loving God with all our heart and our soul and our mights, what does it mean? We can grasp the idea of loving people. We can pretty easily grasp that idea of loving people. But what does it look like to love God?
If somebody asked you, especially somebody outside of the church, asked you, what does it mean to love God? What would you say? How would you respond? This is, after all, the greatest commandment: love God with everything you've got. I think a key first step that we can dwell on this morning.
Is the importance of not simply affirming and recognizing the truth, real as it is, of God being our Creator and our Savior in Jesus Christ. I think a key first step is growing in awareness of and recognition of God's abiding presence with us. It's a move from thinking I should love God. To experiencing the majestic wonder of God's faithful, joyful, loving presence in our lives every day, and this is so important because for many folks, God can feel very distant or abstract. And while there's certain activities that might come to mind as being especially tied to loving God, like worship, Bible study, prayer.
These are just the roots of our lives with God. They are critical and important, as important as being intentionally present with anybody that you love. But they're also only just the beginning of our full life with God, because God is bigger and vastly more involved in our lives, so much more deeply and intimately with us than only being with us in times of worship and Bible study and prayer. And it's critical to realize and rejoice in this that God is right here with us. But how do we explain this?
How do we experience God every step of the way? How is God present and moving with us all the time? And how is God present with us not in a way that's like listening in on us or just observing us, but God is with us. God is for us in the mix of our lives, our days, walking alongside us. If we have but eyes to see and ears to hear, if we have but hearts to feel God's presence with us.
But how? Where is God? Where are you, Lord, sisters and brothers? Two key places we can look, and we can encourage others to look for God. Our creation and our lives.
So first, creation. Look at creation and appreciate the fact that this universe is not just something that randomly happened. But every element, every aspect of creation, every spinning atom, every electron, every molecule, every instance of electromagnetism and gravity that make the universe tick. These are all the marvelously intentional, incalculably wise work of the Holy Spirit. Feel right now the gravity that's holding you close.
Feel the gravity that's keeping you in your seat, making life on this planet possible. Feel the ground beneath your feet. The ground that enables you to rest right now and soon to move around in a way that would be utterly impossible without reliable, sturdy earth on which to stand—gravity and the ground beneath our feet—these are not accidents. They're God, right here, right now, with us. Thank you, Lord.
Feel as well the breath in your body. As you breathe in and breathe out, the breath that brings oxygen into your body, into your lungs, into your bloodstream, pumping into every cell of your body through the steady beat of your heart, oxygen that enables the trillions of cells that make up your body to produce energy to live. And as you breathe out, you're breathing out carbon dioxide. That is a literal blessing to the plants and a connection to the plants that are all around us, who use that carbon dioxide to create food for themselves before breathing themselves back out oxygen for us and other creatures. This is not an accident, but God with us.
Every breath. And it's no accident, as well, that the word for breath in Hebrew and in Greek, in the Old Testament and in the New Testament, that word for breath can be translated as either spirit or breath. God with us. God's spirit with us. Every breath we take.
Or consider too the rays of sun that are pouring over us, bringing warmth and light, bringing nourishment for the plants through the unbelievable process of photosynthesis, as plants turn sunlight into food for themselves, and by extension to every other creature on Earth. The gravity that holds us close, the ground beneath our feet, the breath in our bodies, the beat of our hearts, the nourishing sunlight—these are all God, right here with us. God's faithful, creative love at work in and all around us, every second of every day. It is marvelous. It's awesome.
It's incredible. When you pause to consider it, to feel all these gifts around us. When you pause to realize that God is acting alongside and within us all the time, and as John Calvin wrote in his Institutes on the Christian Religion, it is Reformation Sunday, so we have to get Calvin in here. Calvin wrote how, when we look through the lens of Scripture, when we look through that lens of Scripture, that revelation that God is our Creator and our Redeemer, he writes. Wherever you cast your eyes, there is no spot in the universe wherein you cannot discern at least some sparks of God's glory.
You cannot, in one glance, survey this most vast and beautiful system of the universe and its wide expanses without being completely overwhelmed by the boundless force of its brightness. And with this lens of scripture, we know too that when we breathe our last breath here and now, we know too that when any of our loved ones breathes their last breath, we know through the revelation of scripture that it is also not their last breath. We know that nothing, not even death itself, can separate us from the love of God poured out for us in Jesus Christ. We know that even when we fall, God will raise us up in the resurrection to come, and that resurrection is only a matter of time. No matter the hardship or the slings or the arrows of this life, we know that God's will will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
So we know, as we look around at creation, that God is with us every step, every breath, and that this is all of us, all everything around us is not an accident, but God's intentional action with and for us. We can also come to recognize and feel God's presence around us in our own lives, our own work. Our own play, our own relationships. We don't have time this morning to delve as deeply on this front, but it's key to realize that our gifts and our talents, our interests—these are not accidents. They are God-given ways for us to blossom and flourish together, to be blessed and a blessing to those around us.
They are ways for us to grow and share in community with each other, in ways that build each other up. And God is, of course, also walking alongside us in our relationships. God is constantly present with us, inviting and encouraging us to bear this invigorating fruit of the Spirit with one another: joy and peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, self-control, gratitude, and generosity. The fruit of the Spirit. Is what God's love for us, our love for God, our love for one another, looks like.
And in particular, one of the critical elements of this love is the way that it calls us back into relationship with one another, even and especially when we've hurt each other. The immense grace of God's love and the ways we bear God's image is the incredible opportunity. And blessing of forgiveness, of repentance, of reconciliation—that God is constantly inviting us to embrace—in place of things like vengeance, or grudges, or payback. And in closing, I'll simply note how the moment that we heard in our Old Testament passage this morning—that moment of Jacob and Esau coming back together. This is such a beautiful example of God with us, God's Spirit moving in loving ways.
Because here were two brothers who were utterly estranged, two family members who were totally disconnected because of past wrongs done and left unhealed. And in this incredible moment, we have Jacob returning after twenty years, twenty years of being away. Having literally run away from Esau, who was trying to kill him for stealing their father's blessing from him, and Jacob comes back humbly, in full repentance, apologizing for the wrong he's done, seeking to make amends with the immense gifts of livestock for his brother, and also a sign that he meant his brother no harm in the future. And Esau, upon seeing Jacob, runs to embrace him. Esau lets go of the grudge; he forgives, and they weep in each other's arms.
Twenty years after, Esau was ready to kill Jacob. They weep in each other's arms at the chance to be brothers again. And Jacob says that seeing Esau's face, experiencing his forgiveness, is like seeing the face of God. God is with us, brothers and sisters, most especially in the beauty of forgiveness, repentance, reconciliation. And every time that we gather in this place to worship the living God, brothers and sisters, we proclaim in words and in songs, in prayers and in offerings, variations on the same core reality—ever ancient and ever new—of God's reconciling love, divine for us.
Every time we gather to proclaim that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior, who made us part of a good creation. Full of beauty and order and life, who crafted each one of us to flourish in the image of God's creative love, who came chasing after us and fleshed in this world to save us from sin and death, and to bear sin and death on our behalf, so that we might be born again to life, abundance, life eternal, living in God's image of creativity, faithfulness, love, and joy here and now. And unto God's kingdom come, when every tear is wiped away, and death and sorrow and sin are no more. If you feel led to grow in love with God and neighbor as yourself, together with us as part of this community, to receive and share the practice of God's life-giving love for us through daily prayer and weekly worship, through the study of Scripture and the seeking of fruit of the Spirit in everyday life. Through sharing of our time and our talents and our money here at Grace Covenant and with neighbors near and far, if you feel led to grow in love with God with us here, please reach out to Pastor Joanna, Pastor Calvin, or myself.
We and this entire congregation are eager to be grown in God's love alongside one another in our work and our play and in our relationships.
Now and each day. Unto Christ's return, come, Lord Jesus, and to God be the glory, for ever and ever. Amen. And let us now stand and join in singing together, brothers and sisters. Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee.
Him number twenty-one in the red hymnal. You are listening to the live broadcast of a worship service at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church. You have just heard this morning's sermon entitled "Love God," which was delivered by the Reverend Doctor Nelson Revely. The congregation will now join in singing "Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee," which is number twenty-one in the red hymnal. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. For those who are happy, for each of the things we have, for the love we've given, for the love that we've given. And now, brothers and sisters, having heard God's. Word proclaimed and responded in song.
Let us now respond in affirmation of what we believe together, using the Apostles' Creed as printed in our bulletin. I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate. Was crucified, dead, and buried. He descended into hell. The third day, he rose again from the dead.
He ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Catholic Church, the Communion of Saints, the forgiveness of sins. Resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. Amen.
Please be seated. And let us turn again to our God in prayer. Gracious Lord, we are gathered this morning to worship you in all your glory, across and beyond divisions of geography, race, class, culture. We are gathered in remembrance of our creation and our salvation in you. And we are gathered to bear witness in word and thought and deed to your coming kingdom.
We give thanks for this congregation and all of your congregations throughout the world, Lord. Grow us to be your disciples, pointing each day and ever more to you and your works in making and saving us. Empower this church and churches across creation to bear compelling witness to your truth, your beauty, your goodness. Spur us to grow in prayerful relationship with you ever more each day, and lead us to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. And help us to see the manifestations of your glory and your presence with us every step of every day.
In the ground beneath our feet, in the gravity that holds us close, in the atmosphere around us, in the breath in our bodies, in the beat of our hearts, in the rhythm of our relationships, in the nurturing love of community and friendship and family, in the purpose and in the promise of constructive work, and in the delight of play and recreation. We thank you, Lord Jesus, that you are with us in so many blessings of everyday life. We pray too today, Lord, for all who are suffering, whether due to loss or loneliness, to injury or illness, death or decline, abuse or injustice. We lift up our sorrows to you, God, saying, "Come, Lord Jesus." God, we ask for your healing touch beyond anything any of us can even imagine for those suffering right now. And as we await the day when you will wipe away every tear, when you will make every wrong right, when you we will embrace again loved ones lost.
We ask for your power and strength here and now to lean and live into the hope and the life-giving ways of your promised kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. Help us, above all, God, to live into and embody the words that we now pray together. As you taught us to pray, when you came incarnate as Christ to save us from sin and death, so that we might live abundantly in your image of faithful, creative love, 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 debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen.
And now, sisters and brothers, I invite each of us to give as we feel called to support the ministries of this church prayerfully under Christ. Ministries of worship and Christian education, ministries of fellowship and congregational care, ministries of service to our neighbors near and far. I ask you also, please place any prayer requests you have using the prayer request cards. You can place those in the offering plate as well as it comes along. Please give now as the Spirit leads.
We have a moment for stewardship, which is also quite fitting. I apologize, Carol. You can lead the charge even more, and get everyone extra inspired for stewardship season, which is upon us. And Carol Wagner is going to be sharing with us a moment for stewardship now. Good morning.
Today, I want to tell you a little about a group that is very dear to me. On the second Tuesday every month. A bunch of us women get together in the social room for a Bible study. For about an hour and a half, we share concerns, pray, read a Bible passage, discuss it, and help each other try to discern God's message for our lives. Though we're not as formally organized as the Presbyterian women's circles of the past, we are still a mission of the church.
We send cards to college students and homebound members. We do other things that we feel called to do for the church, and occasionally we take up a collection for specific needs like flowers, gifts, and things like that. Our Bible study is made possible through the participation of the women and the support of the church, and that includes financial support. This year, we're studying the Book of Acts, and on November tenth, our next get together, we'll be looking at the end of chapter two and all of chapter three. And we would welcome women of all ages to join us and share in our time of fellowship.
Thank you.We stand in might. We stand in might for our sovereign. And let the service change arise, but every church that falls, we are martyred Christ and His might, and all. In thy humanity, we have a vision of a. Before we lose our way, should never be afraid.
As many dreams we dream. O brave new world, that has such people in it! The. We shall overcome. Let's keep on fighting for freedom and justice.
Let us pray. Lord, thank you for the. Gifts that come from the bounty of your good creation, we ask that you bless them so that they might be a blessing to others through our worship of you, study of your word, fellowship in your spirit, and service to others near and far. Make us wise and effective stewards to the glory of your name. Christ's name we pray.
Amen. And let us join together now in the King of Love, my Shepherd is, in the Blue Hymnal number one seventy-one. And we wait and we trust in God. In death or in life we will be before His eyes. I promise that my love will still find a way to guide me.
And every day, we dance, and I. We've been through it all, and still we love. We've been through it all, and still we love. O holy Mary, Queen of Heaven, most chaste Virgin, see the Christ in the arms of the Virgin. A reminder that all are invited for a time of fellowship in the social room after the postlude.
But now, as we go forth to be grown and rooted ever more deeply in the love of God and our neighbors as ourselves, this week, the Lord bless you and keep you. The Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. The Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace, now and forevermore. Amen. The.
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