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In the name of the Father,
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and of the Son and of the Holy
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Spirit. Amen. Christ is risen.
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He is risen indeed. Hallelujah.
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Look to the foretaste
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of the feast to come
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in the window of the church
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of all nations.
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But only glance at it briefly,
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because if you stare too long,
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you may begin to weep.
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You may begin weeping as Rachel
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did for her children,
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refusing to be comforted because
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they are no more.
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Because they are not there.
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Because all of her poor and
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oppressed and lame and racially
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disenfranchised are not there.
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Is there no justice in the land?
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So we must begin at the
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Exaltation and Last
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Judgment window.
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There we hear it with mighty
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peals of thunder,
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like the roar of many waters,
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the voice of a great multitude.
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Alleluia for the Lord our God
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the Almighty reigns.
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Let us rejoice and exalt
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and give him the glory.
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For the marriage of the Lamb has
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come and his bride has
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made herself ready.
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In that thunderous announcement
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lies the feast to
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end all feasts.
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And so the angel says
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blessed are those who are
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invited to the married
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supper of the Lamb.
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Blessed indeed are those
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who are invited.
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A streaming multitude,
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more numerous than the
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stars in the heavens.
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And who is invited?
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The Lord Jesus tells us.
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When you give a dinner
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or a banquet,
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do not invite your friends or
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your brothers or your relatives
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or rich neighbors lest they also
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invite you in return
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and you be repaid.
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But when you give a feast,
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invite the poor, the crippled,
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the lame, the blind,
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and you will be blessed,
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because they cannot repay you.
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For you will be repaid at the
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resurrection of the just.
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Would
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could the Lord invite any
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less to his feast?
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And so Martin Franzmann's hymn O
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Kingly Love, don't look for it
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in LSB it's not there,
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proclaims the invitation.
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The feast is ready.
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Come to the feast.
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The good and the bad,
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come and be glad.
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Greatest and least,
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come to the feast.
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Greatest and least,
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come to the feast.
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We all like a foretaste of
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the feast to come. Well,
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there it is in the blank faces.
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You can identify them because
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you don't know them.
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But the Lord does.
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Every last one of them.
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It is the feast of all
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the nations, tribes,
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languages and peoples.
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Every last one.
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Now we can look at the
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window of all nations
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because we know where the feast
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originates and who the bride is
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who has made herself ready.
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And for a moment we can
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hold back the tears.
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But how has the bride
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made herself ready?
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The poor, the crippled,
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the lame, the blind,
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the racially disenfranchised,
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the Gentiles,
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how are they the ones invited
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to the supper of the Lamb,
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how are they ready?
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The evangelist Matthew,
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represented by the winged
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man in the window,
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he knows.
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Jesus healed them all
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and ordered them.
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He said not to make Him known.
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This was to fulfill what was
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spoken by the prophet Isaiah.
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Behold my servant,
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whom I have chosen, my beloved,
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with whom my soul
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is well pleased.
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I will put my spirit upon Him,
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and He will proclaim justice
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to the Gentiles.
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He will not quarrel
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or cry aloud,
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nor will anyone hear his voice
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in the streets a bruised reed
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He will not break and the
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smoldering wick he
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will not quench.
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Until
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He brings justice to victory.
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And in His name the
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Gentiles will hope.
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Until he brings justice
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to victory.
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And where has that justice
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been brought to victory?
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Where have the poor and the
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captive and the blind and the
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oppressed had good news
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preached to them,
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heard the year of the
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Lord's favor?
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We sing it week in and week out,
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in the words of the Te Deum. We
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therefore pray you to
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help your servants
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whom you have redeemed with
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your precious blood.
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Make them to be numbered with
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your saints in glory
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everlasting.
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By his wounds
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you have been healed.
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Justice is brought to victory in
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the death and resurrection
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of the Anointed One,
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and in Him alone.
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Blessed
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are those who are invited to
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the supper of the lamb.
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Yet those blank faces
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next to the poor and the lame,
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they haunt me.
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Another stanza.
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Fransman's hymn pinpoints why
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I am haunted man's cool and
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careless enmity man robed in
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contempt of God our deeds
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deny God's summoning.
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The summons is certainly to us,
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but the summons is
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also through us,
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to those crying out for justice.
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We just participated in the
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Multiethnic Symposium.
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We heard the invitation to all
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the generations of all the
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nations on all the continents.
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And yet it is easy to become
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self congratulatory.
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Look at all the generations
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and nations reached by us,
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perhaps even some of the poor
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and disenfranchised among them.
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And then,
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like Peter at hearing
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the cock crow
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we remember that this window
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can't be separated from the
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Window of Judgment.
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We sing it in the Te Deum.
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We believe that you will
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come to be our Judge.
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And the Judge has already said
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to us then the King will say
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to those on his right come,
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you who are blessed by my
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Father, inherit the kingdom.
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Prepared for you from the
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foundation of the world.
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For I was hungry
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and you gave me food.
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I was thirsty and you
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gave me drink.
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I was a stranger and
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you welcomed me.
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I was naked and you clothed me.
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I was sick and you visited me.
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I was in prison and
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you came to me.
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Then the righteous will answer,
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saying when?
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When O Lord?
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And and the king will answer
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them truly I say to you,
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as you did it to one of the
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least of these my brothers,
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you did it to me.
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O, the blank faces.
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O the least of these.
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O, how this window judges.
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And yet those very blank faces
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invite you.
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They invite you to see
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yourselves with them the first
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fruits of the kingdom of God.
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To see yourself among the poor
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and the lame and the racially
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disenfranchised,
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with you taking the lowest place
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at the table, of course.
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The invitation goes to you.
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Blessed are you who are invited
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to the marriage feast
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of the Lamb.
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And every week that we gather at
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this altar and at numerous
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altars around us.
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And as we eat the bread
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and drink the cup,
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we proclaim the Lord's
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death until he comes.
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And as we proclaim his death
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and resurrection,
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so we proclaim that he,
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the crucified and Risen One,
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brings justice to victory.
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We proclaim justice when we
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gather to celebrate
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our Lord's feast.
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We proclaim to the world that
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God's justice is only known in
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Him as the body of Christ eats
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his broken body and drinks
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his poured out blood.
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It shouts to the world that the
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only justice of God it knows is
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one where God loves the despised,
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the broken,
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and those whose lives are
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being poured out.
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Every time the church gathers to
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feast in the Kingdom of
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God that is coming.
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It proclaims the year of the
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Lord's favor in Jesus.
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It proclaims good news to the
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least in the Kingdom of God.
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It proclaims God's justice to
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the world. And that it
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the church
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you will live and act justly
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toward the world.
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Franzmann proclaimed it.
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A kingly lavish
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seeking holy love.
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God's hurrying feet go searching
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still to urge and call the bad
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and the good on every street to
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fill God's boundless
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banquet hall.
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It's our feet inviting to the
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wedding feast as many as we can
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find. Especially the poor,
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the crippled, the lame,
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the blind,
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the racially disenfranchised.
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See the blank faces.
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No more weeping, only joy.
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The window of All Nations
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proclaims it the foretaste of
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the wedding feast of
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the Lamb is ready.
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Come to the feast.
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Come and be glad,
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the greatest and the least.
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Come to the feast.
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In the name of the Father and of
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the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
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Amen.