Liturgy For Peace

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ha ha ha ha ha how low now know just good evening everybody I'm the minister of this church and my job is just to say that you're welcome here tonight, everybody is welcome in this great cathedral who cares. To me it isn't so important what name you give to god because if you care for his children, then you belong to him, you belong here. Only wish the cathedral were a little bigger, so it could take care of you better and I wish the traffic jam around it wasn't quite so bad, and Dr.Moss wouldn't have had such a troubled getting here, but i'm glad he made it.

so make yourselves at home, cleanse your heart, and offer your prayers tonight, and God bless you all. I turn you over to our presiding officer, Dr.Moss, but I think first we might keep silence for a spell, that we may remember within ourselves that we may do a little caring, will you keep silence. are we come together to pray, because we need

the support and power that prayer renders. Our prayer is permeated with a clear consciousness that we stand before the other, whose deeds we proclaim to one another in a spirit of sharing, so that our hearts may be lifted up. The purpose and meaning of life, the reason for the hope that is in us, a reason for love and peace, and going beyond ourselves to achieve peace and love among man, these are the concerns of the message of the bible. This is our message, if our prayers to be transformed into the creative acceptance of responsibility. We search for some just some gesture, some sign in our liturgy that is tangible evidence of our giving of ourselves to the cause of peace. baskets will be passed around after the homily, so that we will

have the opportunity to give flesh and life to the promises we utter, the claims we make. At the same time flowers and leaves will be distributed to all, signs of the life we affirm and celebrate signs of the unity among us on this mobilization day lord, we want to remember everyone who has died for this nation from the first to do so, Crispus Attucks in Boston, to those dying in Vietnam today, we include too those whose lives have been given fighting for freedom at home, from John Brown to Martin Luther King. Lord, we know you're not the property of our nation or any nation. Every

man spilled blood is a sign of your judgment upon us all. The blood of those who fought for this country and the blood of those they killed. We cannot claim you like a flag or use you like a slogan. We know you're not a god of nations and wars but of communities and peace. We ask that the memory of these dead may bring us to a great love of being alive. We resolve that the memory of these dead will strengthen our commitment to reject the institutions of war and violence that cut them down. But you have abandoned Adonai and forgotten my

holy mountain, I commit you to the sword, all of you to fall in the slaughter, for I called and you would not answer, I spoke and you would not listen. You did what I consider evil, chose to do that which dis- pleases me, therefore thus speaks the lord Adonai you shall see my servants eat while you go hungry, you shall see my servants drink while you go thirsty. You shall see my servants rejoice while you are put to shame. You shall hear my servant sing for joy of heart while you will moan for sadness of heart, you will wail for distress of spirit.

Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, dust unto dust the calm sweet earth that mothers all you die that all men must. Mourn not you your captive comrades who must dwell too strong to strive each in his still bound coffin of a cell buried alive but rather mourn the apathetic throng, the cowed and the meek who sees the world's great anguish and its wrong and dare not speak. where have all the flowers gone long time passing where have all the flowers gone

long time ago, where have all the flowers gone, girls have picked them every one when will they ever learn when will they ever learn where have all the young girls gone, long time passing where have all the young girls gone, long time ago taken husbands every one, when will they ever learn, when will they ever learn where have all the young men gone, long time passing, where have all

the young men gone long time ago, where have all the young men gone, they're all in uniform oh when will we ever learn, when will we ever learn our friends some of those were singing, but I wish everybody was singing. when everybody is singing, that's when we're really heard, doesn't matter if you sing low harmony or high harmony not everybody has to sing the same melody in this world,

but we can harmonize together, try singing those three verses again, this time really sing it. where have all the flowers gone long time passing where have all the flowers gone, long time ago, where a have all the flowers gone, girls have picked them every one when will they ever learn, when will they ever learn, where have all the young girls gone

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my owner's son mike ransom was killed in vietnam on may eleventh of last year in the last letter he pleaded tell any friends you have in washington to quit quibbling and start talking about ways to end this foolishness he you're another letter he asked a friend to attend every antiwar meaning for him when mike died in the paris peace negotiations were about to begin today eighteen months and many thousands of lives and later peace seems even more remote the actual speaking before the young

dead soldier's contains these lines our guests are not ours they are yours they will mean would you rank and whether our lives and our deaths were for peace and a new poll for nothing we cannot say it is you must say this we review our deaths gift than their meaning celestin to bear witness to my son but wayne his family and his friends have coming into washington dc access to and that we will try once more to give meaning to his death by our efforts to bring peace and to go to this troubled nation our

story in tennessee and mississippi seeing poverty and oppression of blacks and discovering that like government intended things to stay this way listening to government leaders warn america's freedom fighters against violence while my government unleashes the greatest concentration of violence the world has witnessed against the vietnamese struggle for independence how could i support the struggle for freedom and justice in america without opposing my government's war against freedom in vietnam after some time it became clear that our policy in vietnam is not the blundering of an otherwise beneficence giant my government's war against vietnam is one part of a total vietnam

wars program my government is committed to maintaining independence and combating self determination our industry's commit us to future wars to assure present profit and growth rates we are making money temporarily off the oppression and destruction of others and our own moral the mines if only the enemies in other people's would be loyal american consumers the american way for all vietnam is only one war but it is the arch tight for the future there are only three kinds of wars my government will wage i can not fight in any of them nuclear war i say no vietnam type war i

say no war against our own people you struggled for a better life if i say no america now leads the world in war making as a people we can leave in peacemaking if we say no to our government's war we can turn this country from back toward life my name is dan and i had come through my husband is stationed in vietnam anyone who has been married

can easily imagine the immediate this war has had on it i missed my husband i'd reach out every morning but he is not there but there is more than that there is the fear that ray will lose an arm or is it that they may never return in place i am aware that this anguished is not unique my mother immediately clear that haunts me now as a young bride she too had or has been torn from her to fight a war but there is something very important that sets me a part in the lives of american soldiers and world war two in the midst of their loneliness and anxiety they take comfort from knowing that their husbands were truly helping to defend a clear interest of the america we love their separation from band was necessary i

want to believe that ray is serving the best interest of america that is necessary for him to be in but that is a lie ray was taken from me to fight a war that is neither necessary nor just a war that we stumbled into and now it seems cannot find the honesty or strength to walk away because i love my country and i am concerned the tragic circumstances of my husband's presence in vietnam only sharpens my anger and deepens my teens so that it does not return the ball and it is i want my husband that as only one i study as the brother

of the temperature david brennan killed in july the gulf of tonkin i wish to express the hope of his family but the protest for peace might give meaning to his death and those of the forty four thousand others last in what he himself called this senseless war i too would like to quote some of the same words of archibald macleish which has special significance for my family the young dead soldiers do not speak nevertheless they are hurt in the still houses who has not heard them they say our guests are not ours they are yours they will mean what you make them

young dead soldiers say whether our lives and our deaths we're for peace and a new local or for nothing we cannot say it is you who must say this they say we were young we have died remember us it is in our remembering that we must become even more the strident minority as we continue to watch while shares being made into swords as we tried to give meaning to a loss of came about because the nation has been molded with the terror of war rather than the instruments of piece those of us touched by these deaths seek to be heard by a nation's conscience seems to be deafened by obscene words of violence

blinded by superficial visions a super superiority it is in the healing of his sickness of this man's inhumanity to man that are remembering becomes a monument of meaning let our sorrow and murmurs become prize and our cries become screams so that the blind might see the death might hear let this protest we are remembering the pipe i have the

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the burden of his message to the people and to the rulers of his mission was a simple one two but it was never very well received he always was speaking of a bar who was just an who would bring disaster upon the nation that worshiped him unless the people of the nation or ipad reid and other legal ways and return tomorrow at which they so easily profess in the sermon bomb which is the principal part of the chapter of the book of jeremiah that the region some passages which will remind you of the kind of family he gave it to his people in his time

he wrote no land repents of his wickedness saying what am i everyone turns to his own course like a horse plunging had long and about your how can you save we as in the us there was a man shouting kardashian low they haven't rejected the word of the law from the least to the great as everyone has greatly for one just came from to please everyone deals falsely we look for peace

for a time of healing a lot below her the harvest discuss the summer is and that we are not say my people is right is there an obama is there no physician that for the health of the broader of my people not being restored it i could've chosen almost any part of what i just read to you from those sayings of jeremiah to crop up as the text for this commonly pointed to this occasion but i've chosen as familiar passages and impose which iran and bad among those others in the st louis chapter of jeremiah

these words might be like saying it these days this particular word usually do say several things to all of us who are gathered here that you were wounded my people like clay that's the literal translation the old version had a slightly superficially i think mississippi first that the nation has learned it's better than it was we are closer to a piece of vietnam when we were two years ago the wound a

nation has been told us the flow and reduce that miriam mind to some of view of the situation we were in two and a half years ago in the spring of nineteen sixty seven at that the policy of the united states was simply to apply enough of our best technical sergeant of arms to impose our piece on vietnam as success of the military and political predictions of victory were proved to fall the only response of the mission was to escalate to military activity that time when i wasn't quite so easy to be for peace in vietnam as a visit today i set our course in the united states has in it only elements of ai tragedy more like like julius caesar

unable to distinguish caught in that dilemma which makes any decision increasingly difficult united states seemed to be stumbling on to final disaster i think we may find out that hamlet didn't make a decision and that lear was not sold it confused it but he did not catch a glimpse of reality show through the dust about what improved the situation the members of congress and as these men and there were a few but they kept up an official victory although the assumptions on the results of the vietnam pilots next i would

mention that gradually increasing chorus of voices from the intellectual community and the universities and in the church's some of them which criticized the vietnam war or the intellectual and moral ground our next i would mention the students you have to win the nomination we attempt to do when i'm in the best tradition of our democracy building his campaign on this issue no matter what their political polls were then saying students for mccarthy with the first visible sign that the american people could be persuaded to vote against the war party that never happen next i pay tribute to president johnson who in the spring of nineteen

sixty eight changed the policy of the administration from seeking a military victory to negotiate at least at the same time and in his own political career it may not applaud in the next part of this paragraph what your layout which you will next i pay tribute to candidates from three on nixon who in the campaign last fall didn't fight the election in such a way that the war was made a central issue one candidate lost because of that decision and the other one because of that i do not make a partisan speech tonight it is not what we are therefore i think under these auspices finally i would give some thanks to president nixon who has resisted in keeping negotiated peace says the stated goal of the present administration whatever your politics however critical

most of us are about to face a new direction of the present policy i make my first point tonight that the prophets in the priest's always have healed a wound of the people if only slightly we are here tonight because for a variety of reasons we are troubled that the way this living drummers going you're watching it unfold somewhere late in the second act and all of us are fearful that it may turn out to be tragically after all despite all the efforts to end the war by second point is the one in which you're more easily agree with that the improvement is as yet only slight only minor the lonely at turn out to be fatally you asked why i suggest three reasons first although almost almost all of us say now we are for peace the fact is americans are still

deeply divided on why he's is being sought or should be some are only moved by the continuing american casualties at a california later it may not long ago and asked me as the general secretary of the world council of churches to proclaim a day of memorial for the american soldiers who have died in vietnam korea others are even more dependent of the twenty five years the vietnamese deaths and sufferings some believe still the chief reason for peace is that ending the war is now the best way to secure american interests in southeast asia well as i was clearly that the american interests in vietnam have been and are mr some are still obsessed with the

horror of communist totalitarian tyranny one other americans are equally obsessed with a degree in mozambique in a normal in south africa and brazil inside there is no sign yet that americans are russians are french one or englishman or chinese or africans are south americans or the people's of any nation have seriously rejected military power and more with all its powers as the central instruments to keep them safe to establish peace to establish their security finally too few men anywhere take a polaroid just got seriously at best negotiations for settlement are difficult i confessed that i was much intellectual latest thereby those

who simply say pull out base their position on a new isolationism and on their worry in this with carrying the worldwide responsibilities that our nation's wealth and power lay upon us as i am with those who continue to appeal to american patriotism you continue to support american military park to secure our own economic wealth and prosperity when will we as a people begin to realize that the world drama in which we are among the principal protagonists is not a gray beatty the cowboy melodrama with a good boy isn't a bad boys easily distinguished by the white and what's that sense but even more than the intellectual maturity needed to make peace in our world is moral insight and repentance a long will the american people remain content with a foreign aid program that is being reduced at a time when the poorer countries are relatively getting poorer

and the rich countries rich or how long will we get them how long will be a ban on all foreign aid program it is so largely military age the pale billions for warrants preparations and beyond willingness than comparable psalms to rebuild a citizen eliminate the slums well the whole at how long is the people we will we continue to support veterans of world trade that makes you to even the most heroic efforts for development of nations

which because i have not capital are dependent on the unfair in and stabilize prices of primary products whether they're only surprise in the market how long will the white northern nations take advantage of darts other nations in an unequal economic battle i remind you that these are not legal questions i'm asking their moral questions the pain for true or lasting peace depends upon repentance alvaro evil ways faith in god does not ask men to become utopian but it does require righteousness jeremiah but it no man ray benson

is wickedness a lot of it and how can you say we are wise in the long the lord is with us from the lease of the greatest everyone is greedy or unjust again and so we look for peace and overcame for a time of dealing with the whole terror and i stop on such a gloomy note and a true religious voice was soundless snowed until memories on henrik and we have moved toward peace we haven't reached somewhat more moral maturity in these last years but the wound has healed but slightly there is no but it's not in any cheap prescription faith in god is possible that

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and for the next day and for all the days and years of struggle keel peace be here go there they really want him it is it is what the wisdom to see life as it really is let us pray father so often we judge things to be what they are not because talks as what it is really failure and failure what has really success our effort to pose as we call low our efforts to dominate and control recall freedom and peace they're from our ios all the blinds us to this life may we see and low and so give you

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