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Catholic Mass - 5/13/2012 (Sixth Sunday of Easter)
Duke Catholic CenterFr. Michael Martin, OFM, celebrant
http://catholic.duke.edu
Sixth Sunday of Easter, 9pm
Service begins @
Homily begins @
Scripture:
First Reading: Acts 10:25-26,34-35,44-48
Psalm 98:1-4
Second Reading: 1 John 4:7-10
Gospel: John 15:9-17
Hymns (from the the Gather hymnal, ©1994):
Processional Hymn: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (622)
Offertory Hymn: We Have Been Told (699)
Communion Hymn: One Bread, One Body (830)
Recessional Hymn: Sing a New Song (537)
Musical performances have been licensed with collective rights organizations.
Published 3 days ago
Goodbye to Dean Wells
"Fare Thee Wells"A Goodbye for Samuel Wells, Dean of Duke University Chapel
May 6, 2012
Bulletin: http://bit.ly/FareWells
Program:
0:34 - Greeting and Welcome - Dean Richard Hays, Duke Divinity School
2:47 - "He's Not That Attractive" Video
8:32 - Hannah Ward - PathWays Chapel Scholar, Trinity '14
14:44 - Karen Witzleben - President, Congregation at Duke Chapel
21:33 - "A Visit to Cranford Abbey" - Axe of the Apostles comedy team, Duke Divinity School
29:15 - Marcia Owen - Director, Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham
35:34 - "A Humorous Take on the Dean" - Axe of the Apostles
44:40 - Stanley Hauerwas - Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke Divinity School
50:15 - Rodney Wynkoop - Director of Chapel Music
59:30 - Chapel Choir Tribute Medley
1:04:57 - Richard H. Brodhead - President, Duke University
1:15:14 - Samuel Wells
1:20:03 - Closing Congregation Song
1:21:47 - Closing Words and Benediction - Richard Hays
Choir Tribute to Sam Wells: A Medley (with apologies to Hubert Parry, Joseph Haydn, Johannes Brahms and René Clausen)
I was sad,
sad when the Wells said to me:
"We will go, we will go
into the land of the Queen!"
Archbishop Williams is telling
our Dean to be a Vicar,
This thought has us all feeling
sicker and sicker!
St. Martin-in-the-Fields
is taking him away.
Duke Chapel is your home;
We're begging you to stay!
How lovely is thy dwelling-place
in Durham on Buchanan Street.
Thy dwelling-place, O Sam
should be here with us!
Softly and tenderly
Durham is calling,
calling for you and for Jo.
Softly and tenderly
Durham is calling,
calling, O Samuel, stay home!
Stay home,
stay home,
don't go to London, stay home!
Softly and tenderly
Durham is calling,
calling, O Samuel, stay home!
Closing Congregational Song:
God save our gracious Dean,
Oh what a joy it's been,
With him as Dean!
He leaves victorious,
Pity on sorry us!
Tears reigning o'er us
Without our Dean!
When you take Jo with you,
Stephie and Laurence too,
We'll miss you all.
We'd love another year
With you among us here,
But still we loudly cheer,
"Long live Sam Wells!"
Published 6 days ago
Stanley Hauerwas on Moral Fragmentation
Part of an interview series with Duke University Divinity School faculty looking at the hidden wounds of war and the Church's resources that can help those in recovery.Published 6 days ago
Catholic Mass - 5/6/2012 (Fifth Sunday of Easter)
Duke Catholic Center Fr. Michael Martin, OFM, celebrant http://catholic.duke.edu Fifth Sunday of Easter, 9pm Service begins @ 10:45 Homily begins @ 25:43 Scripture: First Reading: Acts 9:26-31 Psalm 22: I Will Praise You, Lord (28) Second Reading: 1 John 3:18-24 Gospel: John 15:1-8 Hymns (from the the Gather hymnal, ©1994): Processional Hymn: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (646) Offertory Hymn: Unless a Grain of Wheat (697) Communion Hymn: Without Seeing You (844) Meditation: Seek Ye First (615) Recessional Hymn: Sing a New Song (537) Musical performances have been licensed with collective rights organizations.Published 1 week ago
Sunday Service - 5/6/2012 - Sam Wells
A service of worship in Duke University Chapel. The Reverend Doctor Samuel Wells delivers his final sermon as the Dean of Duke Chapel.1 John 4:7-21
John 15:1-8
Bulletin: http://bit.ly/JacDxL
Published 1 week ago
Sunday Service - 4/29/2012 - Sam Wells
A service of worship in Duke University Chapel. The Reverend Dr Samuel Wells delivers a sermon entitled "Not of This Fold."Bulletin: http://bit.ly/IBhZaB
Published 2 weeks ago
Catholic Mass - 4/29/2012 (Fourth Sunday of Easter)
Duke Catholic CenterFr. Michael Martin, OFM, celebrant
http://catholic.duke.edu
Fourth Sunday of Easter, 9pm
Service begins @ 14:34
Homily begins @ 34:47
Scripture:
First Reading: Acts 4:8-12
Psalm 118: Let Us Rejoice (114)
Second Reading: 1 John 3:1-2
Gospel: John 10:11-18
Hymns (from the the Gather hymnal, ©1994):
Processional Hymn: At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing (433)
Offertory Hymn: The King of Love (635)
Communion Hymn: Take and Eat (831)
Meditation: How Great Thou Art (494)
Recessional Hymn: A Hymn of Glory Let Us Sing (453)
Musical performances have been licensed with collective rights organizations.
Published 2 weeks ago
Sunday Service - 4/22/2012 - Sam Wells
A service of worship in Duke University Chapel. The Reverend Dr Samuel Wells delivers a sermon entitled "Let Earth and Heaven Agree."Opening Excerpt from the Sermon (26:04)
"Have you ever sat still in the early morning and heard the dawn chorus? Have you ever felt your heart rise in a throbbing ovation as the birds of the air form an orchestra of glory and voice creation's praise? Fifty years ago the conservationist Rachel Carson published a book entitled Silent Spring. Carson pointed out the way pesticides were coming to dominate American agriculture, and were damaging not only birds and animals, but also humans. Just imagine, she said, a spring in which no birds sang: it would be a silent spring. And if that spring lies in the not-‐too-‐distant future for the birds, how long before humanity meets the same fate? First there will be a silent spring; eventually, there will be no spring at all.
Those who marked the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 credited the publication of Silent Spring with the beginnings of the modern environmental movement. And Carson's book marks a suitable emblem for ecological concerns, because it synthesizes the four dimensions that have characterized the movement ever since.
The first is the urgent sense of human catastrophe. Ecological concerns, such as those raised by Rachel Carson, have a wide following, but what makes them a focus of universal anxiety is the claim that they threaten to diminish human flourishing in the immediate term and terminate human existence in the medium to long term. "We're all doomed." That kind of threat makes the ecological movement unique in its claim on the public imagination. It's a slow burning version of the threat of nuclear annihilation that mesmerized people's vision at the height of the Cold War."
Closing Excerpt from the Sermon: (43:49)
"For Christians, the environmental crisis may be a problem. But it's certainly an opportunity. It's an opportunity because Earth Day is perhaps the greatest ever parable of the Christian story. Earth Day celebrates the wonder of creation, in its abundance and diversity. It recalls the day the birds began to sing. Earth Day calls us to repentance when we remember the fall, the human destruction of God's precious gift. It portrays the day the birds fell silent, and forgot how the song was supposed to go. But Earth Day does more than that. It reminds us that there was a bird that came to earth and taught us the tune we'd forgotten, making our hearts sing again. And that there will come a day when all creation sings: not just the birds but the rocks and stones and oceans and mountains themselves will cry Alleluia. And that in the meantime we remember this story by the way we sing and seek to turn our lives and our world into a song. We remember this story by the way we inspire others to sing with us and find in themselves a voice they never knew they had. We remember this story by singing this song back to those who've forgotten it until they remember how it goes. That's what Christians do in the face of the ecological crisis. That's what Christians do on Earth Day. That's the way Christians turn Earth Day into what it was always destined to be.—Heaven day."
Bulletin: http://bit.ly/Ir3aV3
Sermon: http://bit.ly/KcdJZk
Published 3 weeks ago
Catholic Mass - 4/22/2012 (Third Sunday of Easter)
Duke Catholic CenterFr. Michael Martin, OFM, celebrant
http://catholic.duke.edu
Third Sunday of Easter, 9pm
Service begins @ 11:00
Homily begins @ 27:40
Scripture:
First Reading: Acts 3:13-15,17-19
Psalm 4: Let Your Face Shine Upon Us (19)
Second Reading: 1 John 2:1-5a
Gospel: Luke 24:35-48
Hymns (from the the Gather hymnal, ©1994):
Processional Hymn: Alleluia, Alleluia, Let the Holy Anthem Rise (425)
Offertory Hymn: Now We Remain (494)
Communion Hymn: Bread for the World (827)
Meditation: In the Breaking of the Bread (841)
Recessional Hymn: Go Make of All Disciples (687)
Musical performances have been licensed with collective rights organizations.
Published 3 weeks ago
Haitian Requiem, Op.1: In Memory of Victims of the 2010 Earthquake in Haiti
Haitian Requiem, Op.1Published 3 weeks ago
Exit Interview: Sam Wells interviewed by Frank Stasio
Frank Stasio, host of NPR's The State of Things, interviews Sam Wells live in Duke Chapel for the final Dean's Dialogue.Published 4 weeks ago
Sunday Service - 4/15/2012 - Candice Ryals Provey
A service of worship in Duke University Chapel. Ms Candice Ryals Provey delivers a sermon entitled "The Way, the Truth, the Life."Opening Excerpt from the Sermon (36:07)
It was evening the first day when the disciples gathered and Jesus came, but Thomas wasn't with them.
Imagine with me these two very different scenes:
Thomas sits alone at home as the shadows gather at dusk, turning over the events of the past week, the past year, thinking through the things he once knew to be true...
How in the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void and darkness covered the face of the deep. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word became flesh and lived among us. And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. And Jesus said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life." The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness shall not overcome it. And yet, here is Thomas, sitting in what seems to be utter darkness, wondering whether Jesus was indeed the light, the life of the world. Had God forsaken him on the cross? Abandoned Thomas, too, and Israel and her promises? Relinquished the world to its tyranny?
Meanwhile, not far away, the disciples are gathered in the glow of candlelight, when a series of remarkable events take place. First, Jesus joins them - this is remarkable enough, given that the doors are locked and just a few days earlier he had been killed, but it's just the beginning. He comes and breathes upon them the gift of the Holy Spirit. This is an odd reference that brings to mind the way God first created humanity so long ago, how God fashioned the human form out of the mud of the earth and breathed life into its nostrils. John is signifying here a cosmic act. We know that something huge is happening, that Jesus is making the disciples alive in a new way, but we don't understand it.
Closing Excerpt from the Sermon: (46:08)
"When your personal experience, the circumstances of your life, seems to contradict the claims we make about God's love and justice and mercy, you need the community of faith to remind you about a few things. You need to know that your personal experience does not define the whole truth about God and God's will for the world, so that you can begin to locate your story and even your suffering within the larger narrative of what God is doing. You need to know that when you are hurting, anger and lament and protest are valid and appropriate responses within the life of faith, so that you can begin to give voice to your sufferings and make room for your rage. Finally, you need to know that you're not alone. This is why we gather - because the baptismal waters, the breaking of bread, are the signs through which God proclaims to us and we proclaim to each other, "You are not alone, not abandoned, God-forsaken."
This is my favorite part, one final remarkable turn of events: it is evening the first day of the week when the disciples gather, and this time Thomas is with them. The truth is Thomas didn't choose Jesus, Jesus chose him. He didn't find the Messiah, the Messiah found him. And even though Thomas does not believe, Christ still believes in him and comes to meet him. Thomas sees Christ's body, broken and yet standing whole before him, and finds that he himself, Thomas, has been restored to life. He sees Jesus and immediately testifies, "My Lord and my God!" This is what it means to believe - to tell the truth about who Jesus is, to tell the story. It was evening when the disciples gathered and Jesus came, and by the next morning, Thomas would be out in the world proclaiming the truth about Jesus to everyone he met. His story is written down so that we might also believe and testify.--So that the good news, the gospel, might spill over and spread from the mountain to the valley.
Now when you find yourself down in that valley, in a place that seems like utter darkness, and Lord knows you will, let Thomas show you the way. When you can't hope, when you can't believe, yearn to see Jesus face to face, cry out for an account from God, and gather with the community to wait.
For Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again, blessed are you who have not seen and yet have come to believe. Blessed are you who have come here anyway, not believing but desperately wanting to. Blessed are you who yearn for Jesus, the light, the life of the world, to be present here, now. You, too, will see Jesus in the flesh. Blessed are you, every one of you -- not because you have chosen Christ or found the way, but because Christ has chosen you, come seeking after you to find you, and when he meets you, to enliven you with the Spirit and send you out again into the fray."
Bulletin: http://bit.ly/HLYk1Q
Published 1 month ago
Choral Vespers - 4/12/2012 - The Duke Vespers Ensemble
A service of Choral Vespers in Duke University Chapel. Officiated by The Rev. Dr. Samuel Wells. The Duke Vespers Ensemble directed by Dr. Allan Friedman. On O FILII ET FILIAE. Organist: Dr. David Arcus. Exodus 13:3-10, 1 Corinthians 15:41-50, Matthew 16:13-21.Bulletin: http://www.chapel.duke.edu/media/documents/04-12-12_V_2up.pdf
Published 1 month ago
Catholic Mass - 4/15/2012 (Second Sunday of Easter)
Duke Catholic Center's Celebration of the EucharistFather Matthew Monnig, SJ, presiding
http://catholic.duke.edu
Second Sunday of Easter, 9pm
Service begins @ 10:56
Homily begins @ 28:07
Scripture:
First Reading: Acts 4:32-35
Psalm 23: Shepherd Me, O God (31)
Second Reading: 1 John 5:1-6
Gospel: John 20:19-31
Hymns (from the the Gather hymnal, ©1994):
Processional Hymn: Glory and Praise to Our God (522)
Offertory Hymn: We Walk By Faith (590)
Communion Hymn: Taste and See (814)
Meditation: Make Me a Channel (726)
Recessional Hymn: Sing of the Lord's Goodness (547)
Musical performances have been licensed with collective rights organizations.
Published 1 month ago
Mark Goodacre is Skeptical of 'Jesus Tomb'
Mark Goodacre, an associate professor of religion who specializes in the New Testament, says there are other, far more likely explanations as to what an engraving could be other than the earliest Christian symbol of resurrection ever found.Posted 1 month ago
