The Oaken Oath: Jubilee and Benediction
*As an inseparable part of our devotion to God, we commit to a life of Jubilee.
Jubilee refers to the sounding of the Shofar ram’s horn to announce the year of freedom and celebration every 50th year. Jesus life, death and resurrection inaugurated the Age of Jubilee and exemplifies Psalm 35:27, which says Let them shout for joy and rejoice, who favor my vindication; And let them say continually, "The LORD be magnified, Who delights in the prosperity of His servant.”
We will proclaim enthusiastically the good news of the Kingdom of God!
We will refuse to accept the world of doubt, despair, debt and sin as the reigning end reality of human existence. Instead, we will stand with the prophets of old who dared to imagine the world with the end in sight.
We will take hope and joy in today by finding answers to this day's problems in the life of Jesus who incarnated a hope-filled future.
We will sing Christ's message of love, reconciliation, and peace as the unifying communal song of celebration.
We will embrace all that is good in a spirit of feasting and enjoyment of life.
We will partake regularly in the Eucharist as the profound symbolic action of being nourished by the body and blood of Christ.
We will look to the Resurrection of Jesus as the victorious source of passion, purity, and justice that fuels the Jubilant Spirit of our every action towards all Creation!
I bind to myself this day and for all my days a vow of Jubilee.
Upon these four legs I will stand, and rest, and feast.
ALL: May God preserve and empower you according to His pleasure.
Vower: In the Presence of the Sacred Trinity and Christ's flock, I take these vows asking:
Hearer: In the Presence of the Sacred Trinity and Christ's flock, we accept these vows asking:
Whenever you are as certain about something as I am go forward with me;
Whenever you hesitate, seek with me;
Whenever you discover that you have gone wrong come back to me;
or if I have gone wrong, call me back to you.
In this way we will travel along the street of love together as we make our way toward him of whom it is said, 'seek his face always.'
+ In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Jubilee refers to the sounding of the Shofar ram’s horn to announce the year of freedom and celebration every 50th year. Jesus life, death and resurrection inaugurated the Age of Jubilee and exemplifies Psalm 35:27, which says Let them shout for joy and rejoice, who favor my vindication; And let them say continually, "The LORD be magnified, Who delights in the prosperity of His servant.”
We will proclaim enthusiastically the good news of the Kingdom of God!
We will refuse to accept the world of doubt, despair, debt and sin as the reigning end reality of human existence. Instead, we will stand with the prophets of old who dared to imagine the world with the end in sight.
We will take hope and joy in today by finding answers to this day's problems in the life of Jesus who incarnated a hope-filled future.
We will sing Christ's message of love, reconciliation, and peace as the unifying communal song of celebration.
We will embrace all that is good in a spirit of feasting and enjoyment of life.
We will partake regularly in the Eucharist as the profound symbolic action of being nourished by the body and blood of Christ.
We will look to the Resurrection of Jesus as the victorious source of passion, purity, and justice that fuels the Jubilant Spirit of our every action towards all Creation!
I bind to myself this day and for all my days a vow of Jubilee.
Upon these four legs I will stand, and rest, and feast.
ALL: May God preserve and empower you according to His pleasure.
Vower: In the Presence of the Sacred Trinity and Christ's flock, I take these vows asking:
Hearer: In the Presence of the Sacred Trinity and Christ's flock, we accept these vows asking:
Whenever you are as certain about something as I am go forward with me;
Whenever you hesitate, seek with me;
Whenever you discover that you have gone wrong come back to me;
or if I have gone wrong, call me back to you.
In this way we will travel along the street of love together as we make our way toward him of whom it is said, 'seek his face always.'
+ In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
