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♪ Let us build a house where love can dwell
♪ And all can safely live
♪ A place where saints and children tell
♪ How hearts are to forgive
♪ Built of hopes and dreams and visions
♪ Rock of faith and vault of grace
♪ Here the love of Christ shall end divisions
♪ All are welcome, all are welcome
♪ All are welcome in this place
- In the name of the Father and of the Son
and of the Holy Spirit, the Lord be with you.
- [Congregation] And with your spirit.
- Good morning everyone.
- [Congregation] Good morning, Father.
- My brothers and sisters today's gospel challenges us
truly to do the Father's will
by living the way of righteousness.
As we prepare to celebrate this liturgy,
let us beg God's mercy for the times
where we have failed to live according to God's will.
Lord Jesus, You are ever obedient to Your Father's will,
Lord have mercy.
- [Congregation] Lord have mercy.
- Christ Jesus, you lead us in the way of righteousness.
Christ have mercy.
- [Congregation] Christ have mercy.
- Lord Jesus, you teach us to do the Father's will.
Lord have mercy.
- [Congregation] Lord have mercy.
- May almighty God have mercy on us,
forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.
- [Congregation] Amen.
- Let us pray.
Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth, peace to people of goodwill.
We praise You, we bless You, we adore You,
we glorify You, we give You thanks for Your great glory.
Lord God, heavenly King, oh God, Almighty Father,
Lord Jesus Christ, only begotten Son,
Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father,
You take away the sins of the world.
Have mercy on us.
You take away the sins of the world.
Receive our prayer.
You are seated at the right hand of the Father.
Have mercy on us.
For You alone are the Holy One.
You alone are the Lord.
You alone are the most high, Jesus Christ.
With the Holy spirit, in the glory of God the Father.
Amen.
Oh God, You manifest your Almighty power above all
by pardoning and showing mercy.
Bestow, we pray Your grace abundantly upon us.
And make those hastening to attain Your promises
heirs to the treasure of heaven.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ Your Son,
who lives and reigns with You in the unity
of the Holy Spirit, One God, forever and ever.
- [Congregation] Amen.
- Thank you.
- I'm reading from the book of the prophet Ezekiel.
Thus says the Lord:
You say the Lord's way is not fair.
Hear now, house of Israel, is it My way that is unfair
or rather, are not your ways unfair?
When someone virtuous turns away from virtue
to commit iniquity and dies, it is because of the iniquity
he committed that he must die.
But if he turns from the wickedness he has committed
and does what is right and just,
he shall preserve his life.
Since he has turned away from all the sins
that he has committed, he shall surely live.
He shall not die.
The word of the Lord.
- [Congregation] Praise be to God.
♪ Remember Your mercies oh Lord
♪ Remember Your mercies oh Lord
♪ Oh Lord make me know your ways
♪ Teach me Your paths
♪ Guide me in Your truth and teach me
♪ For You are the God of my salvation
♪ Remember Your mercies oh Lord
♪ Remember your mercies Oh Lord
- A reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Philippians.
Brothers and Sisters,
if there is any encouragement in Christ,
any solace in love, any participation in the Spirit,
any compassion in mercy, complete my joy
by being of the same mind with the same love,
united in heart, thinking one thing.
Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vain glory.
Rather, humbly regard others
as more important than yourselves,
each looking out not for his own interests,
but also for those of others.
Have in you the same attitude
that is also in Christ Jesus.
The word of the Lord.
- [Congregation] Thanks be to God.
♪ Hallelujah, Hallelujah
♪ Hallelujah
♪ Hallelujah
♪ Hallelujah
♪ Hallelujah
- The Lord be with you.
- [Congregation] And with your spirit.
- The reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.
- [Congregation] Glory to You oh Lord.
- Jesus said to the chief priests
and the elders of the people, what is your opinion?
A man had two sons.
He came to the first and said,
Son, go out and work in the vineyard today.
He said in reply, I will not.
But afterwards, changed his mind and went.
The man came up to the other son and gave the same order.
He said in reply, yes sir, but did not go.
Which of the two did his father's will?
They answered, the first.
Jesus said to them, amen, I say to you,
tax collectors and prostitutes
are entering the kingdom of God before you.
When John came to you in the way of righteousness,
you did not believe him,
but tax collectors and prostitutes did.
Yet even when you saw that,
you did not later change your minds and believe him.
The gospel of the Lord.
- [Congregation] Praise be the Lord, Jesus Christ.
- Jesus tells us a very simple story
of two imperfect sons to illustrate
the way to God's kingdom.
God amply provided, or the father in this case,
amply provided for his sons with everything they needed.
Everything the father had belonged to them.
The father also rewarded them with work in his own vineyard.
The father expected them to show him respect,
honor and loyalty by doing their fair share of the work.
The rebellious son told his father
he would not work for him,
but afterwards he changed his mind
and did what his father asked of him.
The good son said he would work for his father
but did not follow though.
This son sowed his own pleasure,
contrary to his father's will.
Who was the good son?
Both disobeyed their father,
one repented and then did what the father told him.
And Jesus makes his point clear.
Good intentions are not enough.
Good intentions are not enough.
And promises don't count
unless they're followed through on, or are performed.
You see, we all have responsibilities
and accountability in life.
God guides each of us in this earthly journey,
placing us in a family, in a community of believers.
We all have certain given talents
or we would say God-given talents.
And we should use those for the good of our neighbor.
And God also uses those gifts bestowed upon us
to call us to particular vocations.
Vocations in life, but in a church particularly.
Priesthood, religious life, married life,
single life, consecrated life.
The normal responsibilities
that go with these vocations in life,
these are the basic realities of God's will for us.
And the more we embrace God's will,
and exercise those rights or those given talents,
however we wanna look at them, those gifts,
and when we share those with others,
the more we're following the path of God.
And along that path at times,
we probably have questioned or not followed through
on certain things, like the second son.
He didn't want to do any of it.
But the first son did what?
He said no at first.
I don't think that's for me.
We call that discernment.
We call that prayer, bringing it to prayer.
Trying to understand where God is leading us.
And then when we bring it to prayer
and we feel and we know or we hear how God wants us,
or which direction to go in, we follow,
and we exercise that.
But it's not good enough just to follow.
It would serve no purpose for me to be a priest,
but not be a priest.
I could be ordained as a priest,
but if I don't serve sacramentally in the church
and do nothing with it,
well it's not really priesthood, is it?
If we're married, we could go through the stages
and the exercises of marriage for the sacrament,
for the marriage, but if we're not understanding
what God is working in that union
and that give and take between husband and wives,
and understanding that it is a life long journey
as a union, and we're not living that vocational call,
well then where does that marriage go?
We should be all leading towards God,
to the eternal kingdom.
Same thing in consecrated life.
If God's called us to a consecrated life,
it's a surrender, after prayer and discernment.
But it's a surrender because at first,
maybe we didn't know what God wanted in our lives,
but we were able to say yes to it.
And we have lots of examples of this in the church.
Our Saints, each other, in our journeys,
in our communities, how we care for one another,
how we bring Jesus Christ to one another.
Those who are home-bound for this T.V. mass,
that just because we're home-bound
doesn't mean you're not being prayered for
and thought of and cared for.
See, we all participate into that.
And that's listening to God,
maybe not totally in our own will,
but surrendering it over to God's will
and allowing God to carry us.
See, there's grace and blessing and strength in that.
God offers each one of us peace and joy.
But we can lose that.
We can lose that with God
and we can lose that with one another,
if we refuse to do or be responsible and accountable
for how our gifts and talents
and how God is asking us to use them.
Remember, we are to love as God loves.
Jesus won that love and salvation and redemption for all.
Think about what's going on in society.
So much killing, the social unrest in the world today.
We should be praying for peace.
We should be examples of peace for one another
and throughout into all those we encounter.
We should seek God's guidance and strength
when we feel anxious and not know
where this is all leading.
We should trust more and surrender more to God.
We do that in prayer.
So today, let's pray as Jesus prayed.
Remember, Jesus taught us the prayer.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done.
God's will be done in this earthly kingdom
as it is in the heavenly kingdom.
It's up to you and I to follow the example
of the second son, or the first son, sorry.
The first son, and even if we don't understand it,
to surrender it over to God
and allow God to carry us to the next stage.
'Cause that's when we're doing the will of God.
The apostles creed.
I believe in God the Father Almighty,
creator of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived of the Holy Spirit,
born of the virgin Mary, suffered unto Pontius Pilote,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended into hell.
On the third day, He rose again from the dead.
He ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father Almighty.
From there, He will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church,
the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.
- [Congregation] Amen.
- Today in humble trust, we place our needs before God.
- That all members of the church support one another
in saying yes to God's will, and doing whatever God asks.
We pray to the Lord.
- [Congregation] Lord hear our prayer.
- That all people of the world
hear God's message of salvation,
and live God's way of righteousness.
We pray to the Lord.
- [Congregation] Lord, hear our prayer.
- That the poor and those in any need
be lifted up by the faithful actions
of the community of believers.
We pray to the Lord.
- [Congregation] Lord, hear our prayer.
- That each of us acknowledge when we stray
from doing God's will, hear Jesus' judgment
and open ourselves to change.
We pray to the Lord.
- [Congregation] Lord hear our prayer.
- Gracious God, you call us to be faithful
in carrying out your divine will.
Here these, our prayers, that one day we might share
in the fullness of Your life You offer
to those who dwell in Your kingdom.
We ask this, through Christ our Lord.
- [Congregation] Amen.
(piano music)
- Pray sisters and brothers
that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God,
the Almighty Father.
(indistinct congregational response)
Grant us oh merciful God,
that this our offering may find acceptance with you,
that through it, the wellspring of all blessing
may be laid open before us, through Christ, our Lord.
- [Congregation] Amen.
- The Lord be with you.
- [Congregation] And with you too.
- [Priest] Lift up your hearts.
- [Congregation] We lift them up to you Lord.
- [Priest] Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
- [Congregation] He is righteous.
- It is truly right and just,
our duty and our salvation,
always in every way to give You thanks.
But Holy Father, Almighty and eternal God,
through Christ our Lord.
For out of compassion for the waywardness that is ours,
He humbled Himself and was born of the virgin.
By the passion of the cross,
He freed us from unending death,
and by rising from the dead, He gave us life eternal.
And so with angels and archangels,
with thrones and dominions,
and with all the hosts and powers of heaven,
we sing the name of Your glory as without end we acclaim.
♪ Holy, holy, holy Lord God of hosts
♪ Heaven and earth are full of Your glory
♪ Hosanna in the highest
♪ Hosanna in the highest
♪ Blessed is he, blessed is he
♪ Who comes in the name of the Lord
♪ Hosanna in the highest
♪ Hosanna in the highest
♪ Hosanna in the highest
♪ Hosanna in the highest
- You are indeed Holy Lord, the fount of all holiness.
Make holy therefore this gifts, we pray,
by sending down your spirit upon them like the dew fall,
that they may become for us the body and blood
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
At the time He was betrayed and entered willingly
into His passion, He took bread and giving thanks,
broke it and gave it to His disciples saying,
take this, all of you and eat of it.
For this is my body, which will be given up for you.
And then similarly when supper was ended
He took the chalice, and once more giving thanks,
He gave it to His disciples saying,
take this, all of you, and drink from it.
For this is the chalice of My blood,
the blood of the new and eternal covenant,
which will be poured out for you and for many
for the forgiveness of sins.
Do this in memory of Me.
The mystery of faith.
♪ When we eat this bread and drink this cup
♪ We proclaim Your death oh Lord
♪ Until You come again
- Therefore, as we celebrate the memorial
of the death and resurrection of Your Son,
we offer You Lord, the bread of life
and the chalice of salvation.
Given thanks, you have held us worthy
to be in Your presence and minister to You.
Humbly we pray that partaking
of the body and blood of Christ,
we may be gathered into one by the Holy Spirit.
Remember Lord Your church, spread throughout the world,
bring her to the fullness of charity.
Together with Francis our Pope and Joseph our Bishop,
and all the clergy, the religious, the laity,
and all who serve You in this world.
Remember also our brothers and sisters
who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection
and all who have died in Your mercy.
Welcome them into the light of your face.
Have mercy on us now we pray,
that with the blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God
with blessed Joseph her spouse,
the blessed apostles and all the saints
who have pleased You throughout the ages,
we may merit to be co-heirs to eternal life
and we praise and glorify You through Your Son,
Jesus Christ.
♪ Through Him and with Him and in Him
♪ Oh God Almighty Father
♪ In the unity of the Holy Spirit
♪ All glory and honor is Yours forever and ever
♪ Amen, amen, amen, amen
♪ Amen, amen, amen, amen
- At the Savior's command informed by divine teaching,
we dare to say, 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 trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation
but deliver us from evil.
Deliver us Lord we pray, from every evil.
Graciously grant peace in our days,
that by the help of your mercy,
we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress.
As we await the blessed hope
and the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
(indistinct congregational response)
Lord Jesus Christ, you said to your apostles,
peace I leave you, My peace I give you.
Look not on our sins but on the faith of Your church
and graciously grant Your peace and unity
in accordance with Your will,
who live and reign forever and ever.
- [Congregation] Amen.
- The peace of the Lord be with you always.
(indistinct congregational response)
Let us offer each other a sign of peace.
- Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world.
Have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world.
Have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world.
Grant us peace.
- Behold the Lamb of God.
Behold Him who takes away the sins of the world.
Blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb.
Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof.
(indistinct congregational response)
(piano music)
♪ I will choose Christ
♪ I will choose love
♪ I choose to serve
♪ I give my heart, I give my life
♪ I give my all to you
♪ How many times must he call my name
♪ And show to me that He is God
♪ And as a servant, He calls to me
♪ You must serve too
♪ I will chose Christ, I will choose love
♪ I choose to serve
♪ I give my heart, I give my life
♪ I give my all to you
- Let us pray.
May this heavenly mystery oh Lord
restore us in mind and body, that we may be co-heirs
in glory with Christ.
Through His suffering we are united
whenever we proclaim his death.
He lives and reigns forever and ever.
- [Congregation] Amen.
- Before the final blessing,
thank you all for your support
of these televised Masses
that we're able to bring the Eucharist
and the sacrament to the home-bound,
to the home-bound and we wanna show you
that we're praying for you and you're all in our prayers,
and also thank you for your generous support
to help keep these T.V. Masses going.
We appreciate that support.
It really is a good deed that we're doing
by bringing these Masses to those in need.
The Lord be with you.
- [Congregation] And with your spirit.
- Now may Almighty God bless you, the Father,
and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
- [Congregation] Amen.
- The Mass is ended, go in peace.
- [Congregation] Thanks be to God.
- Have a beautiful week.
♪ Come, leave in the light
♪ Shine with the joy and the love of the Lord
♪ We are called to be light for the kingdom
♪ To live in the freedom of the city of God
♪ We are called to act with justice
♪ We are called to love tenderly
♪ We are called to serve one another
♪ To walk humbly with God
- Today, I'm certainly sure you appreciate
the celebration of Mass, and how much it means to you
and means to so many in the community,
to be the heart of a worshiping community,
to give praise to Christ.
And so I ask you, in your goodness,
to continue your support and generous support
of our television ministry here in the diocese of Las Vegas.
And may God bless you for your generosity.
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