(piano music)
♪ Glory and praise to our God ♪
♪ Who alone gives light to our days ♪
♪ Many are the blessings he bears ♪
♪ To those who trust in his ways ♪
♪ We the daughters and sons ♪
♪ Of him who builds the valleys and bays ♪
♪ Praise the wonders our God has done ♪
♪ In every heart that sings ♪
♪ Glory and praise to our God ♪
♪ Who alone gives light to our days ♪
♪ Many are the blessings he be bears ♪
♪ To those who trust in his ways ♪
- In the name of the father, and of the son,
and of the Holy Spirit.
- [Congregation] Amen.
- The Lord be with you.
- [Congregation] And with your spirit.
- As we come together as God's family
we now prepare ourselves to celebrate
these sacred mysteries, and so we confess
our sins and faults, imploring humbly
on the mercy and love of God.
You bring us to the freedom of your grace.
Lord have mercy.
- [Congregation] Lord have mercy.
- You took on our humanity in order to restore us to life.
Christ have mercy.
- [Congregation] Christ have mercy.
- You alone have the words of eternal life.
Lord have mercy.
- [Congregation] Lord have mercy.
- May almighty God have mercy on us,
forgive us our sins, and bring us to life everlasting.
- [Congregation] Amen.
- Glory to God in the highest.
- [All Together] And on earth peace to people of good will.
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.
- Let us pray.
Oh God, who caused the minds of the faithful
to unite in a single purpose, grant your people
to love what you command, and to desire what you promise,
that amid the uncertainties of this world,
our hearts may be fixed on that place
where true gladness is found.
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.
- [All Together] Amen.
- A reading from the book of Joshua.
Joshua gathered together all the tribes of Israel
at Shechem, summoning their elders, their leaders,
their leaders, their judges, and their officers.
When they stood in the ranks before God,
Joshua addressed all the people.
"If it does not please you to serve the Lord,
"decide today whom you will serve,
"The Gods your fathers serve beyond the river,
"Or the Gods of the Amorites
"in whose country you are now dwelling.
"As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord."
But the people answered, "Far be it from us
"to forsake the Lord for the service of other Gods,
"for it was the Lord our God who brought us and our fathers
"up out of Israel, the land of Egypt,
"out of the state of slavery.
"He performed those great miracles before our very eyes,
"and protected us along our entire journey,
"and among the peoples through whom we passed.
"Therefore we also will serve the Lord,
"for he is our God."
The word of the lord.
- [All Together] Thanks be to God.
(piano music)
♪ Taste and see ♪
♪ The goodness of the Lord ♪
♪ Taste and see ♪
♪ The goodness of the Lord ♪
♪ I will bless the Lord at all times ♪
♪ His praise shall be ever in my mouth ♪
♪ Let my soul glory in the Lord ♪
♪ The lonely will hear me and be glad ♪
♪ Taste and see ♪
♪ The goodness of the Lord ♪
♪ Taste and see ♪
♪ The goodness of the Lord ♪
- A reading from the letter of St. Paul to the Ephesians.
Brothers and sisters, be subordinate to one another
out of reverence for Christ.
Wives should be subordinate to their husbands
as to the Lord, for the husband is head of his wife,
just as Christ is head of the church,
he himself the savior of the body.
As the church is subordinate to Christ,
so wives should be subordinate
to their husbands in everything.
Husbands love your wives, even as Christ loved the church,
and handed himself over for her to sanctify her,
cleansing her by the bath of water with a word,
that he might present to himself
the church in splendor, without wrinkle or spot, or any such
thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
So also husbands should love
their wives as their own bodies.
He who loves his wife loves himself,
for no one hates his own flesh,
but rather nourishes and cherishes it,
even as Christ does the church.
Because we are members of the body.
For this reason a man shall leave his father
and his mother and be joined to his wife,
and the two shall become one flesh.
This is a great mystery,
but I speak in reference to Christ and the church.
The word of the Lord.
- [All Together] Thanks be to God.
(piano music)
♪ Hallelujah ♪
♪ Hallelujah ♪
♪ Hallelujah ♪
♪ Hallelujah ♪
♪ Hallelujah ♪
♪ Hallelujah ♪
- The Lord be with you
- [Congregation] And with your spirit.
- A reading from the holy gospel according to John
- [Congregation] Glory to the Lord.
- Many of Jesus' disciples who were listening
said "this saying is hard, who can accept it?"
Since Jesus knew that his disciples were murmuring
about this, he said to them, "does this shock you?
"What if you were to see the son of man ascending
"to where he was before?
"It is the spirit that gives live,
"while the flesh is of no avail.
"The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life,
but there are some of you who do not believe."
Jesus knew from the beginning the ones
who would not believe, and the one who would betray him,
and he said "For this reason I have told you
"that no one can come to me
"unless it is granted him by father."
As a result of this, many of his disciples
returned to their former way of live,
and no longer accompanied him.
Jesus then said to the twelve,
"Do you also want to leave?"
Simon Peter answered him, "Master, to whom shall we go?
"You have the words of eternal life.
"We have come to believe and are convinced
"that you are the holy one of God."
The gospel of the Lord.
- [Congregation] Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.
- This saying is hard, who can accept it?
'Member, Jesus said last week that you must
eat my flesh and drink my blood,
and that didn't sit well for people at that time.
For you and I those words are beautiful,
because we know that in the Eucharist
we are eating the body of Christ and the blood of Christ,
that we are consuming the very life of Christ.
So for us that's good news.
But for those people who were the early followers of Jesus,
remember, they didn't have a catechism book with them.
They were, this was all new for them.
And the messiah wasn't who they were expecting.
It was somebody else.
And so it was hard for them to even accept
that Jesus was the son of man, the son of God.
Yet, there were some then who couldn't accept it.
And so they turned around
and went to their former way of life.
I think when we see the people who didn't accept Jesus
then we look at our situation and we see
what a great gift we have, because no one can come
to the son except through the father,
I mean through the father.
He said here that we have to,
"The words I spoke unto you are spirit and life,
"but there's those of you who don't believe."
But he has the words of eternal life.
And the gift of faith which was given to us in our baptism
allows us to come here and have even a more complete
experience of the Eucharist than the early disciples did.
They had to grow in understanding what this was all about.
We're given the benefit of two thousand years
of knowing Jesus and seeing him present
in the holy Eucharist, and recognizing
his presence in so many ways.
When we come to celebrate mass,
he is present in the ministry of the priest.
He is present in the word proclaimed,
he is present in the assembly gathered together,
and most substantially present in the holy Eucharist.
In all of those ways.
And we have come to know, and we have come to believe,
indeed, that he is the son of God.
So that great gift of faith,
let's never take that for granted.
And let's remember that the faith
that we have is God's gift.
We can't do anything to earn that.
But we can do something to nurture it.
And we nurture it by what we do here, coming to mass.
So even Peter, when Jesus said to all the 12 who were
with him, he said, you know as the other ones were leaving
he said "Do you wanna leave too?"
and Peter, who said "Master, to whom shall we go?
"you have the words of eternal life,
"and we have come to believe and are convinced
"that you are the holy one of God."
Now remember, this is Peter,
who even after saying this denies knowing Jesus.
So just because we have an encounter with Christ,
and even though we have two thousand years
of experience, and we know that Christ is really present,
body, blood, soul, and divinity of the Eucharist,
it doesn't mean that we're saved from everything.
Even Peter, the one who he called rock, even failed,
but he's still rock.
And so Jesus takes, you know it's like
the saying goes that Jesus does not call the qualified,
he qualifies the called.
And our life is always being qualified by God,
and our lives are always being nurtured by God,
so thank God for this great gift.
And God does not stop loving even when we fail
in our being good disciples.
He still loves us.
His love is forever, and the gift of the holy Eucharist
is his presence, his real presence
in the here and now, until the time of our death
or the time of the end of the world.
At which time, again, we won't need the Eucharist.
Because we will be with Jesus in heaven in eternity.
And that's our goal.
May we thank God for this gift,
that we continue to be nurtured in word and sacrament,
and nurture one another by the gift of our faith,
and how we let the love of God shine through us.
Together we profess our faith using the apostles' creed.
- [All Together] I believe in God,
the father almighty, creator of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, his only son our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate,
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 God the father almighty.
He shall 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, amen.
- "Master, to whom shall we go?
"You have the words of eternal life."
With Peter's simple expression of faith echoing
in our hearts, let us offer up our prayers and petitions.
- That our church may take on the hard demands
of Jesus's gospel of justice, we pray to the lord.
- [All Together] Lord, hear our prayer.
- That all nations, peoples, and races
may find unity, understanding, and trust
in the God and father of all who is over all and is in all.
We pray to the Lord.
- [All Together] Lord hear our prayer.
- That the sick, suffering, and dying
find peace in God, who heals the broken hearted,
we pray to the Lord.
- [All Together] Lord, hear our prayer.
- That all families in our community, like Joshua's
household, serve the Lord in their love and support
of one another, and their contributions
to our neighborhood, we pray to the Lord.
- [All Together] Lord, hear our prayer.
- Gracious God, hear our prayers.
Instill in is your spirit, so that we may carry on
in the certainty of your son's words of spirit and life.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
- [All Together] Amen.
(piano music)
- Pray, my sisters and brothers,
that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable
to God the almighty father.
- [Congregation] May the Lord accept the sacrifice
at your hands, for the praise and glory of his name,
for our good, and the good of all his Holy Church.
- Oh Lord, who gained for yourself
a people by adoption through the one sacrifice
offered once for all, bestow graciously on us,
we pray, the gifts of unity and peace in your church.
Through Christ our Lord.
- [Congregation] Amen.
- The Lord be with you.
- [Congregation] And with your spirit.
- [Priest] Lift up your hearts.
- [Congregation] We lift them up to the Lord.
- [Priest] Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
- [Congregation] It is right and just.
- It is truly right and just. our duty and our salvation,
always and everywhere, to give you thanks.
Lord, holy father, almighty and eternal God,
for in you we live and move and have our being,
and while in this body, we not only experience
the daily effects of your care,
but even now possess the pledge of life eternal.
For having received to the first fruits of the spirit
through whom you raised up Jesus from the dead,
we hope for an everlasting share in the pascal mystery.
And so with all the angels and saints,
we praise you, as in joyful celebration, we acclaim.
(piano music)
♪ Holy, holy, holy Lord ♪
♪ God of hosts ♪
♪ Heaven and earth are full of your glory ♪
♪ Hosannah in the highest ♪
♪ Hosannah in the highest ♪
♪ Blessed is he ♪
♪ Blessed is he ♪
♪ Who comes in the name of the Lord ♪
♪ Hosannah in the highest ♪
♪ Hosannah in the highest ♪
♪ Hosannah in the highest ♪
♪ Hosannah in the highest ♪
- You are indeed holy, oh Lord,
the fount of all holiness.
Make holy, therefore, these gifts, we pray,
by sending down your spirit upon them like the dew fall
so 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."
In a similar way, 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 ♪
(piano music)
♪ 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 his death
and resurrection, we offer you, Lord, the bread of life
and the chalice of salvation, giving thanks
that you have held us worthy
to be in your presence and minister to you.
Humbly we pray that partaking in the body and blood
of Christ we may be gathered into one by the Holy Spirit.
Remember, Lord, your church spread throughout the world,
and bring her to the fullness of charity,
together with Francis, our pope, George Leo our bishop,
Joseph our bishop emeritus,
all the clergy and all your people.
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 all, we pray, that with the blessed
Virgin Mary, mother of God, with Joseph,
her loving husband, with the blessed apostles,
the martyrs, and all the saints
who have pleased you throughout the ages,
we may mirror to be co-heirs to eternal life,
and may 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. ♪
(piano music)
♪ Amen, amen, amen, amen ♪
♪ Amen, amen, amen, amen ♪
At the savior's command and form
by divine teaching we dare to pray.
- [All Together] 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
- [Congregation] For the kingdom, the power,
and the glory are yours now and forever.
- Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your apostles,
"Peace I leave you, my peace I give you."
Look not on our sins but on the faith of our church,
and graciously grant her 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.
- [Congregation] And with your spirit.
- Let us offer each other the sign of peace.
- Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world.
Have mercy on us.
- [All Together] 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.
- [All Together] Lord, I am not worthy
that you should enter under my roof,
but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.
(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 kind ♪
♪ And as a servant he calls to me ♪
♪ You must serve too ♪
♪ 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 ♪
- Let us pray.
Complete within us, oh Lord, we pray,
the healing work of your mercy,
and graciously perfect and sustain us
so that in all things we may please you.
Through Christ our Lord.
- [Congregation] Amen.
- The Lord be with you.
- [Congregation] And with your spirit.
- May our loving God bless you.
The father, and the son, and the Holy Spirit.
- [Congregation] Amen.
- Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.
- [Congregation] Thanks be to god.
(piano music)
♪ Oh God, beyond the praising ♪
♪ We worship you today ♪
♪ And sing the love that Mary sent ♪
♪ That songs cannot repay ♪
♪ For we can only wonder ♪
♪ At every gift you send ♪
♪ of blessings with out number ♪
♪ And mercies without end ♪
♪ We lift our hearts before you ♪
♪ And wait upon your word ♪
♪ We honor and adore you ♪
♪ The great and mighty Lord ♪
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