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Today's Feast is Saint John I, Pope and Martyr
The Readings can be found at http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/051822.cfm
Holy Mass is offered by Fr. Ryan Humphries from St. Edward the Confessor Catholic Church in Tallulah, Louisiana
*Note* The screen will look frozen on the title card until the beginning of Mass. This is deliberate.
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this mass is
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the lord chose him for himself as high
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priest
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and opening his treasure house made you
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rich in all good
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in the name of the father and of the son
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and of the holy spirit the lord be with
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you
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as we come before our lord to offer
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these sacred mysteries in honor of folks
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in john the first let us acknowledge our
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sins now and so prepare our
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lord jesus you are king of kings lord
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have mercy lord have mercy lord jesus
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your lord of lords christ have mercy
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lord jesus you are prince of peace lord
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have mercy lord
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may almighty god have mercy on us
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forgive us our sins and bring us to
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everlasting life
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let us pray
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oh god who reward faithful souls
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and who have consecrated this day by the
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martyrdom of hopes in john the first
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graciously hear the prayers of your
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people and grant that we who venerate
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his merits may imitate his constancy in
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the faith through our lord jesus christ
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your son who lives and reigns with you
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in the unity of the holy spirit one god
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forever and ever
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a reading from the acts of the apostles
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some who had come down from judea were
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instructing the brothers
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unless you circumcis unless you are
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circumcised according to the mosaic
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practice you cannot be saved
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because there arose no little dissension
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and debate by paul and barnabas with
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them
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it was decided that paul
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barnabas and some of the others should
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go up to jerusalem to the apostles and
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presbyters about this question
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they were sent on their journey by the
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church
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and passed through phoenicia and samaria
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telling of the conversion of the
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gentiles and brought great joy to all
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the brethren
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when they arrived in jerusalem they were
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welcomed by the church as well as by the
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apostles and the presbyters
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and they reported what god had done with
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them
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but some from the party of the pharisees
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who had become believers
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stood up and said it is necessary to
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circumcise them and direct them to
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observe the mosaic law
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the apostles and the presbyters
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met together to see about this matter
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the word of the lord
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let us go rejoicing to the house of the
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lord let us go rejoicing to the house of
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the lord
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i rejoice because they said to me we
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will go up to the house of the lord and
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now we have set foot within your gates o
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jerusalem
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let us go rejoicing to the house of the
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lord
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jerusalem built as a city with compact
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unity to it the tribes went up the
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tribes of the lord
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let us go rejoicing to the house of the
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lord
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according to the decree for israel to
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give thanks to the name of the lord in
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it are set up judgment seats seats for
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the house of david
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let us go rejoicing to the house of the
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lord
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the lord be with you
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a reading from the holy gospel according
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to saint john
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jesus said to his disciples i am the
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true vine and my father is the vine
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grower
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he takes away every branch in me that
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does not bear fruit and everyone that
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does he prunes so that it bears more
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fruit
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you are already pruned because of the
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word that i spoke to you
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remain in me as i remain in you
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just as the branch cannot bear fruit on
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its own unless it remains on the vine so
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neither can you unless you remain in me
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i am the vine you are the branches
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whoever remains in me and i in him will
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bear much fruit because without me you
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can do nothing
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anyone who does not remain in me will be
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thrown out like a branch and wither
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people will gather them and throw them
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into a fire and they will be burned
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if you remain in me and my words remain
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in you ask for whatever you want and it
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will be done for you
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by this is my father glorified that you
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bear much fruit and become my disciples
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the gospel of the lord
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pope saint john the first was a weird
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situation by our standards and by the
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ancient times so this is the 500s the
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church is is you know the roman empire
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is ready to implode you have all the
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kind of chaos going on where rome seems
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to hate uh the the people of
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constantinople and in fact you have not
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one but four emperors all competing for
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whoever is in charge of the roman empire
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and you have the western roman emperor
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who is set up in ravana or ravana
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depending on how you like to say the old
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way and then the other one emperor
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justin who's set up in constant and
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constantinople and there's all this back
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and forth and the pope at this point is
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as much of a pawn in this chess game as
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he is an authority in himself
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and so you have this sweet little deacon
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deacon john who was a well thought of
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teacher a sweet guy and whose great
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interest was cemeteries his great
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interest was the catacombs and so he
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spent a lot of his energy and his time
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and his you know whatever uh
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um
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whatever pull he had in the city of rome
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looking after the catacombs that was
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what he wanted to do and then
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inexplicably he's pope and so now he's
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looking around going i'm not sure what
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i'm supposed to be doing with all this
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and so the emperor theatrics says hey
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why don't you pick up shop mount the
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donkey and ride over to constantinople
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and you can convince justin justin to uh
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to get along and deal with this this
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great conflict over the heresy of
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aryanism and so he gasses up the donkey
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and goes to constantinople and he
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actually accomplishes something makes
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some real progress and he you know comes
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back with a concordat that says hey
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we're we're we're dobbing this is good
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we're going to be able to to get along
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but the emperor and ravenna is so
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unhappy that the success has come and
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that one or two of the little items that
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he included that did not get put in the
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in the treaty he is beside himself with
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rage so he takes this sweet little old
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guy this at this point he's probably in
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his mid 70s and locks him up in jail and
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basically just neglects him to death and
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so pope john the first dies in prison
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having succeeded in the mission he was
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sent to succeed on by the emperor who he
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didn't really have that great much much
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love for having not really wanted to be
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the pope in the first place and so he's
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a guy who really does kind of find
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himself a victim of his time and yet at
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the same time some centuries later when
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boethius who is one of the most
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important philosophers in history
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writes what he is what he calls the
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consolation of a cons
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consolation
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exactly
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it's constitution i think of philosophy
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it doesn't matter when boethius writes
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this great work it's a five book long
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work and he dedicates three of the five
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to pope john the first who had this
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great great love for the people and who
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was beloved of the roman people and so
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it's a wonderful kind of sad but at the
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same time beautiful story of how the
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holy spirit works through unexpected
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ways and of course it's always nice to
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see a saint who's just a simple little
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guy that the lord loves and that he
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wants to serve the lord and whether he
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manages to kind of be francis like and
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accomplish a lot of things or whether
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he's pope john
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john the first like and doesn't
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accomplish a whole lot of anything
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there's still just this wonderful beauty
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in the fact that the lord uses ordinary
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simple people who are interested and
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willing in being used by the lord and so
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that's always i think a consolation to
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recognize that as long as we're open to
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the lord doing something he can do
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remarkable things although i think that
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most of the deacons i know are hopeful
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that they're not going to be elected
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pope at random uh and then sent to their
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death by a random emperor you know
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it could happen who knows but it's it's
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never a good sign you know so so uh so
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pope john paul john the first is
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wonderful to think about and consider
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and ask for his intercession and in
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particular as we're talking after mass
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today
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about our end of life issues
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it's an appropriate kind of patronal
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feast to ask this pope who was so deeply
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concerned with the catacombs and with
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the tombs uh for his intercession and
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our talk and so after mass today these
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feed will go down and come back up but
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because it's one of those days in the
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parish where we're doing the talk in the
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evening and the morning
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the topic this morning for for the talk
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will not be the book of the bible but it
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will be the end of life issues so we'll
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talk a little bit about the medical the
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legal and of course the spiritual topics
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that come up at the end of life and then
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we'll talk a little bit about the
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catholic funeral why it is the way it is
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why we break it into the parts we break
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it into and what you practically need to
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do to well prepare yourself for the end
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of life and so all that will come
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we'll drop the feed and come back up and
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if you would like to come this evening
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of course you can come this evening if
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you want to stick around this morning
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you're welcome stick around this morning
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but that will be right after mass today
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blessed are you lord god of all creation
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for through your goodness we have
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received the bread we offer
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fruit of the earth and work of human
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hands it will become for us the bread of
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life
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blessed are you lord god of all creation
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through your goodness we have received
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the wine we offer you fruit of the vine
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and work of human hands it will become
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our spiritual dream
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pray my brothers and sisters that my
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sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to
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god the almighty father r
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sanctify our offerings by your blessing
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oh lord we pray and by your grace may we
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be set a fire with that flame of your
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love through which pope saint john the
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first overcame every bodily torment
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through christ our lord
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the lord be with you
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lift up your hearts
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let us give thanks to the lord
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it is truly right and just our duty and
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our salvation always and everywhere to
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give you thanks lord holy father
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almighty and eternal god for the blood
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of your blessed martyr john poured out
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like christ to glorify your name
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shows forth your marvelous works by
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which in our weakness you perfect your
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power and on the feeble bestow strength
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to bear you witness through christ our
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lord and so with the powers of heaven we
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worship you constantly on earth and
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before your majesty without in we
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acclaim
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holy
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holy holy lord god of hosts
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heaven and earth are full of your glory
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hosanna in the highest blessed is he who
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comes in the name of the lord
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hosanna in the highest
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you are indeed holy o lord and all you
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have created rightly gives you praise
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but for your son our lord jesus christ
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by the power and working of the holy
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spirit you give life to all things and
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make them holy and you never cease to
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gather people to yourself so that from
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the rising of the sun to its setting a
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pure sacrifice may be offered to your
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and therefore o lord we humbly employ
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you by the same spirit graciously make
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holy these gifts we have brought to you
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for consecration that they may become
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the body
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and blood of your son our lord jesus
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christ at whose command we celebrate
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these mysteries
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for other night he was betrayed he
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himself took bread and giving you thanks
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he said the blessing
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broke the bread and gave it to his
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disciples
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saying
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take this all of you and eat of it
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for this is my body which will be given
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up for you
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in a similar way when supper was ended
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he took the chalice and giving you
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thanks he said the lesson and gave the
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chalice to his disciples saying
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take this all of you and drink from it
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for this is the chalice of my blood
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the blood of the new and eternal
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covenant which will be poured out for
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you and for many for the forgiveness of
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sins
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do this in memory of me
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the mystery of faith
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we proclaim your death o lord and
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profess your resurrection until you come
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again
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therefore o lord as we celebrate the
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memorial of the saving passion of your
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son
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his wondrous resurrection and ascension
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into heaven and as we look forward to
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his second coming we offer you in
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thanksgiving this holy and living
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sacrifice
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look we pray upon the oblation of your
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church and recognizing the sacrificial
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victim by whose death you willed to
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reconcile us to yourself
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grant that we who are nourished by the
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body and blood of your son and filled
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with his holy spirit may become one body
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one spirit in christ and may he make of
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us an eternal offering to you so that we
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may obtain an inheritance with your
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elect especially with the most blessed
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virgin mary mother of god with blessed
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joseph her spouse with your blessed
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apostles and glorious martyrs and with
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all the saints on whose constant
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intercession in your presence we rely
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for unfailing hell
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may this sacrifice of our reconciliation
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we pray o lord advance the peace and
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salvation of all the world
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be pleased to confirm in faith and
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charity your pilgrim church on earth
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with your servant francis our pope and
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robert our bishop the order of bishops
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all the clergy and the entire people you
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have gained for your own
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listen graciously to the prayers of this
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family whom you have summoned before you
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in your compassion o merciful father
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gather to yourself all your children
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scattered throughout the world
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and to our departed brothers and sisters
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and to all who are pleasing to you of
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their passing from this life give kind
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admittance to your kingdom
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there we hope to enjoy forever the
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fullness of your glory through christ
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our lord through whom you bestow on the
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world all that is
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through
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with him and in him oh god almighty
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father in the unity of the holy spirit
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all glory and honor is yours forever and
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ever
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at the savior's command and formed by
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divine teaching we dare to say
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our father who art in heaven hallowed be
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thy name
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thy kingdom come and thy will be done on
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earth as it is in heaven
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give us this day our daily bread and
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forgive us our trespasses
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as we forgive those who trespass against
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us
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and lead us not into temptation but
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deliver us from
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deliver us lord we pray from every
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graciously grant peace in our days that
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by the help of your mercy we may be
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always free from sin and safe from all
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distress as we await the blessed hope
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and the coming of our savior jesus
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christ for the kingdom the power and the
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glory are yours
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lord jesus christ who said to your
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apostles peace i leave you my peace i
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give you look not on our sins but on the
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faith of your church and graciously
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grant her peace and unity in accordance
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with your will who live and reign
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forever and ever
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the peace of our lord be with you all
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and let us offer to one another a sign
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of that
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take away the sins of the world have
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mercy on us
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behold
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the lamb of god
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behold him who takes away the sins of
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the world blessed are those who are
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called to the supper of the lamb
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lord i am not worthy you should enter
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under my roof but only say the word and
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my soul shall be
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so
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has laid down his life
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let us break
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may the sacred mysteries of which we
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have partaken oh lord we pray give us
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that determination which made your
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martyr pope saint john the first
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faithful in your service and victorious
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in suffering through christ our lord
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amen again we'll uh disconnect the feed
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and come right back up with the talk on
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the end of life issues we'd love to have
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you join us for that the lord be with
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you amen and may almighty god bless you
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the father the son and the holy spirit
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go in
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you