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Holy Mass from St. Edward the Confessor in Tallulah, Louisiana
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the Lord
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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 this evening let
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us acknowledge our sins and so prepare
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our hearts
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I confess to almighty God and to you my
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brothers and sisters that I have greatly
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sinned in my thoughts and in my words
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and what I have done and in what I have
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failed to do through my fault through my
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fault through my most Grievous fault and
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therefore I ask the Blessed Mary ever
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virgin all the angels and Saints and you
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my brothers and sisters to pray for me
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to the Lord our God and may almighty God
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have mercy on us forgive us our sins and
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bring us to everlasting life Lord have
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mercy
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Christ have mercy
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Lord have mercy
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let us pray
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o God who consecrated the Abundant first
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fruits of the Roman Church by the blood
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of the martyrs Grant we pray that with
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firm courage we may together draw
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strength from so great a struggle and
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ever Rejoice at the Triumph of faithful
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love through our Lord Jesus Christ your
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son who lives and reigns with you in the
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unity of the Holy Spirit one God forever
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and ever
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a reading from The Book of Genesis
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when Abram was 99 years old the Lord
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appeared to him and said
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I am God the Almighty
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walk in my presence and be blameless
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God also said to Abraham
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on your part you and your descendants
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after you must keep my Covenant
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throughout the ages
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this is my Covenant with you and your
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descendants after you that you must keep
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every male among you shall be
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circumcised
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God further said to Abraham as for your
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wife Sarah I do not call her Sarai
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her name shall be Sarah
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I will bless her and I will give you a
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son by her
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him also will I bless he shall give rise
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to Nations and rulers of peoples shall
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issue from him
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Abraham prostrated himself and laughed
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as he said to himself
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can a child be born to a man who is a
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hundred years old
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or can Sarah give birth at 90.
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then Abraham said to God
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but Ismail live on by your favor
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God replied
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nevertheless your wife Sarah is to Bear
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you a son
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and you shall call him Isaac
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I will maintain my Covenant with him as
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an everlasting Pact
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to be his God and the god of his
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descendants after him
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as for Ishmael
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I am heeding you I hereby bless him
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I will make him fertile and will
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multiply him exceedingly
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he shall become the father of twelve
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Chieftains and I will make of him a
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great nation
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but my Covenant I will maintain with
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Isaac whom Sarah shall bear to you by
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this time next year
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when he had finished speaking with him
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God departed from Abraham
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the word of the Lord
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see how the Lord blesses those who fear
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Him
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see how the Lord blesses those who fear
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Him blessed are you who fear the lord
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who walk in his ways for you shall eat
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the fruit of your handiwork blessed
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shall you be and favored
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see how the Lord blesses those who fear
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Him
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your wife shall be like a fruitful Vine
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in the recesses of your home
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your children like Olive plants around
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your table
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see how the Lord blesses those who fear
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Him
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behold thus is the man blessed who fears
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the Lord
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the Lord bless you from Zion may you see
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the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days
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of your life
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see how the Lord blesses those who fear
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Him
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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 Matthew Lord You O Lord when
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Jesus came down from the mountain great
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crowds followed him and then a leper
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approached did him homage and said Lord
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if you wish you can make me clean he
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stretched out his hand touched him and
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said I do will it be made clean
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his lepre leprosy was cleansed
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immediately and then Jesus said to him
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see that you tell no one but go show
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yourself to the priest and offer the
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gift that Moses prescribed that will be
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proof for them
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the gospel of the Lord
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in theology we talk about tensions as
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that kind of theological reality where
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one thing that God prescribes
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contradicts or seems to contradict with
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another thing that God prescribes for
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example if we look at our first reading
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in the uh from The Book of Genesis we
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have God going against the common and
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ordinary wisdom first that the oldest
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child should be the one that inherits
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everything that's the universally
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understood common wisdom God rejects
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that there's the idea that in old age
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New Birth cannot come the idea that
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being a Bedouin and kind of being out
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and about is certainly that kind of of
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situation where we don't have stability
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and yet the Lord is saying it's through
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all of these descendomatically through
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the desert also in the ancient world we
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would expect that the Lord would say
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look A law is what I'm going to give you
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and yet the Covenant that God describes
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is remarkably simple a few very very
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simple things and yet God is going to
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bring remarkable things through it and
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then of course in the psalm we have this
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kind of inversion where we would expect
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the Lord would bless those who obey him
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not those who are in centerpiece of what
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the Lord has given the Mosaic law and
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yet we have here this Psalm that kind of
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says no no the Lord is going to do the
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blessing not the law which of course is
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something one thing and doing another
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right the Lord is coming to bless the
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leper the Lord heals the leper not
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because it is the right thing to do not
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because the leper is in a sad State not
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because the leper is part of a protected
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class why because I will it that's why
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God says Jesus says and so that's why it
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is full stop and yet rather than as soon
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as that happens then Jesus looks and
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says but we're going to pretend this
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came through the law
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and so everything in this world happens
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why very very much a constant inversion
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of what we might call Common Sense and
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of course there are a pile of jokes from
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the 50s 60s and 70s that basically all
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boil down to the problem with common
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sense is that no one seems to have it it
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works the same way when it comes to
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religious Common Sense where the Lord is
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constantly inverting or flipping our
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perspective on what makes sense and it's
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not just in terms of these kind of
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specific details we could think of the
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first Martyrs of the Church of Rome that
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we celebrate today why is it that the
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Lord wants to spread his church by the
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death of his followers that seems to us
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counter-intuitive it seems to us
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irrational even Saint Francis of Assisi
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when Saint Anthony of Padua knocked on
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the door and said I want to join up with
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your religious order because I want to
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be sent to Africa to be martyred Francis
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said that's not a particularly good
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reason to join my religion disorder I'll
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be honest with you I want you to go to
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heaven just like I want everybody to go
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to heaven but knocking on my door saying
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can you please send me to my death so I
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can bypass the will of God not a good
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reason to become a Franciscan and so we
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could go on and on and on and on and on
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but there is this underlying premise of
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our entire faith that says the wisdom of
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God confounds us which is why it's one
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of those constant themes of my preaching
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that rather than Rely Upon Our
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perspective rather than rely upon our
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intuition rather than rely even upon the
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teaching of the church more broadly we
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want to constantly go back to the Lord
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again and again and again and say Lord
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what do you want from me today
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now if the Lord asks me something that
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makes no sense at all if I hear the Lord
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say something that is contrary to the
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teaching of the church if I hear the
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Lord say something that is contrary to
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my human nature then I say hang on a
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minute am I hearing the Lord rightly or
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am I perhaps hearing something I should
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not be hearing am I Discerning poorly
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but really and truly we always have to
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go back to the centerpiece of Our Gospel
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today where the Lord reaches out and
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heals this person why because I do will
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it because but ours and so we cannot
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hope to be that for the Lord unless we
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go to him and say Lord what do you want
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from me today not in Broad strokes but
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specifically I don't need to know
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everything I just need to know what you
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want from me today Lord what is your
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will for me immediately what do you will
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so that in my life I may see you come to
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me and say I do will it in the name of
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the father and the son and the holy
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spirit amen
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blessed are you Lord God of all creation
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for your goodness we have received the
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bread we offer you fruit of the earth
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and work of human hands it will become
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for us the bread of life
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foreign
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blessed are you Lord God of all creation
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for your goodness we have received the
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wine we offer you fruit of the vine and
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work of human hands Mighty and eternal
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God for you are praised in the company
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of your Saints and in crowning their
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merits you Crown your own gifts by their
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way of life you offer us an example and
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by communion with them you give us
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companionship by their intercession sure
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support so that encouraged by so great a
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cloud of witnesses we may run as Victors
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in the race before us and win with them
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the imperishable Crown of Glory through
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Christ Our Lord and so with the Angels
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and Archangels and with the great
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multitude of the Saints we sing the hymn
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of your praise as Without End we Acclaim
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holy holy holy Lord God of hosts Heaven
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and Earth are full of your glory hosanna
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in the highest blessed is he who comes
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in the name of the Lord hosanna in the
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and you are indeed holy O Lord and all
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you have created rightly gives you
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praise for through your son our Lord
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Jesus Christ by the power and working of
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the Holy Spirit you give life to all
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things and make them holy and you never
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cease to gather a people to yourself
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this is the rising of the sun to its
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setting a pure sacrifice may be offered
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to your name and therefore O Lord we
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humbly implore you by The Same Spirit
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graciously make holy these gifts we have
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brought to you for consecration that
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they may become the body and blood of
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your son our Lord Jesus Christ dead
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whose command we celebrate these
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Mysteries
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from the night he was betrayed he
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himself took bread and giving you things
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he said the blessing broke the bread and
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gave it to his disciples saying
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take this all of you and eat of it for
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this is my body not for you
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the mystery of faith
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we Proclaim your death oh 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 his wondrous resurrection and
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Ascension into heaven
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as we look forward to his second coming
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we offer you in Thanksgiving this holy
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and Living 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 this Holy Spirit may become one
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body one Spirit In Christ 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 who plays
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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 help
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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 be pleased to
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confirm in faith and charity your
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Pilgrim Church on Earth with your
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servant Francis our Pope and Robert our
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Bishop the order of Bishops all the
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clergy and the entire people you have
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gained for your own
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listen graciously I will be done on
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Earth as it is in heaven give us this
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day our daily bread and forgive us our
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trespasses as we forgive those who
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trespass against us and lead us not into
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temptation but Deliver Us from Evil
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Deliver Us Lord we pray from every evil
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and graciously Grant peace in our days
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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 or the kingdom the power and the
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glory are yours now and forever Lord
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Jesus Christ you said to your Apostles
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peace I leave you my peace I give you
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look not on our sins but on the faith of
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your church and graciously Grant her
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peace and unity in accordance with your
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will who live and Reign forever and ever
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the Peace of Our Lord be with you always
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and let us offer to one another a sign
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of that peace
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Behold the Lamb of God Behold Him who
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takes away the sins of the world blessed
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are those who are called to the supper
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of the Lamb Lord I am not worthy you
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should enter under my roof but only say
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the word and my soul shall be
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let us pray
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oh God who in your Holy Martyrs have
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wonderfully made known The Mystery of
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the cross
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graciously grant that drawing strength
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from this sacrifice we may cling
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Faithfully to Christ and labor in the
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church for the Salvation of all through
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Christ Our Lord
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and the Lord be with you
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and may almighty God bless you the
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Father the Son and the Holy Spirit go in
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peace