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Holy Mass from St Edward the Confessor in Tallulah 08-14-2024
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Aug 15, 2024
Holy Mass from St. Edward the Confessor in Tallulah, Louisiana Today's Readings can be found at https://bible.usccb.org/daily-bible-reading *Note* The screen will look frozen on the title card until the beginning of Mass. This is deliberate.
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in the name of the father and of the son
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and the Holy Spirit the Lord be with you
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and with your SP as we come before our
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Lord to offer these sacred mysteries in
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honor of the Assumption let us
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acknowledge our sins and so prepare our
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hearts Lord Jesus you are king of kings
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Lord have mercy Lord have Merc Lord
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Jesus your Lord of lords Christ have
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mercy Christ have Merc Lord Jesus your
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Prince of Peace Lord have mercy Lord May
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almighty God have mercy on us forgive us
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our sins and bring us to ever lasting
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life glory to God in the highest and on
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Earth peace to people of Good Will We
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Praise You we bless you we adore you we
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glorify you we give you thanks for your
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great glory Lord God Heavenly King oh
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God Almighty father Lord Jesus Christ
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only begotten son Lord God Lamb of God
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receive our prayer you are seated at the
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right hand of the father have mercy on
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us for you alone are the Holy One you
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alone are the Lord you alone are the
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most high Jesus Christ with the Holy
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Spirit in the glory of God the Father
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amen let us
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pray oh God who looking on the
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loneliness of the Blessed Virgin Mary
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raised her to this grace that your only
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begotten son was born of her according
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to the Flesh and that she was crowned
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this day with surpassing Glory Grant
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through her prayers that high through
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our Lord Jesus Christ your son who lives
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and reigns with you in the unity of the
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Holy Spirit one God forever and ever
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amen a reading from the first book of
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Chronicles David assembled all Israel in
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Jerusalem to bring the Ark of the of the
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Lord to the place that he had prepared
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for it David also called together the
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sons of Aaron and the Levites the
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Levites bore the Ark of God on their
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shoulders with poles of the Levites to
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appoint their Kinsmen as
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chanters to play on musical instruments
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Harps liars and symbols to make a loud
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sound of
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rejoicing they brought in the ark of God
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and set it within the tent which David
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had pitched for it
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then they offered up burnt offerings and
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peace offering in the name of the Lord
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the word of the Lord thanks be to
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God lord go up to the place of your rest
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you and the Ark of your
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Holiness Lord go up to the place of your
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rest you and let us enter into his
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dwelling let us worship at his foot stol
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Lord go up to the place of your for Joy
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for the sake of David your servant
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reject not the plea of your anointed
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Lord go out to the place of your rest
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you and the Ark of your Holiness for the
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Lord has chosen Zion he prefers her for
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his dwelling Zion is my resting place
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forever in her will I dwell for I prefer
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her Lord go out to the place of your
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rest you and the AR of your
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Holiness mortal clothes itself with
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immortality then the word that is
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written shall come about death is
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swallowed up in Victory where o death is
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your Victory where o death is your Sting
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the sting of death is sin and the power
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of sin is the law but thanks be to God
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who gives us the victory through
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah
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Hallelujah blessed are they who hear the
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word of God and the Lord be with you
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your SP a reading from the holy Gospel
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According to St Luke glory to you while
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Jesus was speaking a woman from the
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crowd called out and said to him blessed
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is the womb that carried you and the
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breasts at which you nursed and he
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replied rather blessed are those who
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hear the word of God and observe it the
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gospel of the
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Lord James version of the Bible is the
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proverb the foolishness of God confounds
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the wisest of the wise the foolishness
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sense to human reason right why for
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example does God choose David to go up
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against Goliath right choose the biggest
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strongest guy and beat up the big strong
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guy but instead we have this idea where
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now we have this tiny little boy who is
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you know say Mary Katherine's size who's
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going to go up against somebody Lance's
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size and Lance is covered in big steel
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armor and she's got a rock and you're
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going it ain't going to end well there's
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just no way this is going to end well
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and yet that's what we have and we
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continue to have stuff like that and on
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and on and of course at the center of
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that is of course the fact that Jesus
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comes into the world and rather than
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making clear that he is God he instead
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hides that and reveals it only to a few
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people and says now that I've not told
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anybody about it you guys go and
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convince this is the choice of the that
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our Lord intends to continue to use her
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after she died and and went on that is
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perhaps at least for me from my point of
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view the oddest thing and the most
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unexpected thing in the entirety of our
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Christian faith I can get on board with
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the Holy Eucharist I can get on board
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with holy water I can get on board with
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relics that's the harder one for me to
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get my head around extremely precarious
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situation where if you're found to be
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pregnant without being married you get
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thrown rocks at not the best thing
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chooses to come into the world this way
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chooses to have her endure all the
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difficulty of his passion
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then inexplicably she becomes kind of
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the Beating Heart of the apostles then
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she goes off to Ephesus dies and then
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ultimately her body is being that Jesus
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raised himself whereas she was raised by
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God but the spiritual lesson that
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follows from that is God intends to
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continue to put her to work and so we
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start to see that I mean from the 100s
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ad the 300s ad we have over and over and
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over again and the Blessed Virgin Mary
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appearing to this one and that one and
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the other one and always the least
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expected people in the last 200 years
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going back to our lady at lalet in
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France and then Lords in France and then
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Fatima in to people who can do nothing
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but to be helpful uh in Parish she
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appeared to a cloistered nun who didn't
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know how to draw this I don't live next
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to a metal foundry I don't have a
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computer what am I supposed to do and
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yet our lady conscious ly chooses what
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we would think of as the least logical
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the most difficult the most challenging
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possible ways to go about the work that
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she's going to do ultimately
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because our Lord
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insists on choosing us to minister to
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one another he insists on it Jesus is
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ultimately able to send the Blessed
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Virgin Mary who I assure you would give
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a better sermon than I do on these Feast
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be so much better and yet this is not
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what our Lord chooses to do instead he
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chooses and has always chosen weak
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people men and women all through history
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to do the work and to preach the gospel
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that he wanted to give and believe me
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when I say even people from my side of
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the pulpit don't understand really why
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it is that the Lord is chosen to do this
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but ultimately this is the reality that
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we celebrate on the Assumption of Our
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Lady the fact that our Lord has chosen
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weak fallible people to do his work and
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that ultimately he will raise those
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people up we don't do it by our own
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power Jesus raised himself but Mary was
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raised up by him Body and Soul into
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heaven and the the allegory the metaphor
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is that we then are raised up to do the
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work that he calls us to do and drawn up
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into him not by our power not even by
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our efforts but entirely by his mercy
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and love and for my money the most
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difficult thing about that whole process
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is simply getting our heads around why
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the Lord would
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choose
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us and at the end of the day the
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greatest act of humility is simply
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entrusting ourselves to the Lord and
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saying Lord if you want me to do that do
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it that directs me to do it and that
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guides me as I do it and that act of
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humility is profound and challenging
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ultimately when Mary at the age of 14
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had the angel appeared to her and said I
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want to put you at the center of the
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Salvation of the entire world the easier
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response is thanks but no thanks not my
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seam let somebody else do it I will go
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on and be a simple little seam strip and
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marry some Rando from Nazareth I'm sure
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it'll be great we'll set up shop in a
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little trailer park outside of town
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it'll be fine go find somebody else and
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yet our Lord consciously refuses to do
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that and in a very very real way he
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constantly comes to us with those same
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types of obviously less dramatic
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appearances and says I want you to share
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with this person in your life I want you
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to say something difficult to a grandson
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granddaughter whatever I want you to put
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put your gifts at my service and if
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we're willing to do that then God can
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work remarkable Miracles through us even
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if they're not continues to be at the
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center of the spiritual life of the
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church is a testament not to her
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greatness but to her humility at
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allowing the Lord to use her to put her
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to work which is what the Lord desires
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to do with every one of us and directs
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and asks of us perhaps more than we feel
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like we're able to give and in the name
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of the father and of the son and of the
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holy spirit amen just a few
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announcements at this time it's more
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convenient to make uh it is a holy day
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of obligation and so you have made it to
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mass congratulations tomorrow you don't
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need to go to mass again tomorrow though
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is a feast day a solemnity which means
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you have a moral obligation to celebrate
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and to Feast we can do something feasty
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tomorrow because tomorrow is a feast day
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second there were a number of folks who
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were here at Mass this morning for the
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Memorial mass of Miss Gale you can
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receive communion a second time in the
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same day provided that the second time
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that you receive communion is at mass as
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opposed to at a communion service or at
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the bedside of the sick and so if you
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were here today you can receive Holy
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Communion again uh good for you for
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coming to mass there uh second as also
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today we do have the Creed but we do not
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have the intercession so I'll ask you to
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stand for the Creed and then to we won't
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worry about the intercession so please
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stand
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maker of heaven and Earth of all things
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visible and invisible I believe in one
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Lord Jesus Christ the only begotten Son
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of God born of the father before all
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ages God from God light from light true
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God from true God begotten not made
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consubstantial with the father through
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him all things were made and for us men
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and for our Salvation he came down from
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heaven and by the Holy Spirit was
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incarnated the Virgin Mary and became
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for our sake he was the third day in
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accordance with the scriptures he
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ascended into heaven and is seated at
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the right hand of the father he will
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come again in glory to judge the living
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and the dead and his kingdom will have
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no end I believe in the Holy Spirit the
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Lord The Giver of Life who proceeds from
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the father and the son who with the
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father and the son is adored and
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glorified
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who has spoken through the prophets and
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I believe in one Holy Catholic and
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Apostolic church I confess one baptism
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for the Forgiveness of sins and I look
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forward to the resurrection of the dead
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and the life of the world to come amen
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please be
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seated Lord God of all creation for your
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goodness we have received the bread we
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offer you fruit of the earth and work of
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human hands it will become for us the
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bread of life blessed be God
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forever blessed are you Lord God of all
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creation for through your goodness pray
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my brothers and sisters sacrifice at my
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hand for the pray Lord the sacrifice
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your pardon and
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confirm lift up your hearts to let us
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give thanks to the Lord Our God it is
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right it is truly right through Christ
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Our Lord church is coming to proed the
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corruption and so in company with the
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choirs of holy Lord God of hosts Heaven
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and Earth are full of your glory hosana
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in the highest blessed is he Come Holy
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oh Lord you give life to all things and
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make the sun to its setting a pure
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sacrifice L make holy these gifts we
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have brought to you for consecration
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that they may become the body and blood
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of your son our Lord Jesus Christ at
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whose command we celebrate these mystery
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broke the bread and gave it to his
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disciples say he is my body
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giving you thanks he said the blessing
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for this is the Chalice of my blood many
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for the forgiveness of
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sin of faith we Proclaim your death O
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Lord and therefore oh Lord and as we
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long the oblation of your church Grant
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that we who are nourished by may he make
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of us it and Mar intercession in your
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presence with the peace and salvation of
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all the world be Robert our Bishop the
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order of Bishops all the clergy and the
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entire people you have gained for your
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own listen graciously to the prayers of
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throughout the world to our departed
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brother Kingdom there we hope to enjoy
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forever the fullness of your glory
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through Christ Our Lord through whom you
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bestow on the world all that is
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good spirit all Who Art in Heaven Hall
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heaven give us this pass against us and
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lead us not into temptation but Deliver
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Us from Evil Deliver Us Lord we pray
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from every evil and graciously Grant
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peace in our day the Blessed hope and
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Lord Jesus Christ who said to your
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Apostles Grant her peace and unity in
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accordance with your will let us offer
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to one another a sign
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behold not worthy you should enter under
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my roof
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who honor the Assumption of the mother
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of God may be freed from every threat of
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harm through Christ Our Lord amen the
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Lord be with you