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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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Marice in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit the Lord be with
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you and your SP as we come before our Lord to offer these sacred Mysteries this evening let us acknowledge our sins
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and so prepare our hearts Lord Jesus you are king of kings
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Lord have mercy Lord have Merc Lord Jesus you are Lord of lords Christ have mercy Christ have Merc Lord Jesus your
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Prince of Peace Lord have mercy Lord have Merc and may almighty God have mercy mer on us forgive us our sins and
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bring us to everlasting life glory to God in the highest and on Earth peace to
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people of Good Will We Praise You we bless you we adore you we glorify you we
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give you thanks for your great glory Lord God Heavenly King oh God Almighty
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father Lord Jesus Christ only begotten son Lord God Lamb of God Son of the
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father father you take away the sins of the world have mercy on us you take away
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the sins of the world receive our prayer for you are seated at the right hand of
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the father have mercy on us for you alone are the Holy One you alone are the
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Lord you alone are the most high Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit in the glory
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of God the Father amen and let us pray oh God who in who by the the
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Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin prepared a worthy dwelling for your son Grant we pray that as you
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preserved her from every stain by virtue of the death of your son which you foresaw so through her intercession we
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too may be cleansed and admitted to your presence through our Lord Jesus Christ your son who lives and reigns with you
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in the unity of the Holy Spirit one God forever and ever
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amen
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a reading from The Book of Genesis after the man Adam had eaten of
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the tree the Lord God Called To The Man and asked him where are
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you he answered I I heard you in the garden but I was afraid because I was naked so I
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hid myself then he asked who told you that you were naked you have eaten then from
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the Tree of which I had forbidden you to eat the man replied the woman whom you put here with
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me she gave me fruit from the tree and so I ate it the Lord God then asked the
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woman why did you do such a thing the woman answered the serpent tricked me
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into it and so I ate it then the Lord God said to the
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serpent because You' have done this you shall be banned from all the animals and
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from all the wild creatures on your belly shall you crawl and dirt shall you
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eat all the days of your life I will put enmity between you and
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the woman and between your Offspring and hers he will strike at your head while
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you strike at his heel the man called his wife Eve because
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she became the mother of all the living the word of the Lord thanks be to
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God sing to the Lord a new song for he has done marvelous Deeds sing to the
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Lord a new song for he has done marvelous Deeds sing to the Lord a new
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song for he has done wondrous Deeds his right hand has one victory for him his
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holy arm sing to the Lord a new song for he has done marvelous Deeds the Lord has
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made his salvation known in the sight of the Nations he has revealed his Justice
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he has remembered his kindness and his faithfulness toward the house of Israel
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sing to the Lord a new song for he has done marvelous Deeds all the ends of the Earth have
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seen the salvation by our God sing joyfully to the Lord all you lands break
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into song sing praise sing to the Lord a new song for he has done marvelous
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Deeds a reading from the letter of St Paul to the Ephesians brothers and
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sisters blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us
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in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens as he chose us in him
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before the foundation of the world to be holy and without blemish before
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him in love he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ in
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accord with the favor of his will for the praise of the glory of his grace
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that he granted Us in the Beloved in him we were also chosen
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destined in accord with the purpose of the one who accomplishes all things
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according to the intention of his will so that we might exist for the praise of
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his glory we who first hop in
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Christ the word of the Lord thanks be to God
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[Music] alelu hallelu
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hallelu hallelu
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hallelu hallelu Hail Mary full of grace
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the Lord is with you blessed are you among
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women hallelu
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hallelu
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allelu the Lord be with you your SP our reading from the holy Gospel According to St Luke GL to
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the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth to a
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virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph of the House of David and the virgin's name was Mary and coming to her he said
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hail full of grace the Lord is with you but she was greatly troubled at what was
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said and pondered what sort of greeting this might be then the angel said to Hero not be afraid Mary for you have
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found favor with God behold you will conceive in your womb and bear a son and you shall name him Jesus he will be
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great and will be called son of the most high and the Lord go God will give him the Throne of David his father and he
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will rule over the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there will be no end but Mary said to the angel how
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can this be since I have no relations with a man and the angel said to her in reply the holy spirit will come upon you
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and the power of the most high will overshadow you therefore the child to be born will be called holy
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the Son of God and behold Elizabeth your relative has also conceived a son in her
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old age and this is the sixth month for her who was called Barren for nothing
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will be impossible for God and Mary said behold I am the handmade of the Lord may
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it be done to me according to your word then the angel departed from her the
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gospel of the Lord
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Praise well we are right in the middle of a string of patronal Feasts that
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apply to us here in the dases of Alexandria this past Sunday was the Feast of St Francis Xavier which is the
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patron of our dicese then this week today is the patronal Feast of our
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nation Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception this coming Tuesday is the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe patroness
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of the Americas and then after we make it through Elvis's birthday on the 8th we have the feast of Our Lady of prompt
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sakur who is the patroness of the state of Louisiana so a lot of patronal Feasts
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all right on top of each other and it causes us to stop and ask what is the
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purpose of patronal fees because we're the country that has to come to mass today right if you go to Spain you go to
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Mexico you go to Germany they have their patronal feast on different days not a holy day of obligation for them it's for
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us because this is our patronal feast and what a patronal feast is ultimately
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is the competent Authority so for us that's our Bishops got together a hundred years ago and decided what our
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nation needs the mysteries of Faith the example of Holiness that we need is
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specifically the Immaculate Conception Our Ladies Immaculate Conception is all
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about purity of intention purity of spirit it is very much about the last
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little bit of Our Gospel today let it be done to me according to your word Lord
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whatever the Holy Spirit wants to bring for me let it be done to me docility
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before the Lord these are the virtues associated with today's feast and we can kind of look around and see that they
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made a pretty good call right because we could use more of that in our lives we could use more Purity we could use more
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purity of intention we could use more sense of Lord you set the direction
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instead of me and that's something that we should think about and take seriously
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because these spiritual matters of ours are not just uh rather these spiritual
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decisions are not meaningless but they are led by the Holy Spirit I think all
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too often we get into our heads the idea that Christianity is just me and the Lord and we're good to go but while
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there is an enormous part of our faith that is Us in the Lord specifically
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Jesus established a church to draw us out of ourselves to get us out of the
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thinking that it's just me and God and so Jesus established around him apostles
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who established a visible Church in order to draw us out remember St Paul
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famously said that faith comes by listening and listening can't be done to yourself right I guess you well I'm a
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little Looney I talk to myself but that's not really how it's meant to be we have to have this back and forth St
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Teresa of Aila said that Christ has no hands on Earth but ours Christ has no
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feet on Earth but ours the Lord established his church in order to draw
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us into this both and there is me and the Lord but there's also us and the
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Lord and this idea of a patronal feast causes us to say what do the we hear as
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opposed to the universal we what do we here need to focus our attention on and
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of course we could ask the same question this coming Tuesday when we celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe a
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feast that is very very much about our Lord coming and being a on us Mary looking with dark skin like a native
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Mayan or a native Mexican drawing us into the reality that God is Among Us in
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the same way we could think about our lady of prompt sucker Our Lady of hasty help being the patroness of Louisiana
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and that draws out of us the way of thinking about how our lady is there when we need her and how God is there
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and we need to focus more on Divine Providence right on God's providing for us in need and so our faith needs needs
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to be genuine in the sense of trusting that God has given us what we need each of those different patronal feasts
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builds together a sense of what it means to be the church here just as the Feast
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of St Edward the Confessor which we celebrated back in October has its own
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specific things that about what it means to be a Christian and a Catholic here
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and so today's feast in particular draws out of us this essential idea of listening to the Lord and of trying to
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free myself of anything that says this is how I think it should be we all have
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an obligation to listen to the Lord and then to live our lives as best as we're able I'm not proposing that we all
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suddenly become nuns and monks sitting around waiting for the Holy Spirit to speak to us in a voice something like
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Charlton hon in the Ten Commandments go do this right that's not what we're waiting on but we are called genuinely
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in our prayer and that's why I've been preaching about it for the last few months to build in some quiet
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time and to listen and to entrust the Lord or to trust that the Lord is going
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to reveal himself that the Lord will tell us what we need and if we're actually listening if we're actually
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pausing then we give God room to speak I think one of the most challenging things
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for us and I'm I'm thankful to God that we have hunters here to remind us of the value of it most most of us never ever
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stop being inundated with noise right even our Farmers now get
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into the uh the the cockpit of the of the machine and there's radio and there's music and there's something
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playing we have screens in front of us and airpods in our ears all the time and
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God forbid that our hunters even now have equipment in their ears so that we're no longer listening even on the
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deer stand and we have to stop and say how much time do we actually have for quiet
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CU too many of us fall asleep to the TV and we wake up and the first thing we do is grab the phone like our lives are
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going to end and the worst fear most of us have is watching that number count down from 10% to 9% to 8% there's no
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charger I might die I might explode the world might end and then that little apple comes up and you go it's bad it's
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really bad when that happens I mean it's bad and we have to wonder whether that's
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healthy for us and we all in intuitively know it isn't and so the very fact that
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our lady was able to listen to Gabriel appearing to her makes us ask how many
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times have has the the the parallel of that has Gabriel tried to appear to me
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but I was busy on social media there's a Tik Tock that was funnier than what the angel felt like he needed to say to me
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and it causes us to pause and if this gospel is meant to be
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for us for our patronal Feast something that is meant to speak to us in particular here in this area of the
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world then we have to in a very real sense say I need to model some more of
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my life on the listening lady who is waiting for the angel to speak to her
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and who is waiting to say let it be done to me according to your word listening
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more and more and more is an essential part of sanity and it's something that we almost never get a chance to do and
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so today becomes a wonderful opportunity for us to think about that now at the same time today is a feast day which I
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love because that means we have a moral obligation to Feast now I'm not going to lie most of us Feast a lot not
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necessarily a good thing and yet today should be a deliberate kind of feast if
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you're used to eating a lot of carbs do something else feasty if you're used to
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drinking six beers every night well you need to cut that down by four or five but do something something different if
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you're used to celebrating a certain way today becomes an opportunity to think about another way that we can choose
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deliberately to make today special and different as a day of feasting and a day of Celebration because that ultimately
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is what the church gives us a feast day and so whatever you need to do to make today a day of feasting do it because
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that is another part of the obligation of a patronal feast it's a big day and we need to let it be a big day day in
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the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit
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amen oh let us stand I believe in one God the Father
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the Almighty maker of heaven and Earth of all things visible and invisible I
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believe in one Lord Jesus Christ the only begotten son of God God born of the
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father before all ages God from God light from light true God from true God
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begotten not made consubstantial with the father through him all things were
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made and for us men and for our Salvation he came down from heaven and
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by the Hoy Spirit was incarn theg Mary and became for our sake he was crucified
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under the pontious pilot he suffered death and was buried and rose again on
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the third day in accordance with the scriptures he ascended into heaven and
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is seated at the right hand of the father he will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his
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kingdom will have no end and I believe in the Holy Spirit the Lord The Giver of
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Life who proceeds from the father and the son who with the father and the son
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is adored and glorified who has spoken through the prophets and I believe in
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one holy Catholic and Apostolic church I confess one baptism for the Forgiveness
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of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come amen please be
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[Music]
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seated [Music]
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we fruit of the earth and work will come for us the bread
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of
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blessed are you God of all creation through wine reive the wi of the it will become our spiritual dream
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blessed be God
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[Music]
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forever [Music]
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all [Music]
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pray my brothers and sisters that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God the almighty father may the Lord
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accept the sacrifice at my hands for the praise and the glory of his name for our good and the good of all his holy church
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graciously accept the saving sacrifice which we offer You O Lord on the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception
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of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Grant that as we profess her on account of your perent grace to be Untouched by any
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stain of sin so through her intercession we may be delivered from all our faults
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through Christ Our Lord amen the Lord be with you and your SP lift up your hearts
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up let us give thanks to the Lord Our God it is right and it is truly right
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and just our duty and our Salvation always and everywhere to give you thanks
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Lord Holy Father Almighty and eternal God for you preserve the Most Blessed Virgin Mary from all stain of original
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sin so that in her endowed with the full Rich fullness of your grace you might
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prepare a worthy mother for your son and signify the beginning of the church his
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beautiful bride without spot or wrinkle she the most pure virgin was to bring
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forth the son the in ENT lamb who would wipe away our offenses you placed her
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above all others to be for your people an advocate of Grace and a model of
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Holiness and so in company with the choirs of Angels We Praise You and with joy we
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Proclaim holy holy Lord God of
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host and Earth are full of your
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[Music] glory hosana in the
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highest blessed is he who comes in the
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name of the lordana hosana in the
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to you therefore most merciful father make humble prayer and petition through Jesus Christ your son our Lord that you
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accept and bless these gifts these offerings these holy and unblemished sacrifices which we offer you firstly
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for your Holy Catholic Church be pleased to Grant her peace to guard unite and govern her throughout the whole world
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world together with your servant Francis our Pope and Robert our Bishop and all those who holding to the truth hand on
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the Catholic and Apostolic Faith and remember Lord your
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servants and all gathered here whose faith and devotion are known to you for them we offer you this sacrifice of
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praise or they offer it for themselves and all who are dear to them for the Redemption of their souls in Hope of
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health and well-being and paying their homage to you the Eternal God living and true in communion with those whose
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memory we venerate especially the Glorious ever Virgin Mary Mother of Our God and Lord Jesus Christ and blessed
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Joseph her spouse your blessed Apostles and martyrs Peter and Paul Andrew James
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John Thomas James Phillip Bartholomew Matthew Simon and Jude lonus Cletus
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Clement 6as Cornelius cyprian Lawrence chrysogonus John and Paul Cosmos and
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Damian and all your Saints and we ask through their merits and prayers in all things we may be be defended by your
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protecting heal and therefore Lord we pray graciously accept this oblation of our servant that of your whole family
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order our days in your peace and command that we be delivered from Eternal damnation and counted among the flock of
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those you have chosen and be pleased oh God we pray to bless acknowledge and approve this offering in every respect
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make it spiritual and acceptable so that it may become for us the body and blood of your most beloved Son our Lord Jesus
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Christ on the day before he was to suffer he took bread in his holy and venerable hands and with eyes raised to
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heaven to you oh God is Almighty father giving you thanks he said the blessing broke the bread and gave it to his
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disciples saying take this all of you and eat of it for this is my body which
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will be given up for
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you
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in a similar way when supper was ended he took the Chalice this precious chalice in his holy and venerable hands
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and once more giving you thanks he said the blessing and gave the Chalice to his disciples saying take this all of you
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and drink from it for this is the Chalice of my blood the blood of the new
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and eternal Covenant which will be poured out for for you and for many for the Forgiveness of sins do this in
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memory of
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me the mystery of faith
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we Proclaim your death O Lord and profess your
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[Music] Resurrection until you come until you come
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again therefore oh Lord as we celebrate the memorial of the Blessed passion the resurrection from the dead and the
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Glorious Ascension into heaven of Christ your son our Lord we your servants and
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your holy people offer to your glorious Majesty from the gifts that you have given us this pure victim this holy
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victim this spotless victim the holy bread of eternal life and the Chalice of everlasting salvation be pleased to look
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upon these offerings with a Serene and kindly countenance and to accept them as once you are pleased to accept the gifts
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of your servant Abel the just the sacrifice of Abraham our father in faith and the offering of your high priest
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melkisedek a holy sacri sacrifice a spotless victim in Humble prayer we ask you almighty God command that these
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gifts be borne by the hands of your Holy Angel to your altar on high in the sight of your Divine Majesty so that all of us
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who through this participation at the altar receive the most holy body and blood of your son may be filled with
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every Grace and Heavenly blessing remember also Lord your servants who have gone before us with
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the sign of faith and rest in the sleep of
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peace grant them oh Lord we pray and all who sleep in Christ a place of refreshment light and peace and to us
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also your servants who those Sinners hope in your abundant mercies graciously
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Grant some share in fellowship with your Holy Apostles and martyrs with John the Baptist Steven maias Barnabas ignacius
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Alexander Marcel Linus Peter Felicity perpetua Agatha Lucy Agnes Cecilia
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Anastasia and all your Saints admitt us we beseech you into their company not in our merits but granting us your pardon
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through Christ Our Lord through whom you continue to make all these good things oh Lord you sanctify them fill them with
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life bless them and bestow them Upon
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Us him and with him and in him oh God Almighty father in the unity of the holy
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spirit all glory and honor is yours forever and
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ever amen
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amen at the savior's command and formed by Divine teaching we dare to
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say Our Father who art in heaven Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come
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and thy will be done on Earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and
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forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into
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temptation but Deliver Us from Evil Deliver Us Lord we pray from every evil
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and graciously Grant peace in our days that by the help of your mercy we may be always free from sin and safe from all
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distress as we await the Blessed hope and the coming of Our Savior Jesus Christ for the kingdom the power and the
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glory are yours now and forever Lord Jesus Christ who said to your Apostles peace I leave you my peace I give you
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look not on our sins but on the faith of your church and graciously Grant her peace and unity in accordance with your
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will who live and Reign forever and ever amen the Peace of Our Lord be with you
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always your SP and let us offer to one another a sign of that
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peace take of the world
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Behold the Lamb of God Behold Him who takes away the sins of the world blessed
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are those who are called to the supper of the Lamb Lord I am not worthy you should enter under my roof but only say
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the word and my soul shall be
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healed
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for
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am
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for
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for
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for let us
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pray May the sacrament we have received oh Lord Our God heal in us the wounds of
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that fault from which in a singular way you preserve blessed Mary in her Immaculate Conception through Christ Our
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Lord amen the Lord be with you and with your SP and may almighty God bless you the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
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amen go in peace thanks be Lord let ask
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lady