The CU Catecast - The Book of Zephaniah

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in the name of the father and of the son of the Holy Spirit the Lord be with you as we come before our Lord to celebrate

these sacred Mysteries and honors in Charles barameo let us acknowledge our sins now and so prepare our hearts

I confess to almighty God and to you my brothers and sisters that I have greatly

sinned yet my thoughts and in my words and what I have done and in what I have

failed to do through my fault through my fault through my most Grievous fault and

therefore I ask the Blessed Mary ever virgin all the angels and Saints and you

my brothers and sisters to pray for me to the Lord Our God May almighty God

have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life

Lord have mercy Christ have mercy Lord

have mercy let us pray Preserve in the midst of your people we

ask the Lord the spirit with which you filled the bishop Saint Charles Borromeo that your church may be constantly

renewed and by conforming herself to the likeness of Christ may show his face to

the world who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit one God forever and ever

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a reading from the letter of Saint Paul to the Philippians

join with others in being imitators of me brothers and sisters and observe

those who thus conduct themselves according to the model you have in US

for many as I have often told you and now tell you even in tears conduct

themselves as enemies of the Cross of Christ [Music] their end is destruction

their God is their stomach their glory is in their shame

their minds are occupied with Earthly things but our citizenship is in heaven and

from it we also await a savior the Lord Jesus Christ

he will change your lowly body and to conform with his glorified body by the

power that enables him also to bring all things into subjection to himself

therefore my brothers and sisters whom I love and long for my joy and Crown in

this way stand firm in the Lord beloved the word of the Lord

let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord

I Rejoice because they said to me we will go up to the house of the Lord and

now we have set foot within your Gates o Jerusalem let us go rejoicing to the house of the

Lord Jerusalem built as a city with compact Unity to it the tribes go up the tribes

of the Lord let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord

according to the decree for Israel to give thanks to the name of the Lord in

it are set up judgment seats seats for the House of David

let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord

the Lord be with you a reading from the holy Gospel According to Saint Luke

said to his disciples a rich man had a steward who was reported to him for

squandering his property he summoned him and said what is this I hear about you

prepare a full account of your stewardship because you can no longer be my steward

said to himself what shall I do now that my master is taking the position of Stewart away from me I am not strong

enough to dig and I am ashamed to beg I know what I shall do so that when I am removed from the stewardship they may

welcome me into their homes he called in his master's debtors one by one to the first he said how much do you

owe my master and he replied 100 measures of olive oil and he said to him here is your promissory note sit down

and quickly write one for 50. and then to another he said in you how much do you owe and he replied 100 measures of

Wheat and he said to him here is your promissory note write one for 80. and

the master commended that dishonest Steward for acting prudently for the children of this world are more prudent

in dealing with their own generation than the children of light the gospel of the Lord

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is one that's particularly interesting and relevant nowadays because for the last say 75 years we've been kind of

surrounded by this idea of to love Jesus is to be nice right that's the most important of all the virtues we should

be nice to one another and we've had you know a slew of people argue that Christians should be pacifists and

Christians should uh you know we should love our neighbors and that means that we don't even acknowledge that these people are a genuine threat and of

course nowadays we're seeing churches destroyed even over in Winnsboro there was a church to face the statue of the

Blessed Virgin Mary had satanic images painted on it you know this is not something that's way way off this is

something that is a genuine and real threat to the Church of Jesus Christ and

of course we also can look back at the life of Saint Charles Borromeo and say that it was a real sort of thing I mean

he was being chased around by the mafia with swords to kill him right so the enemies of the church were a very real

sort of thing and there is in our modern kind of way of thinking a certain

disconnect where we say gosh enemies of the church that's not a thing right nobody's trying to chase the Holy Father

down and run him you know off into the into the river and push him down and drown him although that that's happened

before and it's it's kind of the idea of the worst thing that we have are people

who are plotting whatever that means against the pope but in reality there are grave enemies of the church there

are people who are actively looking to suppress the Gospel of Jesus there are people who want to do whatever it takes

to make sure that the truth of Jesus Christ is not spoken and those are people inside and outside the church and

of course the Lord gives us a clear pattern of what to do one is that we

have to pray that the Lord would deal with these people even Saint Paul has

that idea look these people are teaching wrong stuff it's the holy spirit's job to whoop them it it's not my job to

whoop them I might want to whoop them but that ain't what I'm supposed to do that's not my job and so in a certain

sense we have to say one we have to give this to the Lord and entrust this to the Lord the same way that we have problems

with you know some random dictator across the world Who's acting the fool well the first thing we have to do is

pray for them the second thing we have to do is we have to genuinely prepare

ourselves to be of service to the Lord if the need arises now I mean that in a

very specific way because Saint Charles borromeo's other great thing other than being chased around by the mafia was he

established seminaries and in fact he was one of the first ones to say nobody should be a priest unless they actually

know the gospel I know mind-bending it still doesn't seem to apply to some folks nowadays but but that's that's

where we are like Saint Charles parameo said we need to train our priests precisely because the the best thing we

can do to respond to error into the enemies of the church is to have a clergy and a laity who know what we

believe so if someone comes up and says well the church believes this or the church believes that we can refute them

and say no no the church doesn't believe those things in fact the church believes X Y or Z and so the first thing we have

to do is hand it to the Holy Spirit and the second thing we have to do is prepare ourselves so that if there is

someone who is an enemy of the church we're prepared to do something about it

there is a third level two although we don't I doubt we're going to have that problem here in beautiful Historic downtown Tallulah where people are

bursting into the back and we need to be physically prepared over in other places and other cities we have full-on

Ministries where people are carrying their nine millimeters and all that kind of stuff and when we've ever had sketchy

people here you'll hear about 15 purses unzip and I go we're fine we're completely okay you know because there

is that component as well but I don't think we're going to really have to worry too hard about that here at Saint

Edwards folks watching somewhere else may be more concerned about that last component of physically protecting the

church and physically protecting the Blessed Sacrament but this whole component of of there are enemies of the

church we need to acknowledge that we need to ask the Lord to to deal with them and we need to prepare ourselves to

be of use to the Lord if that need arises those are real things and they

are valuable things and we can't simply allow the idea of we just need to be nice Jesus just loves nice people that's

really not helpful and it's also not served us well I mean our churches used to be full and now they're largely empty

you know the largest denomination in the United States is Catholic and the second largest is used to be Catholic you know

so so in a certain sense we can't look back and say gosh the last 70 years have really gotten or done they haven't the

last 70 years have not been successful and so by simply saying niceness as a

principle that's been a failure it's an experiment and it's failed and so we need to kind of take the scriptural

premise of what do we do if there are people who are looking to bring damage to the church that we love we ask the

Lord for help and we prepare ourselves to be of service if he needs us to be and of course that's exactly what Saint

Charles borrow May proposed for the problems of his day and it seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to bring to

the problems of our day and some of us asked Saint Charles today to pray for us that we would be able to confront the

enemies of the church whatever they may be and wherever they may be using the same principles that he did in the name

of the father and the son and the holy spirit amen

blessed are you Lord God of all creation for through your goodness we have received the bread we offer you fruit of

the earth and work of human hands it will become for us the bread of life

blessed are you Lord God of all creation for through your goodness we have received the wine we offer you fruit of

the vine and work of human hands it will become our spiritual drink

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my brothers and sisters that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God the almighty father may the Lord

accept the sacrifice for the praise and the glory of his name for our good and

the good of all his holy church look O Lord upon the offering placed on your altar and commemoration of Saint

Charles and Grant that by the power of this sacrifice that as you made him an

attentive Pastor outstanding in the Merit of his virtues so you may make us abound in good in good fruit by our

works through Christ Our Lord thank you

the Lord be with you lift up your hearts let us give thanks to the Lord our God

it's truly right and just our duty and our Salvation always and everywhere to

give you things Lord Holy Father Almighty and eternal God for you are praised in the company of your Saints

and in crowning their merits you Crown your own gifts by their way of life you offer us an example by communion with

them you give us companionship and by their intercession sure support so that

encouraged by so great a cloud of witnesses we may run as Victors in the race before us and when with them the

imperishable Crown of Glory through Christ Our Lord and so with the Angels and Archangels with a great multitude of

the Saints we sing the hymn of your praise as Without End we acclaim

holy holy holy Lord God of hosts Heaven

and Earth are full of your glory hosanna in the highest as it is he who comes in the name of the

Lord hosanna in the highest you are indeed holy O Lord and all you

have created rightly gives you praise through your son our Lord Jesus Christ by the power and working of the Holy

Spirit you give life to all things and make them holy and you never cease to

gather a people to yourself so that from the rising of the sun to its setting a pure sacrifice may be offered to your

name and therefore O Lord we humbly implore you by The Same Spirit graciously make holy these gifts we have

brought to you for consecration that they may become the body and blood of your son our Lord Jesus Christ at whose

command we celebrate these Mysteries for on the night he was betrayed he himself took bread and giving you thanks

he said the blessing broke the bread and gave it to his disciples saying

take this all of you and eat of it for this is my body which will be given up

for you

in a similar way when supper was ended he took the chalice and giving you thanks he said the blessing and gave the

Chalice to his disciples saying take this all of you and drink from it

for this is the Chalice of My Blood the blood of the new and eternal

Covenant which will be poured out for you and for many for the Forgiveness of sins do this in memory of me

the mystery of faith we Proclaim your death O Lord and profess your

Resurrection until you come again therefore O Lord as we celebrate the

memorial of the saving passion of your son his wondrous resurrection and Ascension into heaven and as we look

forward to his second coming we offer you in Thanksgiving this holy and Living Sacrifice

look we pray upon the oblation of your church and recognizing the sacrificial victim by whose death you willed to

reconcile us to yourself grant that we who are nourished by the body and blood of your son and filled

with this Holy Spirit may become one body one Spirit In Christ

may he make of us an eternal offering to you so that we may obtain an inheritance with your elect especially with the Most

Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of God with bless Joseph her spouse with your blessed Apostles and glorious Martyrs

and with all the Saints on Whose constant intercession in your presence we rely for unfailing help and may this

sacrifice of our reconciliation we pray O Lord Advance the peace and salvation of all the world

be pleased to confirm in faith and charity your Pilgrim Church on Earth with your servant Francis our Pope and

Robert our Bishop the order of Bishops all the clergy and the entire people you have gained for your own

and listen graciously to the prayers of this family whom you have summoned before you in your compassion o merciful

father gather to yourself all your children scattered throughout the world and to our departed brothers and sisters

and to all who were pleasing to you with their passing from this life give kind admittance to your kingdom there we hope

to enjoy forever the fullness of your glory through Christ Our Lord through whom you bestow in the world all that is

good through him and with him and in him o

God Almighty father in the unity of the holy spirit all glory and honor is yours

forever and ever

at the savior's command and formed by Divine teaching we dare to say

Our Father who art in heaven Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come and thy will

be done on Earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive

us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not

into temptation but Deliver Us from Evil Deliver Us Lord we pray from every evil

graciously Grant peace in our days that by the help of your mercy we may be always free from sin and safe from all

distress as we await the Blessed hope and the coming of Our Savior Jesus Christ

for the kingdom the power and the glory are yours now and forever Lord Jesus Christ who said to your Apostles peace I

leave you my peace I give you look not on our sins but on the faith of your church and graciously Grant her peace

and unity in accordance with your will who live and Reign forever and ever the Peace of Our Lord be with you always and

let us offer to another a sign of that peace

Lamb of God you take away the sins of the world

Behold the Lamb of God Behold Him who takes away the sins of

the world blessed 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 the word and my soul shall be

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Lord Jesus as we come before you in this month so especially dedicated to all the holy souls in purgatory we remember all

those who have been members of this church in this community who have gone to their rest especially those who've

gone more recently we pray Lord for the Repose of their soul and the consolation of their families we pray too Lord for all those

who have gone to rest among our Circles of friends and family our acquaintances those we love those we supported perhaps

those Lord those who who we might have considered enemies or people who frustrated Us in life especially those

who may not have forgiven in the course of their Earthly life we pray Lord that you would give us the grace to pray for

them to ask for your mercy and the Lord that you would show them the mercy of

eternal life with you in heaven

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let us pray together Lord have mercy Lord have mercy Christ have mercy Lord

have mercy Christ hear us God the father of Heaven

God the son Redeemer of the world God the Holy Spirit

Holy Trinity one God Heart of Jesus Son of the Eternal Father

of Jesus formed in the womb of the virgin mother by the Holy Spirit part of Jesus United substantially with

the word of God the Heart of Jesus of infinite matches

Heart of Jesus Holy Temple of God the Heart of Jesus Tabernacle of the

most high art of Jesus House of God and Gate of Heaven Heart of Jesus glowing furnace of

Charity art of Jesus vessel of justice and love Heart of Jesus full of goodness

and love Heart of Jesus abyss of all virtue Heart of Jesus most worthy of all praise

art of Jesus king and center of all hearts Heart of Jesus and whom are all the

treasures of wisdom and knowledge Heart of Jesus in whom dwells the fullness of the divinity

art of Jesus and whom the father is well pleased part of Jesus of whose fullness we have

all received Heart of Jesus desire of the Everlasting Hill

Ary part of Jesus patient and Rich and mercy Heart of Jesus Rich to all who invoke

you Heart of Jesus fount of life and Holiness art of Jesus propitiation for our sins

Heart of Jesus saturated with reviling part of Jesus Christ for our iniquity

art of Jesus made obedient unto dead part of Jesus pierced with the Lambs

Heart of Jesus source of all consolation art of Jesus our life and Resurrection

Heart of Jesus our peace and Reconciliation Heart of Jesus victim for our sins

Heart of Jesus salvation of those who hope in you Heart of Jesus hope of those who died

art of Jesus Delight of All Saints Lamb of God who takes Away The Sins Of

The World the Lamb of God who takes Away The Sins Of The World

the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world Jesus Meek and humble of heart

let us pray almighty neverlasting God look upon the heart of your well-beloved son and upon the acts of praise and

satisfaction which he renders unto you in the name of sinners and in your great goodness Grant pardon to those who seek

your mercy in the name of your son Jesus Christ who lives and reigns with you World Without End

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before thee opening to the sun above

for the dark of Doubt away

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source and Angels sing around you Center

of unbroken praise field and Forest Veil

and Mountain flowery Meadow flashing sea

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let us together pray in reparation Sacred Heart of Jesus animated with the

desire to repair the outrages unceasingly offered to you

we prostrate before your throne of mercy and in the name of all mankind pledge

our love and Fidelity to you the more your Mysteries are blasting be

the more firmly We Shall Believe him o Sacred Heart of Jesus the more impiety

Endeavors to extinguish our hopes of immortality the more we shall trust in

your heart soul hope of mankind the more Hearts resist Your Divine

attractions the more we shall Love You O infinitely amiable Heart of Jesus

the more unbelief attacks your Divinity the more humbly and profoundly we shall

adore him o Divine Heart of Jesus the more your holy laws are transgressed

and ignored the more we shall Delight to observe that almost holy Heart of Jesus

the more your sacraments are despised and abandoned the more frequently we

shall receive them with love and reverence o most merciful hearts of

Jesus the more the imitation of your virtues is neglected and forgotten the

more we shall Endeavor to practice in him o heart model of every virtue the

more the devil labors to destroy Souls the more we shall be inflamed with

desire to save them o Heart of Jesus zealous lover of Souls the more sin and

impurity destroy the image of God in man the more we shall try by purity of life

to be a living Temple of the Holy Spirit o Heart of Jesus and the more your holy

church is despised the more we shall Endeavor to be her faithful children oh

sweetheart of Jesus pour your vicar on Earth is persecute the more we will honor him as the head

of your holy church show our Fidelity and pray for him o

kingly Heart of Jesus o sacred heart through your powerful Grace may we

become the Earth in the midst of a corrupted world and be your crown and

the kingdom of heaven

and on behalf of ourselves let us pray most Sacred Heart of Jesus I consecrate

myself to your most Sacred Heart take possession of my holy transform me into

yourself make my hands yours my feet your feet my

heart your heart let me see with your eyes listen with your ears speak with

your lips love with your heart understand with your mind serve with

your will and be dedicated with my whole being make me your other self most

Sacred Heart of Jesus send me your Holy Spirit to teach me to love you and to

live through you with you in you and for you Come Holy Spirit make my body your

temple come and abide with me forever give me the deepest love for the Sacred

Heart of Jesus in order to serve him with my whole heart soul mind and

strength take possession of all my faculties of body and soul regulate all

my passions feelings and emotions take possession of my intellect understanding

and will my memory and Imagination oh holy spirit of love give me an

abundance of your efficacious graces give me the fullness of all the virtues

enrich my faith strengthen my hope increase my trusts and inflame my love

give me the fullness of your Sevenfold gifts truths and Beatitudes Most Holy

Trinity make My Soul Your sanctuary

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let us pray oh God when this wonderful Sacrament left us a memorial of your passion Grant

we implore you that we may so venerate the sacred mysteries of your body and blood as always to be conscious of the

fruit of your Redemption you who live and Reign forever and ever

all of them

blessed be God blessed be His holy name blessed be Jesus Christ true God and

true man blessed be the name of Jesus

blessed to be his most Sacred Heart blessed be his most precious blood

must be Jesus and the most holy sacrament of the altar

well blessed be the Holy Spirit the Pericles blessed be the great mother of God Mary

Most Holy R blessed be her holy and Immaculate

Conception blessed be her glorious assumption

must be the name of Mary virgin and mother

Blessed Be Saint Joseph her most chased power must be God and His angels and in his

Saints

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