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Holy Mass from St. Edward the Confessor in Tallulah, Louisiana
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foreign
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foreign
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in the name of the father and of the son
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and of the Holy Spirit
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the Lord be with you r
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ude as we come before our Lord to offer
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these sacred Mysteries this evening let
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us acknowledge our sins and so prepare
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our hearts
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Lord Jesus you are king of kings Lord
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have mercy Lord Jesus your Lord of lords
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Christ have mercy
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Christ Lord Jesus your Prince of Peace
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the Lord have mercy
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May almighty God have mercy on us
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forgive us our sins and bring us to
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everlasting life
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let us pray
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Grant we pray almighty God that we who
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know the great courage of the Glorious
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Martyrs nerus and achilles we in
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confessing you may experience their
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loving intercession for us in your
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presence through our Lord Jesus Christ
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your son who lives and reigns with you
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in the unity of the Holy Spirit one God
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forever and ever
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a reading from The Acts of the Apostles
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the apostles and presbyters in agreement
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with the whole church decided to choose
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representatives and to send them to
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Antioch with Paul and Barnabas
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the chosen ones were Judas who was
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called barsavas and Silas leader among
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the brothers
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this is the letter delivered by them
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the apostles and the presbyters your
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brothers
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to the brothers in Antioch Syria
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cilicia
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of Gentile origin greetings
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since we have heard that some of our
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number who went out without any mandate
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from us
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have upset you with their teachings and
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disturb your peace of mind
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we have with one Accord
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decided to choose representatives and to
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send them to you along with our beloved
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Barnabas and Paul
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who have dedicated their lives to to the
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name of our Lord Jesus Christ
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so we are sending Judas and solace who
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will also convey this same message by
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Word of Mouth
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it is the decision of the Holy Spirit
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and of us not to place on you any burden
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Beyond those necessities
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namely
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to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols
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from blood
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from Meats of strangled animals
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and from unlawful marriage
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if you keep free of these you will be
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doing what is right
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farewell
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and so they were sent on their Journey
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upon their arrival in Antioch they
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called the assembly together and
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delivered the letter
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when the people read it they were
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delighted with the exhortation
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the word of the Lord thanks be to God
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I will give you thanks among the peoples
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O Lord
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I will give you thanks among the peoples
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O Lord
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my heart is steadfast o God my heart is
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steadfast
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I will sing and chant praise awake O my
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soul awake
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Lear and harp I will wake the dawn I
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will give you thanks among the peoples O
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Lord
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I will give thanks to you among the
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peoples O Lord I will chant your praise
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among the Nations
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for your mercy Towers to the heavens and
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your faithfulness to the skies
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be exalted above the heavens o God above
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all the Earth Be Your Glory
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I will give you thanks among the peoples
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oh God
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and the Lord be with you
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a reading from the holy Gospel According
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to Saint John
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said to his disciples this is my
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commandment love one another as I love
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you no one has greater love than this to
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lay down one's life for one's friends
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you are my friends if you do what I
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command you I no longer call you slaves
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because a slave does not know what his
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master is doing
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I have called you friends because I have
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told you everything I have heard from my
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father
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it was not you who chose me but I who
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chose you and appointed you to go and
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bear fruit that will remain so that
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whatever you ask the father in my name
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he may give you
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this I command you love one another
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the gospel of the Lord
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it's always an incredibly refreshing and
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helpful reminder when in Christianity we
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Define something radically differently
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than the way other people Define it it's
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one of those incredibly important things
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where when people kind of use a
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theological term in its casual sense
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Christianity doesn't make sense and here
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we have an incredibly important one
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where Saint John says listen I want you
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to understand first and foremost that
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love is to be seen in service and
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sacrifice right the highest form of love
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is to lay down one's life for one's
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friends this is heroic love and in fact
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Saint Paul was going to kind of tweak it
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in the very slightest sense by reminding
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us that while we were still sinners
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Christ laid down his life for us and so
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he doesn't just lay down his life for
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his friends but he lays down his life
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for all of us but the best that we can
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hope to do as Saint John makes queers to
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lay down our life for our friends and to
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sacrifice and so our Lord ties love very
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very closely to the idea of
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self-sacrifice the second place though
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that really can start to become
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important is that the Lord says here
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specifically I do not call you slaves
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but the reason I don't call you slaves
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is not that you don't do exactly what I
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tell you to do
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it's that I you are not slaves because I
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am letting you know what's going on I'm
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giving you the reason I'm giving you an
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understanding if you want to understand
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then you can understand and I have
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explained it to you but that in no way
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says you don't have to do it the friend
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is still the person who does what Jesus
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tells them to do the friends simply
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understands why it is that he or she
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does it and the slave does not
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understand but if we look in the modern
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world
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and we think about the way the modern
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world considers obedience anytime
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someone does what someone else asks them
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to do unless it's because they're
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offended then that person is a slave
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that person is not thinking for
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themselves in a short form that person
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is not self-serving in the modern notion
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but our Lord remember tells us that love
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and obedience and sacrifice are all tied
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together they're all aspects of the same
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thing and so if we are going to love the
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Lord then we need to obey him and if we
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are going to obey him that's going to
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demand a certain amount of
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self-sacrifice from us but our Lord is
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not telling us to Simply do that as a
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slave he's going to tell us why he's
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going to give us the reason that it is
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detrimental for us to laugh at jokes at
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other people's expense or the reason
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it's bad to gossip with people or the
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reason that it's it's bad to be lustful
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or to steal or to lie or whatever he's
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given us the reason for for that but
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ultimately we are still expected to obey
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him and I think it's incredibly
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important that we realize this is not
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something that our modern world has the
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right simply to redefine we as
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Christians are obliged to love the Lord
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and in debt to to obey his commands not
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as slaves in the sense of we don't know
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why it is the Lord asks us to do this
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but as friends in the sense that we
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still do what he said but we have a
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sense of why and I think we have to be
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very very deliberate because in the
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modern world of course we have these
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competing ideas these competing
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definitions in the modern world love is
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self-serving service is self-serving
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obedience is self-serving everything
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frankly in the modern world is
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self-serving all that matters is me and
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my experience and my happiness and my uh
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you know oppression and my uh outrage
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and all that kind of that's the only
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thing that is defined as important in
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the the modern world but as Christians
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we reject outright that way of seeing
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things and as Christians we say I will
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do my very best to obey the Lord because
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I love him because the Lord has chosen
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me as his friend that doesn't mean that
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I'm in a position to decide what is
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right and wrong that's the great
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temptation of Adam and Eve but it does
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mean that I am now able to be drawn
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nearer to the Lord and to do what he
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said in obedience not because of fear
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but in obedience that comes from Love
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and so it's a good reminder it's an
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important reminder and frankly the
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number of saints who have found enormous
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satisfaction and happiness in that
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should give us a sense of consolation
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that this is not something opposed to
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our Humanity but it's something that
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genuinely fulfills it because the Lord
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tells us in this love in Disobedience we
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do find Freedom which is so so much more
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than the world has to offer in the name
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of the father and of the son and of the
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holy spirit amen
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blessed are you Lord God of all creation
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and through your goodness we have
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received the bread we offer you fruit of
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the earth and work of human hands it
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will become for us the bread of life
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foreign
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blessed are you Lord God of all creation
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for through your goodness we have
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received the wine we offer you fruit of
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the vine and work of human hands it will
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become our spiritual dream
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I'm praying my brothers and sisters that
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my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable
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to God the almighty father may the Lord
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accept the sacrifice of my hand for the
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praise and the glory of his name for our
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good the good of all his holy church
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receive Holy Father the offerings we
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bring in commemoration of the Holy
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Martyrs and Grant that we your servants
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may be found steadfast in confessing
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your name through Christ Our Lord
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the Lord be with
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lift up your hearts
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let us give thanks to the Lord our God
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it is truly right and just our duty and
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our Salvation always and everywhere to
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give you thanks Lord Holy Father
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Almighty and eternal God for you are
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praised in the company of your Saints
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and in crowning their merits you Crown
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your own gifts by their way of life you
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offer us an example and by communion
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with him you give us companionship and
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by their intercession sure support so
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that encouraged by so great a cloud of
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witnesses we may run as Victors in the
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race before us and when with them the
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imperishable Crown of Glory through
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Christ Our Lord and so with the Angels
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and Archangels and with the great
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multitude of the Saints we sing the hymn
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of your praise as Without End we acclaim
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holy holy holy Lord God of hosts Heaven
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and Earth are full of your glory hosanna
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in the highest blessed is he who comes
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in the name of the Lord hosanna in the
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house
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you are indeed holy O Lord and all you
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have created rightly gives you praise
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for through your son our Lord Jesus
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Christ by the power and working of the
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Holy Spirit you give life to all things
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and make them holy and you never cease
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to gather a people to yourself so that
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from the rising of the sun to its
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setting a pure sacrifice may be offered
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to your name and therefore O Lord we
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humbly implore you by The Same Spirit
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graciously make holy these gifts we have
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brought to you for consecration that
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they may become the body and blood of
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your son our Lord Jesus Christ at whose
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command we celebrate these Mysteries
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from the night he was betrayed he
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himself took bread and giving you thanks
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he said the bless him broke the bread
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and gave it to his disciples saying
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take this all of you and eat of it for
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this is my body which will be given up
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for you
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in a similar way when supper was ended
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he took the chalice and giving you
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thanks he said the blessing and gave the
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Chalice to his disciples saying
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take this all of you and drink from
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for this is the Chalice of My Blood
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the blood of the new and eternal
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Covenant which will be poured out for
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you and for many for the Forgiveness of
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do this in memory of me
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the mystery of faith
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we Proclaim your death O Lord and
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profess your Resurrection until you come
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again
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and therefore O Lord as we celebrate the
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memorial of the saving passion of your
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son his wondrous resurrection and
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Ascension into heaven and as we look
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forward to his second coming we offer
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you in Thanksgiving this holy and Living
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Sacrifice
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look we pray upon the oblation of your
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church and recognizing the sacrificial
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victim by whose death you willed to
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reconcile us to yourself
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grant that we who are nourished by the
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body and blood of your son and filled
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with this Holy Spirit may become one
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body one Spirit In Christ
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and may he make of us an eternal
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offering to you so that we may obtain an
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inheritance with your elect especially
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with the Most Blessed Virgin Mary Mother
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of God with blessed Joseph her spouse
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with your blessed Apostles and glorious
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Martyrs and with all the Saints on Whose
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constant intercession in your presence
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we rely for unfailing help
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may this sacrifice of our reconciliation
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we pray O Lord Advance the peace and
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salvation of all the world
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be pleased to confirm in faith and
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charity your Pilgrim Church on Earth
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with your servant Francis our Pope and
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Robert our Bishop the order of Bishops
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all the clergy and the entire people you
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have gained for your own
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and listen graciously to the prayers of
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this family whom you have summoned
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before you in your compassion o merciful
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father gather to yourself all your
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children scattered throughout the world
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into our departed brothers and sisters
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and to all who were pleasing to you with
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their passing from this life give kind
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admit and see your kingdom there we hope
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to enjoy forever the fullness of your
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glory through Christ Our Lord through
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whom you bestow on the world all that is
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through and with him and in him o God
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Almighty father in the unity of the holy
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spirit all glory and honor is yours
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forever and ever
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amen
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at the savior's command and formed by
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Divine teaching we dare to say
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Our Father who art in heaven Hallowed be
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thy name thy kingdom come and thy will
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be done on Earth as it is in heaven give
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us this day our daily bread and forgive
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us our trespasses as we forgive those
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who trespass against us and lead us not
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into temptation but Deliver Us from Evil
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Deliver Us Lord we pray from every evil
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and graciously Grant peace in our days
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that by the help of your mercy we may be
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always free from sin and safe from all
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distress as we await the Blessed hope
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and the coming of Our Savior Jesus
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Christ for the kingdom the power and the
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glory are yours now and forever Lord
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Jesus Christ who said to your Apostles
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peace I leave you my peace I give you
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look not on our sins but on the faith of
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your church and graciously Grant her
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peace and unity in accordance with your
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will who live and Reign forever and ever
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the Peace of Our Lord be with you all
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wood
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let us offer to another a sign of that
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peace
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yeah
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um
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Behold the Lamb of God Behold Him who
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takes away the sins of the world blessed
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are those who are called to the supper
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of the Lamb Lord I am not worthy you
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should enter under my roof but only say
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the word and my soul shall be
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it produces
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foreign
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foreign
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oh God who in your Holy Martyrs have
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wonderfully made known The Mystery of
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the Cross graciously grant that drawing
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strength from this sacrifice we may
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cling Faithfully to Christ and labor in
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the church for the Salvation of all
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through Christ Our Lord
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the Lord be with you R May almighty God
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bless you the Father the Son of the Holy
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Spirit go in peace