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Holy Mass from St. Edward the Confessor in Tallulah, Louisiana
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unfair to almighty God and to you my brothers and sisters that I have greatly
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sinned in my thoughts and in my words in what I have done and in what I have
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failed to do through my fault through my fault through my most Grievous fault and
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therefore I ask the Blessed Mary ever virgin all the angels and Saints and you
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my brothers and sisters to pray for me to the Lord Our God and may almighty God
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have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life
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Lord have mercy Christ have mercy Lord
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have mercy glory to God in the highest and on Earth
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peace to people of Good Will We Praise You we bless you we adore you we glorify
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you we give you thanks for your great glory Lord God Heavenly King o God
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Almighty father Lord Jesus Christ only begotten son Lord God Lamb of God Son of
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the father you take away the sins of the world have mercy on us
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you take away the sins of the world receive our prayer you are seated at the
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right hand of the father have mercy on us for you alone are the Holy One you
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alone are the Lord you alone are the most high Jesus Christ with the Holy
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Spirit in the glory of God the Father amen let us pray
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Almighty ever living God increase our faith hope and to charity and make us
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love what you command so that we may Merit what you promise through our Lord Jesus Christ your son who lives and
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reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit one God forever and ever amen
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foreign
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a reading from the book of siroc the Lord is a God of Justice who knows
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no favorites though not unduly partial toward the weak yet he hears the Cry of
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the oppressed the Lord is not deaf to the whale of the orphan nor to the Widow
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when she pours out her complaint the one who served God willingly is heard and
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his petition reaches the heavens the prayer of the lowly pierces the clouds it is not rest till it reaches its goal
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nor will it withdraw to the most high response judge justly and affirms the right and
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the Lord will not delay the word of the Lord
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the Lord hears the Cry of the poor
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I Will Bless The Lord at all times his praise shall be ever in my mouth let
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my soul glory in the Lord the lowly will hear me and be glad
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the Lord confronts the evildoers to destroy rembrence of them from the Earth
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when they just cry out the Lord hears them and from all their distress he rescues them
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the Lord is close to the Brokenhearted and those who are crushed in his Spirit he saves the Lord redeems the lives of
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his servants no one incurs guilt who takes refuge in him
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a reading from the second letter of Saint Paul to Timothy beloved
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I am already being poured out like libation and the time of the departure is at hand I have competed well I have
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finished the race I have kept the faith from now on the crown of righteousness awaits me which the Lord the just judge
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will award to me on that day and not only to me but to all who have longed
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for his appearance at my first offense no one appeared on my behalf but everyone deserted me May
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it not be held against them but the Lord stood by me and gave me strength so that
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through me the proclamation might be completed and all the Gentiles might hear it and I was rescued from the
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lion's mouth the Lord will rescue me from every evil threat and will bring me
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safe to his Heavenly King to him glory forever and ever amen the word of the
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Lord
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in the world to himself in Christ
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and entrusting to us the message of
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salvation Hallelujah
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the Lord be with you a reading from the holy Gospel According to Saint Luke
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Jesus addressed this Parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else
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two people went up to the temple area to pray one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector the Pharisee took up
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his position and spoke this prayer to himself oh God I thank you that I am not like
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the rest of humanity greedy dishonest adulterous or even like this tax
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collector I fast twice a week and I pay tithes on my whole income
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but the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and
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prayed o God be merciful to me a sinner I tell you the latter went home
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Justified not the former for whoever exalts himself will be humbled and the one who humbles himself will be exalted
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the gospel of the Lord
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we hear a lot of people invoke the word justice nowadays for all sorts of reasons and so it makes a little bit of
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sense for us to stop and say what does it mean when sirach says the Lord is a
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God of Justice what does it mean for Saint Paul to tell Timothy that the Lord
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is the just judge who will award a crown of righteousness what does it mean for
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Jesus to say that the tax collector is Justified but not the Pharisee
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in law in the practice of law Justice is either about the law itself whether the
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law is fair and equanimous and whatnot or whether it's being applied fairly or
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in Equanimity and that's not super helpful for us in terms of understanding what's going on in Our Gospel now in
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woke philosophy Justice kind of gets boiled down to if it's not my way then
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it's unjust that's really unhelpful for any of this kind of thing in kind of
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broad philosophy Justice is about each one getting what he or she needs to
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thrive we're getting there it's a little bit better but in Christianity Justice
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actually comes in three kind of distinct but slightly interrelated contexts
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Justice is first and foremost an aspect of God's perfection
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God and as part of his perfectness in being God is just he knows his creation
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he knows all of us he knows all that we could possibly need and his Justice
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provides for each of us according to our potential to our purpose and to our perfection
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and so the Lord knows each and every one of us he has made us with a sense of purpose in mind and so he says I'm
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giving you exactly what you need to be who I made you to be which is one
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of those great problems with comparing ourselves to others because we say gosh I wish I could sing better or gosh I
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wish the Lord would have given me this or that I certainly personally wish the Lord would drop a sack of 100 bills on
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my front porch that would be great but the Lord has for whatever reason chosen not to do that in the course of the last
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few months and so I simply look and say okay the Lord Has Done Injustice what is
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necessary for me to be perfected according to the purpose
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for which he made me so Justice is part of God's nature in and of himself
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Justice is also a virtue to be practiced it's a habit in which I owe a duty to
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God a duty to neighbor and a duty to myself now my duty to God of course is
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to know him love him and serve him to worship him my duty to my neighbor is
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roughly the same as my duty to myself I'm supposed to love my neighbor right I'm supposed to will the good of the
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other to be generous to be kind to be compassionate and that's something that's easy enough for us to understand
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we owe Injustice that we recognize Christ in others easy enough
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but perhaps the most important aspect of justice and certainly the one that we're really trying to get at in Our Gospel
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today is the idea that Justice rather we should say God through his
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death and Resurrection in Jesus has decided that Justice is no longer going
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to be the principle and the primary determinant of the universe now stop and
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think for a second about a perfectly just Society right if the society is completely just then if you do the crime
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you do the time you drive 36 miles an hour on Lois Lane over there you're going to jail because you have done the
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crime and in a perfectly just Society it doesn't matter whether you apologize doesn't matter whether you have good
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reason if you did something wrong you deserve punishment for it full stop and
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in the Jewish mind that's the way it worked if my great-great-great-granddaddy did something wrong then I should be
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punished for it because this is what Justice is but the Lord by dying and rising from
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the dead basically says I'm going to make some changes in that and we see in
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the gospel how much of a difference those changes make because when the Lord says I'm going to introduce Mercy
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then we say that changes not just a little bit that changes everything because in a just Society if someone
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does something wrong you have zero incentive to tell anybody about it you
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have zero incentive to repent you have zero incentive to confess you have zero
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incentive to go to confession you have zero incentive to do anything other than
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hide or explain away that this wasn't really a crime or really wasn't a sin at
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all which a lot of folks still seem to be buying into but if God is merciful
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then all of a sudden all that flips and suddenly it's not a question just of
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what happened or how things played out it's a question of what is my attitude
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if God's willing to be merciful then I'm not going to hide the fact that I sinned
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I'm going to rush forward to the Lord and tell him about it and beg his forgiveness because that's a thing in a
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perfectly just Society there is no forgiveness but with God who is merciful there is forgiveness and so instead of
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hiding my sin I tell him about it instead of explaining it away well you know for me calling my brother-in-law
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and saying he's a giant jerk that's not a sin for me because you don't know him he's really a jerk you know that that
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kind of attitude makes sense in a just Society it doesn't make sense though
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with a merciful god and so if I decide to say something mean or unpleasant or gospel or whatever I don't kind of make
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an excuse about that I go to the Lord and I confess it and I say Lord I'm genuinely sorry for it and
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even if I can't muster some genuine sorrow because maybe my brother-in-law is a jerk they aren't actually my
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brothers-in-law are delightful people but it's one of those things where I can still go to confession and say Lord I'm
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sorry I don't feel worse about something that I know is sinful I know I did it
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but there's something that's not playing out right because I'm not feeling as sorrowful as I should bless you and so
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all of this stuff all of this stuff changes upside goes upside down when we
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move from a just Society to a merciful god and that's an incredibly important thing
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for us to keep in mind because this whole notion of attitude is what the
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Lord is calling out in the gospel today he's saying look it's not about whether you did it all right or wrong it's not
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about whether you followed all the rules the attitude we need to have is one that
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looks to the Lord and says Lord I love you you are good you are merciful have have pity on me a sinner because I want
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to serve you as you deserve to be served and even if I do all the things I'm supposed to do there's still going to be
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a lack in me because I'm human and so it's completely okay I mean what's the
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risk going to confession maybe the guy sitting on the other side of the of the
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the little separator there judges you vaguely I mean we really don't but I mean that's the greatest consequence of
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going to confession not go into confession though is ultimately a repudiation of God's mercy it's a
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remarkable thing to think about you know I had a first-hand experience that I was thinking about it recently so I was at
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the gym a couple weeks ago and I'm in there and I'm doing my little barbell routine thing and this cat comes through
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the door this guy he's about five foot nothing and he's probably putting 400
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430 on the scale and this mama jama is kind of waddling in and bless his heart he is just getting through the door and
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he goes and sits on the stationary bike the one that's designed with the extra heavy duty kind of you know weight situation and about three minutes in
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he's huffing and puffing in about four minutes in he's done and I'm in there lifting I'm going my
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man you got to keep going it doesn't matter how much it hurts you've got to go further and and I'm not judging the
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guy at all I'm going I'm glad you're in the gym man that's great and this poor guy clearly doesn't know what to do gets
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off the stationary bike wanders over to a random exercise machine and does some random exercises three or four rounds
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and goes okay I'm done and walks out the door and I was going bless him in a world of justice that was nothing he
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didn't lose an ounce nothing came of that he just came in gave those fine people on the gym some money and left
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there was nothing he got out of it in the Justice of the world but seen Through The Eyes of the mercy
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of God that attitude of his said hey I don't know exactly what to do but I'm
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coming here because I want to be better and man that's an incredible place to be
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because when it comes to the Lord all of us are very much like that guy we all
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have our sins and our failings none of us know exactly how we are to do all the
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crazy aspects of this life but what the Lord wants us to do is show up he wants us to try it's not as if we have
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everything together and so what ultimately we get this idea of attitude that the Lord brings forward in the
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gospel which is huge when it comes to our faith because so much of even the
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question of Justice comes down to attitude am I treating other people with
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Justice and fairness am I treating other people with Mercy am I trying to have my
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relationship with the Lord be a relationship where I just say Lord I did everything right and you owe this to me
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or am I saying Lord I'm doing my best please help me out on everything that's not my best and that whole notion is
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something I think we can all get a hold of it's something we can understand and it's something that's essential to
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Christianity because there are big parts of our faith that really do boil down to
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our attitudes and so today's Gospel is a good opportunity for us in a certain sense to
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look in that spiritual mirror and say where are my attitudes where am I or how
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am I relating to the Lord do I have the attitude of Lord I've got most everything figured out or do I have the
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attitude that says Lord I'm I want to know you better help me to be better and
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Lord I'm sorry for any time I have not been as good as you wanted me to be because that's what the Lord is calling
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for he's calling for the attitude change far far more than he's calling for us to get everything right in the name of the
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father and the son and the holy spirit amen
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blessed are I believe in one God the Father the Almighty maker of heaven and
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Earth of all things visible and invisible I believe in one Lord Jesus
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Christ the only begotten son of God born of the father before all ages God
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from God life providing true God
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through him all things were made and for us and for our Salvation he came down
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from and it became for our sake he was
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crucified under Pontius Pilate he is suffering death and was buried and rose
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again on the third day in accordance to distribution he ascended into heaven and is seated at
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the right hand of the father he will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have
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no end I believe in the Holy Spirit the Lord The Giver of Life who proceeds from
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the father and the son who with the father and the son is adored and glorified who has spoken through the
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prophets and I believe in one Holy Catholic and Apostolic church I confess
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one baptism for the Forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection
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of the dead and the life of the world to come amen and now let us bring our
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prayers and our needs before for our faith family living and deceased
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for whom this mass is offered let us pray to the Lord r for pastoral leaders and preachers for
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dedicated liturgists and Educators let us pray to the Lord
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for patient peacemakers and negotiators for compassionate leaders and honest
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lawmakers let us pray to the Lord Lord hear our prayer for widows and orphans
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for the abused and abandoned let us pray to the Lord r Lord hear our prayer for
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all who live with chronic illness for all impaired by addiction let us pray to
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the Lord r for the members of this assembly for all
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their loved ones who have died let us pray to the Lord r Lord hear our prayer
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that our Lord would especially bless all who celebrate their birthday or wedding anniversaries this week let us pray to
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the Lord r and for all our personal intentions needs and concerns let us pray to the
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Lord r Lord hear our prayer
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hear our prayers and answer them according to your will for your lord forever and ever
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today's second collection is for the world missions
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foreign [Music]
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yes my hope is easy
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the Lord is
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are the battles [Music]
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come to me [Music]
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[Music] is [Music]
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I am
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[Music] your soul
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yes [Music]
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foreign [Music]
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look we pray O Lord on the offerings we make to your majesty that whatever is
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done by us in your service may be directed Above All To Your Glory through
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Christ Our Lord the Lord be with you lift up your hearts
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and let us give thanks to the Lord our God it is truly right and just our duty and
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our Salvation always and everywhere to give you thanks Lord Holy Father Almighty and eternal God for with your
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only begotten Son and the Holy Spirit you are one God one Lord not in the
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unity of a single person but in a trinity of one substance for what you have revealed to us of your glory We
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Believe also equally of your son and of the holy spirit so that in the
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confessing of the true and eternal godhead you might be adored in what is proper to each person their unity and
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substance and their equality in Majesty for this is praised By Angels and
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Archangels cherubim2 and seraphim who never cease to cry out each day is with one voice they acclaim
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is [Music]
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foreign holy holy
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holy Lord God of hosts
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Heaven and Earth are full of your glory
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[Music] hosanna
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in the heart
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blessed is he who comes in the name of
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the Lord [Music]
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to you therefore most merciful father we 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 personally
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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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together with your servant Francis our Pope and Robert our Bishop and all those who hold him to the truth hand on the
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Catholic and Apostolic Faith and remember Lord your servants
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and all gathered here whose faith and devotion are known to you for them we offer you this sacrifice of praise so
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they offer it for themselves and all who are dear to them for the Redemption of their souls and hope of health and
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well-being and paying their homage to you the Eternal God living and true in
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communion with those whose memory we venerate especially the Glorious ever Virgin Mary Mother of Our God and Lord
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Jesus Christ and bless Joseph her spouse your blessed Apostles and martyrs Peter
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and Paul Andrew James John Thomas James Philip Bartholomew Matthew Simon and
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Jude Linus Cletus Clement sixtus Cornelius cyprian Lawrence chrysogenous
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John and Paul Cosmos and Damien and all your Saints and we ask that through their merits and prayers in all things
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we may be defended by your protecting health and therefore Lord we pray gracious we
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accept this oblation of our service that of your whole family order our days in your peace and command that we be
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delivered from Eternal damnation and count it among the flock of those you have chosen be pleased so God we pray to
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bless acknowledge and to prove this offering in every respect make it spiritual and acceptable so that it may
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become for us the body and blood of your most beloved Son our Lord Jesus Christ
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on the day before he was to suffer he took bread in his holy and venerable hands and with eyes raised to Heaven do
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you o God as Almighty father giving you thanks he said the blessing broke the bread and gave it to his disciples
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saying take this all of you and eat of it for this is my body which will be given
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up for you
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in a similar way when supper was ended he took the Chalice this precious chalice and His holy and venerable hands
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and what's more giving you thanks he said the blessing and gave the Chalice to his disciples saying
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take this all of you and drink from it for this is the Chalice of My Blood
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the blood of the new and eternal Covenant which will be poured out for you and for many for the Forgiveness of
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sins do this in memory of me
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the mystery of a faith [Music]
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we Proclaim your death O Lord and
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profess your Resurrection
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until you come until you come again
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[Music] therefore O Lord we as we celebrate the memorial of the Blessed passion the
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resurrection from the dead and the 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
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be pleased to look upon these offerings for the Serene and kindly countenance and to accept them as once you are
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pleased to accept the gifts of your servant Abel the just the sacrifice of Abraham our father in faith and the
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offering of your high priest Melchizedek a holy sacrifice a spotless victim in
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Humble prayer we ask you almighty God command that these gifts be born by the hands of your Holy Angel to your altar
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on high in the sight of your Divine Majesty so that all of us who through this participation at the altar received
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the most holy body and blood of your son may be filled with every Grace and Heavenly blessing
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and remember also Lord your servants who have gone before us with the sign of faith and rest in the sleep of peace
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grant them O Lord we pray and all who sleep in Christ a place of refreshment light and peace
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and to us also your servants who those Sinners hope in your abundant Mercies
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graciously Grant some share and fellowship with your Holy Apostles and martyrs with John the Baptist Stephen
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Matthias Barnabas Ignatius Alexander marcelynus Peter Felicity perpetua
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Agatha Lucy Agnes Cecilia Anastasia and all your Saints admit as we beseech you
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into their company not weighing our merits but granting us your pardon through Christ Our Lord through whom you
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continue to make all these good things O Lord you sanctify them fill them with life bless them and bestow them upon us
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through him and with him and in him oh God Almighty father in the unity of the
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holy spirit all glory and honor is yours forever and
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ever [Music]
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thank you at the savior's command and formed by Divine teaching we dare to say Our
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Father who art in heaven Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come and thy will be
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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
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us not into temptation but Deliver Us from Evil Deliver Us Lord we pray from
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every evil and graciously Grant peace in our days by the help of your mercy we may be always free from sin and safe
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from all distress as we await the Blessed hope and the coming of Our Savior Jesus Christ
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foreign Lord Jesus Christ who said to your Apostles peace I leave you my peace I
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give you look not on our sins but on the faith of your church and graciously Grant her peace and unity in accordance
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with your will who live and Reign forever and ever the Peace of Our Lord be with you always
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let us offer to another a sign of that peace
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[Music] thank you
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happy birthday [Music]
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love God it is [Music]
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Behold the Lamb of God Behold Him who takes away the sins of
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the world blessed are those who are called to the supper of the Lamb Lord I
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am not worthy you should enter under my root but only say the word and my soul
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shall be
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words
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foreign [Music]
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you are free [Music]
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let us pray may your sacraments O Lord be prayed
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perfect in us what lies within them that what we now celebrate in signs we may
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one day possess in truth through Christ Our Lord I do want to send a warm welcome to
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guests and visitors who are here with us please leave a spiritual home here at Synod whenever you're here we're happy to have you uh there are two
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announcements first of all uh I said a month ago that I was going to start first communion a month ago and it's a
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month later and I still haven't started first communion I apologize for that that will be starting as soon as I get back from Retreat uh next week we'll get
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in touch with everybody who's got a little one for first communion and we'll figure out about twice a month in
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addition to our Sunday morning things where I can get together with the kids for 30 45 minutes and kind of make sure
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that they understand their prayers and whatnot and also make sure your parents understand what what needs to be done
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along the way it should be relatively straightforward but I apologize for having a drop the ball on that also as I
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mentioned this week I will be on retreat with many of the priests of the diocese uh we'll be leaving this afternoon we'll
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be at Mary Hill all week so there will be no daily mass Monday through Thursday but daily mass on Friday will be as
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usual on Friday evening with confessions Etc and so do please be aware of that also just as an FYI a little in advance
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we do have holy days of obligation coming up we have the holy day on uh the
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second of November which is a Tuesday I believe or the first of November which is a Tuesday which is All Saints Day so
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please be aware of that we'll have mass that Monday evening at 5 30. we'll have mass that Tuesday morning at 9 00 a.m
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and then we'll have mass that Tuesday evening in Delhi at six uh all that's in
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the bulletin so do please take a bulletin with you or look at our new fancy website and we will hopefully see
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you again very soon we do have coffee and donuts next door the topic is The Ten Commandments the Lord be with you
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and may almighty God bless you the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit go in
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peace