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Holy Mass from St. Edward the Confessor in Tallulah, Louisiana
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who trust in his wages
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in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit the Lord be with you we celebrate today our Parish
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patronal Feast which was actually this past Thursday and so the readings for mass today are not found in your
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missilet the antiphons are not found in your misolette if you do want to follow along you can follow along with
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Eucharistic prayer one when we get there but it's going to be a moment today for us to listen and to hear the word
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proclaim to us and so as we prepare to celebrate the Feast of Saint Edward let us acknowledge our sins now and so
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prepare our hearts I confess to almighty God and to you my
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brothers and sisters that I have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words in
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what I have done and in what I have failed to do the room I've called through my fault through my most
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Grievous fault and therefore I ask the Blessed Mary ever virgin all the angels
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and Saints and you my brothers and sisters to pray for me to the Lord our
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God and may almighty God have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us to
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everlasting life Lord have mercy Christ have mercy
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Lord 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 you take away the
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sins of the world receive our prayer for you are seated at the right hand of the
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father have mercy on us for you alone are the Holy One you alone are the Lord
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you alone are the most high Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit in the glory of God
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the Father amen and let us pray oh God who in each Pilgrim Church
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throughout the world make visible the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church
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graciously grant that you're faithful may be so United to their Shepherd and
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gathered together in the Holy Spirit through the gospel and the Eucharist as
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to worthily embody the universality of your people and become a sign and
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instrument in the world of the presence of Christ who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit one God
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forever and ever amen
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from The Book of Genesis the Lord said Abram
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go forth from the land of your King's folk and from your father's house to a land that I will show you I will make of
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your great nation and I will bless you I will make you your name great so that
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you will be a blessing I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you all the communities of the
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Earth shall find blessings in you Abram went as the Lord directed him the word
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of the Lord
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foreign shall live on your Holy Mountain O Lord
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shall live on your Holy Mountain O Lord He Who Walks blamelessly and does
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Justice who think the truth in his heart is Slanders not with his tongue
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who harms know his fellow man nor takes up a reproach against his
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neighbor by whom the reprob reprobate is despised while he honors those who fear
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the lord
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who lends not his money at nursery and accepts no bribe against the innocent
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He Who does these things shall never be disturbed
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a reading from the letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians brothers and sisters draw your strength from the Lord and
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from his mighty power but on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the
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tactics of the devil for our struggle is not with the flesh and blood but with the principalities
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with the powers with the world rules of the present Darkness
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with the evil spirits in the heavens therefore put on the armor of God that you may be able to resist on the evil
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day and having done everything to hold your ground the word of the Lord
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um Holy Spirit fill the hearts of your faithfulness
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the Lord be with you a reading from the holy Gospel According to Saint Matthew Glory To You O Lord
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Jesus said to his disciples you are the salt of the earth
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but if salt loses its taste with what can it be seasoned it is no longer good
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for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot you are the light of
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the world a city set on a mountain cannot be hidden nor do they light a
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lamp and then put it under a bushel basket it is set on a lamp stand where
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it gives light to all in the house just so your light must shine before
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others that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly father
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the gospel of the Lord
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The Story Goes that in the summer of 1065 A.D in Westminster in England King
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Edward was attending the dedication of one of the many many churches that he had built in and around what we call
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London and as he was doing so and celebrating this Festival this kind of
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feast a little man came up to him and asked for alms which was very very typical of the time and so the king
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looked around and said where's my Almanor this is the guy who would actually carry the cash because the king
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would never carry cash and so the Almanor can't be found and of course King Edward being the holy Pious man he
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was is deeply embarrassed and no seriously find my Almanor and they couldn't get him couldn't find him and
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this little guy is still standing there with his hand out and so Edward wanting to do something the only thing he had
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was this ring on his finger which apparently had this large Sapphire fire
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this huge Sapphire on it and so he took the ring off and gave it to the little guy and said here this should provide
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anything you need and just kind of went on with his day you know he wanted to be wanted to take advantage of the day to
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give alms he did it worked out not long after that I mean a matter of
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weeks after that all the way across the world in the Holy Land There are two
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Englishmen who are on pilgrimage and they come across this Desert stretch
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where they get lost which you know is before roads that happens and so they're getting nervous the sun is starting to
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set and they see in a distance what they call quote a band of youths in bright
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Raymond it's a great quotation a band of youths and bright Raymond meaning just there's
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a bunch of young people who are dressed in colorful clothes and with them there's this old guy in white clothing
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and they're amazed because the smile on his face is radiant
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and they can't look away from him and so they go over to this band of youths and
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bright Raymond and the little guy looks at them and says okay before we have a conversation here of what Creed and
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birth are you of what kingdom and King and what do you seek this is just an
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old-fashioned way of saying who are you and what do you want from us and the people say hey we are Christians from
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England King Edward is our King and we're just here on pilgrimage as as way
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of of asking the Lord for forgiveness of our sins and the little guy looks at them and goes you know what you got
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lucky there's actually a little restaurant and an inn right around the corner here and we'll take you there and
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get you some food so they all go around the corner and they sit down at this little Inn and they are eating
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and the little guy with the big smile looks at them and says I know your king and in fact you think I'm just an
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ordinary person but in fact I'm Saint John the Evangelist and your king is a very very good man and he gave me this
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ring just very recently and so I want you now to take this ring back to him and I want you to tell him that in six
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months time he'll be dead and he'll be with me in heaven and so get on the road
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you know and so these guys hustle back they gas up the donkey and make their way back to England and they tell the
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king this and the king is astounded by this because he didn't expect to one die and two didn't expect to go to heaven he
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was you know kind of hopeful but he didn't know and so it plays out that way this is 1065 those of you who are
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history people know that 1066 is the Battle of Hastings King Edward dies in
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January 1066 his utterly inept and disappointing sun takes over it loses
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the kingdom in less than a year at the Battle of of Hastings and in fact an entirely new Dynasty comes in what's
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truly astounding besides this story which is really really quite cool and this story is
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actually repeated there in that painting on either side of king Edward or two parts of that story and our our pilgrims
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here are played by Miss uh Mr Dale Magoon and Miss uh Miss uh Becky Lancaster in our painting over there but
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it's what's amazing about this whole kind of story in history at least is
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that when the New Kingdom showed up generally the rule was everybody from
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the previous kingdom was to be downplayed right it's very much like politics nowadays as soon as the new
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president gets elected everything the previous guy did stunk right and then you swap and it's exactly the same thing back and forth but what was astounding
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is that people would go to the Tomb of the previous King who was from an old Dynasty that we
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don't like the tomb of Edward the Confessor and there were so many miracles that took place there there was
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so much Wonder working and miracle that even the new Kings would go and pray at
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the tomb of king Edward it was just this kind of astounding shocking sort of
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thing that had a profound impact upon the entire nation and in fact upon the
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entire world at that time and the story of the ring is just one of many many miraculous stories associated with
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Edward the Confessor and it makes it a really neat thing for us then not just to have him as a patron but to have
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actually part of his relics here in the church with us and in fact a lot of places have a neat Patron but very very
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few have a neat Patron who is known for working miracles and even fewer have a patron who is known for working miracles
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and have the miraculous relics in the church with us and so if you're looking and saying gosh something's not going
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the way I'd like it to go in my life there's always the shrine of king Edward right over there with miraculous relics
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that you can go and ask for his intercession with but in fact one of the things I think that's an incredible
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Blessing about having him as a patron is the simple fact that I think the biggest struggle we have in the church today
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is how disconnected we've become from the supernaturality of our faith one of
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the things that's very easy for us especially in this day and age is to become a little bit over intellectual
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and to say gosh you know our faith is relatively straightforward and to say you know well I mean I'm going to go to
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church I'm going to give my hour you know every week but that's going to be the story right
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or that's going to be the whole thing or even we read the Bible we go this is a nice story but I'm not really sure I'm
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prepared to believe it actually happened or we say I'm going to send prayers and wishes and well thoughts and good
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intentions across Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or whatever but we lose touch
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with the fact that we actually believe we actually believe that there's a miracle that takes place in the church
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every week we believe that Jesus is truly present in the Holy Eucharist we believe that
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angels and demons are actively doing their thing in the world today we believe in a supernatural faith and the
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fact is that King Edward the Confessor is still working miracles in England
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today his tomb is still very very visited in Westminster Abbey by people
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who are looking to be healed of of issues of physical health or of mental health and the fact is that our faith is
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not merely something that we should kind of get in our head as an idea of somebody that should live in our head it's something that really does go out
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from us it's something that we should be drawn into and lifted up by it is
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Supernatural and that's something that that King Edward can remind us of in an
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incredibly unique and important way because when we get to the point where
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our faith is reduced and it is as simple as well this is just
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kind of a moral code that I'm supposed to follow well then our faith is reduced to
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Buddhism and Buddhism is a hoot but it's not going to get you to heaven or if we get in our head the idea that
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well you know this is just something that we do for the sake of community then we get reduced
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to something that our faith is not meant to be or we get in our head the idea of my faith is just about having a
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relationship with Jesus and that's it that's not good enough
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because our faith is genuinely Supernatural we do we do here because we
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believe one that the Lord wants to send us to Eternity or rather to send us to heaven for all eternity but also because
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we believe that this world around us has a layer on it that is an invisible
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Supernatural layer and if we become disconnected from that then what are our prayers doing
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are we just talking to thin air are we just kind of saying things are we just hoping and wishing for good things or
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are we genuinely of the belief that there is a powerful Supernatural reality I mean I would I
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struggled with this until the first time I went to an exorcism I don't struggle with it anymore it changed my whole
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perspective on the universe because when I realized there's really Supernatural stuff going on y'all I mean good Lord
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and Saint King Edward Saint Edward is a remarkable reminder to us that
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supernaturality is not just random or accidental it is a big deal and so as
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far as Patron Saints Go the reason that we have them is that they provide for us an example and they provide for us
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intercession but in particular our Patron reminds us of the supernaturality
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of the world in which we live and the supernaturality of the church and that is an incredible gift from him and so if
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we find ourselves struggling with any of these sorts of things it's worth taking a moment to realize just how valuable it
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is to have someone else praying for us in particular someone who is known for
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working miracles and we can certainly ask his prayers for our community for our families and for us individually and
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again if you do have some kind of physical health issue that's not going the way that you want things to go if
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you have a mental health issue that's not going the way the things you want to go if food cost you twice as much as it
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used to call as it cost me go ask Saint Edward for help I mean he may leave a sack of 100 bills in your front porch I
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don't know the man works miracles but it's it's not something that is beyond the pale of reason he is a miracle
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worker he's here in our church and what a gift we have in that in the name of the father and of the son and of the
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holy spirit amen
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I believe in one God the Father the Almighty maker of heaven and Earth of
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all things visible and invisible I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ the
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only begotten Son of God born of the father before all ages God from God
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light from light trigger God from true God begotten not made consubstantial
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with the father through him all things were made and for us men and for our
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Salvation he came down from heaven Spirit was incarnated Virgin Mary and
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became man and for our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate he
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suffered death and was buried and rose again on the third day in accordance
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with the scriptures he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the father he will come again in
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glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end I believe in the Holy Spirit the Lord
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The Giver of Life who proceeds from the father and the son who with the father
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and the son is adored and glorified who has spoken through the prophets I
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believe in one Holy Catholic and Apostolic church I confess one baptism
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for the Forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come amen
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and now let's bring our prayers and our needs before the Lord for our faith family living and deceased
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for whom this math is offered let us pray to the Lord Lord hear our prayer that the ministry of persistent prayer
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remained at the heart of the Church of God and in the lives of the faithful let us pray to the Lord r Lord hear our
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prayer that Discord among nations be solved by battles of words and that Discord in our communities be solved by
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working together for the common good let us pray to the Lord r Lord hear our prayer that Faith communities work
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diligently to promote respect for life let us pray to the Lord Lord hear our
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heart that people treat the Earth's finite Resources with tender care let us pray to the Lord Lord hear our prayer
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that all of us taking part in this great mystery recognize it at it as the center
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of all celebrations and Ministries let us pray to the Lord
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that our Lord would especially bless all who celebrate their birthday and wedding anniversaries this week let us pray to
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the Lord and for all of our personal intentions needs and concerns let us pray to the
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Lord
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for your lord forever and ever
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besides of grateful praise
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thank you
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pray my brothers and sisters that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God the almighty father may the Lord
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accept the sacrifice at my hand for the praise and the glory of his name for our good and the good of all his holy church
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celebrating the memorial of your son's boundless love we humbly beseech You O
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Lord that through the ministry of your church the fruits of his saving work May
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Advance the salvation of all the world through Christ Our Lord amen
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the Lord be with you lift up your hearts
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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
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have revealed to us of your glory We Believe equally of your son and of the holy spirit so that in the confessing of
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the true and eternal godhead you might be adored in what is proper to each person their unity and substance and
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their equality and Majesty for this is praised By Angels and Archangels
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cherubim2 and seraphim who never cease to cry out each day is with one voice they acclaims
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I am the last is he who comes in the name of
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to you therefore most merciful father we make humble prayer and petition through Jesus Christ your son our Lord to accept
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and bless these gifts these offerings these holy and unblemished sacrifices which we offer you firstly for your Holy
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Catholic Church be pleased to Grant her peace to guard unite and Governor throughout the whole world together with
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your servant Francis our Pope and Robert our Bishop and all those who hold into the truth hand on the Catholic and
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Apostolic Faith 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 the sacrifice of
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praise so they offer it for themselves and all who are dear to them for the Redemption of their souls and hope of
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health and well-being and paying their homage to you the Eternal God living and true
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in communion with those whose memory we've entered especially the Glorious ever Virgin Mary Mother of Our God and
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Lord Jesus Christ and bless Joseph her spouse you blessed Apostles and martyrs
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Peter and Paul Andrew James John Thomas James Phillip Bartholomew Matthew Simon
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and Jude Linus Cletus Clement sixtus Cornelius cypri and Lawrence
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chrysogynist John and Paul Cosmos and Damien and all your Saints and we ask
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you through their merits and prayers in all things we may be defended by your protecting health
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and therefore Lord we pray graciously accept this oblation of our servants that of your whole family order our days
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in your peace and command that we be delivered from Eternal damnation and counted among the flock of those you
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have chosen and be pleased oh God we pray to bless acknowledge and to prove
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this offering in every respect make it spiritual acceptable so that it may become for us the body and blood of your
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most beloved Son our Lord Jesus Christ on the day before he was to suffer he
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took bread in his holy and venerable hands and with eyes raised to Heaven see you o God is Almighty father giving you
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thanks he said the blessing broke the bread and gave it to his disciples saying
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take this all of you and eat of it for 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 he took this precious chalice in his holy and venerable hands and once more
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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 the
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blood of the new and eternal Covenant which will be poured out for you and for many for the Forgiveness of sins
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do this in memory of me
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therefore O Lord as we celebrate the memorial of the Blessed passion the resurrection from the dead and the
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Glorious Ascension into heaven of Christ your son our Lord we your servants and
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your holy people offer to your glorious Majesty from the gifts that you have given us this pure victim this holy
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victim this spotless victim the holy bread of eternal life and the Chalice of everlasting salvation
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be pleased to look upon these offerings with 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 receive
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the most holy body and blood of your son may be filled with every Grace and Heavenly blessing and remember also Lord
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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 and to us also your
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servants who those Sinners hope and abundant mercies graciously Grant some
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share in fellowship with your Holy Apostles and martyrs with John the Baptist Stephen Matthias Barnabas
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Ignatius Alexander marcelynus Peter Felicity perpetua Agatha Lucy Agnes
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Cecilia Anastasia and all your Saints admitted as we beseech you into their company not weighing our merits but
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granting a sure pardon through Christ Our Lord through whom you continue to make all these good things O Lord you
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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
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[Music] night all glory and honor is yours forever and ever
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at the savior's command and formed by Divine teaching we dare to say
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Our Father who art in heaven Hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come and thy will
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be done on Earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive
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us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not
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into temptation but Deliver Us from Evil Deliver Us Lord we pray from every evil
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and graciously Grant peace in our days that by the help of your mercy we may be
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always free from sin and safe from all distress as we await the Blessed hope and the coming of Our Savior Jesus
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Christ for the kingdom the power and the glory are yours now and forever and Lord Jesus
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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
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church and graciously Grant her peace and unity in accordance with your will who live and Reign forever and ever
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the Peace of Our Lord be with you always come let us offer to another a sign of
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that peace
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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 roof but only say the word and my soul
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shall be healed services
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let us pray in your church in this your church oh
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Lord May Integrity of Faith Holiness of life for Eternal charity and pure
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religion flourish and abide until the end and as you do not fail to feed her
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with the body of your son and your word so Nev also never cease we pray to guide
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her under your protection through Christ Our Lord amen I do want to extend a very
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warm welcome to guests and visitors who are here with us please know you do have a spiritual home here at Saint Ed whenever you're here with us we're very
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very happy to have you we do have our talk and coffee and donuts and whatnot this morning across the way uh the topic
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this morning is uh the worship of God uh and so it is uh it's a good talk and it should be relatively briefs we hope you
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can come by and join us for that next Saturday I should say this coming Saturday is the Public Square Rosary in
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Saint Joseph there's a flyer at the back door if you are at all able to go it's definitely worth doing this is sponsored
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by father Taylor down at St Joseph Parish basically they're going to get together around 10 a.m at the church
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they'll pray the rosary as they walk down to the amphitheater have a brief program down there and it's just an
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opportunity for us to celebrate our faith and it's a very very good thing and so if you're all able to go or know
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have anyone who might be interested do please take a flyer with you and let them know again this is this coming
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Saturday in Saint Joe at around 10 a.m give or take and so we'd love to have
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you consider joining us for that also if you haven't looked at the formed.org if
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you haven't seen the cards at the end of your Pew form.org is there it is free for you to use you go to
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signup.form.org and you enter our ZIP code which is 71282 and you have free
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access to everything from full-length movies to short little videos on all sorts of things to ebooks and audio
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books it's all free it's all provided for you so do please consider using that
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it's really really quite good and there is a little blurb in the bulletin about how to do it and recommending things
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week to week and the last note that I would make this week is that we do have as mentioned in the
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bulletin a parish website we've updated our Parish website dramatically it looks a lot better it's easier to use it works
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on your phone it works on the computer has the bulletin all that kind of stuff and so if you're just dropping in or if
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you have not had a chance to look at it do that it's a good website and I hope that you enjoy it any feedback of course
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is quite welcome otherwise have a wonderful week and we'll see you again very soon 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