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Holy Mass from St. Edward the Confessor in Tallulah, Louisiana
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arose
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is
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the power of God
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to us
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in the name of the father and of the son
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and of the Holy Spirit the Lord be with
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you R and as we come before our Lord to
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offer these sacred Mysteries this
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morning let us acknowledge our sins and
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so prepare our hearts
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foreign
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Lord Jesus you are king of kings Lord
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have mercy
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Lord Jesus your Lord of lords Christ
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have mercy
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Lord Jesus you are Prince of Peace Lord
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have mercy and may almighty God have
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mercy on us forgive us our sins and
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bring us to everlasting life
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let us pray
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oh God who chose to manifest the Blessed
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hope of your Eternal Kingdom by the toil
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of Saint Jean de brobeth Isaac jokes and
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their Companions and by the shedding of
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their blood graciously Grant through
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their intercession the faith of
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Christians may be strengthened day by
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day through our Lord Jesus Christ your
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son who lives and reigns with you in the
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unity of the Holy Spirit one God forever
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and ever
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a reading from the letter of Saint Paul
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to the Ephesians brothers and sisters
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you have heard of the stewardship of
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God's grace that was given to me for
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your benefit namely that the mystery was
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made known to me by Revelation as I have
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written briefly earlier
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when you read this you can understand my
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insight into the mystery of Christ
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which was not made known to human beings
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and other Generations as it is now being
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revealed
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To His Holy Apostles and Prophets by the
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spirit that the Gentiles or co-heirs
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members of the same body and co-partners
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in the promise in Christ Jesus Through
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The Gospel
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of this I became a minister by the gift
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of God's grace that was granted me in
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accord with the exercise of his power
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to me the very least of all the holy
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ones this Grace was given to preach to
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the Gentiles the inscrutable Riches of
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Christ and to bring to light for all
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what is the plan of the mystery hidden
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from ages past in God who created all
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things
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so that the manifold wisdom of God might
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now be known through the through the
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church to the principalities and
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authorities in the heavens
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this is according to the Eternal purpose
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that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our
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lord and whom we have boldness of speech
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and confidence of access through faith
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in him
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the word of the Lord
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you will draw water joyfully from the
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Springs of salvation
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you will draw water joyfully from the
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Springs of salvation
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God indeed is my savior I am confident
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and unafraid my strength and my courage
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is the Lord and he has been my savior
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with joy you will draw water at the
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fountain of Salvation you will draw
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water joyfully from the Springs of
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salvation
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give thanks to the Lord Acclaim his name
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among the Nations make known his deeds
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Proclaim how exalted is his name
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you will draw water joyfully from the
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Springs of salvation
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sing praise to the Lord for his glorious
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achievement
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let this be known throughout all the
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Earth Shout with exaltation o city of
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Zion for great in your midst is the Holy
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One of Israel
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you will draw water joyfully from the
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Springs of salvation
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the Lord be with you
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a reading from the holy Gospel According
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to Saint Luke
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Jesus said to his disciples be sure of
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this if the Master of the House had
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known the hour when the thief was coming
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he would not have let his house be
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broken into you also must be prepared
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for at an hour you do not expect the son
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of man will come
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and then Peter said Lord is this Parable
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meant for us or for everyone
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and the Lord replied who then is the
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faithful and prudent Steward whom the
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master will put in charge of his
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servants to distribute the food
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allowance at the proper time
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blessed is that servant whom his master
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on arrival finds doing so
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truly I say to you he will put him in
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charge of all his property
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but if that servant says to himself my
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master is delayed in coming and begins
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to beat the men servants and the
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maidservants to eat and get drink and
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get drunk then that servant's Master
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will come on an unexpected day and at an
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unknown hour and he will punish the
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servants severely and assign him a place
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with the unfaithful
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that servant who knew his master's will
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but did not make preparations nor act in
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accord with his will shall be beaten
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severely and the servant who was
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ignorant of his master's will but acted
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in a way deserving of a severe beating
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shall be beaten only lightly
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much will be required of the person
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entrusted with much and still more will
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be demanded of the person entrusted with
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more
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the gospel of the Lord
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there really are kind of two categories
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of Martyrs you have the martyrs who just
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kind of stumbled into it right the poor
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people who for any number of reasons you
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know the these are the people under the
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Roman persecutions or these are are the
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the Ugandan Martyrs where they may have
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stood up for virtue or stood up for
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Valor but martyrdom came for them then
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you have a very very small subset a very
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small subset of people who actively said
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I'm going to go do this knowing almost
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certainly I'm going to be martyred for
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my efforts and that's an entirely
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different animal when we stop and think
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about it in our own community and our
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not our well our own Zone our own area
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of the universe we have the Shreveport
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Martyrs and of course we have father
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lavuzalay or father lavuzolet if you
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prefer the uh the more Canadian
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pronunciation but you have father
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lavuzolay who was a priest in the
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nakadish area and this is 18 1975 or so
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and the yellow fever has completely
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decimated Shreveport most of the priests
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of the diocese have already died there
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and lavuzole who is a young man who's in
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his late 20s goes to Bishop Martin and
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says our Bishop yeah Bishop Martin and
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says I want to go and minister to the
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people there and Marten says you're
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probably going to die and he says that's
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okay that's what I want to do I want to
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go Minister those people there are
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people dying they need the sacraments
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and I want to go do that so lavuzlay
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puts his Affairs in order he gets on his
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donkey and he makes his way to
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Shreveport and sure enough as father
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Shimano famously said in in a sermon
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that made everybody in the place just
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die with laughter he came back two weeks
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later in a box you know that kind of
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ridiculous over-the-top sort of thing
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but that's a different kind of martyrdom
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Saint John de brobeth and really Saint
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Isaac jokes and others with him are one
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of a whole group of Jesuit Martyrs who
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very actively and very consciously
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prepared for years to go into places
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where there was even money they were
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going to get shot in the face on day one
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and in fact berbeth had several
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tomahawks thrown by him and all kinds of
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other stuff go on when he went to the
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Huron Indians in the kind of upper
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Hudson Valley of New York and and Canada
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and that kind of that region up in that
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in that part of the world
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it's a somewhat astounding thing to stop
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and think about and yet at the same time
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it provides a pretty good antidote none
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of us here are necessarily Millennials
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thanks be to God but but you know we
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there's kind of a millennial saying of
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YOLO you only live once and so the idea
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is don't do anything that's going to be
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too damaging to you and make sure you
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get the most out of this life that you
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can but then you have someone like
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Robert who says no no no no no no
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I believe in eternal life it's not you
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only live once this life is simply a
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getting ready for that one and so let's
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invest everything I can into getting
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ready for eternity and there are a lot
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of other kind of little subtle nuances
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there but it shows a degree of faith
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that is perhaps a great deal more
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enviable even than those Martyrs who
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simply said I'm not going to reject
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Christ you can go ahead and kill me in
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whatever way you want these are people
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who say I believe so firmly in eternity
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that I'm going to invest years of my
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life in study and training to go and who
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knows what will happen
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and a very very very small handful of
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those succeeded in a way you know folks
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who went in to for example uh the Mohawk
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Indians uh some of the early ones were
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killed but some of the later ones went
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in and actually managed to convert some
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folks and we end up with Kateri tequita
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and others you know who are success
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stories but debris and jokes are a
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remarkable example of the people who
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went in saying there's even money or
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perhaps better than even money I don't
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survive this and yet that's still a
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hundred percent worth it just on the
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possibility that I might bring someone
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to the Lord and of course that speaks a
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lot hopefully to us about what we're
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willing to entrust to the Lord in the
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course of Our Lives as we think about
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our families as we think about our
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friends as we think about the ministry
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that we have simply to people around us
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of do I have a degree of faith that says
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Lord if it's what it takes is to
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sacrifice and suffer then that's what
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I'll do that's what's good and necessary
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and of course we certainly need to ask
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Saint John to pray for us because his
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faith did not just show up one day
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certainly nor was it something that was
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merely you know kind of uh something
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that would be given to anybody who asks
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for it it's a special kind of Grace to
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be sure but it's certainly something
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that's worth asking the Lord for even if
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the Lord is not going to call us to go
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off and do something radical or
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unexpected what an Incredible Gift to
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have that kind of faith that says I want
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to live every moment of my life as if
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what I am doing here is getting ready
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for eternity I want to live every moment
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of my life as if what is happening here
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is really just about getting to there
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and if we can do that no question
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that'll transform the way that we
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experience life but it will also
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dramatically affect the way that
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everybody around us experiences life
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because while we can subdivide Martyrs
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into 45 different categories if we want
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to the thing that unites all the saints
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is that desire to please the Lord and to
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make this life a getting ready for that
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one rather than seeing this life as an
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end in and of itself and so if that's
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something we struggle with or it's
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something we want to do better Saint
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John is certainly someone we can ask for
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his prayers because wow what an amazing
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amazing Saint and a guy who you know is
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his story is truly fascinating but it's
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kind of brutal and disgusting and
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horrifying and not really appropriate
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for prime time so you know it's one of
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those things that we could talk about
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some other time but it's probably not
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something we want to get into too deeply
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here because it involves a lot of blood
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and guts and it's quite horrifying and
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yet we still have this remarkable story
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of Faith that's worth holding on to and
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a great intercessor who is worth asking
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for his prayers in the name of the
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father and the son of the holy spirit
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amen we do have our CU catechest
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immediately after Mass today it is Mega
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brief because there's just nothing we
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know about habakkuk and we've already
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covered all these themes before in the
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Minor Prophets I've got a little aside
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but I would be surprised if we go over
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seven minutes so we're just going to do
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our very best to make it worth listening
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to but it will be brief and so if you're
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watching online it will happen but it
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will happen relatively quickly so you
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don't want to go way too far uh you know
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we'll switch the feet over we'll get
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everything started again and we'll have
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the prophet habakkuk at the end of mass
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today
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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 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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as well
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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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pray my brothers and sisters that my
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sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to
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God the almighty father may the Lord
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accept his sacrifices
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and the good of all his holy church
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[Applause]
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as we venerate The Passion of your
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martyr Jean de brobeth Isaac jokes and
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their companion grant that through this
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sacrifice O Lord we may proclaim
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worthily the death of your only begotten
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son who not content with encouraging the
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martyrs by word strengthened them
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likewise by example who lives and reigns
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forever and ever
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and the Lord be with you
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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 win 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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highest
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and you are indeed holy O Lord and all
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you have created rightly gives you
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praise for through your son our Lord
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Jesus Christ by the power and working of
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the Holy Spirit you give life to all
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things and make them holy and you never
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cease to gather a people to yourself so
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that 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 dead
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whose command we celebrate these
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Mysteries
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for on the night he was betrayed he
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himself took bread and giving you thanks
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he said the blessing broke the bread and
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gave it to his disciples saying take
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this all of you and eat of it for this
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is my body which will be given up for
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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 it
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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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sins
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do this in memory of me
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the mystery of faith we Proclaim your
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death O Lord and profess your
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Resurrection until you come 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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and Grant that we who are nourished by
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the body and blood of your son and
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filled with his holy spirit may become
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one body one Spirit In Christ
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may he make of us an eternal offering to
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you so that we may obtain an inheritance
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with your elect especially with the Most
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Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of God with
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blessed Joseph her spouse and with your
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blessed Apostles and glorious Martyrs
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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 be pleased to
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confirm in faith and charity your
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Pilgrim Church on Earth with your
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servant Francis our Pope and Robert our
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Bishop the order of Bishops all the
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clergy and the entire people you have
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gained for your own
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listen graciously to the prayers of this
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family whom you have summoned before you
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in your compassion o merciful father
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gather to yourself all your children
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scattered throughout the world into our
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departed brothers and sisters and to all
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who are pleasing to you with their
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passing from this life give kind
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admittance to your kingdom and there we
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hope to enjoy forever the fullness of
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your glory through Christ Our Lord
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through whom you bestow in the world all
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that is good
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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 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
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Lord Jesus Christ who said to your
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Apostles peace I leave you my peace I
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give you look not on our sins but on the
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faith of your church and graciously
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Grant her peace and unity in accordance
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with your will who live and Reign
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forever and ever the Peace of Our Lord
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be with you always
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but it's offered to another a sign of
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that peace
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says
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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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foreign
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foreign
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let us pray
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foreign
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having fed upon your heavenly Delights
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we humbly ask You O Lord that by the
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example of blessed Jean de brobeth and
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Isaac shows and their companions we may
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bear in our hearts the marks of your
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son's charity and suffering and ever
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enjoy the fruits of Perpetual peace
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through Christ Our Lord amen the Lord be
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with you
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and may almighty God bless you the
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Father the Son and the Holy Spirit
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go in peace