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Holy Mass from St. Edward the Confessor in Tallulah, Louisiana
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who raised Jesus Christ
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in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit the Lord be with you r
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and as we come before our Lord to offer these sacred Mysteries and All Souls day 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
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and what I have done and then what I have failed to do through my fault
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through my fault through my most Grievous form and therefore I ask the
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Blessed Mary ever virgin call the angels and Saints and you my brothers and
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sisters to pray for me to the Lord Our God and may almighty God have mercy on
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us forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life Lord have mercy
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Christ have mercy Lord have mercy
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and let us pray listen kindly to our prayers O Lord and
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as our faith in your son raised from the dead is deepened so may Our Hope of
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Resurrection for your departed servants also find new Strength through our Lord
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Jesus Christ your son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit one God forever and ever
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a reading from the book of wisdom The Souls of the just are in the hand of
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God and no torment shall touch them they seemed in the view of the foolish
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to be dead and their passing away was thought and affliction and they're going
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forth from us utter destruction but they are in peace
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for if before men indeed they be punished yet is there it is their
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hopeful of immortality chastised a little they shall be greatly
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blessed because God tried them and found them worthy of himself
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as God as gold in the furnace he proved them and as sacrificial offerings he
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took them to himself in the time of their visitation they shall shine and shall Dart about as
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Sparks through stubble they shall judge Nations and rule over peoples and the Lord shall be their king
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forever those who trust in him shall understand truth and the faithful shall abide with
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him in love because grace and mercy are with his holy ones and his care is with
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his elect the word of the Lord
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the Lord is my shepherd there is nothing I shall want the Lord is my shepherd
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there is nothing I shall want the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want
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in verdant pastures he gives me Repose beside restful Waters he leads me he
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refreshes my soul the Lord is my shepherd there is nothing I shall want
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he guides me in right paths for his name's sake even though I walk in the
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dark Valley I fear no evil for you are at my side with your rod and your staff
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that give me courage the Lord is my shepherd there is nothing I shall want
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you spread the table before me in the sight of my foes you anoint my head with
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oil my cup overflows the Lord is my shepherd nothing I shall want only
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goodness and kindness follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the
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house of the Lord for years to come the Lord is my shepherd there is nothing I
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shall want a reading from the letter of Saint Paul
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to the Romans brothers and sisters hope does not disappoint because the
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love of God has been poured out into our hearts through the holy spirit that has
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been given to us for Christ while we were still helpless died at the appointed time for the
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ungodly indeed only with difficulty does one die for a just person though perhaps for a
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good person one might even find courage to die but God proves his love for us and that
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while we were still sinners Christ died for us how much more then since we are
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now justified by his blood will we be saved through him from the Wrath
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indeed if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of
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his son how much more once reconciled will we be saved by his life
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not only that but we also boast of God through our Lord Jesus Christ through
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whom we have now received reconciliation the word of the Lord
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the Lord be with you a reading from the holy Gospel According to Saint Matthew
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Rory To You O Lord when Jesus saw the crowds he went up the mountain and after he had sat down his
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disciples came to him and he began to teach them saying blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of
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heaven and blessed are they who mourn for they will be comforted blessed are the meek for they will
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inherit the land blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be
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satisfied blessed are the merciful for they will be shown Mercy blessed are the Queen of
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Heart for they will see God blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God
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blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
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blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me
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rejoice and be glad for your reward will be great in heaven
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the gospel of the Lord
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well All Saints Day In All Souls day are certainly meant to be seen in relationship to one another and of
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course we have the same gospel which is nice for kind of bringing that forward in a very very real way just as All
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Souls day Are All Saints Day begs the question of why we have saints if
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they're just going to be in perfect union with Jesus Christ All Souls day causes us to beg the question of look if
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these folks are going to be in heaven and time is largely meaningless in
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eternity then why are we worried about it why do we need to think about it and we have the mentality that arises in our
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modern world in particular where we just want to kind of collapse things down into their simplest forms after all our
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Protestant brothers and sisters would stand by the five fundamentals you know that there's no point in all of this
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complicated thinking if all I need to do is love Jesus or if all I need to do is
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trust Jesus why the complexity why not just kind of collapse everything into
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its Simplicity and engage that of course the problem with that is once you
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experience love collapsing things down doesn't make sense I mean at the end of the day a
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family is just some people living together but for the love of God it ain't that way when you actually love
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the people you live with then you have all sorts of complexity and drama it's one of the reasons that it's so
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difficult for people who do not live in a family like me to give family advice
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or provide marital counseling because I don't have the training to do that and so someone comes in and says all this
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stuff in my mind because I have no spouse which I'm not very happy about just be aware but but that reality is
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such that I look and go just say this you know and the person goes if I said that that would cause drama for weeks
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which is why I try not to give marital counseling it's one of those things where once you love someone the
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complexity matters when you love you can't just collapse things down to
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Simplicity by its nature love demands a fullness an abundance it's I think tell
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and important to realize that all of the fathers of modern philosophy this is
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something I came across a month ago that blew my mind all of the fathers of modern philosophy Renee Descartes
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Emmanuel Kant were all Bachelors they had no family life
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whatsoever and so when they wrote they wrote as people who were not engaged in
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family life and so they wrote about how the state should be everybody's great aspiration
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and goal but they did so because they had no family life they didn't have someone to love in that profound way and
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that changes the whole way we think about everything and so when we think about All Souls
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when we think about a Purgatory when we think about eternity when we think about
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death we can collapse that down when it's someone else but if it's someone we love
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abundance and not collapse is what we think about and that's the value of
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remembering those we love who have died it's not just about collapsing it down
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and saying well as as the monk at my Abby said when I was a seminarian We buried a sweet Monk and he said the
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Abbot goes well in six months to a year he's going to be a thin layer of carbon
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and no one's going to care and we want good God that's Bleak I mean it's just awful thinking about our beloved dead
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that way that's not the way we want to do it because we love them we may not care so much whether you know Bob Jones
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who died in Philadelphia in 1861 you know who cares but but the ones we love
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abundance and not collapse is what is the order of the day and so it is when
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we think about the holy souls in purgatory we want to love them rather
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than just saying their situation is their situation and when we get there it'll be our situation we just don't
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need to worry about it but when we think about purgatory we think about God's
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love Purgatory is an extension of God's loving Mercy because he says to us
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listen I created you in the world but I created you imperfectly and I created you with a limited knowledge and a
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limited perspective and I think we all experience having a limited knowledge and a limited perspective and yet still
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the Lord shows us his goodness albeit in very limited ways through these very very small senses these five senses that
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we have in purgatory we will have complete knowledge so we will not be
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limited but the Lord still gives us this opportunity to be purified this
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opportunity to be perfected which is an Incredible Gift because of course we know there are scriptures that tell us
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only the pure of heart shall see God we just read them and the scriptures that tell us all have sinned and fallen short
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of the glory of God no one is good but God alone and when we think about these
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two scriptures we realize they don't coincide they don't mix together there are simply the reality that if both of
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those are true we're all going to burn and that's it full stop
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but when we realize that the Lord has built into his this this religion this
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worship of him this Incredible Gift of Mercy we start to understand that and see that
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only as an extension of God's love just as the idea that Saint Anthony of
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Padua finds keys and Saint Blaise doesn't seems completely absurd
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when we realize that God is not trying to Simply make things logical according to our way of doing it the Lord is
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building relationships and the Lord is giving us connections and so it is that we have this connection with the holy
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souls in purgatory and the Lord asks us to pray for them now we got we could ask
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ourselves what can my prayers honestly do to help Bob Jones who died in Philadelphia a hundred years ago get to
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heaven and in the same exact way we could ask ourselves why is it that Saint Anthony of Padua is responsible for people
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finding their keys according to our human logic there's no reasonable way to do it except that for whatever reason
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the Lord chose going back to the Old Testament to have us relate to him in a similar
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way to the way he wants me to relate to him he wants us to see ourselves as
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individuals and part of a family and so too he wants to see us within the context of the church as individuals
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seeking eternal life but also as members of the church visible and members of the
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church in purgatory and members of the church in heaven all connected together working together praying together
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journeying together and so we do have a moral obligation to pray for the holy
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souls in purgatory just as we have a moral obligation to ask for the intercession of those souls in heaven
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because for whatever reason God in his goodness and in His abundant love has decided that this is us this is what
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we've got we've got the holy souls in heaven helping us we've got the holy souls in purgatory to pray for and we've
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got us trying to get it done with our limited perspective and our limit limited potential and so it's an
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Incredible Gift to us to think about the holy souls as having a sense of purpose
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as we are here to pray for them and as we continue to pray for them even if my
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little grandmother was the sweetest little lady in the whole world and bless her heart she was not even if that were
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the case I would still behoove me to pray for her until my dying day whether or not until
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she appears at the foot of my bed in glowing Angelic attire and says I'm in heaven now you can stop praying for me
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if that happens you let me know I want to know about that but until that happens we need to be praying for our
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beloved dead because the Lord gives us this relationship for a specific purpose
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and a reason because his love is abundant it does not collapse down it
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blossoms out and so the holy souls in heaven that we talked about yesterday the holy souls in purgatory that we
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think about and pray for today this is a relationship these three types of the
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church that are connected to each other and that rely upon each other for salvation and so it is such a wonderful
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day for today for us to be aware of that to connect into that and to ask the Lord
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to look with loving mercy upon the holy souls in purgatory and of course to remember where they are buried because
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the grave functions as a sign and a witness to us both to motivate us but
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also to Humble us I love the fact that the benedictines although the Abbey I went to did not continue to do the
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tradition but the benedictines where I make my retreat in Clear Creek in Oklahoma continue the tradition that
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Saint Benedict put forward and I'll leave us with this simple thought Benedict wrote in his rule Memento Mori
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remember death and so he insisted that all of the young monks who joined the Abbey one of the first things they would
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do is fashion from wood their own casket
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now they don't sleep in their casket that's vampires that's different thing but the the monks would make the casket
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and keep it in the cell with them leaned against the wall as a way of remembering
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that this is where they're going to end up that's why the Abbott said that potentially cruel and extremely uh
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undisconcerting thing about the thin layer of carbon because the idea is by
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looking at that casket we remember that we have a limited time on Earth so we need to get out there and do something
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with it but we also remember that that's where we're going to end up and we humble ourselves and we say if that's
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where I'm going to end up in a short amount of time I need to make sure that Jesus is the hero of my story not me
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that my life is about getting to Heaven not about accomplishing stuff on Earth whatever that may be and that both
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strengthens and enthusiates me and it also humbles and settles me which is
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exactly what is meant to happen here on All Souls day yeah in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit
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amen
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blessed are you Lord God of all creation for your goodness we have received the
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bread we offer you fruit of the earth and work of human hands it will become for us the bread of life
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blessed are you Lord God of all creation for through your goodness we have received the wine we offer fruit of the
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vine and work of human hands it will become our spiritual drink
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pray my brothers and sisters that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to
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God the almighty father and the Lord accept the sacrifices for the praise and
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the glory of his name for our good and good of all is Holy Church look favorably on our offerings O Lord so
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that your departed servants may be taken up into Glory with your son in whose
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great mystery of love we are all United who lives and reigns forever and ever
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the Lord be with you lift up your hearts and let us give thanks to the Lord our
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God
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it is truly right and just our duty and our Salvation always and everywhere to
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give you thanks Lord Holy Father Almighty and eternal God for even though by our own fault we perish yet by your
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compassion and your grace when seized by death according to our sins we are
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redeemed through Christ's great Victory and with him called back into life and
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so with the powers of heaven we worship you constantly on Earth and before your majesty Without End we
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acclaim holy holy holy Lord God of hosts Heaven
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and Earth are full of your glory hosanna in the highest blessed is he who comes
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in the name of the Lord hosanna in the highest to you therefore most merciful father we
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make humble prayer and petition through Jesus Christ your son our Lord that you accept and bless these gifts these
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offerings these holy and unblemished sacrifices which we offer you firstly for your Holy Catholic Church be pleased
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to Grant her peace to guard unite and govern her throughout the whole world together with your servant Francis our
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Pope and Robert our Bishop and all those who holding to the truth hand on the Catholic and Apostolic Faith
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remember Lord your servants and all gathered here whose faith and
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devotion are known to you and for them we offer you this sacrifice of praise or they offer it for themselves and all who
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are dear to them for the Redemption of their souls in Hope of health and well-being and paying their homage to
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you the Eternal God living and true in communion with those whose memory we've venerate especially the Glorious ever
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Virgin Mary Mother of Our God and Lord Jesus Christ and bless Joseph her spouse
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your blessed Apostles and martyrs Peter and Paul Andrew James John Thomas James
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Phillip of Bartholomew Matthew Simon and Jude Linus Cletus Clements sixth us
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Cornelius cyprian Lawrence chrysogenous John and Paul Cosmos and Damien and all
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your Saints and we ask you through their merits and prayers in all things we may be defended by your protecting help
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and therefore Lord we pray graciously accept this oblation of our service that of your whole family order our days and
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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 this offering in every respect make it
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spiritual and acceptable so that it may 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 To
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You O God is 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 this precious chalice and 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 take this all of you and drink
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from it for this is the Chalice of My Blood the blood of the new and eternal
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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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the mystery of faith we Proclaim your death O Lord and profess your
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Resurrection until you come again and therefore O Lord as we celebrate the
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memorial of the Blessed passion the resurrection from the dead and the Glorious Ascension into heaven of Christ
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your son our Lord we your servants and your holy people offer to your glorious Majesty from the gifts that you have
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given us this pure victim this holy victim this spotless victim the holy
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bread of eternal life and the Chalice of everlasting salvation be pleased to look upon these offerings
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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
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in Humble prayer we ask you almighty God command that these gifts be borne 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
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and to us also your servants who those Sinners hope in your abundant mercies graciously Grant some share in
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fellowship with your Holy Apostles and martyrs with John the Baptist Stephen Matthias Barnabas Ignatius Alexander
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Marcia Linus Peter Felicity perpetua Agatha Lucy Agnes Cecilia anastasi and
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all your Saints administ we beseech you into their company not weighing our merits but granting us your pardon
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through Christ Our Lord through whom you continue to make all these good things O Lord you sanctify them fill them with
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life bless them and bestow them upon us
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through and with him and in him o God Almighty father in the unity of the holy
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spirit 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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graciously Grant peace in our days and by the help of your mercy we may be always free from sin and safe from all
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distress as we await the Blessed hope and the coming of Our Savior Jesus Christ for the kingdom the power and the
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glory are yours now and forever Lord Jesus Christ who said to your Apostles peace I leave you my peace I give you
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look not on our sins but on the faith of your church and graciously Grant her peace and unity in accordance with your
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will who live and Reign forever and ever the Peace of Our Lord be with you always
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and let us offer to another a sign of that peace
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huh and Behold the Lamb of God Behold Him
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who takes away the sins of the world blessed are those who are called to the supper of the Lamb Lord I am not worthy
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you should enter under my root but only say the word and my soul shall be healed
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foreign
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foreign
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thank you
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let us pray
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Grant we pray O Lord that your departed servants for whom we have celebrated this Paschal Sacrament may pass over to
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a Dwelling Place of light and peace through Christ Our Lord amen we do have
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a talk immediately after Mass in the book of The Prophet Zephaniah we're making our way through the end of the
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last of the Minor Prophets and so we'd love to have you join us online for that the uh the thing will usually happen
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we'll go down we'll come right back up with a new channel and or a new a new feed and you can watch the prophet
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Zephaniah that way and I'll be at the cemeteries at 10 A.M starting with the old cemetery and then at the new uh to
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do the blessing of the cemeteries we'd love to have you join us for that as well otherwise I hope you have a delightful week and we'll see you again
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very soon the Lord be with you and may almighty God bless you the Father the
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Son and the Holy Spirit go in peace
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