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Holy Mass from St. Edward the Confessor in Tallulah, Louisiana
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and I will make you purchase
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in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit the Lord be with you and as we come before our Lord to
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offer these sacred Mysteries this morning let us acknowledge our sins now and so prepare our hearts
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I confess to almighty God and to you my brothers and sisters that I have greatly
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sinned in my thoughts and in my words and what I have done and in what I have
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failed to do through my fault through my fault through my most Grievous fault and
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therefore I ask the Blessed Mary ever virgin all the angels and Saints and you
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my brothers and sisters to pray for me to the Lord Our God May almighty God
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have mercy on 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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glory to God in the highest and on Earth peace to people of Good Will We Praise
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You we bless you we adore you we glorify you give you thanks for your great glory
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Lord God Heavenly King o God Almighty father Lord Jesus Christ only begotten
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son Lord God Lamb of God Son of the father you take away the sins of the
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world have mercy on us you take away the sins of the world receive our prayer you
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are seated at the right hand of the 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 we humbly implore your majesty O Lord
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that just as the Blessed Apostle Andrew was for your church a preacher and Pastor so he may be for us a constant
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intercessor before you through our Lord Jesus Christ your son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy
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Spirit one God forever and ever
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foreign a reading from the letter of Saint Paul
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to the Romans brothers and sisters if you confess with your mouth that
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Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead you
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will be saved for One Believes with the heart and so is Justified and one confesses with the
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mouth and so is saved the scripture says no one who believes
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in him will be put to shame there is no distinction between Jew and
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Greek the same Lord is Lord of all enriching all who call upon him
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for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved
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but how can they call on him in whom they have not believed and how can they
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believe in him of whom they have not heard and how can they hear without someone to
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preach and how can people preach unless they are sent
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as it is written how beautiful are the feet of those who bring the good news
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but not everyone has heeded the good news for Isaiah says Lord who has
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believed what was heard from us thus faith comes from what is heard and
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what is heard comes through the word of Christ but I ask did they not hear
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certainly they did for their voice has gone forth to all the Earth and their
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words to the end of the world the word of the Lord
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the judgments of the Lord are true and all of them are just the judgments of
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the Lord are true and all of them are just the law of the Lord is Lord is perfect
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refreshing the soul the decree of the Lord is trustworthy giving wisdom to the
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simple the judgments of the Lord are true and all of them are just
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the precepts of the Lord are right rejoicing the heart the command of the
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Lord is clear enlightening the eye the judgments of the Lord are true and
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all of them are just the fear of the Lord is pure enduring forever the ordinances of the Lord are
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true all of them just the judgments of the Lord are true and all of them are
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just they are more precious than gold than a heap of purist gold sweeter also than
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syrup or honey from the comb the judgments of the Lord are true and
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all of them are just
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the Lord be with you a reading from the holy Gospel According to Saint Matthew
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as Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee he saw two brothers Simon who is
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called Peter and his brother Andrew casting a net into the sea they were fishermen and he said to them come after
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me and I will make you Fishers of Men at once they left their Nets and followed
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him he walked along from there and saw two other brothers James the son of Zebedee and his brother John they were
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in a boat and there with their father Zebedee mending their Nets he called them and immediately they left their
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boat and their father and followed him the gospel of the Lord
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I'm going to pick on my Italian friends again today specifically joking about
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the Saint Joseph altar because there is a very specific Tradition at the Saint Joseph altar that cheese not be served
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and so even when it comes to the serving of the pasta and the Suga you put breadcrumbs out instead of Parmesan
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cheese why because it's land and that way of thinking is a very interesting
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way of thinking but it's a problematic way of thinking especially when it comes to something like today right we've just
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got into the Advent season the big thing about Advent that most of us notice beside the beautiful purple vestments is
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that hey there's no glorium which of course makes us feel like mass is way shorter even though it saves us about approximately nine and a half seconds
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but we say gosh that's the big deal that's the thing that stands out to us and yet here we are just a half a week
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in and we're saying the Gloria isn't that wrong shouldn't we sort of like the
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Saint Joseph Altar and the parmesan cheese shouldn't we not not do the Gloria because we're in the midst of
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this penitential season and you had the exact same questions that arise when we come to something like Saint Joseph's
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Day or Saint Patrick's Day or even the beginning of the tribulum where we celebrate the chrism mass or we
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celebrate the mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday and we go gosh we're in
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the most penitential of all days the statues are covered and here we are singing the Gloria doesn't that seem
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weird doesn't it seem peculiar and yet it gives us an opportunity to think about something that we rarely have time
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to think about and certainly that wouldn't fit in a Sunday sermon very well but that is the question of the way
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the Lord is always intermingling and the church does this as well that which is
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both fasty and feasty and right down the middle boring the ordinary all together
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and of course this is something that the modern calendar has screwed up like a lot of things in the full calendar it
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made a lot more sense because we had a lot of fast days that were sprinkled throughout the year and we had a lot of
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more more feast days that were sprinkled throughout the year and so any given
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Parish would have their Parish Feast Day their Parish secondary Feast Day their Diocesan feast day there are secondary
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dos and feast day you'd have a national Patron and a secondary National Patron you might have a state or even a city's
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patron saint you know it's an Andrew for example today is the patron saint of Scotland as well as the patron saint of
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golf interestingly enough and the patron saint of a whole pile of dioceses and individual parishes and so regardless of
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the fact it's a feast day in The Universal Church for those places it would have been something that would be
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a moment of Glory even when there's purple vestments all around and of
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course I think that's something good for us to remember and I'm not I I will say I've tried to argue this with the
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Italians for Saint Joseph altar it doesn't fly it's just not worth it new Mormons Catholics are not worth picking
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fights with it's just it's you know there are bruises and cuts that you know you can't see but it's it's important to
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be aware of but but it is important I think and there's a very practical lesson to come from it where we say Yeah
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in the midst of wonderful Joys the Lord will give us moments of difficulty and
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trial in the midst of difficulty and trial the Lord will give us joyful moments it's sort of like that
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incredibly Awkward Moment uh when you're not not for most of us who have grown but when you go to the funerals you know
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and you start going to more funerals there's that moment when the bereaved laughs for the first time and maybe
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they're standing next to the the corpse of their their loved one maybe their their uh you know in another room but
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there's that moment where you get that first chuckle the first ray of sunshine and of course immediately the bereaved
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almost always feels bad about it right it feels gosh this is this is not okay because I'm supposed to be mourning I'm
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supposed to be way down and over over the course of years we come to understand that's just not the way life
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works that's not the way Faith Works there is Joy that's inters interspersed
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with all sorts of other things and so it's it's worth kind of thinking about because the Liturgy is meant to be an
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icon of what the human life is supposed to look like and so there are moments of
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Joy sprinkled in even to moments where even to Seasons rather where sobriety is
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the order of the day and of course that is the great theme of Advent it's not meant to be depressing it's not meant to
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be penitential it's meant to be sober the idea of waiting on the Lord not
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about being explosive and yet here on the feast of Saint Andrew it is meant to
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be a day of Celebration and of course I always remind people it's a feast day which means even in the midst of Advent
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you do have an obligation to eat some carbs and and to Feast because that's part of the way it's designed to work
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there's a priest friend of mine now I'll just kind of leave you with with this is a practical example of how to do this where he he he has a very very strict
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policy on feast days he eats three meals with dessert and usually a glass of wine
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or an Alco beverage on Fast days he eats a single meal with no dessert meatless
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that kind of thing and then regular ordinary times you know where there's not a whole lot going on he has two
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meals and if if someone offers him a glass of wine he drinks it and so his weight is really kind of fun to watch
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because he goes down during Lent he comes up during Easter he goes that you know and it's fun to watch but that's in
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a very real sense the way it's designed to be it may not be healthy that's a disclaimer for you but it is a
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fascinating way to live because the Liturgy really does Define a lot of his life and I mean when things are happy
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he's fat and happy and when things are meant to be a bit more sober or even penitential he's clearly in a bad mood a
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little bit more penitential and there's something to be said for that so even as we celebrate and or even as we embrace
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the sobriety of Advent it's worth celebrating the feast of Saint Andrew in the name of the father and the son and
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the holy spirit amen just as an FYI the book of Nehemiah will have to wait until
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next week we will not have the CU catech cast this morning for a very variety of
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reasons um some of which is that there was a massive storm yesterday and it caused some problems in my my flow of things so
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we will get back to that next week and so after Mass today the feed will just be done but we hope you'll join us next
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week where we'll get the prophet Nehemiah and then our the week not the Nehemiah the prophet um
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somebody and then the week after that the book of Malachy and that will conclude the Old Testament we'll have a
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couple more talks and then we'll be ready to dive into the gospels in the new year
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blessed are you Lord God of all creation for through your goodness we have received the bread we offer you fruit of
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the earth and work of human hands it will become for us the bread of life
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foreign blessed are you Lord God of all creation
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through your goodness we have received the wine we offer you fruit of the vine and work of human hands it will become
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our spiritual drink
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pray my brothers and sisters that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God the almighty father
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may the Lord accept the sacrifice at my hand for the praise and the glory of his name for our good and the good of all
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his holy church grant us almighty God that through these offerings which we bring on the feast day of Saint Andrew
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we may please you by what you have brought and be given Life by what you
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have accepted through Christ Our Lord
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and the Lord be with you lift up your hearts
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and let us give thanks to the Lord our God it is truly right and just our duty and
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our Salvation always and everywhere to give you thanks Lord Holy Father Almighty and eternal God for you Eternal
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Shepherd do not desert your flock but through the Blessed Apostles watch over it and protect it always so that it may
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be governed by those you have appointed Shepherds to lead it in the name of your son and so With Angels and Archangels
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with Thrones and dominions and with all the hosts and powers of Heaven We Sing The Hymn of your glory as 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 you are indeed holy O Lord and all you
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have created rightly gives you praise but through your son our Lord Jesus Christ by the power and working of the
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Holy Spirit you give life to all things and make them holy and you never cease
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to gather a people to yourself so that from the rising of the sun to its setting a pure sacrifice may be offered
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to your name and therefore O Lord we humbly implore you by The Same Spirit graciously make holy these gifts we have
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brought to you for consecration that they may become the body and blood of
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your son our Lord Jesus Christ at whose command we celebrate these Mysteries for
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on the night he was betrayed he himself took bread and giving you thanks he said the blessing broke the bread and gave it
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to his disciples saying take this all of you and eat of it for this is my body
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which will be given up for you
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in a similar way when supper was ended he took the chalice and giving you thanks he said the blessing and gave the
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Chalice to his disciples saying take this all of you and drink from it
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for this is the Chalice of My Blood the blood of the new and eternal Covenant
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which will be poured out for you and for many for the Forgiveness of sins do this in memory of me
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the mystery of faith we Proclaim your death O Lord and
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profess your Resurrection until you come again and therefore O Lord as we celebrate the
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memorial of the saving passion of your son his wondrous resurrection and Ascension into heaven and as we look
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forward to his second coming we offer you in Thanksgiving this holy and Living Sacrifice
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look we pray upon the oblation of your church and recognizing the sacrificial victim by whose death you willed to
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reconcile us to yourself and Grant that we who are nourished by the body and blood of your son and
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filled with his holy spirit may become one body one Spirit In Christ may he make of us an eternal offering to
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you so that we may obtain an inheritance with your elect especially with the Most Blessed Virgin Mary Mother of God
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because Joseph her spouse with your blessed Apostles and glorious Martyrs and with all the Saints on Whose
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constant intercession in your presence we rely for unfailing help and may the sacrifice of our
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reconciliation we pray O Lord Advance the peace and salvation of all the world be pleased to confirm in faith and
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charity your Pilgrim Church on her with your servant Francis our Pope and Robert our Bishop the order of Bishops all the
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clergy and the entire people you have gained for your own and listen graciously to the prayers of
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this family whom you have summoned before you in your compassion o merciful father gather to yourself all your
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children scattered throughout the world and to our departed brothers and sisters and to all who were pleasing to you with
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their passing from this life give kind admittance to your kingdom there we hope
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to enjoy forever the fullness of your glory through Christ Our Lord through whom you bestow in the world all that is
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good through him and with him and in him oh
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God Almighty father in the unity of the holy 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 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 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
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for the kingdom the power and the glory are yours now and forever 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 let us offer to another a sign of that peace
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you take away the sins of the world have mercy on US Lamb of God you take away
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the sins of the world have mercy on US Lamb of God You Take Away The Sins Of
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The World grant us peace Spirit through your desiccate life to
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the world free me Brothers
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and 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 am not worthy you should enter
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under my roots but only say the word and my soul shall be healed
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and he brought him
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foreign
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foreign
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let us pray May commute you in your sacrament
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strengthen us O Lord so that by the example of blessed the Blessed Apostle Andrew we who carry in our body the
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death of Christ May Merit to live with him in glory who lives and reigns forever and ever amen the Lord be with
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you and may almighty God bless you the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit go in peace