00:14In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, peace be with you.
00:19We acknowledge our sins, but more importantly, the compassion, the love, the mercy of our God.
00:27We forgive our sins, Lord, have mercy. We call us away from confusion into love, Christ, have mercy.
00:35And we call us into union with you, Lord, have mercy.
00:40May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and lead us into healing and life everlasting.
00:47Show gracious favour, O Lord, we pray, to the works of penance we have begun,
00:52that we may have strength to accomplish with sincerity the bodily observances we undertake.
00:58Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
01:04God, for ever and ever. Amen.
01:12A reading from the prophet Isaiah
01:15Thus, says the Lord, shout for all your words, raise your voice like a trumpet,
01:24proclaim their faults to my people, their sins to the house of Jacob.
01:30They seek me day after day. They long to know my ways, like a nation that wants to act with
01:37integrity
01:37and not ignore the law of its God. They ask me for laws that are just. They long for God
01:47to draw near.
01:48Why should we fast if we never see it? Why do penance if we never notice?
01:56Look, you do business on the fast days. You oppress all your workmen.
02:03Look, you quarrel and squabble when you fast, and strike the poor man with your fist.
02:11Fasting like yours today will never make your voice heard on high.
02:16Is that the sort of fast that pleases me? A truly penitential day for people?
02:23Hanging your head like a reed? Laying down on sackcloth and ashes?
02:28Is that what you call fasting? A day acceptable to the Lord?
02:33It is not this the sort of fast that pleases me. It is the Lord who speaks.
02:40To break unjust fetters and undo the thongs of the yoke. To let the oppressed go free and break every
02:51yoke.
02:51To share your bread with the hungry and shelter the homeless poor.
02:58To clothe the man you see to be naked and not turn from your own king.
03:04Then will your light shine like the dawn and your wound be quickly healed over.
03:10Your integrity will go before you and the glory of the Lord behind you.
03:15Cry and the Lord will answer. Call and he will say, I'm here.
03:22The word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.
03:27A broken, humble heart, O Lord, you will not scorn.
03:31A broken, humble heart, O God, you will not scorn.
03:35Have mercy on me, God, in your kindness, in your compassion, brought out my offense.
03:41Or wash me more and more from my guilt and cleanse me from my sin.
03:44A broken, humble heart, O God, you will not scorn.
03:48My offenses truly, I know them. And my sin is always before me.
03:54Against you, you alone have I sinned. What is evil in your sight, I have done.
03:59A broken, humble heart, O God, you will not scorn.
04:03For in sacrifice you take no delight.
04:06A burnt offering from me you will refuse.
04:09My sacrifice, a contrite spirit.
04:12A humble, contrite heart you will not scorn.
04:15A broken, humble heart, O God, you will not scorn.
04:20Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
04:23Seek good and not evil, so that we may live and the Lord be with you.
04:28Glory and praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
04:33The Lord be with you.
04:35A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew.
04:40John's disciples came to Jesus and said,
04:42Why is it that we and the Pharisees passed, but your disciples do not?
04:48Jesus replied,
04:49Surely the bridegroom's attendants would never think of mourning,
04:53as long as the bridegroom is still with them.
04:56But the time will come for the bridegroom to be taken away from them.
05:01And then they will fast.
05:04The Gospel of the Lord.
05:06Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
05:20Formalities can get in the way of the good if they are not done with generosity of heart.
05:26There is a place for ritual, of course, very important.
05:29Certainly a place for fasting.
05:32A place for some healthy self-denial, so that we know that we do not have to just gratify ourselves
05:38all the time.
05:39Good to have some spiritual exercise, some spiritual things that we do to strengthen our spirit.
05:46However, they need to be accompanied by love and done for love.
05:50Never for a show.
05:51Never for others to think we are pious.
05:54But we do it because of love.
05:55And while we are doing that, we must not forget loving and caring for others.
06:01Otherwise, it is so useless.
06:08Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation.
06:11For to your goodness we have this bread to offer.
06:13Which earth has given human hands have made.
06:16It will become for us the bread of life.
06:19Blessed be God forever.
06:35Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation.
06:37For to your goodness we have this wine to offer.
06:40Fruit of divine work of human hands, it will become our spiritual drink.
06:44Blessed be God forever.
06:51Let us pray, brothers and sisters, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God our almighty Father.
06:58May the Lord accept the sacrifice at our hands.
07:01May the praise and glory of God's name for our good and the good of God's Holy Church.
07:06We pray, almighty God, that through partaking of this mystery, we may be cleansed of all our misdeeds.
07:13And so be suited for the remedies of your compassion.
07:16Through Christ our Lord.
07:18Amen.
07:19The Lord be with you.
07:22Lift up your heart.
07:24Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
07:27It is truly right and just our duty and our salvation.
07:31Always and everywhere to give you thanks, Lord, Holy Father, almighty and eternal God.
07:36For you have given your children a sacred time for the renewing and purifying of their hearts.
07:41That freed from disordered affections, they may so deal with the things of this passing world as to hold rather
07:49to the things that eternally endure.
07:52And so, with all the angels and saints, we praise you, as without end we acclaim you, Holy, Holy, Holy
08:00Lord, God of hosts.
08:01Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
08:04Hosanna in the highest.
08:06Hosanna in the highest.
08:07Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
08:10Hosanna in the highest.
08:16Hosanna in the highest.
08:20Hosanna in the highest.
08:25Hosanna in the highest.
08:31Hosanna in the highest.
08:37Hosanna in the highest.
08:37Hosanna in the highest.
08:38Hosanna in the highest.
08:38Hosanna in the highest.
08:38Hosanna in the highest.
08:39Hosanna in the highest.
08:41Hosanna in the highest.
08:41Hosanna in the highest.
08:49Hosanna in the highest.
08:50Hosanna in the highest.
08:50Hosanna in the highest.
08:50Hosanna in the highest.
08:51Hosanna in the highest.
08:51Hosanna in the highest.
08:51Hosanna in the highest.
08:52Hosanna in the highest.
08:52Hosanna in the highest.
08:52Hosanna in the highest.
08:53Hosanna in the highest.
08:55Hosanna in the highest.
08:56Hosanna in the highest.
08:57all of you and drink from it.
08:59For this is the chalice of my
09:01blood, the blood of the new and
09:03eternal covenant, which
09:05will be pulled out for you and for
09:07many for the forgiveness of
09:09sins. Do this
09:11in memory of me.
09:18The mystery
09:19of faith. We proclaim
09:21your death, O Lord, and profess
09:23your resurrection until
09:25you come again.
09:31Therefore, as we celebrate
09:33the memorial of his death and resurrection,
09:36we offer you, Lord, the bread
09:37of life and the chalice of salvation,
09:40giving thanks that you've held
09:41us worthy to be in your presence
09:44and minister to you.
09:46Humbly we pray that partaking of
09:47the body and blood of Christ,
09:49we may be gathered into one by the Holy
09:51Spirit. Remember, Lord,
09:54your church spread throughout the world
09:55and bring her to the fullness of
09:57charity. Together with
09:59Leo, our Pope,
10:00meet your own worthy servant
10:01and all the clergy and the entire people
10:04your Son has gained for you.
10:06Remember also our brothers and sisters
10:08who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection
10:11and all who have died in your mercy.
10:14Welcome them into the light of your face.
10:17Have mercy on us, Lord, we pray that with the blessed Virgin Mary,
10:21Mother of God, the blessed
10:22Josephus Fox, and the blessed
10:24apostles and all the saints who have preached you
10:27throughout the ages, we may
10:28through your grace merit to be coerced to eternal life
10:32and may praise and glorify you
10:34through your Son, Jesus Christ.
10:37Through him and with him and in him, O God,
10:40Almighty Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
10:43all glory and honor is yours forever and ever.
10:47Amen.
10:49At the Savior's command and formed by divine teaching,
10:53we dare to say,
10:54Our Father, who art in heaven,
10:56hallowed be thy name,
10:58thy kingdom come,
10:59thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
11:03Give us this day our daily bread
11:05and forgive us our trespasses
11:06as we forgive those who trespass against us.
11:10And lead us not into temptation,
11:12but deliver us from evil.
11:15Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil.
11:17Graciously grant peace in our days
11:19that by the help of your mercy
11:21we may be always free from sin
11:23and safe from all distress
11:25as we await the blessed hope
11:27and the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.
11:30For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours
11:33now and forever.
11:35Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your apostles,
11:38Peace I leave you, my peace I give you.
11:41Look not on our sins,
11:42but on the faith of your church
11:44and graciously grant her peace and unity
11:46in accordance with your will,
11:48who live and reign forever and ever.
11:51Amen.
11:52The peace of our Lord Jesus Christ
11:54be with you always.
11:55Let us offer each other a sign
11:57of the peace of Jesus.
11:59Peace be with you all.
12:01Lamb of God, you take away
12:03the sins of the world.
12:05Have mercy on us.
12:07Lamb of God, you take away
12:08the sins of the world.
12:10Have mercy on us.
12:12Lamb of God, you take away
12:14the sins of the world.
12:15Grant us peace.
12:29Behold the Lamb of God,
12:31who takes away the sins of the world.
12:32Happy are those who are called
12:34to the supper of the Lamb.
12:35Lord, I am not worthy,
12:37you should enter under my roof,
12:39but only say the word
12:40and my soul shall be healed.
12:44My Jesus, I believe that you are present
12:47in the most blessed sacrament.
12:49I love you above all things
12:51and I desire to receive you
12:53into my soul.
12:54Since I cannot now receive you
12:56sacramentally,
12:58commonly, spiritually,
12:59into my heart,
13:00I embrace you
13:01as if you were already there
13:02and unite myself wholly to you.
13:05Never permit me
13:07to be separated from you.
13:09Amen.
13:10Let us pray.
13:15For your mighty deeds,
13:18O God of mercy,
13:19may your people
13:20offer endless thanks
13:22by observing the age
13:24of disciplines
13:24along their pilgrimage journey.
13:27May they to your grace merit
13:29to come and behold you forever.
13:32Through Christ our Lord.
13:34Amen.
13:35The Lord be with you
13:36and may the peace
13:38and the blessing
13:38of the Father
13:39and of the Son
13:40and of the Holy Spirit
13:41come upon you
13:42and remain always with you.
13:43Let us go
13:44and live the gospel.
13:46Thanks be to God.
13:47God bless you today.
13:48God bless you today.
13:49God bless you today.
13:51God bless you today.
13:54God bless you today.
13:56God bless you today.
13:57God bless you today.
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