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00:23Let us pray.
00:51Let us pray.
00:54Let us pray.
01:24Declared that you were without any consolation.
01:29Grant that in all adversity and times of temptation and desolation, I may fly with faith to you, my most
01:37Holy Father, and putting no confidence in myself.
01:39Grant that I may place all my hopes in you alone, and entirely resign myself and trust in you.
01:48Wound my innermost soul with the remembrance of your wounds. Write and imprint them upon my heart.
01:55Satiate me wholly with your blood, that all my intentions may be fixed in you alone, and that I may
02:02seek and find and hold you fast, possessing you forever and ever.
02:09Praise, honour, and glory be to you, O Christ, who, when your body was exhausted from the loss of blood,
02:16gasped for breath, and cried out on the cross that you were tormented with thirst, while you burnt with unspeakable
02:24desire for our salvation.
02:27Give me grace to thirst most ardently after your honour and the salvation of souls, and be ready cheerfully to
02:35spend myself for them, according to your will.
02:40Grant that no love of any transitory object may possess my soul, that I may never attach myself to any
02:47creature, and that even when I am bound to love, I may love only in you.
02:53But give me grace to love you above all, and with my whole soul, and quietly to rest in you.
03:02Praise, honour, and glory be to you, O Christ, who, when you were thirsty, even at the point of death,
03:09permitted a sponge filled with vinegar to be offered to you, and that by tasting this, you might make satisfaction
03:17for our gluttony, giving us an example of poverty.
03:22Grant me the grace to despise any unlawful pleasure and delight, and to avoid any excess in eating and drinking,
03:29and may I use with moderation and thanksgiving whatever you do give me for the support of my poor body.
03:38So cleanse, I beg you, the taste of my heart, that it may relish nothing except that which is pleasing
03:44to you, and may find nothing but bitterness in whatever displeases you.
03:51Praise, honour, and glory be to you, O Christ, you, the greatest lover of the human race, who, when you
03:58were bringing out the work of our redemption to a close, wrought yourself as a holy victim upon the altar
04:05of the cross for the sin of all mankind.
04:09May this be the only end, I beg you, of all my thoughts, words and works, namely, to seek your
04:17honour with an upright and sincere heart, and to desire nothing save you alone.
04:24Grant that I may never grow weary or lukewarm in your service, but a fervent spirit always be ever renewed
04:31within me, that I may daily more be more and more inflamed to love and praise you.
04:38Praise, and honour, and glory be to you, O Christ, who willingly underwent death, when commending yourself to your Father,
04:46and bending your adorable head, you gave up the ghost, and thus, by laying down your life for your sheep,
04:54showed yourself to be the Good Shepherd.
05:00You are dead, only begotten Son of God, you are dead, my beloved one, that I may live for ever.
05:06What hope, what confidence is laid up for me in your death and in your blood, I glorify you, I
05:12give you thanks as far as in me lies.
05:15Give me grace to die entirely, to sin, and all evil desires, and to live to you alone.
05:23May I think of you alone, may my understanding exercise itself in nothing except you, that, clad in your grace
05:32and with holy charity, I may soon after the close of this life come to you, the true paradise.
05:39O good Jesus, O good Jesus, by your bitter passion and death, grant to me the living pardon and grace,
05:46and to the faithful departed rest and everlasting light.
05:51Praise, honour, and glory be to you, O Christ, at whose death the sun withdrew its light,
05:57And the veil of the temple was divided in two, the earth quaked, and the rocks were cut, and the
06:04graves opened.
06:07May the rays of your grace never leave me, I beg you, you son of righteousness, you that are my
06:15God,
06:16May they always lighten, even the very inmost recesses of my heart, that I may joyfully serve you for ever.
06:25Tear away from me the veil of hypocrisy, make the ground of my soul quake with saving penitence,
06:32Rend in tomb this heart of stone of mine, that, being wholly renewed within, I may despise anything perishable,
06:41and love only the things that are of heaven.
06:44Amen.
06:49O Lord, open our lips, and our mouths shall sing your praise.
07:24Amen.
07:25Let us have praise, ourselves.
07:30We are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
07:36O, go your way to his district high stream
07:42And into his God's great place
07:48Be thankful unto him and be full of his name
07:56O, the Lord is gracious
08:00His mercy is everlasting
08:06And his truth endureth from generation to generation
08:19Glory be to the Father
08:23And to the Father
08:26And to the Holy Ghost
08:31As it was in the beginning
08:34Is now and ever shall be
08:40World without end
08:48Amen
09:00I will give thanks unto the Lord with my whole heart
09:07Secretly upon the faithful and in the congregation
09:13The works of the Lord are praise
09:18Sons of all embers and pressure may be
09:24His work is worthy to be praised and had in awe
09:31And his righteousness endureth forever
09:36The merciful and gracious Lord
09:41Has so done his Father's works
09:45That they loved to be had in repentance
09:51He hath given meat unto them that came
09:57He shall ever be thine rule of his covenant
10:03He hath shown his people the power of his hands
10:09That he may give them the heritage of the evil
10:15The works of his hands are feity and judgment
10:22For his proponents are true
10:27He stand fast forever and forever
10:33And are done in children and equity
10:38He sent redemption unto his people
10:44He hath given the power of his covenant
10:48For heaven
10:49For he and reverent is his claim
10:55The fear of the Lord is the beginning of praise
11:01For heaven
11:04For a good understanding
11:05And are done in children and faith
11:07For heaven
11:09And are done in children and forever
11:17Glory be to the power
11:20And to the Son
11:23And to the Holy Ghost
11:27As it was in the beginning
11:31Is now and ever shall be
11:36Word without end
11:43Amen
11:55A reading from the Gospel according to Saint Luke
11:58Chapter 11
12:01Now Jesus was praying in a certain place
12:05When he stopped, one of his disciples said to him
12:08Lord, teach us to pray
12:10Just as John taught his disciples
12:14So he said to them
12:15When you pray, say
12:19Father, may your name be honoured
12:20May your kingdom come
12:23Give us each day our daily bread
12:25And forgive us our sins
12:28For we also forgive everyone
12:29Who sins against us
12:32And do not let us fall into temptation
12:37Then he said to them
12:38Suppose one of you has a friend
12:40And you go to him at midnight
12:42And say to him
12:44Friend, lend me three loaves of bread
12:46Because a friend of mine has stopped here
12:48While on the journey
12:48And I have nothing to say before him
12:52He will reply
12:53For inside
12:55Don't bother me
12:56The door is already shut
12:57And my children and I are in bed
12:59I cannot get up and give you anything
13:05I tell you
13:06Even though the man inside
13:07Will not get up and give him anything
13:09Because he is his friend
13:12Because of the first man's sheer persistence
13:15He will give up
13:16Get up and give him whatever he needs
13:20So I tell you
13:21Ask and it will be given to you
13:22Seek and you will find
13:24Knock and the door will be opened for you
13:27For everyone who asks
13:28Receives
13:29And the one who seeks
13:31Finds
13:31And to the one who knocks
13:32The door will be opened
13:36What father among you
13:37If your son asks for a fish
13:38Will give him a snake
13:39Instead of a fish
13:41Or if he asks for an egg
13:42Will give him a scorpion
13:45If you then
13:46Although you are evil
13:47Know how to give good gifts
13:49To your children
13:49How much more
13:51Will the heavenly father
13:52Give the holy spirit
13:53To those who ask him
13:58Now he was casting out a demon
14:00That was mute
14:00And when the demon had gone out
14:02The man who had been mute
14:04Began to speak
14:05And the crowds were amazed
14:07But some of them said
14:09By the power of Beelzebul
14:11The ruler of the demons
14:12He casts out demons
14:15Others to test him
14:16Began asking for a sign from heaven
14:19But Jesus realizing their thoughts
14:22Said to them
14:22Every kingdom divided against itself
14:25Is destroyed
14:26And the divided household falls
14:28So if Satan too
14:30Is divided against himself
14:32How will his kingdom stand
14:35I ask you this
14:36Because you claim
14:37That I cast out demons
14:38By Beelzebul
14:40Now if I cast out demons
14:42By Beelzebul
14:43By whom do your sons
14:45Cast them out
14:47Therefore they will be
14:48Your treacheries
14:50But if I cast out demons
14:52By the finger of God
14:53Then the kingdom of God
14:55Has already overtaken you
14:58When a strong man
14:59Fully armed
14:59Guards his own palace
15:01His possessions are safe
15:03But when a stronger man
15:04Attacks and conquers him
15:06He takes away
15:07The first man's armor
15:08On which the man relied
15:09And divides up his plunder
15:12Whoever is not with me
15:13Is against me
15:15Whoever does not gather with me
15:17Scatters
15:19When an unclean spirit
15:21Goes out of a person
15:22It passes through the waterless places
15:25Looking for rest
15:26But not finding any
15:28It says
15:29I will return to the home I left
15:32And when it returns
15:33It finds the house swept clean
15:35And put in order
15:37That it will go
15:38And bring seven other spirits
15:39More evil than itself
15:41And they will go in
15:42And live there
15:43So that the final state
15:45Of that person
15:45Is worse than the first
15:49As Jesus said these things
15:51A woman in the crowd
15:52Spoke out to him
15:54Blessed is the womb
15:55That bore you
15:56And the breasts
15:57At which you nest
15:59But he replied
16:01Blessed rather
16:02Are those who hear
16:03The word of God
16:04And obey it
16:06This is the word of the Lord
16:09Thanks be to God
16:18Jesus provides us
16:20With a very specific instruction
16:21As to how to pray
16:25First of all
16:25Let us consider the opening part
16:27Of verse 2
16:28It is assumed that
16:29All Christians pray
16:32Jesus clearly says
16:33When we pray
16:35And to us prayer
16:37Should be as natural
16:38As breathing
16:40It is a time of intimacy
16:41With our Father
16:42And if we have to be sincere
16:44In our giving
16:45In the previous passage
16:46How much more
16:47Should we be so
16:48In our prayers
16:51There is a clear message
16:53That prayer should be
16:54About quality
16:54Rather than quantity
16:55As Jesus criticised
16:57The Gentiles
16:58For their endless repetitions
17:01As he says
17:02Our Father knows our minds
17:03Before we even start speaking
17:05He just wants us
17:06To be open
17:07And honest with him
17:07And to pray
17:08With a pure heart
17:10There is a divine structure
17:12In the Lord's prayer
17:13As it is given
17:14And has been handed down
17:15Over the generations
17:18It starts with respect
17:20As we kneel
17:21Or bow our heads
17:22And hearts
17:23To the Lord
17:23It is right
17:24To remember
17:25Who it is
17:26We are assuming
17:26To approach
17:29Then it goes
17:29To our needs
17:30Both for spiritual food
17:32And daily bread
17:33And for forgiveness
17:34For the things
17:35We have thought
17:35And done
17:37As well as the thoughts
17:38We have had
17:38Since our last confession
17:41Lastly
17:42It asks for relief
17:43From temptation
17:44And deliverance
17:45From the clutches
17:46Of the enemy
17:51When we pray
17:51We must do so
17:52In humility
17:54For who are we
17:55To approach
17:56The glory
17:56Of the Lord God
17:58We
17:59Who are defiled
18:00By our very bodies
18:01Of their sinful nature
18:03Must act accordingly
18:04In the presence
18:04Of the Lord
18:07Jesus drew a comparison
18:08With those who
18:09Postured in public
18:10When they prayed
18:10So that everyone
18:12Could see them pray
18:13And hear their prayers
18:15That they might know
18:16How righteous they were
18:19He would have none of it
18:20This was not a way
18:22To pray at all
18:23For when we pray
18:24We must be quiet
18:25And respectful
18:26And absolutely
18:28Not make a spectacle
18:30Of ourselves
18:32This does not mean
18:33That we cannot pray
18:34In church
18:34Or in groups
18:35For we are also
18:37Taught the power
18:37Of group prayer
18:39Matthew 18-20
18:41But it is a warning
18:43Against praying
18:43Out loud in public
18:44For no reason
18:46Other than our
18:46Own self-importance
18:49We are warned
18:50Against babble
18:51Or indecent repetitions
18:53Such as the Gentiles
18:54Performed
18:56This is not a warning
18:57Against long prayers
18:58For there are many
18:59Instances of people
19:00Praying all night
19:01Jesus
19:02Solomon
19:03And Daniel
19:04As examples
19:06But against making
19:07Prayers long
19:08For the sake
19:08Of making them longer
19:09As if in their length
19:11They will gain weight
19:12In the mind of God
19:15This is a nonsense
19:17Of course
19:17For sometimes
19:19The most powerful prayers
19:20Consist of a few
19:21Well chosen words
19:23Of the heart
19:25Again
19:26There is the element
19:27Of boasting
19:28To consider
19:29Let us never want
19:30To tell others
19:31How long we were
19:31In prayer
19:32For that is
19:33Between ourselves
19:35And God
19:38Travellers
19:39Travellers
19:39Often journeyed
19:40Late in the evening
19:41To avoid the heat
19:42Of the midday sun
19:45In Jesus'
19:46Account of such
19:47A situation
19:48A traveller
19:50Had arrived
19:50Towards midnight
19:51At his friend's house
19:53In the east
19:54Hospitality
19:55Is a sacred duty
19:57It was not enough
19:58To set before a man
19:59A bear sufficiency
20:00The guest
20:01Had to be confronted
20:02With an ample abundance
20:05In the villages
20:06Bread would have been
20:07Baked at home
20:08Only enough
20:09For the day's needs
20:10Were baked
20:11Because if it was kept
20:12And became stale
20:13No one would wish
20:14To eat it
20:16So the late arrival
20:18Of this traveller
20:18Confronted the household
20:20With an embarrassing
20:21Situation
20:22Because his larder
20:24Was empty
20:24And he could not
20:25Fulfill the sacred
20:26Obligations
20:27Of his hospitality
20:30Late as it was
20:31He went out
20:32To borrow
20:32From a friend
20:34The friend's door
20:35Was shut
20:37And in the east
20:38No one knocks
20:38On a shut door
20:39Unless the need
20:40Was imperative
20:42In the morning
20:43The door would be opened
20:44And remained open
20:44All day
20:45For there was
20:46Little provision
20:48But if the door
20:49Was shut
20:49That was a definite
20:50Sign that the householder
20:52Did not want
20:52To be disturbed
20:55But the seeking
20:56Householder
20:56Was not deterred
20:57He knocked
20:58And kept on
20:59Knocking
21:02The poorer
21:03Palestinian house
21:04Consisted of one room
21:06With only one
21:06Little window
21:08The floor
21:09Was simply
21:09Of beaten earth
21:10Covered with
21:10Dried reeds
21:11And brushes
21:12The room
21:13Would be divided
21:14Into two parts
21:15Not by a partition
21:16But by a low platform
21:18Two thirds
21:19Would be at ground level
21:20And the other third
21:21Was slightly raised
21:23On the raised part
21:25The charcoal stove
21:26Burnt all night
21:27And round it
21:28The whole family slept
21:30Not on raised beds
21:31But on sleeping beds
21:34Families were large
21:35And they slept
21:36Close together
21:36For warmth
21:38For one to rise
21:39Was inevitably
21:40To disturb the whole family
21:43Furthermore
21:43In the villages
21:44It would be the custom
21:45To bring the livestock
21:46The hens
21:47And the cocks
21:47And the goats
21:48Into the house at night
21:51Is there any wonder
21:52Is there any wonder then
21:52That the man who was in bed
21:54Did not want to rise
21:58But the determined borrower
21:59Knocked on
22:00With shameless persistence
22:02That is what the Greek word means
22:04Until at last
22:05The householder
22:06Knowing that by this time
22:07The whole family
22:08Would be disturbed anyway
22:10Arose and gave him
22:11What he needed
22:14That story
22:15Said Jesus
22:16Will tell you about prayer
22:19The lesson of the parable
22:20Is that we must persist
22:22In prayer
22:22But at the same time
22:24Being assured that God
22:25Who never tires
22:26Of hearing our prayer
22:27And who will never
22:28Refuse our needs
22:30Will open the door to us
22:32As the perfect
22:32Loving parent
22:33Who cannot refuse
22:35The pleas of his child
22:39A parable literally
22:40Means something
22:41Laid alongside
22:43If we lay something
22:44Beside another
22:45To teach a lesson
22:46That lesson may be drawn
22:47From the fact
22:48That the things
22:49Are like each other
22:50Or from the fact
22:51That the things
22:52Are in contrast
22:52To each other
22:55The point here
22:56Is based not on likeness
22:57But on contrast
23:00What Jesus says
23:01Is this
23:02If a churlish
23:03And unwilling householder
23:05Can in the end
23:06Be coerced
23:06By a friend's
23:07Samedness
23:08Persistence
23:09Into giving him
23:10What he needs
23:11How much more
23:12Will God
23:13Who is a loving father
23:14Supply all his
23:15Children's needs
23:17If you
23:18He says
23:18Who are evil
23:19Know that you are
23:20Bound to supply
23:21Your children's need
23:23How much more
23:24Will God
23:27This does not
23:28Absolve us
23:29From intensity
23:30In prayer
23:31After all
23:32We can guarantee
23:33The reality
23:33And the sincerity
23:34Of our desire
23:35Only by the passion
23:37With which we pray
23:39But it does not
23:40Mean this
23:40That we are not
23:41Bringing gifts
23:42From an unwilling God
23:43But going to one
23:45Who knows our needs
23:46Better than we know
23:47Them ourselves
23:48And whose heart
23:49Towards us
23:50Is the heart
23:50Of generous love
23:54If we do not
23:55Receive what we pray
23:56For
23:56It is not because
23:57God grudgingly
23:59Refuses to give it
24:00But because
24:01He has a better
24:01Thing to give us
24:04There is no such
24:05Thing as an
24:05Answered prayer
24:08The answer given
24:09May not be the answer
24:10We desired
24:10Or expected
24:12But even when
24:13It is a refusal
24:13It is the answer
24:15Of love
24:16And the wisdom
24:17Of God
24:22Quite apart
24:23From the obvious
24:23Parties to the
24:24Account of this
24:25Exorcism
24:26Of which more
24:27In one moment
24:27There were two
24:29Distinct groups
24:30Of people
24:31First of all
24:32There were those
24:32Who marveled
24:33At the event
24:34Being amazed
24:35As we are told
24:37Secondly there
24:38Were those
24:38Who took offense
24:39No doubt
24:40Comprising the
24:41Usual suspects
24:41Of Pharisees
24:42And scribes
24:44Complaining that
24:45This was just
24:45The proof they
24:46Needed that
24:47The works of
24:47Jesus were
24:48Of the devil
24:48Himself
24:51We should note
24:52That the nature
24:53Of the event
24:54Was such that
24:55All present
24:55Were affected
24:57In one way
24:57Or another
24:58Such was the
24:59Manifestation
25:00And power
25:01Of the authority
25:02That none
25:03Were left indifferent
25:05To what they
25:05Had witnessed
25:08Jesus had words
25:09For the second
25:10Group
25:10Pointing out
25:11That the devil
25:11Would not be a
25:12Party to any
25:13Form of arrangement
25:14Whereby there
25:15Might be a suggestion
25:16That there were
25:17Powers greater
25:18Than his
25:19On the contrary
25:21When we consider
25:22The other accounts
25:23Of exorcism
25:24In the gospel
25:25In particular
25:26The accounts
25:26In St. Luke's
25:27Gospel
25:28We read
25:29That the demons
25:30Were not exactly
25:31Acquiescent
25:31In their removal
25:32From their hosts
25:33They demonstrated
25:35Great fear
25:35Violence
25:38These were not
25:39Demons
25:39Who were a party
25:40To the transaction
25:41But who recognised
25:42An authority
25:43Infinitely higher
25:44Than their own
25:46Indeed
25:47Jesus asked
25:48The question
25:49As to why
25:50The devil
25:50Would even enter
25:51Into such an
25:52Unhelpful contract
25:54After all
25:55He is full
25:55Of his own
25:56Authority
25:56And power
25:57And likes to
25:58Show it off
25:58At every possible
25:59Turn
26:00There is no way
26:01In which he would
26:02Willingly submit
26:03To any other power
26:05Unless it were
26:06For the purpose
26:06Of his own
26:07Advancement
26:10By agreeing
26:10To Jesus
26:11Scoring points
26:12Against him
26:12In the spiritual
26:13Battle
26:13He had nothing
26:15To gain
26:15And everything
26:16To lose
26:19Turning to the
26:20Subjects of the
26:21Exorcism
26:22There is a useful
26:23Point made
26:24That the mere
26:24Departure of an
26:25Evil spirit
26:26From someone else
26:27Does not in itself
26:28Prevent its return
26:30At some point
26:31In the future
26:32Our exorcism
26:34To be binding
26:34Needs to be
26:35Accompanied by
26:36A conversion
26:37A confession
26:38And a baptism
26:40All too often
26:41This simple fact
26:42Is overlooked
26:44The enemy
26:45Will always seek
26:45Ways in which
26:46To enter
26:47And to sin
26:48Overdue confession
26:50Or an
26:51Unlock
26:52Anything else
26:53It's like an
26:54Unlock door
26:54An open window
26:55Through which
26:56He can enter in
26:57And take up
26:58Presidence
26:58Once more
27:02To conclude
27:03This reading
27:04For today
27:04We have the
27:05Wonderful account
27:06Of a woman
27:07Who was so
27:07Impressed with
27:08The words of
27:09Jesus
27:09The way in
27:10Which he
27:10Responds to
27:11The schemes
27:12And the tricks
27:12Of the Pharisees
27:13The strength
27:14And the compassion
27:15Of his teacher
27:16That she just
27:17Cannot resist
27:18Calling out
27:19These words
27:19To them
27:21You may
27:22Almost feel
27:22Them bursting
27:23Out of her
27:24They are so
27:24Strong and
27:25Filled with
27:26Emotion
27:26She simply
27:27Could not
27:28Contain them
27:28Any longer
27:32Surely
27:33They must have
27:33Brought a smile
27:34To the face
27:35Of our Lord
27:36But in his
27:37Reply as ever
27:38His words
27:39Are poignant
27:40And certain
27:43Rather than
27:43It being his
27:44Mother who
27:44Would be blessed
27:45It would be
27:46Those who
27:46Turned to him
27:48Listened to
27:48His words
27:49And applied
27:50Them to
27:50Their lives
27:53Of course
27:54His mother
27:54Was blessed
27:55But this is
27:56Not the point
27:57That Jesus
27:57Was making
27:58Most certainly
27:59Mary was more
28:00Blessed than
28:01Any other
28:01Woman
28:02But first
28:03And foremost
28:03She was blessed
28:04Because she
28:05Was obedient
28:06To God
28:08But how
28:08Obedient are
28:09We
28:10Do we rank
28:11With Mary
28:11In our
28:12Obedience
28:12To God
28:14I think
28:15I think not
28:15For we fall
28:16Into difficulty
28:17Every day
28:18But every
28:19Let us continue
28:20To pray
28:21Every day
28:22That little
28:23By little
28:23We may come
28:25Closer and
28:26Closer
28:26To that state
28:27Of perfect
28:28Submission
28:29And obedience
28:35Let us pray
28:37O God
28:38The King
28:38Of glory
28:39Who has
28:40Exalted
28:40Your only
28:41Son
28:41Jesus
28:42Christ
28:42With great
28:43Triumph
28:43Unto
28:45Your kingdom
28:45In heaven
28:46We beseech
28:48You
28:48Leave us
28:49Not
28:49Comfortless
28:50But send
28:52To us
28:52Your Holy Spirit
28:53To comfort
28:54Us and
28:55Exalt us
28:56To the same
28:57Place
28:57Whither our
28:59Saviour
28:59Jesus Christ
29:00Is gone
29:00Before
29:01Who lives
29:02And reigns
29:03With you
29:03And the
29:04Holy Spirit
29:05One God
29:06World
29:06Without end
29:07Amen
29:13May the Lord
29:14Bless us
29:15And keep us
29:16From all evil
29:17Bringing us
29:19To everlasting
29:20Life
29:21Amen
29:42Amen
30:10You