00:14In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
00:19The Lord be with you, and with your spirit.
00:23Dear friends, today we celebrate the memory of Saints Cornelius and Cyprian, who are martyrs.
00:30Cornelius was a Pope, a leader of our church, and Cyprian was a bishop.
00:35Together they gave witness to Christ and gave the ultimate witness of the offering of their lives during a time
00:42of persecution.
00:44I'm offering this Mass in a special way for you, for your intentions.
00:47So let's pause for a few moments, so that in the silence of your hearts, you can offer your own
00:52thanksgiving and your own intentions to God.
01:07Having offered God our thanksgiving and our needs, let's also offer Him the contrition of our hearts, let's acknowledge our
01:14sins, and so prepare ourselves to celebrate these sacred mysteries.
01:18You were sent to heal the contrite of heart, Lord, have mercy.
01:23You came to call sinners, Christ, have mercy.
01:27You are seated at the right hand of the Father to intercede for us, Lord, have mercy.
01:33May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life.
01:40Amen.
01:41Let us pray.
01:46O God, who gave saints Cornelius and Cyprian to your people, as diligent shepherds and valiant martyrs,
01:54grant that through their intercession, we may be strengthened in faith and constancy,
02:00and spend ourselves without reserve for the unity of the Church.
02:04Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you, in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
02:11God, forever and ever.
02:13Amen.
02:15A reading from the first letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians.
02:21Be ambitious for the higher gifts, and I am going to show you a way that is better than any
02:28of them.
02:29If I have all the eloquence of men or of angels, but speak without love, I am simply a gong,
02:36booming, or a cymbal clashing.
02:39If I have the gift of prophecy, understanding all the mysteries there are, and knowing everything.
02:46And if I have faith in all its fullness to move mountains, but without love, then I am nothing at
02:54all.
02:55If I give away all that I possess, piece by piece, and if I even let them take my body
03:02to burn it, but am without love, it will do me no good whatever.
03:10Love is always patient and kind.
03:13It is never jealous.
03:16Love is never boastful or conceited.
03:19It is never rude or selfish.
03:22It does not take offense, and it is not resentful.
03:28Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins, but delights in the truth.
03:34It is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
03:44Love does not come to an end.
03:48Love does not come to an end, but if there are gifts of prophecy, time will come when they must
03:54fail.
03:59Sorry.
04:03For the gift of languages, it will not continue forever.
04:08And knowledge, for this too, the time will come when it must fail.
04:14For our knowledge is imperfect, and our prophesying is imperfect.
04:18But once perfection comes, all imperfect things will disappear.
04:24When I was a child, I used to talk like a child, and think like a child, and argue like
04:30a child.
04:31But now, I am a man.
04:35All childish ways are put behind me.
04:39Now we are seeing a dim reflection in a mirror, but then we shall be seeing face to face.
04:47The knowledge that I have now is imperfect, but then I shall know as fully as I am known.
04:55In short, there are three things that last.
05:01Faith, hope, and love.
05:05And the greatest of these is love.
05:11The Word of the Lord.
05:17Happy the people, the Lord has chosen to be his own.
05:21Happy the people, the Lord has chosen to be his own.
05:25Give thanks to the Lord upon the harp.
05:28With a ten-stringed lute, sing him songs.
05:31O sing him a song that is new.
05:33Play loudly with all your skill.
05:36Happy the people, the Lord has chosen to be his own.
05:40For the word of the Lord is faithful, and all his works to be trusted.
05:45The Lord loves justice and right, and fills the earth with his love.
05:50Happy the people, the Lord has chosen to be his own.
05:55They are happy whose God is the Lord, the people he has chosen as his own.
06:00May your love be upon us, O Lord, as we place all our hope in you.
06:07Happy the people, the Lord has chosen to be his own.
06:15Alleluia, alleluia.
06:16Your words, Lord, are spirit and life.
06:19You have the words of everlasting life.
06:23Alleluia.
06:27The Lord be with you.
06:29A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke.
06:33Glory to you, O Lord.
06:37Jesus said to the people,
06:39What description can I find for the men of this generation?
06:44What are they like?
06:46They are like children shouting to one another while they sit in the marketplace.
06:51We played the pipes for you, and you wouldn't dance.
06:56We sang dirges, and you wouldn't cry.
07:02For John the Baptist comes, not eating bread, not drinking wine, and you say,
07:07He is possessed.
07:08The Son of Man comes, eating and drinking, and you say,
07:14Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.
07:23Yet, wisdom has been proven right by all her children.
07:30The Gospel of the Lord.
07:32Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
07:51Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation, for through your goodness we have received the bread we offer you.
07:56For through your foot of the earth, and work of human hands, it will become for us the bread of
08:01life.
08:02Blessed be God forever.
08:21Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation, for through your goodness we have received the wine we offer you.
08:27Fruit of the vine and work of human hands, it will become for us our spiritual drink.
08:33Blessed be God forever.
08:46So pray, brothers and sisters, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God, the Almighty Father.
08:54May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands, for the praise and the glory of his name,
08:59for our good and the good of all his holy church.
09:02Receive, we pray, O Lord, the offerings of your people, in honor of the passion of your holy martyrs,
09:10Saints Cornelius and Cyprian, and may the gifts that gave them courage under persecution,
09:17make us too steadfast in all trials.
09:20Through Christ, our Lord. Amen.
09:24The Lord be with you, and with your spirit, lift up your hearts.
09:28We lift them up to the Lord.
09:30Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
09:33It is right and just.
09:35It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, always and everywhere,
09:40to give you thanks, Lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God.
09:46For you are glorified when your saints are praised.
09:50Their very sufferings are but wonders of your might.
09:54In your mercy you give ardor to their faith.
09:57To their endurance you grant firm resolve, and in their struggle the victory is yours.
10:25Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.
10:29Hosanna in the highest.
10:36You are indeed holy, O Lord, the fount of all holiness.
10:40Make holy, therefore, these gifts we pray,
10:43by sending down your Spirit upon them like the twofold,
10:46so that they may become for us the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.
10:53At the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his passion,
10:57he took bread, and giving thanks, broke it,
11:01and gave it to his disciples, saying,
11:05Take this, all of you, and eat of it,
11:08for this is my body, which will be given up for you.
11:37In a similar way, when supper was ended, he took the chalice,
11:42and once more giving thanks, he gave it to his disciples, saying,
11:46Take this, all of you, and drink from it,
11:49for this is the chalice of my blood,
11:52the blood of the new and eternal covenant,
11:55which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins.
12:00Do this in memory of me.
12:28The mystery of faith.
12:30When we eat this bread and drink this cup,
12:33we proclaim your death, O Lord, until you come again.
12:38Therefore, as we celebrate the memorial of his death and resurrection,
12:42we offer you, Lord, the bread of life and the chalice of salvation,
12:46giving thanks that you have held us worthy to be in your presence and minister to you.
12:52Humbly we pray that, partaking of the body and blood of Christ,
12:57we may be gathered into one by the Holy Spirit.
13:01Remember, Lord, your church spread throughout the world
13:04and bring her to the fullness of charity,
13:07together with Leo, our Pope, and Charles, our Bishop, and all the clergy.
13:13Remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep
13:16in the hope of the resurrection and all who have died in your mercy.
13:21Welcome them into the light of your face.
13:25Have mercy on us all, we pray,
13:27that with the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God,
13:30with Blessed Joseph, her spouse,
13:32with the Blessed Apostles,
13:33and all the saints who have pleased you throughout the ages,
13:37we may merit to be co-heirs to eternal life,
13:41and may praise and glorify you through your Son, Jesus Christ.
13:48Through him and with him and in him,
13:51O God, Almighty Father,
13:53in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
13:56all glory and honor is yours forever.
14:00and ever.
14:02Amen.
14:09At the Savior's command,
14:11and formed by divine teaching,
14:13we dare to say,
14:14Our Father, who art in heaven,
14:18hallowed be thy name.
14:20Thy kingdom come,
14:22thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
14:25Give us this day our daily bread,
14:28and forgive us our trespasses,
14:30as we forgive those who trespass against us.
14:34And lead us not into temptation,
14:37but deliver us from evil.
14:40Deliver us, Lord, we pray,
14:41from every evil.
14:43Graciously grant peace in our days,
14:45that by the help of your mercy,
14:47we may be always free from sin
14:49and safe from all distress,
14:51as we await the blessed hope
14:54and the coming of our Savior,
14:55Jesus Christ.
14:57For the kingdom,
14:58the power and the glory are yours,
15:00now and forever.
15:05Lord Jesus Christ,
15:07who said to your apostles,
15:08Peace I leave you,
15:10my peace I give you,
15:11look not on our sins,
15:13but on the faith of your church,
15:15and graciously grant her peace and unity
15:17in accordance with your will,
15:20who live and reign forever and ever.
15:22Amen.
15:23The peace of the Lord be with you always.
15:27Let's offer each other the sign of peace.
15:30Peace be with you.
15:45Lamb of God,
15:47you take away the sins of the world,
15:49have mercy on us.
15:51Lamb of God,
15:52you take away the sins of the world,
15:55have mercy on us.
15:57Lamb of God,
15:58you take away the sins of the world,
16:01grant us peace.
16:39Behold the Lamb of God,
16:41behold him who takes away the sins of the world,
16:44blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb.
16:47Lord,
16:49I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof,
16:52but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.
16:57My Jesus,
16:59I believe that you are present in the most blessed sacrament.
17:02I love you above all things,
17:04and I desire to receive you into my soul.
17:07Since I cannot now receive you sacramentally,
17:10comely spiritually into my heart,
17:13I embrace you as if you were already there,
17:15and unite myself wholly to you.
17:18Never permit me to be separated from you.
17:22Amen.
17:22Let us pray.
17:25Through these mysteries which we have received,
17:28we humbly beseech you,
17:29O Lord,
17:30that by the example of the martyrs,
17:32Saints Cornelius and Cyprian,
17:34we may be strengthened with the fortitude of your spirit
17:37to bear witness to the truth of the gospel.
17:40Through Christ our Lord.
17:43Amen.
17:44So friends,
17:45thank you for your prayerful company this morning.
17:47Once again,
17:48may you be assured that this Mass today was offered for you and your intentions.
17:52So let's keep on praying for one another,
17:55for each other's intentions,
17:56especially when you see them appear in the comment section of our online Mass today.
18:03May God bless you and your day.
18:05The Lord be with you.
18:07May Almighty God bless you,
18:09the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
18:12Amen.
18:14Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord.
18:17Thanks be to God.
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