9/5/21 Sunday Mass

please consider joining us at the 911 wreath memorial and blue mass next saturday september 11th to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the attack on our country we will join with area police fire and emergency service personnel to remember the sacrifice of life for others in need the event will begin at noon at holy apostles in meridian please also if you've not registered your children for religious education for the 2021-2020-22 school year registration is still open online for children in kindergarten through fifth grade save the date join us september 27th through the 29th for a parish mission with father john burns author of the best-spelling spiritual book lift up your heart a personal 10-day personal retreat with saint francis de sales details can be found on the cathedral website or facebook page finally when you present yourself for communion if you are wearing a mask please remember to lower your mask receive communion and then return your mass to its place our celebrant this morning is father alexander he is assisted by deacon daniel and me deacon derek please join us in our entrance song number 462 all hail the power of jesus name number 462 [Music] so [Music] so foreign [Music] um you [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit the grace of our lord jesus christ and the love of god and the communion of the holy spirit be with you all and with your spirit and good morning to all of you my brothers and sisters in christ morning uh this holy mass i am celebrating especially for you for all of parish owners asking for god's graces for all of you my brothers and sisters at the beginning of this holy mass let us acknowledge our sins and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries i confess to almighty god and to you my brothers and sisters that i have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words in what i have done and what i failed to do through my fault through my fault through my most grievous fault therefore i ask the blessed mary ever virgin all of the angels and saints and you my brothers and sisters to pray for me the lord our god may almighty god have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life amen is [Music] [Music] we [Music] oh [Music] lord jesus christ you take away [Music] you take away the sins [Music] have mercy on us [Music] jesus [Music] [Music] let us pray oh god by whom we we are redeemed and receive adoption look graciously upon your beloved sons and daughters that those who believe in christ may receive true freedom and everlasting inheritance through our lord jesus christ your son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the holy spirit god forever [Music] a reading from the book of the prophet isaiah thus says the lord say to those whose hearts are frightened be strong fear not here is your god he comes with vindication with divine recompense he comes to save you then will the eyes of the blind be opened the ears of the deaf be cleared then will the lame leap like a stag then the tongue of the mute will sing streams will burst forth in the desert and rivers in the step the burning sands will become pools and the thirsty ground springs of water the word of the lord [Music] praise the lord my soul [Music] [Applause] [Music] the god of jacob keeps faith forever secures justice for the oppressed gifts food to the hungry the lord sets captives free [Music] the lord gives sight to the blind the lord raises up those who were bowed down the lord loves the just the lord protects strangers [Music] the fatherless and the widow the lord sustains but the way of the wicked he thwarts the lord shall reign forever your god o zion through all generations hallelujah [Music] a reading from the letter of saint james my brothers and sisters show no partiality as you adhere to the faith in our glorious lord jesus christ for if a man with gold rings and fine clothes comes into your assembly and a poor person in shabby clothes also comes in and you pay attention to the one wearing the fine clothes and say sit here please while you say to the poor one stand there or sit at my feet have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil designs listen my beloved brothers and sisters did not god choose those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that he promised to those who love him the word of the lord [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] disease [Music] the lord be with you [Music] a reading from the holy gospel according to mark [Music] again jesus left the district of tyree and went by way of sidon to the sea of galilee into the district of decapolis and people brought him a death man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him he took him off by himself away from the crowd he put his finger into the man's ears and spitting touched his tongue then he looked up to heaven and groaned and said to him etheda that is be opened and immediately the man's ears were opened his speech impediment was removed and he spoke plainly he ordered them not to tell anyone but the more he ordered them not to the more they proclaimed it they were exceedingly astonished and they said he has done all things well he makes the deaf hear and the mute speak the gospel of the lord hmm today my homily will be a little bit longer so you can close your eyes and listen but don't sleep please please pray for me i really need your prayers please pray for me is it so easy for us to say this ask someone to pray not for others for my grandma for my dad for me i am sure that in the church today right now there is at least one person who would like to get up now and say people pray for me pray for me because my marriage is bad because my husband or my wife wants to leave me because we cannot cope anymore with our child because i can't get along with my parents they piss me off because i have some problems i am depressed people pray for me but but that person won't get up because he's ashamed and yes i i think i wouldn't get up either because it's hard it's difficult and look when we ask such a person how are you today how are you feeling he will answer everything is fine good father it's good we hide behind this one sentence it's fine we pretend we put on masks and we are gone but you don't have to be a cyborg you don't have to be a superman remember god always chooses the weak fragile and sinful and strength is made perfect in weakness i have not come to call the rages but sinners says jesus and look jesus takes this man in the gospel aside away from the crowd this is my this is my personal encounter with jesus especially in the sacrament of confession and he says to him a father it means be open you know i once heard this definition of love love is openness love is openness do you know how you love your mama just as you are open to her do you know how you love your wife your husband just as you are open to her or him do you know how we love god just like we are open to him and of course we are to have different degrees of openness towards different people but we are to be open not closed do you know why we are afraid to open up for this reason that many flowers are afraid to bloom because when a flower blooms there is a risk that someone will pick it discover it better to be bad small but hide do not lean out say that everything is okay openness that is i stand and i show myself as i am i do not cheat i don't pretend i want to be true in front of god and in front of you i was at the funeral and there were a lot of people over a hundred people like today i said to them the lord be with you silence so i repeat the lord be with you few people few people answered and with your spirit so am i open [Music] we are often closed we don't bloom we don't bear fruit if you see god as strict you will close yourself for him when you close yourself to god you will also close yourself to people that is you will talk to people but you will pretend you will put on masks the most important thing in the sacrament of confession is openness do not be afraid to go to confession often and regularly i ask you do not be afraid to use this sacrament often do not be afraid to open to god's grace please you know when the pope john paul ii died many people in poland started coming to confession there were really long lines to the confessional and priests were hearing confessions day and night many people converted because they finally open up open up to god do you know why many people leave the confessional being sad because they feel in their hearts that they didn't confess that their confession after a few months or years was like oh father i had impure thoughts i argued with my mother i ate meat on friday and i don't remember more sins is this seriously my confession you know this is how little child can do confess confession i was arguing with my wife but that i had been mentally exhausting her for the last few months i won't say that and look how we can sometimes hatch color father i tripped with my boyfriend did you trip yes we tripped in the evening yesterday and my boyfriend stayed with me for the night then we tripped again and in the morning again i tripped and then we can say that's good this priest didn't ask me about it oh i said i stole the string good thing that this priest didn't ask me because there was a cow at the end of the string some wife comes to confession father my husband is that this this this this these these these this this are you finished generally as father so you are innocent and he is guilt of everything well maybe yes but not really but why you did by why did you marry such a bully oh he wasn't like that before the wedding father so he became like that because of you believe me my friends we priests have no pleasure in hearing sins it is difficult knowing that we are weak and sinful too and believe me confession is really hard work but when when i see that the person open up opens up that he is closer to god it's a really great joy you know there may be a temptation what will father think of me he knows me sometimes people may have thoughts like this believe me the the most beautiful confession is when someone actually comes back to jesus this is the most important be open have father don't be afraid of it if you don't open up jesus won't heal you behold i am standing in the door of your heart and knocking whoever will open me i will enter to this heart and live there and who do you feel sorry for in the confessional people are broken down with themselves because sin occurs very often the same scene again and again and i can't deal with it look we we feel sorry for our imperfection i promised myself i was doing well two or three weeks did not seen and then the same scene again i am fed up i am angry i am frustrated father with myself and i look only at myself all the time don't look at yourself don't look at your sin look at jesus look at god who loves you and forgives your sins yes father but there was a pornography again in pure sins again i quote quarat with my mother again but listen jesus washes your sins with one drop of his holy blood makes you free [Music] you know about it yes father but i got drunk a few more times but do you regret it oh yeah father but you don't know you you know how i got drunk jesus loves you jesus forgives you do you believe it is this truth reaching you or are you still looking only at yourself at your sin look at the face of jesus and every confession is a moment when we have to look at jesus please don't leave immortal sin if it appears cut if it off immediately is strange that people will sometimes commit a mortal sin and wait for easter to go to confession it's like you insult your loved one and you say to her you know what i know i've i offended you yesterday but i will it will be your birthday in my next year so i will apologize to you but now we will live angry what are you talking about how will you apologize to me for my birthday next week next year if you love me you will apologize to me now father why go to confession if i seen in a while any of you planning to sin in 2030 [Music] no but tonight we can have plans a resolve to sin no more is what i am already planning now there is no sin in my plans for now and i decide to be better now why do we wash socks they will get dirty anyway why take a shower when we will be dirty at the end of the day in a way do you know for what we are doing this not to keep it clean once and for all but we make it so that it doesn't stink sorry for that word we go to confession so that our hearts don't start to sting we still have to wash it cut off this scene because sin sticks to us and doesn't allow us to fully leave god we go to confession to show god god it's not me it's true i committed a sin last night i argued i was jealous i was impatient but that's not me this is the old man in me it was not me i am different god i want to be different i want to be real deep down in your heart you are good the greatest sinner who would sin if he found out your mother dies or your daughter has a car accident he doesn't say let her die i have to finish my sin he stops every sin immediately withdraw from every evil and run there to save his loved ones we are good deep down in our hearts and therefore when sin comes it must be cut off immediately sins are terrible and they destroy us a lot although often satan lucifer belzerboop asmodeus wraps them in beautiful boxes inside this beautiful box poison awaits for us addiction awaits for us enslavement aways for us so don't wait for the evil spirit to take control of you open up to god a father start going to confession regularly they brought him to jesus and asked him to heal him every confession this is the question of jesus do you want me do you want me with your heart do you need me look at your sin name it open up and confess it and go back to jesus be real and free person be yourself be sin sincere authentic openness this is what today's gospel is about this is what our life is about this is what christianity is about the open ones will get love the open ones will get the kingdom of heaven and now my brothers and sisters let us profess our faith i believe to one father [Music] i'm so special [Music] [Music] yes [Music] yes [Music] our god hears our prayers and answers them let us call upon our god with our needs that our bishops presbyters and deacons grow in their love for the body and blood of christ let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer that people of every nation use natural resources more wisely and treat creation more respectfully let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for a time of enduring peace particularly for our jewish brothers and sisters in the holy land and throughout the world in this most sacred time the feast of hasanah the jewish new year and yom kippur the day of atonement let us pray to the lord r for the peace and safety of those leaving afghanistan let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for our sick our bereaved are hungry and our homeless let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for those who have died and for the comfort and peace of their families and loved ones let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for these prayers and those which we hold in the silence of our hearts let us pray to the lord r lord hear our god of lord help us to heed the voices of those in need gather us all together and hold us in your love we ask this through christ our lord number six [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] huh uh [Applause] is [Applause] [Music] hey [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] pray brothers and sisters that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to god the almighty father o god who gives who give us the gift of true prayer and of peace graciously granted through this offering we may do fitting homage to your divine majesty and by partaking of the sacred mystery we may be faithfully united in men and heart through christ our lord the lord be with you leave up your hearts [Music] let us give thanks to the lord our god [Music] it is truly right and just our duty and our salvation always and everywhere to give you thanks lord holy father almighty and eternal god for you so love the world that in your mercy you sent us the redeemer [Music] to live like us in all things but sin so that you might love in us what you loved in your son by whose obedience we have been resorted to those gift of yours that by sinning we had lost in disobedience and so lord with all the angels and saints we too giving you friends as in exaltation we are [Music] is [Music] me you are indeed holy o lord and all you have created rightly gives you praise for for your son our lord jesus christ by the power and working of the holy spirit you give life to all things and make them holy and you never cease to gather a people to yourself so that from the rising of the sun to its setting a pure sacrifice may be offered to your name therefore oh lord we humbly implore you by the same spirit graciously make holy these gifts we have brought to you for consecration that they may become the body and blood of your son our lord jesus christ at whose command we celebrate these mysteries for on the night he was betrayed he himself took bread and giving you thanks he said the blessing broke the bread and gave it to his disciples saying take this all of you and eat of it for this is my body which will be given up for you [Music] so so in a similar way when supper was ended he took the chalice and giving you thanks he said the blessing and gave the chalice to his disciples saying take this all of you and drink from it for this is the chalice of my blood the blood of the new and eternal covenant which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins do this in memory of me [Music] so their mystery of [Music] [Music] and faith your race [Music] [Music] therefore oh lord as we celebrate the memorial of the saving passion of your son his wonders resurrection and ascension into heaven and as we look forward to his second coming we offer you in thanksgiving this holy and living sacrifice look we pray upon the oblation of your church and recognizing the sacrificial victim by whose death you will to reconcile us to yourself grant that we who are nourished by the body and blood of your son and fill with his holy spirit may become one body one spirit in christ make him make of us an eternal offering to you so that we may obtain inheritance with your elect especially with the most blessed virgin mary mother of god with blessed joseph her spouse with your blessed apostles and glorious martyrs we've sent john saint francis and padre pio and with all the saints on wisconsin intercession in your presence we rely for unfailing help may this sacrifice of your our reconciliation we pray o lord advance the peace and salvation of all the world be pleased to confirm in faith and charity your pilgrim church on earth with your servant francis our pope and peter our bishop the order of bishops all the clergy and the entire people you have gained for your own and listen graciously the to the prayers of this family whom you have samoan before you in your compassion oh merciful father gather to yourself all your children scatter throughout the world and to our departed brothers and sisters to all who are pleasing to you at their passing from this life give kind admittance to your kingdom there we hope to enjoy forever the fullness of your glory through christ our lord through whom you bestow on the world all that is good through him and with him and in him oh god almighty father in the unity of the holy spirit all glory and honor is yours forever [Music] [Music] at the savior's command and formed by divine teaching we dare to say our father [Music] [Music] give us and forgive us [Applause] [Music] [Music] deliver us lord we pray from every evil graciously grant peace in our days that by the help of your mercy we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our savior jesus christ [Music] [Music] lord jesus 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 church and graciously grant her peace and unity in accordance with your will who live and reign forever and ever the peace of the lord be with you always and with your spirit let us offer each other sign of this peace [Music] [Music] [Music] please [Music] foreign [Music] thank you protection behold the lamb of god behold him who takes away the sins of the world blessed are those called to the supper of the lamb lord [Music] should have known but only may the body of christ [Music] somebody [Music] um [Music] my soul [Music] oh um [Music] yes [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] [Music] my soul [Music] oh 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heavenly host by the power of god seeking souls amen father you entrusted our savior to the care of saint joseph by the couple of experiences may your church continue to serve as the lord jesus christ will be summarized [Music] oh is [Music] oh [Music] you

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Published: Sun Sep 05 2021