Catholic TV Mass Online May 12, 2024: The Ascension of the Lord

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name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen the Lord be with you and with your spirit hello everyone happy Ascension Day happy Mother's Day many of you are celebrating all sorts of things today but uh the church celebrates the Feast of the Ascension kind of the almost the culmination of the Easter season we have three great feasts Easter Ascension and next Sunday Pentecost as we come together we remember that joy that permeates US during this season Christ rose from the dead and offers that same resurrection and New Life to us that's why we work to follow in his footsteps we ask forgiveness for our faults Lord Jesus you sent us into the world to proclaim the gospel message Lord have mercy Lord have Merc Christ Jesus you call us to live our baptism Christ have mercy Christ have mercy Lord Jesus we follow you into eternal life Lord have mercy Lord have Merc May almighty God have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring all of us to everlasting life amen glory to God glory to God in the [Music] to people of good we praise you we bless you we adore you we glorify you we give you than for your great glory god Heaven King oh God Alm Mighty father [Music] Lord Jesus Christ only begot son Lord God L of God Son of the father you take away the S of the world have mercy on us you take away the S of the world receive our pray you are seated at the right hand of the father have mercy on us for you alone the Holy One you alone are the you the most high Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit in the glory of [Music] God and let us pray glad us with holy Joys almighty God and make us rejoice with devout Thanksgiving for the Ascension of Christ your son is our exaltation that where the hat is gone before in glory the body is called to follow in Hope through our Lord Jesus Christ your son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit God forever and ever amen a reading from The Acts of the Apostles in the first book theophilis I dealt with all that Jesus did and taught until the day he was taken up after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles whom he had chosen he presented himself alive to them by many proofs after he had suffered appearing to them during 40 days and speaking about the kingdom of God while meeting with them he enjoined them not to depart from Jerusalem but to wait for the promise promise of the father about which you have heard me speak for John baptized with water but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit when they had gathered together they asked him Lord are you at this time going to restore the kingdom to Israel he answered them it is not for you to know the times or Seasons that the father has established by his own authority but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and you will be my Witnesses in Jerusalem throughout Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the Earth when he had said this as they were looking on he was lifted up and a cloud took him from their sight while they were looking intently at the sky as he was going suddenly two men dressed in white garments Stood Beside them they said men of Galilee why are you standing there looking at the sky this Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will return in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven the word of the Lord thanks be to God God mounts his throne to shout of Joy [Music] hallelujah hallelujah Gods his thr to shout of Joy [Music] hallelu Hallelujah all peoples clap your hands cry to God with shouts of joy for the Lord most high we must fear great king over all the Earth God mounts his throne to sh of Joy [Music] Hallelujah [Music] hallel God goes up with shouts of Joy the Lord goes up with trumpet blast sing praise for God sing praise for God sing praise to our Kings his to sh of Jo Hallelujah hallelu God is king of all the Earth sing praise with all your skill God is King over the Nations He Reigns on his holy Throne God Ms his thr to shout of Joy hallelu [Music] hallelu a reading from the letter of St Paul to the Ephesians brothers and sisters I a prisoner of the Lord urge you to live in a manner worthy of the calling you have received with all humility and gentleness with patience bearing with one another through love striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of Peace one body and one Spirit as you were also called to the one hope of your calling one Lord One Faith one baptism one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all but Grace was given to each of us according to the measure of Christ's gift and he gave some as Apostles others as prophets others as evangelists others as pastors and teachers to equip the holy ones for the work of Ministry for building up the body of Christ until we all attain to the unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God to mature manhood to the extent of the full stature of Christ the word of the Lord thanks be to God Hallelujah hallelu hallelu hallelu hallelu hallelu hallelu hallelu hallelu hallelu hallelu [Music] hallelu your words Lord are spirit and life you have the words of everlasting love hallelu hallelu hallelu hallelujah hallelujah [Music] hallelu the Lord be with you and with your spirit Our Gospel reading is taken from the good news recorded for us by Mark GL to you Jesus said to his disciples go into the whole world and proclaim the gospel to Every Creature whoever believes and is baptized will be saved whoever does not believe will be condemned these signs will accompany those who believe in my name they will drive out demons they will speak new languages they will pick up serpents with their hands and if they drink anything deadly it will not harm them they will lay hands on the sick and they will recover so then the Lord Jesus after he spoke to them was taken up into heaven he took his seat at the right hand of God but there but they went forth and preached everywhere while the Lord worked on them and worked with them and confirmed the word with with accompanying signs the gospel of the Lord praise to you Lord Jesus Christ I would imagine that most of us are at one particular point in their life or bicycle Riders uh you know sometimes you remember when you learned how to ride a bike you know a lot of us can't remember that far back but it's one of those things that uh I remember uh working with my nieces on bicycle riding and uh so you know if you remember that that Vision in your head there you got this little kid on the bike and you know the adults is kind of running back and forth making sure they don't fall over and you you get kind of tired I remember that back and forth and back and forth uh and all of a sudden they're off on their own but they don't necessarily know that you're not with them anymore and so they are you know they're of and running and they're they're feeling pretty proud of themselves it's it's a great feeling actually well I'd like to compare the Feast of the Ascension with that first experience of bicycle riding and I want to say the disciples we kind of know how the story ends at this particular point in our life but it's like bicycle riding Jesus over these last three years of walking with his disciples was keep teaching them how to ride was teaching them how to be effective in their Ministry teaching them how to live the gospel and how to pray and how to spread the good news and all of a sudden they realize that you know he's not with them anymore he is ascended into heaven what do we do now and basically we all kind of know they really learned the lessons and they learned the lessons well 2,000 plus years later we are still feeling the effects of the work of the early disciples the work of the early church that kind of says we have work to do he sent them forth over the last number of months we've talked about in the gospels you know you have to deny yourself you pick up your cross and you follow me and so those things still work out today as we celebrate the Feast of the Ascension we know as we look ahead towards next Sunday where where the Feast of Pentecost comes in we know that the holy spirit is still with us to guide us Jesus is not here physically like we are with one another but he is still very much present with us as we live the gospel message so our job is to Proclaim it and each of us has a different different role you might say if you listen to the first reading or the second reading today there are prophets and Priests and there are all sorts of people but each and every one of us in our own way using our own gifts and talents has the responsibility and the privilege of sharing that gospel message of making sure that people follow closely into the footsteps of Christ we spend 40 days of Lent working on some of those things and kind of getting focused we spend 50 days of Easter season kind of celebrating and rejoicing but we don't forget what we've learned during Lent and how we Rejoice during the Easter season because it's all part of who we are and what we do so Jesus is in a very real way still running with us and as Jesus runs with us through the presence of the Holy Spirit we realize that we're not alone we have so many interesting gifts and talents that we knew we we use to share the gospel message one of my strange um visions of the Ascension if you got from the the first reading there is um there are disciples they kind of look at they were up in the High Hill and you picture all these guys kind of staring up now that's kind of weird you know all these guys people are staring up the early church and the the men in the white robes are there um what are you guys looking at you have work to do and I think that's the challenge of the Ascension we learned how to ride the bike and now hopefully we still enjoy it no matter what age we're are but as Disciples of Jesus we've learned about it and our job is not to sit around and gawk and look around not to be distracted distractions are so easily taken into our hearts that we forget what we're about we're not riding bicycles but we're in the mission of Jesus Christ sharing the good news asking people to be baptized to live the message and once we do that you know we're on the right way we celebrate Mother's Day today and I think mothers have a great responsibility and a great privilege of being a conduit or of spirituality to their to their families so we celebrate the fact that you know moms do a fairly good job of making sure that we know the message of Jesus and we walk in his footsteps so that message is still alive in a well the bike yeah you may skin your knee a couple times there might be some you know wobbling still even as you get older um but you know the point is we're not alone the holy spirit is with us so our job over the next uh seven days Come Holy Spirit Come Holy Spirit help us to take the handlebars of our faith and help us to ride and ride with confidence knowing that we are not alone I believe in God the Father Almighty creator of Heaven and Earth and in Jesus Christ his only son our Lord who has conceived by the Holy Spirit born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pon pil was crucified died and he descended into on the third day he rose again from the he ascended into and seated at the right of god father almighty from there he will come to judge the living and the I believe in the Holy Spirit the Holy Catholic Church the communion of saints the forgiv of s the resurrection of body and life Everlasting amen confident that God still guides us that the spirit is with us we present our prayers and petition knowing that God is there to help us and assist us when things get rough for the church that we may proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ around the world imparting the faith hope and love we have found in the Lord to neighbor and stranger alike we pray to the Lord Lord our pray for missionaries in the work they do to express and extend the gospel to every corner of the world we pray to the Lord Lord our pray for the mothers grandmothers godmothers and other moms remembered with love in spiritual bouquet sent to Heart of the nation in celebration of Mother's Day we pray to the Lord Lord our pray for those who suffer from pain or loneliness especially among our heart of the nation Parish family we pray to the Lord Lord our pray for those who have died May they rejoice in the reward of everlasting life we pray to the Lord Lord our pray for the needs and prayers of all of our heart of the nation Parish members including those joining us from the states of Georgia and M Massachusetts we pray to the Lord Lord our pray Lord God Of Heaven and Earth we ask you to hear the prayers of your family that gathers gathers in their homes that gathers here that gathers to celebrate the joy of Easter help us Lord God to be truly present to one another and to be present as the holy spirit continues to guide us we pray through Christ Our Lord amen [Music] sa of Christ one above the Christ he and come to make Christ will return to set us free one sacrifice of love one message for the J and and to the Christ will return to the world one days we LIF up [Music] where was to Heaven We Stand the night for our King to to the glory of the L one Mighty word of TR Christ arise in Tri [Music] upon [Music] the and pray my friends brothers and sisters all that my sacrifice and yours may be found acceptable to God our loving father accept the sacrifice your for the praise and glory of his name for our all his church amen we offer sacrifice now in supplication O Lord to honor the wondrous Ascension of your son Grant we pray that through this Most Holy exchange we too may rise up to the Heavenly Realms through Christ Our Lord amen the Lord be with you and with your spirit lift up your hearts we lift them up to the Lord and let us give thanks to the Lord Our God it is right and just 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 the Lord Jesus Christ the King of Glory conqueror of sin and death ascended to the highest Heavens as the Angels gazed in Wonder mediator between God and man judge of the world and Lord of hosts he ascended not to distance himself from our holy state but that we his members might be confident in following where he our head and founder has gone before therefore for come with Pascal joy every land every people exalts in your praise and even the Heavenly Powers with the Angelic hosts sing together the unending Hymn of your glory as they now [Music] Proclaim holy holy Lord God of [Music] heav and Earth are full of your [Music] glory in the [Music] highest BL is he who comes in the name of the [Music] lordana in the high [Music] you are indeed holy oh Lord the font of all Holiness make holy therefore these gifts we pray by sending down your spirit upon them like the dwall so that they may become for us the body and blood of your son our Lord Jesus Christ at the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his passion he took bread and giving thanks he broke it he 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 in a similar way when supper was ended he took the chalice and once more giving thanks gave it to 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 the Myster of Faith weim your death Lord and proess your [Music] Resurrection until you come [Music] again therefore as we celebrate the memorial of his death and Resurrection we offer you Lord the bread of life and the Chalice of salvation giving thanks that you have held us worthy to be in your presence and minister to you humbly we pray that partaking of the body and blood of Christ we may be gathered into one by the Holy Spirit remember Lord your church spread throughout the world bring her to the fullness of Charity together with Francis our Pope and Jerome our Archbishop and all the clergy remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection and all who have died in your mercy welcome them into the light of your face have mercy on us all we pray that with the Blessed Virgin Mary the Mother of God with blessed Joseph her spouse with the Blessed Apostles and all the saints who have pleased you throughout the ages grant that we may Merit to be coair to eternal life and may praise and glorify you through your son our Lord Jesus Christ through him and with him and in him oh God Almighty father father in the unity of the holy spirit all glory and honor is yours forever and [Music] everever am [Music] am am [Music] kind of like bicycling if we're going to keep our balance when we're living the gospel message we of course need to be people of prayer people who Focus so at the savior's command and formed by Divine teaching we now dare to pray Our Father who in be th name th Kingdom th will be on Earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and for us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and us not into temptation but Deliver Us from Evil Deliver Us Lord we pray from every evil graciously Grant peace in our days that by the help of your mercy we may always be free from sin and safe from all distress as we await the Blessed hope and the coming of Our Savior Jesus Christ for the kingdom the power and the glory are yours and forever Pray for Peace Lord Jesus you said to your Apostles I leave you peace my peace I give you look not in 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 amen May the peace of the Lord be with each of you always and with your spirit as we wish one another the sign of Peace we extend that peace to all those that are watching may the Lord peace permeate your H heart and uh give you the joy of not only Easter but mother's day as well share with one [Music] another God you take the of the world Mery Mercy on God L of God you take away the S of the world Mery Mercy on US Lamb of God we take the of the world gr us gr us [Music] [Applause] [Music] Behold the Lamb of God Behold Him who takes away the sins of our world blessed are those called to the supper of the Lamb Lord am noty enter my roof but only say the word and my soulall be healed [Music] is the L that SL to receive honor and [Music] Glory worthy are the ones who believe to receive the goodness of God [Music] worthy are you lamb wi of and Str belong now to you you lay down your light and upon the cross we become the people of Earth [Music] is the [Music] L to receive and [Music] glor for they are the to receive the goodness of God [Music] worthy are you oh bread of life salvation and Joy beong To Us by coning death and rising to New Life we become a people of praise [Music] [Applause] the to receive honor and Glory are the to receive the goodness of God [Music] and let us pray almighty everliving God who allow those on Earth to celebrate Divine Mysteries Grant we pray that Christian hope May draw us onward to where our nature is united with you through Christ Our Lord amen the Lord be with you and with your spirit it's Mother's Day we can't forget a special blessing for the mothers mothers grandmothers and sometimes we kind of forget you know ants and great ants and things like that and also godmothers you know there are a lot of people that do some good job of making sure that the gospel message that them that Jesus's life is understood by their their fam so we remember all those people who nourish us with that motherly love loving God as a mother gives life and nourishment to her children so you watch over your church bless these women that they may be strengthened as christian mothers and grandmothers let the example of their faith and Love Shine forth and Grant that we their sons and daughters May honor them always with a spirit of profound respect we ask this through Christ Our Lord amen may the Lord bless all of you the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit amen now sometimes you know your bike end up with a flat tire or whatever you happen to have but you know I mean we don't do this alone we do this together that's why the body of Christ is so big to encourage one another as we go forth in joy and sharing the gospel message go in peace thanks be [Music] to join in the of the Earth this is the of the love of God sh from the high to the ends of creation Jesus the savior is rising from the grave people SLE no longer bre the breaking day Christ Redeemer lamb and turns on night away join in the of the Earth this is theace love of God sh the to the Earth of creation Jesus the Savior Isis from the gra all creation like the mother flers to give bir soon the p will be Forten joy for all the Earth joy in the Dan of the Earth this is theast of the love of God sh the to the end of creation Jesus theor Isis from the gra we offer our viewers a free subscription to the prayer and worship guide which contains the prayers for the mass scripture readings and special seasonal prayers for your free copy order online at heartofthenation.org or call us toll-free at 855855 M or write to Heart Of The Nation post office box 14428 Milwaukee Wisconsin 53214 your privacy is important to us and we will not share your name or contact information with any other organization if you're joining us through YouTube please click the like button and consider subscribing to our Channel The Heart Of The Nation mass is a viewer supported Ministry please consider an offering today to support the mass on TV and online thank you and may God bless you [Music]

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Published: Sat May 11 2024