. (MALE VOICE SPEAKING) BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD (MUSIC) (FEMALE VOICE CHANTING SOFTLY) (MUSIC) ( MALE VOICE) TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU AND EAT OF IT, FOR THIS IS MY BODY WHICH WILL BE GIVEN UP FOR YOU. (MUSIC) ( MALE VOICE) TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND DRINK FROM IT, FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY BLOOD, (MUSIC) (MALE VOICE) DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME. (MUSIC) . (MASS 684-A) (SEPT. 17TH-FEAST) (STIGMATA OF OUR HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ) (INTRODUCTORY RITES) (BELL) (CANTORS) ♪ MAY I NEVER BOAST ANYTHING BUT THE CROSS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. THROUGH IT, THE WORLD HAS BEEN CRUCIFIED TO ME AND I TO THE WORLD. ♪ (ALL) MAY I NEVER BOAST ANYTHING BUT THE CROSS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. THROUGH IT, THE WORLD HAS BEEN CRUCIFIED TO ME AND I TO THE WORLD. (CANTORS) ♪GLORY BE TO THE FATHER AND TO THE SON AND TO THE HOLY SPIRIT AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING IT IS NOW AND EVER SHALL BE WORLD WITHOUT END. AMEN. ♪ (ALL) MAY I NEVER BOAST ANYTHING BUT THE CROSS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. THROUGH IT, THE WORLD HAS BEEN CRUCIFIED TO ME AND I TO THE WORLD. . (PRIEST:) IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. R. AMEN. . (PRIEST:) THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THE LOVE OF GOD, AND THE COMMUNION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BE WITH YOU ALL. R. AND WITH YOUR SPIRIT. THIS MORNING WE WELCOME FATHER ROMEO. A PRIEST OF THE SOCIETY OF THE DIVINE WORD AND HE IS HERE WITH THIS GROUP FROM WEST VIRGINIA. WELCOME. . (PENITENTIAL ACT) (PRIEST:) BRETHREN [BROTHERS AND SISTERS] LET US ACKNOWLEDGE OUR SINS, AND SO PREPARE OURSELVES TO CELEBRATE THE SACRED MYSTERIES. (ALL:) I CONFESS TO ALMIGHTY GOD AND TO YOU, MY BROTHER, [BROTHERS AND SISTERS] THAT I HAVE GREATLY SINNED, IN MY THOUGHTS AND IN MY WORDS, IN WHAT I HAVE DONE AND IN WHAT I HAVE FAILED TO DO, (PEOPLE STRIKE THEIR BREAST, SAYING) THROUGH MY FAULT, THROUGH MY FAULT, THROUGH MY MOST GRIEVOUS FAULT; THEREFORE I ASK BLESSED MARY EVER-VIRGIN, ALL THE ANGELS AND SAINTS, AND YOU MY BROTHER, TO PRAY FOR ME TO THE LORD OUR GOD. (ABSOLUTION BY THE PRIEST ) MAY ALMIGHTY GOD HAVE MERCY ON US, FORGIVE US OUR SINS, AND BRING US TO EVERLASTING LIFE. R. AMEN. . ♪ >>KYRIE, ELEISON. ( SINGING IN PARTS) ♪ R. KYRIE, ELEISON. ♪ >>CHRISTE, ELEISON. ♪ R. CHRISTE, ELEISON. ♪ >>KYRIE, ELEISON. ♪ R. KYRIE, ELEISON. . ( LATIN VERSION OF THE "GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST") ♪>>GLORIA IN EXCELSIS DEO ♪( ALL) ET IN TERRA PAX HOMINIBUS BONAE VOLUNTATIS LAUDAMUS TE BENEDICIMUS TE, ADORAMUS TE, GLORIFICAMUS TE, GRATIAS AGIMUS TIBI PROPTER MAGNAM GLORIAM TUAM, DOMINE DEUS, REX CAELESTIS, DEUS PATER OMNIPOTENS. DOMINE FILI UNIGENITE, IEUS CHRISTE, DOMINE DEUS, AGNUS DEI, FILIUS PATRIS, QUI TOLLIS PECCATA MUNDI, MISERERE NOBIS; QUI TOLLIS PECCATA MUNDI, SUSCIPE DEPRECATIONEM NOSTRAM. QUI SEDES AD DEXTERAM PATRIS, MISERERE NOBIS. QUONIAM TO SOLUS SANCTUS, TU SOLUS DOMINUS, TU SOLUS ALTISSIMUS, IESU CHRISTE, CUM SANCTO SPIRITU: IN GLORIA DEI PATRIS. AMEN. . (MASS 684-A) (SEPT. 17TH-FEAST) (STIGMATA OF OUR HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ) (OPENING PRAYER) (PRIEST:) LET US PRAY. (PRIEST:) ALMIGHTY GOD, YOU RENEW THE MARKS OF THE SUFFERINGS OF YOUR SON IN THE BODY OF OUR HOLY FATHER FRANCIS IN ORDER TO INFLAME OUR HEARTS WITH THE FIRE OF YOUR LOVE. THROUGH HIS PRAYERS MAY WE BE MADE CONFORMABLE TO THE DEATH OF YOUR SON AND THUS SHARE ALSO IN HIS RESURRECTION. WE ASK THIS THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, YOUR SON, WHO LIVES AND REIGNS WITH YOU AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, GOD, FOR EVER AND EVER. R. AMEN. . (50 )( SEPTEMBER 17TH ) ( STIGMATA OF OUR HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ) ( FIRST READING - FROM FRANCISCAN LECTIONARY ) ( READER ) A READING FROM THE LETTER OF PAUL TO THE GALATIANS (6: 14-18) MAY I NEVER BOAST OF ANYTHING BUT THE CROSS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. THROUGH IT, THE WORLD HAS BEEN CRUCIFIED TO ME AND I TO THE WORLD. IT MEANS NOTHING WHETHER ONE IS CIRCUMCISED OR NOT. ALL THAT MATTERS IS THAT ONE IS CREATED ANEW. PEACE AND MERCY ON ALL WHO FOLLOW THIS RULE OF LIFE, AND ON THE ISRAEL OF GOD. HENCEFORTH, LET NO MAN TROUBLE ME, FOR I BEAR THE BRAND MARKS OF JESUS IN MY BODY. BROTHERS, MAY THE FAVOR OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOUR SPIRIT. AMEN. (LATIN) ♪( READER)VERBUM DOMINI ♪R. DEO GRATIAS. (PSALM FROM "FRANCISCAN LECTIONARY" ON FEAST OF THE SACRED STIGMATA OF ST. FRANCIS) (RESPONSORIAL PSALM TAKEN FROM GALATIANS 2: 16-20 & PHILIPPIANS 1: 20-21) ( ORGAN) ♪ (CANTORS) ♪I HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST. ♪ R. I HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST. ♪ (CANTOR) MAN IS JUSTIFIED THROUGH FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST. WE BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THAT WE MIGHT BE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH IN CHRIST. ♪ R. I HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST. ♪ (CANTOR) CHRIST LOVED ME AND GAVE HIMSELF FOR ME. CHRIST WILL BE GLORIFIED IN MY BODY WHETHER THROUGH LIFE OR THROUGH DEATH. ♪ R. I HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST. ♪ (CANTOR) TO ME, LIFE MEANS CHRIST; DYING IS SO MUCH GAIN. THE LIFE I LIVE NOW IS NOT MY OWN; CHRIST IS LIVING IN ME. ♪ R. I HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST. (VERSE BEFORE THE GOSPEL) ♪ (ORGAN ) (CANTORS) ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ALLELLUIA ALLELLUIA ♪ (R.) ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ( VERSE ON THE FEAST OF THE STIGMATA OF FRANCIS) (CANTOR) ♪I HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST. THE LIFE I LIVE NOW IS NOT MY OWN. CHRIST IS LIVING IN ME. ♪ (ALL/R. ) ALLELUIA ♪ALLELUIA ♪ALLELUIA ♪ALLELUIA ♪ALLELUIA ♪ALLELUIA ♪ALLELUIA (GOSPEL- FROM FRANCISCAN LECTIONARY ON THE FEAST OF THE SACRED STIGMATA OF ST. FRANCIS) (LATIN WORDS:) ♪>>DOMINUS VOBISCUM. ♪ R. ET CUM SPIRITU TUO ♪ >> LECTIO SANCTI EVANGELII SECUNDUM LUCAM(9: 23-26) ♪R. GLORIA TIBI, DOMINE. >>JESUS SAID TO ALL: WHOEVER WISHES TO BE MY FOLLOWER MUST DENY HIMSELF MUST DENY HIS VERY SELF, TAKE UP HIS CROSS EACH DAY, AND FOLLOW IN MY STEPS. WHOEVER WOULD SAVE HIS LIFE WILL LOSE IT, AND WHOEVER LOSES HIS LIFE FOR MY SAKE WILL SAVE IT. WHAT PROFIT DOES HE SHOW WHO GAINS THE WHOLE WORLD AND DESTROYS HIMSELF IN THE PROCESS? IF A MAN IS ASHAMED OF ME AND MY DOCTRINE, THE SON OF MAN WILL BE ASHAMED OF HIM WHEN HE COMES IN HIS GLORY AND THAT OF HIS FATHER AND HIS HOLY ANGELS. (LATIN WORDS:) ♪VERBUM DOMINI ♪R. LAUS TIBI, CHRISTE TODAY SEPTEMBER 17 WE CELEBRATE THE STIGMATA OF OUR HOLY FATHER ST. FRANCIS. IN THE LAST 2 YEARS OF HIS LIFE HE RECEIVED THE SACRED STIGMATA THROUGH A MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE. THE WOUNDS OF CHRIST IN HIS HANDS AND FEET AND SIGHED. AND IT IS FITTING THAT ST. FRANCIS WOULD HAVE THIS, AS PAUL SPEAKS ABOUT TODAY, THAT ARE BOAST OUR FOCUS OUR GLORY OR MOTIVATION SHOULD BE THE CROSS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. NOT IN HAVING THE GREATEST HIGHEST OF GIFTS EVEN SPIRITUAL GIFTS FOR THE GREATEST TALENTS OR THE GREATEST SUCCESS IN MINISTRY OR WORK. BUT ARE BOAST IS THE CROSS THAT WE ALL HAVE THE PERSONAL CROSS THAT WE ARE GIVEN IN LIFE. TO BE CRUCIFIED. THROUGH IF THE WORLD HAS BEEN CRUCIFIED TO ME AND I TO THE WORLD, PAUL SAID IN GALATIANS. ALL THAT MATTERS IS THAT ONE IS CREATED ANEW. ALL THAT MATTERS IS IS THAT ONE IS CREATED ANEW. THIS RENEWAL HAPPENS THROUGH THE CROSS. THROUGH THE CROSS OF JESUS CHRIST. FOR OUR SALVATION AND WE SHARE IN THAT CROSS IN OUR LIFE. THAT IS THE PATH TO HOLINESS. THAT IS THE ONLY PATH TO HOLINESS. THAT IS THE WAY JESUS REDEEMED US. WE SHARE IN THAT IN OUR OWN JOURNEY OF SANCTIFICATION. PAUL SAYS HENCEFORTH LET NO MAN TROUBLE ME FOR I BEAR THE BRAND MARKS OF JESUS IN MY BODY. SOME THINK THIS MIGHT BE ALL THE BEATINGS AND SCOURGING'S AND STONEY'S HE RECEIVED BUT IT COULD ALSO BE MAYBE HE HAD THE STIGMATA. SOME BELIEVE THIS. HIMSELF. ST. FRANCISROUND 4443 YEARS OLD WHEN HE DIED. AS I MENTIONED LIKE THE LAST 2 YEARS OF HIS LIFE HE ENTERED THE FINAL ILLNESS AND HE HAD THE STIGMATA. WHAT HAPPENED HE WENT INTO SECLUSION TO MT. ALVERNA ( LA VERNA) A HERMITAGE GIVEN TO HIM AND TO THE ORDER. HE WENT TO MEDITATE AND TO DO AFFORDED A MEDITATION ON THE PASSION OF OUR LORD. HE USED THE CHURCH'S LENTEN MDITATIONS FROM THE MASSES AND THINGS TO CONTEMPLATE OUR LORD'S PASSION AND HE CHOSE THE FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION IN AUGUST 2 THE FEAST OF ST. MICHAEL SEPTEMBER 26. HE WANTED TO HONOR ST. GOD SENT MICHAEL AND THE BLESSED MOTHER. HE HAD MANY TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS FROM SATAN DURING THIS TIME AND HE SUFFERED A LOT EMOTIONALLY PHYSICALLY. AT ONE POINT IN THIS RETREAT HE SAW A MAN WITH 6 WINGS WHICH HE DESCRIBED LIKE A SERAPH ANGEL. THINK OF THE SERAPHIC ANGELS AS THE ONES BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD. THEY HAVE THE HIGHEST OF POSITIONS. SO THIS ANGEL LIKE FIGURE CAME DOWN WHO HIMSELF HAD THE WOUNDS OF CHRIST AND HE WAS IMPRINTED WITH THE STIGMATA FROM THIS MYSTICAL VISION OR EXPERIENCE. HE RECEIVED THE WOUNDS OF CHRIST. HE WOULD HAVE THEM UNTIL HIS DEATH. HE WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE THE NAILS IN HIS HANDS AND FEET. SOME BELIEVE IT WAS ACTUALLY MADE UP OF BONE. HIS OWN BONES CAUSED FORMED THESE NAILS. AND AFTER THIS HE COMPOSED THE PRAISES OF GOD IN THANKSGIVING FOR THE EVENT. AND HERE ARE THE PRAISES THAT HE WROTE. HE SAID YOU ARE HOLY LORD THE ONLY GOD YOU DO WONDERS YOU ARE STRONG YOU ARE GREAT YOU ARE THE MOST HIGH. YOU ARE THE ALMIGHTY GOD. YOU HOLY FATHER THE KING OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. YOU ARE 3 IN ONE. LORD GOD OF GODS. YOU ARE GOOD. ALL GOOD. THE HIGHEST GOOD. LORD GOD LIVING AND TRUE YOU ARE LOVE, CHARITY, YOUR WISDOM, YOU ARE HUMILITY, YOUR PATIENCE, YOU ARE BEAUTY. YOU ARE MEEKNESS. YOU ARE SECURITY. YOU ARE INNER PEACE. YOU ARE JOY. YOU ARE HOPE AND JOY. YOU ARE JUST AS FOR MODERATION. YOU ARE ALL OF OUR RICHES. YOU ARE BEAUTY. MEEKNESS. YOU ARE THE PROTECTOR. YOU ARE THE GUARDIAN AND OFFENDER YOU ARE STRENGTH YOU ARE REFRESHMENT. YOU ARE OUR HOPE. YOU ARE OUR FAITH. YOU ARE OUR CHARITY. YOU ARE ALL SWEETNESS. YOU ARE OUR ETERNAL LIFE. GREAT AND WONDERFUL LORD GOD ALMIGHTY MERCIFUL SAVIOR. IT RESONATES BECAUSE IT IS SO TRUE. AND WE HAVE A CROSS WHEN WE EXPERIENCE THE CROSS INTENSELY IN OUR LIFE IT HAS A WAY OF FOCUSING US ON GOD. HIM AND HIS GOODNESS. AND IT INSPIRES IN US THANKSGIVING FOR HIS PROVIDENCE AND HIS GIFTS TOWARDS US. THAT IS THE PATH WHY IT IS THE PATH TO HOLINESS AS WELL BECAUSE IT JUST STRIPS AWAY THE WORLD, THE FLESH AND THE DEVIL AND WE ARE FOCUSED ON THE LORD. WE ARE RELYING ON HIM HERE WE ARE DEPENDING ON HIM. SO THE STIGMATA EXPRESSED HIS IDENTIFICATION WITH THE LORD. THAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THE RULE BUT HE WROTE FOR THE FRANCISCANS THAT THEY WERE TO LIVE THE GOSPEL. HE WENT BACK TO THE SOURCE OF THE GOSPEL. TO HAVE INSPIRATION FOR THE ORDER. HE WOULD GO TO THE CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS WHICH WAS THE MAIN CHURCH IN A CC ITALY AND HE WOULD OPEN UP THE MISSILE WHICH AT THAT TIME CONTAINED THE READINGS AND HE WOULD TURN AND THERE IS SOME DEBATE ABOUT WHICH PASSAGE EXACTLY BUT THEY BELIEVE IT WAS FROM MARK'S GOSPEL IN LUKE'S GOSPEL. FOR MARK'S GOSPEL IT WAS THE STORY THE RICH YOUNG MAN. JESUS LOOKING UPON HIM LOVED HIM. AND SAID TO HIM, YOU LACK ONE THING. GO SELL WHAT YOU HAVE AND GIVE TO THE POOR AND YOU WILL HAVE TREASURE IN HEAVEN. AND COME FOLLOW ME. LUKE 9:3. THE SENDING OUT OF THE APOSTLES. TAKE NOTHING FOR YOUR JOURNEY. NO STAFF OR BAG OR BREAD OR MONEY AND DO NOT HAVE TO TUNICS. FOLLOWING CHAPTER SAYS WHEN YOU ENTER A HOUSE PROCLAIM THE KINGDOM AND SAY PEACE TO THIS HOUSE. IT IS INTERESTING AT THE TIME OUR ORDERS THE BENEDICTINES AND OTHERS FORMING BIG MONASTERIES AND OVER TIME EVEN TOWNS WOULD GROW UP AROUND THE MONASTERIES AND THEY HAD MANY LANDS AND DID MANY GREAT THINGS AND STABILIZE THE CULTURE AND THE THE CHURCH AND PRESERVED EVEN LEARNING. THEY HAD THIS GREAT FUNCTION AND ROLE BUT FRANCIS WANTED TO EMBRACE AN EVANGELICAL POVERTY. HE WANTED TO BE WITH THE PEOPLE AND WANTED TO BE AVAILABLE TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL. SO THESE ARE 2 GREAT POINTS THAT WE SEE IN HIS LIFE WAS THIS EMBRACE OF POVERTY AND HE WAS PART OF THE MENDICANT ORDER. THE DOMINICANS. IT WOULD FREE THEM UP TO SERVE THE GREATER PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH NOT JUST A LOCAL DIOCESE BUT HE WOULD ACTUALLY GO TO MOROCCO AT ONE POINT TO PREACH TO THE SULTAN. THAT HE COULD ADDRESS HERESIES THAT ARE RISING IN EUROPE AND GO TO THOSE AREAS AND PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL. BECAUSE THEY EMBRACE THE POVERTY THAT THEY DEPENDED COMPLETELY ON PEOPLE'S DONATIONS AND ALMS TO SUPPORT THEM. THEY DO NOT HAVE THE BIG MONASTERY IN THE LANDHOLDINGS AND THINGS FOR THEIR SUPPORT. SO THEY THIS GAVE THEM THAT AVAILABILITY BUT PRIMARILY WAS TO IMITATE OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST IN THE WAY THAT HE LIVED. IN A VERY CONCRETE WAY. IN THE 3RD PASSAGE YOU TURN TO. IF ANY MAN WOULD COME AFTER ME LET HIM DENY HIMSELF. THIS IS MATTHEW 16. LET HIM DENY HIMSELF AND TAKE UP HIS CROSS AND FOLLOW ME. FOR WHOEVER WOULD SAVE HIS LIFE WILL LOSE IT AND WHOEVER LOSES HIS LIFE FOR MY SAKE WILL FIND IT. FOR WHAT WILL IT PROFIT A MAN IF HE GAINS THE WHOLE WORLD AND FORFEITS HIS LIFE OR WHAT SHALL A MAN GIVE IN RETURN FOR HIS LIFE? AGAIN IT IS THE DENIAL THE SELF-DENIAL TAKING UP OUR CROSS FOLLOWING HIM THAT WE FIND TRUE LIFE THAT WE FIND ETERNAL LIFE THAT WE FIND THIS NEW CLOSENESS AND COMMUNION WITH OUR LORD WHO IS THE FULLNESS OF LIFE. SO THE CHURCH AT THE TIME OF ST. FRANCIS NEEDED RENEWAL. A CERTAIN WORLDLINESS HAD SET IN CERTAINLY IN THE PRIESTHOOD AND ELSEWHERE IN THE CHURCH. THE SAINTS ARE THE AUTHENTIC REFORMERS OF THE CHURCH. POPE BENEDICT WOULD REPEATEDLY MAKE THIS POINT THAT THEY BROUGHT A CREATIVITY AND HIS ZEAL AND A DEPENDENCE ON GOD BECAUSE THEY WERE CLOSE TO GOD IN THIS RENEWAL OF SOCIETY AND THE CHURCH. THE CHURCH AND SOCIETY WOULD BE A NEW AWARENESS A FOCUS ON THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND THEY THEMSELVES HAD THAT IN THEIR OWN PERSONAL LIFE. THEY HAD BEEN RENEWED. IN FRANCE'S CASE A SPECIAL FOCUS ON THE RENEWAL THROUGH THE CROSS. THE CROSS AND PENANCE. SO FRANCISCANS AND DOMINICANS FORMED THESE NEW MENDICANT ORDERS BEGGING FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT AND LIVING OUT THIS POVERTY, THEY WERE GREAT EVANGELIZE HER'S. THEY WANTED TO IMITATE THE POVERTY OF CHRIST IN THE EARLY CHURCH. BY FOCUSING ON THE GOSPEL TEACHING. AND THEY WOULD ALSO IN RELYING ON PROVIDENCE ALSO BE OBEDIENT TO THE TEACHING AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH. IN THIS TIME. THERE WERE DIFFERENT RENEWAL GROUPS THAT WERE HAPPENING, THERE WERE THESE POPPER GROUPS THEY CALL THEM BUT THEY SOMETIMES WOULD FALL INTO HERESIES AND THINGS BECAUSE THEY FORMED A PARALLEL MAGISTERIUM OR HIERARCHY. FRANCIS VERY MUCH SUBMITTED HIS RULE TO THE APPROVAL TO BE APPROVED BY THE POPE AND OF COURSE WORK WITH THE LOCAL BISHOP. AND HIS COMMUNITY WAS KNOWN FOR THEIR PREACHING. THEY WANTED TO REACH THE PEOPLE. AND STRESSED THE VIRTUES THE THEOLOGICAL VIRTUES. THEY WOULD EMPHASIZE PRAYER AND DEVOTION. THEY WOULD ESPECIALLY EMPHASIZE THE SACRED HUMANITY OF CHRIST. POPULARIZING THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS AND CHRISTMAS MANGER SCENE DEVOTION TO THE CHRIST CHILD. AND OF COURSE CENTERED ON THE HOLY EUCHARIST. FRANCIS WOULD WRITE BEAUTIFULLY ABOUT GOD'S PRESENCE IN THE EUCHARIST. TO RENEW US AND ALSO WITH GREAT DEVOTION TO OUR LADY. HE LED THIS GREAT RENEWAL IN THE CHURCH AND EVEN IN THE CULTURE AT THE TIME A GREAT FLOURISHING OF ART IN STUDIES BEEN THERE WERE GREAT FRANCISCAN SCHOLARS AT THE UNIVERSITIES. SO MAY WE IMITATE FRANCIS IN HIS LOVE FOR THE CROSS. HIS FOCUS ON BEING A DISCIPLE. DYING TO OUR SELF. SEEKING THE LORD 1ST ABOVE ALL THINGS. . (SPECIAL INTERCESSIONS ON THE FEAST OF THE STIGMATA OF ST. FRANCIS) (PRIEST INVITES THE PEOPLE TO PRAY.) ...LET US OFFER OUR PETITIONS TO GOD.... ( READER) 1)THAT OUR HOLY FATHER MAY LEAD THE CHURCH AND THE ENTIRE WORLD TO WORSHIP THE LORD IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. WE PRAY TO THE LORD. R. LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER. ( READER) 2)FOR THE FRANCISCAN FAMILY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, THAT LIKE OUR HOLY FATHER SAINT FRANCIS WE MAY BE FAITHFUL IMITATORS OF THE GOSPEL LIFE. WE PRAY TO THE LORD. R. LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER. ( READER) 3)IN THANKSGIVING FOR THE BEAUTY OF CREATION, MAY THE WORK OF MAN NOT DISFIGURE IT BUT ENHANCE IT FOR THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD. WE PRAY TO THE LORD. R. LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER. ( READER) 4)THAT GOD THE FATHER, WHO CASTS DOWN THE PROUD AND EXALTS THE HUMBLE, MAY GRANT US THE GRACE TO FOLLOW OUR SERAPHIC FATHER IN HEROIC HUMILITY. WE PRAY TO THE LORD. R. LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER. ( READER) ( READER) 7)FOR OUR DEPARTED BROTHERS AND SISTERS, ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO HAVE CONSECRATED THEIR LIVES IN THE FRANCISCAN ORDER: MAY THEY COME TO THE VISION OF THE HEAVENLY CITY THROUGH THE PRAYERS OF OUR BLESSED LADY. WE PRAY TO THE LORD. R. LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER. (PRIEST CONCLUDES INTERCESSIONS) ...WE MAKE OUR PRAYER IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST. R. AMEN. ♪ (OFFERTORY MUSIC) (ORGAN) ♪ (CANTORS) ( "PROTEGE" CHANT) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ . (PRIEST) PRAY, BRETHREN, (BROTHERS AND SISTERS) THAT MY SACRIFICE AND YOURS MAY BE ACCEPTABLE TO GOD THE ALMIGHTY FATHER. R. MAY THE LORD ACCEPT THE SACRIFICE AT YOUR HANDS FOR THE PRAISE AND GLORY OF HIS NAME, FOR OUR GOOD AND THE GOOD OF ALL HIS HOLY CHURCH. . (MASS 684-A) (SEPT. 17TH-FEAST) (STIGMATA OF OUR HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ) (PRAYER OVER THE GIFTS) (PRIEST:) LORD MAY THE HUMBLE AND DEVOUT PRAYERS OF ST. FRANCIS SUSTAIN US. THROUGH THIS OFFERING MAY WE ALWAYS EXPERIENCE WITHIN US THE SAVING BENEFIT OF THE SUFFERINGS OF YOUR SON. WE ASK THIS IN THE NAME OF JESUS THE LORD. R. AMEN. . ♪( PRIEST:) DOMINUS VOBISCUM. ♪R. ET CUM SPIRITU TUO. ♪( PRIEST:) SURSUM CORDA. ♪R. HABEMUS AD DOMINUM. ♪( PRIEST: ) GRATIAS AGAMUS DOMINO DEO NOSTRO. ♪R. DIGNUM ET IUSTUM EST. . (692-A) (SEPT. 17TH-FEAST) (STIGMATA OF OUR HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ) (PREFACE 86) (PRIEST:) FATHER ALL-POWERFUL AND EVER LIVING GOD, WE DO WELL ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE TO GIVE YOU THANKS. YOU EXALTED YOUR SERVANT FRANCIS THROUGH SUBLIME POVERTY AND HUMILITY TO THE HEIGHTS OF EVANGELICAL PERFECTION. YOU INFLAMED HIM WITH SERAPHIC LOVE TO EXULT WITH UNSPEAKABLE JOY OVER ALL THE WORKS OF YOUR CREATION. BRANDING HIM WITH THE SACRED STIGMATA, YOU GIVE US THE IMAGE OF THE CRUCIFIED JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. THROUGH HIM THE CHOIRS OF ANGELS AND ALL THE POWERS OF HEAVEN PRAISE AND WORSHIP YOUR GLORY. MAY OUR VOICES BLEND WITH THEIRS AS WE JOIN IN THEIR UNENDING HYMN OF PRAISE: . (LATIN WORDS:) ♪SANCTUS, SANCTUS, SANCTUS DOMINUS DEUS SABAOTH. PLENI SUNT CAELI ET TERRA GLORIA TUA. HOSANA IN EXCELSIS. BENEDICTUS QUI VENIT IN NOMINE DOMINI. HOSANA IN EXCELSIS. . (EUCHARISTIC PRAYER II) (PRIEST) YOUR ARE INDEED HOLY, O LORD, THE FOUNT OF ALL HOLINESS. MAKE HOLY, (BELLS)THEREFORE, THESE GIFTS, WE PRAY, BY SENDING DOWN YOUR SPIRIT UPON THEM LIKE THE DEW-FALL, SO THAT THEY MAY BECOME FOR US THE BODY AND BLOOD OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. AT THE TIME HE WAS BETRAYED AND ENTERED WILLINGLY INTO HIS PASSION, HE TOOK BREAD AND GIVING THANKS, BROKE IT, 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. (BELLS) IN A SIMILAR WAY, WHEN SUPPER WAS ENDED, HE TOOK THE CHALICE AND, ONCE MORE GIVING THANKS, HE GAVE IT 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. (BELLS) ♪ ("MYSTERY OF FAITH"/LATIN WORDS:) (PRIEST:) MYSTERIUM FIDEI ♪(R.) MORTEM TUAM ANNUNTIAMUS, DOMINE, ET TUAM RESURRECTIONEM CONFITEMUR, DONEC VENIAS. (PRIEST:) 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, AND BRING HER TO THE FULLNESS OF CHARITY, TOGETHER WITH FRANCIS OUR POPE AND STEVEN, OUR BISHOP 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 AS WE PRAY THAT WITH THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY, MOTHER OF GOD, WITH BLESSED JOSEPH, HER SPOUSE, WITH THE BLESSED APOSTLES AND ALL THE SAINTS WHO HAVE PLEASED YOU THROUGH OUT THE AGES, WE MAY MERIT TO BE COHEIRS TO ETERNAL LIFE, AND MAY PRAISE AND GLORIFY YOU THROUGH YOUR SON, JESUS CHRIST. >> ♪(LATIN WORDS:) (PRIEST:) PER IPSUM, ET CUM IPSO, ET IN IPSO, EST TIBI DEO PATRI OMNIPOTENTI, IN UNITATE SPIRITUS SANCTI, OMNIS HONOR ET GLORIA PER OMNIA SAECULA SAECULORUM. ♪ R. AMEN. . (PRIEST:) AT THE SAVIOR'S COMMAND AND FORMED BY DIVINE TEACHING, WE DARE TO SAY: (ALL PRAY TOGETHER) OUR FATHER, WHO ART IN HEAVEN HALLOWED BE THY NAME THY KINGDOM COME THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD, AND FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US; AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION, BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL. (PRIEST) 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. (ALL) FOR THE KINGDOM, THE POWER AND THE GLORY ARE YOURS NOW AND FOR EVER. . ( PRIEST: ) LORD JESUS CHRIST, YOU 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 GRANT HER PEACE AND UNITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR WILL. WHO LIVE AND REIGN FOR EVER AND EVER. R. AMEN. (PRIEST:) THE PEACE OF THE LORD BE WITH YOU ALWAYS. R. AND WITH YOUR SPIRIT. . ♪(CANTORS) (LATIN WORDS) AGNUS DEI, ♪ (ALL) QUI TOLLIS PECCATA MUNDI: MISERERE NOBIS. ♪ (CANTORS) AGNUS DEI, ♪ ( ALL) QUI TOLLIS PECCATA MUNDI: MISERERE NOBIS. ♪ (CANTORS) AGNUS DEI, ♪ (ALL:) QUI TOLLIS PECCATA MUNDI: DONA NOBIS PACEM. . (PRIEST:) 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 R. LORD I AM NOT WORTHY THAT YOU SHOULD ENTER UNDER MY ROOF BUT ONLY SAY THE WORD AND MY SOUL SHALL BE HEALED. ( BELLS) . (MASS 684-A) (SEPT. 17TH-FEAST) (STIGMATA OF OUR HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ) (COMMUNION RITE) (PRIEST:) IF ANYONE WISHES TO COME AFTER ME, HE MUST RENOUNCE HIMSELF, TAKE UP HIS CROSS, AND FOLLOW ME, SAYS THE LORD. . (FEMALE VOICE) FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT NOW RECEIVE JESUS IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT, WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING PRAYER. ♪ ( COMMUNION MUSIC) ( CANTORS) ♪ ("ON THE DEAR WOUNDS OF CHRIST I CALL") ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪( COMMUNION MUSIC) ( ORGAN ) ♪ ♪ . (MASS 684-A) (SEPT. 17TH-FEAST) (STIGMATA OF OUR HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ) (PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION) (PRIEST) LET US PRAY. (PRIEST) ALMIGHTY GOD IN MANY WAYS YOU DISPLAYED THE WONDROUS MYSTERY OF THE CROSS IN OUR HOLY FATHER FRANCIS. MAY WE FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF HIS DEVOTION AND FIND STRENGTH IN CONSTANT MEDITATION ON THE SAME CROSS. WE ASK THIS THROUGH CHRIST OUR LORD. R. AMEN. . ♪(LATIN) (PRIEST:) DOMINUS VOBISCUM. ♪ R. ET CUM SPIRITU TUO. (LATIN) ♪(PRIEST:) BENEDICAT VOS OMNIPOTENS DEUS, PATER, ET FILIUS, ET SPIRITUS SANCTUS. ♪ R. AMEN. ♪>>ITE MISSA EST. ♪ R. DEO GRATIAS. ♪( RECESSIONAL) ( ORGAN) ("MOST HIGH OMNIPOTENT GOOD LORD") ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ . ( ALL PRAY ) ST. MICHAEL, THE ARCHANGEL, DEFEND US IN BATTLE. BE OUR PROTECTION AGAINST THE WICKEDNESS AND SNARES OF THE DEVIL. MAY GOD REBUKE HIM, WE HUMBLY PRAY AND DO THOU, O PRINCE OF THE HEAVENLY HOST, BY THE POWER OF GOD, CAST INTO HELL SATAN, AND ALL THE EVIL SPIRITS WHO PROWL ABOUT THE WORLD, SEEKING THE RUIN OF SOULS. AMEN. . ( CANTORS ) ♪ADOREMUS IN AETERNUM SANCTISSIMUM SACRAMENTUM. . (MALE VOICE) PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS. (ALL PRAY) GOD OUR FATHER WHO WILLS THAT ALL MEN BE SAVED AND COME TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF YOUR TRUTH, WE BEG YOU TO SEND LABORERS INTO YOUR HARVEST AND GRANT THEM GRACE TO SPEAK YOUR WORD WITH ALL BOLDNESS SO THAT YOUR WORD MAY SPREAD AND BE GLORIFIED AND ALL NATIONS MAY KNOW YOU THE ONLY GOD AND HIM WHOM YOU HAVE SENT JESUS CHRIST YOUR SON OUR LORD, AMEN. OUR LADY QUEEN OF THE AMERICAS MARY MOTHER OF THE FRANCISCAN MISSIONARIES OF THE ETERNAL WORD PRAY FOR US.
