>> FAMILY, A PRAYER THAT WE PRAY TOGETHER IS A POWERFUL PRAYER, SO PLEASE PRAY TOGETHER WITH ME, OUR EWTN FAMILY PRAYER. TODAY, WE PRAY FOR THE CHURCH AT AUSTRALIA AND OCEANIA. BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD. ♪ TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND EAT OF IT. FOR THIS IS MY BODY WHICH WILL BE GIVEN UP FOR YOU. ♪ TAKE THIS ALL OF YOU AND DRINK FROM IT FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY BLOOD. ♪ DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME [BELLS RING] [PROCESSIONAL HYMN] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ 0 WORSHIP THE KING, ALL GLORIOUS ABOVE ♪ ♪ 0 GRATEFULLY SING HIS POWER AND HIS LOVE ♪ ♪ OUR SHIELD AND DEFENDER, THE ANCIENT OF DAYS, PAVILIONED IN SPLENDOR AND GIRDED WITH PRAISE ♪ ♪ 0 TELL OF HIS MIGHT ♪ ♪ 0 SING OF HIS GRACE ♪ ♪ WHOSE ROBE IS THE LIGHT, WHOSE CANOPY SPACE ♪ ♪ HIS CHARIOTS OF WRATH THE DEEP THUNDERCLOUDS FORM, AND DARK IS HIS PATH ON THE WINGS OF THE STORM ♪ ♪ THE EARTH WITH HIS STORE OF WONDERS UNTOLD, ALMIGHTY THY POWER THAT FOUNDED OF OLD, HATH ESTABLISHED IT FAST BY A CHANGELESS DECREE AND ROUND IT HATH CAST LIKE A MANTLE, THE SEA ♪ ♪ THY BOUNTIFUL CARE WHAT TONGUE CAN RESIST ♪ ♪ IT BREATHES IN THE AIR, IT SHINES IN THE LIGHT ♪ ♪ IT STREAMS FROM THE HILLS, IT DESCENDS TO THE PLAIN, AND SWEETLY DISTILLS IN THE DUE AND THE RAIN ♪ >> FATHER: ♪ IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ♪ >> ♪ AMEN >> FATHER: THE LORD BE WITH YOU. >> AND WITH YOUR SPIRIT. >> BRETHREN, LET US ACKNOWLEDGE OUR SINS, AND SO PREPARE OURSELVES TO CELEBRATE THE SACRED MYSTERIES. [PAUSE] 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 IN WHAT I HAVE FAILED TO DO. 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 BROTHERS AND SISTERS, TO PRAY FOR ME TO THE LORD OUR GOD. >> FATHER: MAY ALMIGHTY GOD HAVE MERCY ON US, FORGIVE US OUR SINS, AND BRING US TO EVERLASTING LIFE. >> AMEN. >> ♪ KYRIE, ELEISON >> ♪ KYRIE, ELEISON >> ♪ CHRISTE, ELEISON >> ♪ CHRISTE, ELEISON >> ♪ KYRIE, ELEISON >> ♪ KYRIE, ELEISON >> ♪ GLORIA IN EXCEÉLSIS DEO ET IN TERRA PAX HOMIÍNIBUS ♪ ♪ BONAE VOLUNTAÁTIS LAUDAMUS TE ♪ ♪ BENEDIÍCIMUS TE ADORAÁMUS TE ♪ ♪ GLORIFICAÁMUS TE GRATIAS AÁGIMUS TIBI PROPTER MAGNAM GLOÓRIAM TUAM DOÓMINE DEUS, REX CELEÉSTIS DEUS PATER OMNIÍPOTENS ♪ ♪ DOÓMINE FILI UNIGEÉNITE, JESU CHRISTE ♪ ♪ DOÓMINE DEUS, AGNUS DEI, FIÍLIUS PATRIS ♪ ♪ QUI TOLLIS PECCAÁTA MUNDI, MISEREÉRE NOBIS ♪ ♪ QUI TOLLIS PECCAÁTA MUNDI, SUÚSCIPE DEPRECATIOÓNEM NOSTRAM ♪ ♪ QUI SEDES AD DEÉXTERAM PATRIS, MISEREÉRE NOBIS ♪ ♪ QUOÓNIAM TU SOLUS SANCTUS ♪ ♪ TU SOLUS DOÓMINUS TU SOLUS ALTIÍSSIMUS, JESU CHRISTE ♪ ♪ CUM SANCTO SPIÍRITU IN GLOÓRIA DEI PATRIS ♪ ♪ AMEN ♪ >> FATHER: ♪ ADOREMUS ♪ ♪ O GOD, WHO FOUNDED ALL THE COMMANDS OF YOUR SACRED LAW UPON LOVE OF YOU AND OF OUR NEIGHBOR, GRANT THAT, BY KEEPING YOUR PRECEPTS, WE MAY MERIT TO ATTAIN ETERNAL LIFE. ♪ THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, YOUR SON, WHO LIVES AND REIGNS WITH YOU IN THE UNITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, GOD, FOR EVER AND EVER ♪ >> ♪ AMEN >> A READING FROM THE BOOK OF WISDOM. THE WICKED SAY, LET US BESET THE JUST ONE, BECAUSE HE IS OBNOXIOUS TO US. HE SETS HIMSELF AGAINST OUR DOINGS, REPROACHES US FOR TRANSGRESSIONS OF THE LAW AND CHARGES US WITH VIOLATIONS OF OUR TRAINING. LET US SEE WHETHER HIS WORDS BE TRUE. LET US FIND OUT WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO HIM. FOR IF THE JUST ONE BE THE SON OF GOD, GOD WILL DEFEND HIM AND DELIVER HIM FROM THE HAND OF HIS FOES. WITH REVILEMENT AND TORTURE LET US PUT THE JUST ONE TO THE TEST THAT WE MAY HAVE PROOF OF HIS GENTLENESS AND TRY HIS PATIENCE. LET US CONDEMN HIM TO A SHAMEFUL DEATH, FOR ACCORDING TO HIS OWN WORDS, GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF HIM. THE WORD OF THE LORD. >> THANKS BE TO GOD. >> ♪ THE LORD UPHOLDS MY LIFE ♪ >> ♪ THE LORD UPHOLDS MY LIFE ♪ >> ♪ O GOD, BY YOUR NAME SAVE ME, AND BY YOUR MIGHT DEFEND MY CAUSE ♪ ♪ O GOD, HEAR MY PRAYER, HEARKEN TO THE WORDS OF MY MOUTH ♪ >> ♪ THE LORD UPHOLDS MY LIFE ♪ >> ♪ FOR THE HAUGHTY HAVE RISEN UP AGAINST ME, THE RUTHLESS SEEK MY LIFE ♪ ♪ THEY SET NOT GOD BEFORE THEIR EYES ♪ >> ♪ THE LORD UPHOLDS MY LIFE ♪ >> ♪ BEHOLD, GOD IS MY HELPER, THE LORD SUSTAINS MY LIFE ♪ ♪ FREELY WILL I OFFER YOU SACRIFICE, I WILL PRAISE YOUR NAME, O LORD, FOR ITS GOODNESS ♪ >> ♪ THE LORD UPHOLDS MY LIFE ♪ >> A READING FROM THE LETTER OF JAMES. BELOVED, WHERE JEALOUSY AND SELFISH AMBITION EXIST, THERE IS DISORDER AND EVERY FOUL PRACTICE. BUT THE WISDOM FROM ABOVE IS FIRST OF ALL PURE, THEN PEACEABLE, GENTLE, COMPLIANT, FULL OF MERCY AND GOOD FRUITS, WITHOUT INCONSTANCY OR INSINCERITY. AND THE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SOWN IN PEACE FOR THOSE WHO CULTIVATE PEACE. WHERE DO THE WARS AND WHERE DO THE CONFLICTS AMONG YOU COME FROM? IS IT NOT FROM YOUR PASSIONS THAT MAKE WAR WITHIN YOUR MEMBERS? YOU COVET BUT DO NOT POSSESS. YOU KILL AND ENVY BUT YOU CANNOT OBTAIN, YOU FIGHT AND WAGE WAR. YOU DO NOT POSSESS BECAUSE YOU DO NOT ASK. YOU ASK BUT DO NOT RECEIVE, BECAUSE YOU ASK WRONGLY, TO SPEND IT ON YOUR PASSIONS. THE WORD OF THE LORD. >> THANKS BE TO GOD. >> ♪ ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ♪ >> ♪ ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ♪ >> ♪ ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ♪ >> ♪ GOD HAS CALLED US THROUGH THE GOSPEL TO POSSESS THE GLORY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST ♪ >> ♪ ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ALLELUIA ♪ >> FATHER: ♪ DOMINUS VOBISCUM ♪ >> ♪ ET CUM SPIRITU TUO ♪ >> FATHER: ♪ LECTIO SANCTI EVANGELII SECUNDUM MARCUM ♪ >> ♪ GLORIA TIBI, DOMINE ♪ >> FATHER: JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES LEFT FROM THERE AND BEGAN A JOURNEY THROUGH GALILEE, BUT HE DID NOT WISH ANYONE TO KNOW ABOUT IT. HE WAS TEACHING HIS DISCIPLES AND TELLING THEM, "“THE SON OF MAN IS TO BE HANDED OVER TO MEN AND THEY WILL KILL HIM, AND THREE DAYS AFTER HIS DEATH THE SON OF MAN WILL RISE."” BUT THEY DID NOT UNDERSTAND THE SAYING, AND THEY WERE AFRAID TO QUESTION HIM. THEY CAME TO CAPERNAUM AND, ONCE INSIDE THE HOUSE, HE BEGAN TO ASK THEM, "“WHAT WERE YOU ARGUING ABOUT ON THE WAY?"” BUT THEY REMAINED SILENT. THEY HAD BEEN DISCUSSING AMONG THEMSELVES ON THE WAY WHO WAS THE GREATEST. THEN HE SAT DOWN, CALLED THE 12, AND SAID TO THEM, "“IF ANYONE WISHES TO BE FIRST, HE SHALL BE THE LAST OF ALL AND THE SERVANT OF ALL."” TAKING A CHILD, HE PLACED IT IN THE THEIR MIDST, AND PUTTING HIS ARMS AROUND IT. HE SAID TO THEM, "“WHOEVER RECEIVES ONE CHILD SUCH AS THIS IN MY NAME, RECEIVES ME; AND WHOEVER RECEIVES ME, RECEIVES NOT ME BUT THE ONE WHO SENT ME."” ♪ VERBUM DOMINI ♪ >> ♪ LAUS TIBI, CHRISTE ♪ >> Father: DO YOU KNOW WHAT AN EQUIPEQUIPOLLENT CANONIZATION WAS? I DIDN'T, UNTIL YESTERDAY. THIS IS ONE WHERE THE POPE CAN WAIVE THE NEED FOR A RECENT MIRACLE FOR THE CANONIZATION OF A PERSON. BUT THERE MUST BE THREE CONDITIONS TO IT. AND FIRST, THAT THERE MUST BE A LONG-STANDING DEVOTION TO THE PERSON. SECOND, THEY MUST HAVE A SOLID AND ENDURING REPUTATION FOR VIRTUE. AND THIRD, THEY MUST HAVE A LONG ASSOCIATION WITH MIRACLES ATTRIBUTED TO THEIR INTERCESSION. SO, IT WAS ON APRIL 24, EARLIER THIS YEAR, THAT POPE FRANCIS CANONIZED A VERY POPULAR SAINT AMONGST MANY. THERE ARE SCHOOLS THAT ARE DEVOTED TO HER. A SHRINE IN COLUMBUS, OHIO TO STOCKSAINT MARGARET OF CASTELLO. AND THEN WHEN THE POPE MAKES THE STATEMENT FOR THE CANONIZATION, THEN IT HAPPENS RIGHT THERE. AND IN CASTELLO, WHERE HER BODY LAYS AT SAINT DOMINO CHURCH. BUT ALSO, SHE IS SAINT MARGARET OF CASTELLO. AND EWTN PREPARED -- AWARE OF THIS HAS PREPARED A DOCU-DRAMA. AND IT'S RUNNING TONIGHT. I HAVE THE TV SET UP TO RECORD IT. I DIDN'T WANT TO MISS IT. THIS DOCU-DRAMA WAS PRODUCED AT THE LOCATIONS OF SAINT MARGARET OF CASTELLO LIFE. AND IT'S AIRING 1:30 EASTERN TIME, 12:30 CENTRAL TIME. AND THEN, TONIGHT, AGAIN, AT 8:30PM EASTERN TIME AND 7:30PM CENTRAL TIME. AND THE TITLE OF IT IS SAINT MARGARET CASTELLO, SEEING THROUGH GOD'S EYES. JUST A FEW WORDS ABOUT SAINT MARGARET OF CASTELLO BECAUSE I THINK IT'S RELATED TO THE GOSPEL TODAY. I WOULD LIKE TO RELATE THAT AT LEAST TO OUR LORD'S WORDS. SAINT MARGARET CASTELLO WAS BORN WITH A NUMBER OF DISABILITIES. SHE WAS BLIND. SHE HAD SEVERE CURVATURE OF HER SPINE. SHE WAS VERY SMALL. SHE WAS CALLED LITTLE MARGARET OF CASTELLO. AND SHE HAD A NUMBER OF OTHER DISABILITIES. SHE COULD HARDLY WALK. AND THIS HAPPENED AT HER BIRTH. SHE WAS BORN WITH THESE BIRTH DEFECTS. AND HER PARENTS WHO HAD SOME PEOPLE OF MEANS, PEOPLE OF MEANS AND NOBILITY. THEY WERE ASHAMED OF THIS FACT AND THEY HID THEIR DAUGHTER FROM THE PUBLIC. THAT WAS KIND OF THE SENSE AT THE TIME. THAT WAS IN THE LATE 12 HUNDREDS. SO, EVENTUALLY, SHE WAS PUT IN THIS ROOM NEXT TO A CHAPEL AT THE AGE OF 6. LATER, WHEN SHE WAS A TEENAGER, THEY THOUGHT THEY WOULD TAKE HER TO CASTELLO TO A SHRINE AND PRAY FOR A MIRACULOUS HEALING. SO, THEY WENT THERE, AND THEY PRAYED HOPING FOR THIS MIRACULOUS HEALING. WHEN IT DIDN'T HAPPEN, THEY JUST ABANDONED HER ON THE STREETS. SO, WE CAN'T IMAGINE THAT KIND OF COLDNESS TOWARD ONE'S CHILD, EVEN WITH THEIR PARTICULAR DISABILITIES. IN FACT, OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH TEACHES US SOMETHING VERY DIFFERENT. IT? WHEN I REMEMBER SEEING THE CHILD OF THE -- SEEING THE EYES OF THE LITTLE CHILD UP AT THE BLESSED SACRAMENT SHRINE. AND SHE WAS IN A WHEELCHAIR, MOTHER ANGELICA, WITH A TRACHE TUBE. AND THESE PARENTS HAD THE CARE OF THEIR LITTLE DAUGHTER, LOVING CARE, I'M GUESSING SHE WAS FIVE OR SIX-YEARS-OLD AND MOTHER SAW THEM IN THE PARLOR. AND AT THAT TIME, MOTHER WAS SEVERELY DISABLED BECAUSE OF THE STROKES AND CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE THAT SHE HAD. AND THE MOTHER AND MOTHER ANGELICA TOOK THEIR HANDS AND THEY DIDN'T SAY A WORD, THEY JUST LOOKED AT EACH OTHER IN THAT UNDERSTANDING, SUFFERING, AND LOVE. AND I REMEMBER SEEING THE LITTLE GIRL AFTERWARDS. AND I REMEMBER SEEING HER EYES, JUST LIKE A BRILLIANT LIGHT OF CHRIST. SHE WAS INDEED SUFFERING, YET THERE WAS SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IN THAT SOUL. SOMETHING RARELY SEEN IN THE EYES OF THAT CHILD. SO, MARGARET OF CASTELLO WAS ABANDONED ON THE STREETS IN CASTELLO. BUT THE LOCAL PEOPLE SEEING HER THERE BROUGHT HER INTO THEIR HOMES, CARED FOR HER, HELPED HER. EVENTUALLY, SHE CAME TO KNOW ABOUT THE DOMINICAN FRIARS WHICH HAD JUST BEGUN AND SHE BECAME A THIRD ORDER MEMBER OF THE DMEN CANS. AND SHE WAS KNOWN -- DOMINICANS. AND SHE WAS KNOWN, NOT FOR, WHY BUT RATHER, SHE WAS KNOWN FOR HER CHARITY, HER CARE FOR PEOPLE, SHE TEACHED CHILDREN, SHE MEMORIZED THE PSALMS. SHE WAS BLIND. BUT SHE MEMORIZED ALL 150 OF THE PSALMS. SHE WOULD TEACH THEM ABOUT THE FAITH. AND SHE WOULD DO DIFFERENT WORKS OF CHARITY. EVEN WITH HER DISABILITIES, SHE WAS ABLE TO GATHER FOOD FOR THE POOR AND DO SUCH THINGS. AND THERE WAS A STORY IN ONE OF HER BIOGRAPHIES. THIS DOCU-DRAMA IS BASED ON A CONTEMPORARY AUTHOR AT THE TIME WHO WROTE ABOUT SAINT MARGARET CASTELLO, AND HIS NAME IS FRANCISCAN AUTHOR UBERTINO DA CASALE. HE WROTE THE BIOGRAPHY ABOUT SAINT MARGARET CASTELLO, AND THIS DOCU-DRAMA WAS BASED ON THAT AT THE TIME. HE WAS A CONTEMPORARY OF HERS AT THE TIME. AND SHE DIED AT THE AGE 33, APRIL 12, 1320. AND SHE WAS CANONIZED 701 YEARS LATER. HER FEAST DAY IS APRIL 13. SAINT MARGARET CASTELLO. AND ONE OF THE REASONS WHY THE POPE DID THIS, THERE WAS A POSTULATOR FOR THE CAUSE OF ST. MARGARET AND HE RECEIVED A LETTER FROM 20 MOTHERS IN OHIO. PERHAPS, THEY HAD CHILDREN WITH DIFFERENT DISABILITIES. BUT HE HAD RECEIVED THIS LETTER ASKING FOR THIS EQUIPOLLENT CANONIZATION FOR HER. AND WHEN HE LOOKED INTO IT, HE RECEIVED THAT HE HAD RECEIVED OTHER LETTERS, INSTITUTES IN PHILIPPINES NAMED AFTER ST. MARGARET CASTELLO. AND IN OHIO, I MENTIONED THERE WAS ONE WITH A RELIC OF STOCK MARKET'S HEART. -- ST. MARGARET'S HEART. AND THAT LED TO THIS PROCLAMATION ON APRIL 24. NOW, PERHAPS YOU WANT TO TUNE INTO THE DOCU-DRAMA TODAY, SEPTEMBER 19 AT 12:30 CENTRAL TIME. NOW, IN TODAY'S GOSPEL, WE HAVE TOLD TO US, THREE TIMES, CHRIST TELLS THE APOSTLES WHAT HE IS GOING TO UNDERGO. THE SON OF MAN IS TO BE HANDED OVER TO MEN AND THEY WILL KILL HIM. IT'S NOT JUST A PASSION PREDICTION. THAT'S AN IMPORTANT POINT. THERE WERE NOT JUST PASSION PREDICTIONS. BECAUSE THEN HE KIND, THE SON OF MAN WILL BE HANDED OVER TO MEN AND THEY WILL KILL HIM. THREE DAYS AFTER HIS DEATH, THE SON OF MAN WILL RISE. IT WAS ALSO A FORE TELLING OF HIS RESURRECTION, OF THE VICTORY OVER DEATH. AND THAT'S WHY SOMEBODY LIKE SAINT MARGARET CASTELLO COULD HAVE A HEART IN HER OWN CROSS. THE LORD UNDERWENT HIS PASSION AND HE KNEW IN HIS HEART, THAT HE WAS GOING TO UNDERGO THIS AND HE WAS GOING TO BE KILLED. BUT HE ALSO KNEW THAT AFTER THREE DAYS, WOE RISE AGAIN -- HE WOULD RISE AGAIN FROM THE DEAD. AND YOU AND I IN OUR OWN SUFFERINGS, I KNOW THAT SOME OF US DO HAVE DIFFICULT SUFFERINGS IN THEIR LIVES, EMOTIONAL, PHYSICAL, AND BE DIFFERENT DISABILITIES THAT THEY STRUGGLE WITH THEIR WHOLE LIFELONG. AND THERE'S A STORY IN SAINT MARGARET CASTELLO'S LIFE WHERE THIS WOMAN HAD A TUMOR ON HER EYE. AND SHE SAID TO SAINT MARGARET, THE DOCTOR SAID I'M GOING TO GO BLIND. AND I DON'T WANT TO GO BLIND, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO SEE MY CHILDREN. AND MARGARET SAID, WE MUST BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, THAT GOD IS GOING TO TURN IT TO GOD. YOU SHOULD PRAISE HIM, EVEN IN THIS CROSS. AND THAT THIS IS GOING TO LAST FOR A SHORT TIME. BUT YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE ALL OF ETERNITY TO BE REWARDED FOR THE SUFFERINGS THAT YOU ARE ENDURING IN THIS LIFE. AND SHE SAID, NO, NO, I CAN'T, I CAN'T GO THROUGH THIS. AND MARGARET WHO WAS BLIND, SHE SAID, WELL, PLACE MY HAND ON YOUR EYE. AND SO, SHE DID. AND THAT WOMAN WAS HEALED. AND WHERE OTHER MIRACLES HAPPENED BEFORE, MARGARET'S DEATH AND MIRACLES AT HER TOMB. THAT'S ONE REASON WHY THIS EQUIPOLLENT CANONIZATION TOOK PLACE. AND OUR SUFFERINGS FOR THIS LIFE ARE REAL, YES, THEY ARE REAL AND THEY ARE PAINFUL. YET, THERE'S GOING TO BE A REWARD THAT'S GOING TO BE MUCH GREATER THAN WHATEVER WE SUFFER IN THIS LIFE. SO, WE CAN HAVE HEART AND HOPE. YOU KNOW, TODAY, IN THE FIRST READING, FROM THE BOOK OF WISDOM 2, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ ALL OF CHAPTER 2, MAYBE IT'S JUST A PAGE. AND THEN CONTINUE WITH CHAPTER 3, A PASSAGE THAT WE OFTEN HEAR AT FUNERALS AND RIGHTLY SO. I JUST WANT TO READ A SHORT SECTION OF CHAPTER 2, OTHER THAN THE VERSES THAT WE HEARD. THESE ARE THE WORDS OF THE WICKED. SO, THE WICKED SAY, THEY REASONABLEREASONED UNSOUNDLY SAYING TO THEMSELVES, SHORT AND SORROWFUL IS OUR LIFE AND THERE IS NO REMEDY WHEN A MAN COMES TO HIS END AND NO ONE HAS BEEN KNOWN TO RETURN FROM HADES, FROM THE UNDERWORLD. BECAUSE WE WERE BORN BY MERE CHANCE, AND HERE AFTER WE SHALL BE AS THOUGH WE HAD NEVER BEEN, BECAUSE THE BREATH IN OUR NOSTRILS IS SMOKE. AND REASON IS A SPARK, KINDLED BY THE BEATING OF OUR HEARTS. WHEN IT IS EXTINGUISHED, THE BODY WILL TURN TO ASHES AND THE SPIRIT WILL DISSOLVE LIKE EMPTY AIR. THIS IS WHAT THE WICKED ARE SAYING. YOUR LIFE IS MEANINGLESS, THERE'S NO PURPOSE. WE WERE BORN BY MERE CHANCE. SOUND FAMILIAR? BUT THEN, WHAT DOES THE BOOK OF WISDOM SAY? VERSES, AGAIN, THAT WE OFTEN HEAR AT FUNERALS FROM CHAPTER 3. BUT THE SOULS OF THE RIGHTEOUS ARE IN THE HAND OF GOD! NO TORMENT WILL EVER TOUCH THEM. AND THE EYES OF THE FOOLISH, THEY SEEM TO HAVE DIED AND THEIR DEPARTURE WAS THOUGHT TO BE AN AFFLICTION, AND THEY ARE GOING FROM US TO BE THEIR DESTRUCTION. BUT THEY ARE AT PEACE. FOR THOUGH, IN THE SITE OF MEN THEY WERE PUNISHED, THEIR HOPE IS FULL OF IMPORTALITY. AND HAVING -- IMMORTALITY. AND HAVING RECEIVED DISCIPLINE, THEY WERE DOING GREAT GOOD AND GOD TESTED THEM AND FOUND THEM WORTHY OF HIMSELF. WE'RE BEING TESTED. LET US PERSEVERE IN LOVE IN THE LETTER OF ST. JAMES, HE TALKS ABOUT, WHAT ARE THE FRUITS OF WISDOM FROM ABOVE? SOMEONE LIKE ST. MARGARET OF CASTELLO, LIKE THERESA, WHOSE EYES RADIATE HAD FROM CHRIST, THE LITTLE GIRL HERE, WE SEE THE WISDOM OF WHAT ST. JAMES TALKED ABOUT. WHERE JEALOUSLY AND AMBITION EXIST, THERE'S DISORDER. BUT WISDOM FROM ABOVE IS PURE, PEACEABLE, GENTLE, COMPLIANT, FULL OF MERCY AND GOOD FRUITS, WITHOUT INCONSTANCY OR INSINCERITY. AND HE SPEAKS OF CULTIVATING PEACE. THIS IS WISDOM FROM ABOVE. YOU SEE, THERE'S MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE. WE'RE NOT JUST BORN BY MERE CHANCE, AS POPE BENEDICT SAID, EACH OF US IN GOD'S PLAN IS NECESSARY. HE WANTED US TO EXIST! HE HAS A PARTICULAR MISSION FOR EACH OF US IN THIS LIFE. THERE ARE SUFFERINGS THAT WE WILL UNDERGO AS CHRIST, HE HIMSELF DID, BUT WHAT DID JESUS SAY? HE WILL BE KILLED BUT ON THE THIRD DAY, HE WILL RISE! BE EVERY DEATH, THERE'S A RESURRECTION. DEATH DOESN'T HAVE THE FINAL WORD NOR DOES EVIL HAVE THE FINAL WORD. NO, THERE IS A RESURRECTION AND THE LORD HAS THE FINAL WORD. THAT'S THE END OF THE STORY, THERE IS GLORY. THERE IS A TIME THAT THE CROSS IS MADE OF WOOD, THE CROWN IS MADE OF GLORY, IT LASTS FOREVER. SO, BE HEARTENED. I THINK WE'RE ALL HEARTENED BY THE WITNESS OF THESE SIMPLE SOULS, THIS LITTLE MARGARET OF CASTELLO. SEVERE CURVATURE OF THE SPINE, BLIND, AND PRETTY MUCH LAME, COULD HARDLY GET AROUND. THIS SIMPLE LITTLE SOUL REJECTED BY HER PARENTS. AND YET, GOD COULD DO SOMETHING SO BEAUTIFUL THROUGH THIS LITTLE MARGARET OF CASTELLO. LET US BE LIFTED UP BY HER OWN HARDSHIPS AND HER SERENE EXAMPLE AND GUIDED BY THE WISDOM FROM ABOVE. LET US BE THOSE COMPASSIONATE PEOPLE WHO SPREAD PEACE, AS ST. JAMES SAYS. >> Father: LET US PROFESS OUR FAITH. >> I BELIEVE IN ONE GOD, THE FATHER ALMIGHTY, MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, OF ALL THINGS VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE. I BELIEVE IN ONE LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD, BORN OF THE FATHER BEFORE ALL AGES. GOD FROM GOD, LIGHT FROM LIGHT, TRUE GOD FROM TRUE GOD, BEGOTTEN, NOT MADE, CONSUBSTANTIAL WITH THE FATHER. THROUGH HIM ALL THINGS WERE MADE. FOR US MEN AND FOR OUR SALVATION, HE CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN. AND BY THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS INCARNATE OF THE VIRGIN MARY, AND BECAME MAN. FOR OUR SAKE, HE WAS CRUCIFIED, UNDER PONTIUS PILATE. HE SUFFERED DEATH AND WAS BURIED AND ROSE AGAIN ON THE THIRD DAY, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SCRIPTURES. HE ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN AND IS SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER. HE WILL COME AGAIN IN GLORY TO JUDGE THE LIVING AND THE DEAD AND HIS KINGDOM WILL HAVE NO END. I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, THE LORD, THE GIVER OF LIFE, WHO PROCEEDS FROM THE FATHER AND THE SON, WHO WITH THE FATHER AND THE SON IS ADORED AND GLORIFIED, WHO HAS SPOKEN THROUGH THE PROPHETS. I BELIEVE IN ONE HOLY, CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH. I CONFESS ONE BAPTISM FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD AND THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME. AMEN. >> Father: PRAYED BE TO THE GOD AND FATHER, OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. HE GAVE US A NEW BIRTH INTO A LIVING HOPE BY HIS SON'S RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD. TO HIM, WE PRAY. >> FOR THE HOLY FATHER AND HIS WISDOM, HIS LABORS IN THE CHURCH, WE PRAY TO THE LORD. >> LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER. >> THAT THE LEADERS OF NATIONS MAY WORK TOGETHER TO IMPROVE THE LOT OF THE POOR, AND THE MARGINALIZED OF THE WORLD, WE PRAY TO THE LORD. >> LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER. >> >> 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. >> LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER. >> FOR THOSE WHO ARE SERIOUSLY ILL, THAT THEY WILL COME TO ACCEPT THEIR CONDITION WITH COURAGE AND CHRISTIAN HOPE, WE PRAY TO THE LORD. >> LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER. >> THAT THOSE WHO HAVE DIED MAY ENTER INTO THE BANQUET OF LIFE PROMISED AT BAPTISM, WE PRAY TO THE LORD. >> LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER. >> Father: LORD GOD, STRENGTH OF THOSE WHO HOPE IN YOU, SUPPORT US IN OUR PRAYER BECAUSE WE ARE WEAK AND CAN DO NOTHING WITHOUT YOU. GIVE US, WE PRAY, ALWAYS THE HELP OF YOUR GRACE SO IN FULFILLING YOUR COMMANDMENTS WE MAY PLEASE YOU IN ALL WE DESIRE AND DO. THROUGH CHRIST OUR LORD. >> AMEN. [OFFERTORY HYMN] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> FATHER: PRAY, BRETHREN, THAT MY SACRIFICE AND YOURS MAY BE ACCEPTABLE TO GOD, THE ALMIGHTY FATHER. >> MAY THE LORD ACCEPT THE SACRIFICE AT YOUR HANDS FOR THE PRAISE AND GLORY OF HIS NAME, FOR OUR GOOD AND FOR THE GOOD OF ALL HIS HOLY CHURCH. >> FATHER: RECEIVE WITH FAVOR, O LORD, WE PRAY, THE OFFERINGS OF YOUR PEOPLE, THAT WHAT THEY PROFESS WITH DEVOTION AND FAITH MAY BE THEIRS THROUGH THESE HEAVENLY MYSTERIES, THROUGH CHRIST OUR LORD. >> ♪ AMEN ♪ >> FATHER: ♪ DOMINUS VOBISCUM ♪ >> ♪ ET CUM SPIRITU TUO ♪ >> FATHER: ♪ SURSUM CORDA ♪ >> ♪ HABEMUS AD DOMINUM ♪ >> FATHER: ♪ GRATIAS AGAMUS DOMINO DEO NOSTRO ♪ >> ♪ DIGNUM ET IUSTUM EST ♪ >> FATHER: 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 IN YOU WE LIVE AND MOVE AND HAVE OUR BEING AND WHILE IN THIS BODY, WE NOT ONLY EXPERIENCE THE DAILY EFFECTS OF YOUR CARE BUT EVEN NOW POSSESS THE PLEDGE OF LIFE ETERNAL. FOR, HAVING RECEIVED THE FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT THROUGH WHOM YOU RAISED UP JESUS FROM THE DEAD, WE HOPE FOR AN EVERLASTING SHARE IN THE PASCHAL MYSTERY. AND SO, WITH ALL THE ANGELS, WE PRAISE YOU, AS IN JOYFUL CELEBRATION WE ACCLAIM: ♪ 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 ♪ >> FATHER: TO YOU, THEREFORE, MOST MERCIFUL FATHER, WE MAKE HUMBLE PRAYER AND PETITION THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, YOUR SON, OUR LORD, THAT YOU ACCEPT AND BLESS THESE GIFTS, THESE OFFERINGS, THESE HOLY AND UNBLEMISHED SACRIFICES, WHICH WE OFFER YOU FIRSTLY FOR YOUR HOLY CATHOLIC CHURCH. BE PLEASED TO GRANT HER PEACE, TO GUARD, UNITE AND GOVERN HER THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE WORLD, TOGETHER WITH YOUR SERVANT, FRANCIS OUR POPE, AND STEVEN OUR BISHOP, AND FO ALL THOSE WHO, HOLDING TO THE TRUTH, HAND ON THE CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC FAITH. REMEMBER, LORD, YOUR SERVANTS, AND ALL GATHERED HERE, WHOSE FAITH AND DEVOTION ARE KNOWN TO YOU. FOR THEM, WE OFFER YOU THIS SACRIFICE OF PRAISE OR THEY OFFER IT FOR THEMSELVES AND ALL WHO ARE DEAR TO THEM, FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THEIR SOULS, IN HOPE OF HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, AND PAYING THEIR HOMAGE TO YOU, THE ETERNAL GOD, LIVING AND TRUE. IN COMMUNION WITH THOSE WHOSE MEMORY WE VENERATE, ESPECIALLY THE GLORIOUS EVER-VIRGIN, MARY, MOTHER OF OUR GOD AND LORD, JESUS CHRIST, AND BLESSED JOSEPH, HER SPOUSE, YOUR BLESSED APOSTLES, AND MARTYRS, PETER AND PAUL, ANDREW, JAMES AND JOHN, THOMAS, JAMES, PHILIP, BARTHOLOMEW, MATTHEW, SIMON AND JUDE, LINUS, CLETUS, CLEMENT, SIXTUS, CORNELIUS, CYPRIAN, LAWRENCE, CHRYSOGONUS, JOHN AND PAUL, COSMAS AND DAMIAN AND ALL YOUR SAINTS. WE ASK THAT THROUGH THEIR MERITS AND PRAYERS, IN ALL THINGS WE MAY BE DEFENDED BY YOUR PROTECTING HELP. THEREFORE, LORD, WE PRAY, GRACIOUSLY ACCEPT THIS OBLATION OF OUR SERVICE, THAT OF YOUR WHOLE FAMILY. ORDER OUR DAYS IN YOUR PEACE, AND COMMAND THAT WE BE DELIVERED FROM ETERNAL DAMNATION AND COUNTED AMONG THE FLOCK OF THOSE YOU HAVE CHOSEN. THROUGH CHRIST OUR LORD. AMEN. BE PLEASED, O GOD, WE PRAY, TO BLESS, ACKNOWLEDGE, AND APPROVE THIS OFFERING IN EVERY RESPECT. MAKE IT SPIRITUAL AND ACCEPTABLE, SO THAT IT MAY BECOME FOR US THE BODY AND BLOOD OF YOUR MOST BELOVED SON, OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. ON THE DAY BEFORE HE WAS TO SUFFER, HE TOOK BREAD IN HIS HOLY AND VENERABLE HANDS AND, WITH EYES RAISED TO HEAVEN, TO YOU, O GOD, HIS ALMIGHTY FATHER, 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. [BELLS RING] IN A SIMILAR WAY, WHEN SUPPER WAS ENDED, HE TOOK THIS PRECIOUS CHALICE IN HIS HOLY AND VENERABLE HANDS, AND ONCE MORE GIVING YOU THANKS, HE SAID THE BLESSING AND GAVE THE CHALICE TO HIS DISCIPLES, SAYING, TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND DRINK FROM IT. 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 RING] ♪ MYSTERIUM FIDEI >> ♪ MORTEM TUAM ANNUNTIAMUS, DOMINE ET TUAM RESURRECTIONEM CONFITEMUR DONEC VENIAS ♪ >> FATHER: THEREFORE, O LORD, AS WE CELEBRATE THE MEMORIAL OF THE BLESSED PASSION, THE RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, AND THE GLORIOUS ASCENSION INTO HEAVEN OF CHRIST, YOUR SON, OUR LORD, WE, YOUR SERVANTS AND YOUR HOLY PEOPLE, OFFER TO YOUR GLORIOUS MAJESTY, FROM THE GIFTS THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN US, THIS PURE VICTIM, THIS HOLY VICTIM, THIS SPOTLESS VICTIM, THE HOLY BREAD OF ETERNAL LIFE AND THE CHALICE OF EVERLASTING SALVATION. BE PLEASED TO LOOK UPON THESE OFFERINGS WITH A SERENE AND KINDLY COUNTENANCE, AND TO ACCEPT THEM, AS ONCE YOU WERE PLEASED TO ACCEPT THE GIFTS OF YOUR SERVANT ABEL THE JUST, THE SACRIFICE OF ABRAHAM, OUR FATHER IN FAITH, AND THE OFFERING OF YOUR HIGH PRIEST MELCHIZEDEK, A HOLY SACRIFICE, A SPOTLESS VICTIM. IN HUMBLE PRAYER WE ASK YOU, ALMIGHTY GOD, COMMAND THAT THESE GIFTS BE BORNE BY THE HANDS OF YOUR HOLY ANGEL TO YOUR ALTAR ON HIGH IN THE SIGHT OF YOUR DIVINE MAJESTY, SO THAT ALL OF US WHO THROUGH THIS PARTICIPATION AT THE ALTAR RECEIVE THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF YOUR SON MAY BE FILLED WITH EVERY GRACE AND HEAVENLY BLESSING. THROUGH CHRIST OUR LORD. AMEN. REMEMBER ALSO, LORD, YOUR SERVANTS WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE US WITH THE SIGN OF FAITH, AND REST IN THE SLEEP OF PEACE. GRANT THEM, O LORD, WE PRAY, AND ALL WHO SLEEP IN CHRIST, A PLACE OF REFRESHMENT, LIGHT AND PEACE. THROUGH CHRIST OUR LORD. AMEN. TO US ALSO, YOUR SERVANTS, WHO, THOUGH SINNERS, HOPE IN YOUR ABUNDANT MERCIES, GRACIOUSLY GRANT SOME SHARE AND FELLOWSHIP WITH YOUR HOLY APOSTLES AND MARTYRS, WITH JOHN THE BAPTIST, STEPHEN, MATTHIAS, BARNABAS, IGNATIUS, ALEXANDER, MARCELLINUS, PETER, FELICITY, PERPETUA, AGATHA, LUCY, AGNES, CECILIA, ANASTASIA AND ALL YOUR SAINTS. ADMIT US, WE BESEECH YOU, INTO THEIR COMPANY, NOT WEIGHING OUR MERITS BUT GRANTING US YOUR PARDON, THROUGH CHRIST, OUR LORD. THROUGH WHOM YOU CONTINUE TO MAKE ALL THESE GOOD THINGS, O LORD, YOU SANCTIFY THEM, FILL THEM WITH LIFE, BLESS THEM, AND BESTOW THEM UPON US. ♪ THROUGH HIM, AND WITH HIM, AND IN HIM, O GOD, ALMIGHTY FATHER, IN THE UNITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, ALL GLORY AND HONOR IS YOURS, FATHER, FOREVER AND EVER ♪ >> ♪ AMEN >> FATHER: ♪ PRAECEPTIS SALUTARIBUS MONITI, ET DIVINIA INSTITUTIONE FORMATI AUDEMUS DICERE ♪ >> ♪ PATER NOSTER, QUI ES IN CAELIS SANCTIFICETUR NOMEN TUUM ADVENIAT REGNUM TUUM FIAT VOLUNTAS TUA, SICUT IN CAELO, ET IN TERRA ♪ ♪ PANEM NOSTRUM QUOTIDIANUM DA NOBIS HODIE ET, ET DIMITTE NOBIS DEBITA NOSTRA, SICUT ET NOS DIMITTIMUS DEBITORIBUS NOSTRIS ET NE NOS INDUCAS IN TENTATIONEM SED LIBERA NOS A MALO ♪ >> ♪ LIBERA NOS, QUAESUMUS DOMINE, AB OMNIBUS MALIS, DA PROPITIUS PACEM IN DIEBUS NOSTRIS, UT, OPE MISERICORDIAE TUAE ADIUTI, ET A PECCATO SIMUS SEMPER LIBERI ET AB OMNI PERTURBATIONE SECURI ♪ ♪ EXSPECTANTES BEATAM SPEM ET ADVENTUM SALVATORIS NOSTRI, IESU CHRISTI ♪ >> ♪ QUIA TUUM EST REGNUM, ET POTESTAS, ET GLORIA IN SAECULA ♪ >> FATHER: ♪ DOMINE IESU CHRISTE, QUI DIXISTI APOSTOLIS TUIS PACEM RELINQUO VOBIS, PACEM MEAM DO VOBIS NE RESPICIAS PECCATA NOSTRA, SED FIDEM ECCLESIAE TUAE ♪ ♪ EAMQUE SECUNDUM VOLUNTATEM TUAM PACIFICARE ET COADUNARE DIGNERIS ♪ ♪ QUI VIVIS ET REGNAS IN SAECULA SAECULORUM ♪ >> ♪ AMEN >> FATHER: ♪ PAX DOMINI SIT SEMPER VOBISCUM ♪ >> ♪ ET CUM SPIRITU TUO >> ♪ AGNUS DEI -- >> ♪ -- QUI TOLLIS PECCATA MUNDI, MISERERE NOBIS ♪ >> ♪ AGNUS DEI -- >> ♪ -- QUI TOLLIS PECCATA MUNDI, MISERERE NOBIS ♪ >> ♪ AGNUS DEI -- >> ♪ -- QUI TOLLIS PECCATA
