. (MALE VOICE SPEAKING) BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD (MUSIC) (FEMALE VOICE CHANTING SOFTLY) ( 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) . ( LENT, FIRST SUNDAY ) ( BELL) ( PROCESSIONAL) ♪ ( "THE GLORY OF THESE FORTY DAYS" ) ( ADOREMUS HYMNAL #363 ) ♪ . (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. . (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. ("KYRIE"- ENGLISH) ♪ >>LORD, HAVE MERCY. R. LORD, HAVE MERCY. ♪ ♪( SINGING IN PARTS) ♪ >>CHRIST, HAVE MERCY. ♪ R. CHRIST, HAVE MERCY. ( SINGING IN PARTS) ♪ >>LORD, HAVE MERCY. ♪ R. LORD, HAVE MERCY. . ( FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT ) (COLLECT) (PRIEST) LET US PRAY. (PRIEST) GRANT, ALMIGHTY GOD, THROUGH THE YEARLY OBSERVANCES OF HOLY LENT, THAT WE MAY GROW IN UNDERSTANDING OF THE RICHES HIDDEN IN CHRIST AND BY WORTHY CONDUCT PURSUE THEIR EFFECTS. 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. R. AMEN. . (24 ) ( FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT, C) (FIRST READING) ( READER:) A READING FROM THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY (26:4-10) ( READER:) MOSES SPOKE TO THE PEOPLE, SAYING: THE PRIEST SHALL RECEIVE THE BASKET FROM YOU AND SHALL SET IT IN FRONT OF THE ALTAR OF THE LORD, YOUR GOD. THEN YOU SHALL DECLARE BEFORE THE LORD, YOUR GOD, MY FATHER WAS A WANDERING ARAMEAN WHO WENT DOWN TO EGYPT WITH A SMALL HOUSEHOLD AND LIVED THERE AS AN ALIEN. BUT THERE HE BECAME A NATION GREAT, STRONG, AND NUMEROUS. WHEN THE EGYPTIANS MALTREATED AND OPPRESSED US, IMPOSING HARD LABOR UPON US, WE CRIED TO THE LORD, THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS, AND HE HEARD OUR CRY AND SAW OUR AFFLICTION, OUR TOIL, AND OUR OPPRESSION. HE BROUGHT US OUT OF EGYPT WITH HIS STRONG HAND AND OUTSTRETCHED ARM, WITH TERRIFYING POWER, WITH SIGNS AND WONDERS; AND BRINGING US INTO THIS COUNTRY, HE GAVE US THIS LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY. THEREFORE, I HAVE NOW BROUGHT YOU THE FIRST FRUITS OF THE PRODUCTS OF THE SOIL WHICH YOU, O LORD, HAVE GIVEN ME. AND HAVING SET THEM BEFORE THE LORD, YOUR GOD, YOU SHALL BOW DOWN IN HIS PRESENCE. THE WORD OF THE LORD. R. THANKS BE TO GOD ( FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT C) (RESPONSORIAL PSALM 91:1-2, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15.) ♪ (ORGAN) ♪(CANTORS) BE WITH ME, LORD, WHEN I AM IN TROUBLE. ♪R. BE WITH ME, LORD, WHEN I AM IN TROUBLE. ( CANTOR) I. HE WHO DWELLS IN THE SHELTER OF THE MOST HIGH, AND ABIDES IN THE SHADE OF THE ALMIGHTY, SAYS TO THE LORD, MY REFUGE, MY STRONGHOLD, MY GOD IN WHOM I TRUST! ♪ R. BE WITH ME, LORD, WHEN I AM IN TROUBLE. ( CANTOR) ♪2. UPON YOU NO EVIL SHALL FALL, NO PLAGUE APPROACH YOUR TENT. FOR YOU HAS HE COMMANDED HIS ANGELS TO KEEP YOU IN ALL YOUR WAYS. ♪ R. BE WITH ME, LORD, WHEN I AM IN TROUBLE. ♪( CANTOR) 3. THEY SHALL BEAR YOU UPON THEIR HANDS, LEST YOU STRIKE YOUR FOOT AGAINST A STONE. ON THE LION AND THE VIPER YOU WILL TREAD, AND TRAMPLE THE YOUNG LION AND THE SERPENT. ♪ R. BE WITH ME, LORD, WHEN I AM IN TROUBLE. ♪ ( CANTOR) 4. SINCE HE CLINGS TO ME IN LOVE, I WILL FREE HIM, PROTECT HIM, FOR HE KNOWS MY NAME. WHEN HE CALLS ON ME, I WILL ANSWER HIM; I WILL BE WITH HIM IN DISTRESS; I WILL DELIVER HIM, AND GIVE HIM GLORY. ♪ R. BE WITH ME, LORD, WHEN I AM IN TROUBLE. ( FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT C) (SECOND READING) ( READER) A READING FROM THE LETTER OF SAINT PAUL TO THE ROMANS (10:8-13) BROTHERS AND SISTERS: WHAT DOES SCRIPTURE SAY? THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART THAT IS, THE WORD OF FAITH THAT WE PREACH FOR, IF YOU CONFESS WITH YOUR MOUTH THAT JESUS IS LORD AND BELIEVE IN YOUR HEART THAT GOD RAISED HIM FROM THE DEAD, YOU WILL BE SAVED. FOR ONE BELIEVES WITH THE HEART AND SO IS JUSTIFIED, AND ONE CONFESSES WITH THE MOUTH AND SO IS SAVED. FOR THE SCRIPTURE SAYS, NO ONE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL BE PUT TO SHAME. FOR THERE IS NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN JEW AND GREEK; THE SAME LORD IS LORD OF ALL, ENRICHING ALL WHO CALL UPON HIM. FOR EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED. THE WORD OF THE LORD. R. THANKS BE TO GOD (VERSE BEFORE THE GOSPEL) ♪ (ORGAN) (CANTORS) ♪PRAISE AND HONOR TO YOU LORD JESUS CHRIST. ♪ R. PRAISE AND HONOR TO YOU LORD JESUS CHRIST. ♪ ( CANTOR) ONE DOES NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT COMES FORTH FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD. ♪ R.PRAISE AND HONOR TO YOU LORD JESUS CHRIST. ( FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT C) ( GOSPEL ) (LATIN) ♪>>DOMINUS VOBISCUM. ♪ R. ET CUM SPIRITU TUO ♪>>LECTIO SANCTI EVANGELII SECUNDUM LUCAM ( 4:1-13 ) ♪R. GLORIA TIBI, DOMINE. >>FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, JESUS RETURNED FROM THE JORDAN AND WAS LED BY THE SPIRIT INTO THE DESERT FOR FORTY DAYS, TO BE TEMPTED BY THE DEVIL. HE ATE NOTHING DURING THOSE DAYS, AND WHEN THEY WERE OVER HE WAS HUNGRY. THE DEVIL SAID TO HIM, IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD, COMMAND THIS STONE TO BECOME BREAD. JESUS ANSWERED HIM, IT IS WRITTEN, ONE DOES NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE. THEN HE TOOK HIM UP AND SHOWED HIM ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IN A SINGLE INSTANT. THE DEVIL SAID TO HIM, I SHALL GIVE TO YOU ALL THIS POWER AND GLORY; FOR IT HAS BEEN HANDED OVER TO ME, AND I MAY GIVE IT TO WHOMEVER I WISH. ALL THIS WILL BE YOURS, IF YOU WORSHIP ME. JESUS SAID TO HIM IN REPLY, IT IS WRITTEN: YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD, YOUR GOD, AND HIM ALONE SHALL YOU SERVE. THEN HE LED HIM TO JERUSALEM, MADE HIM STAND ON THE PARAPET OF THE TEMPLE, AND SAID TO HIM, IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD, THROW YOURSELF DOWN FROM HERE, FOR IT IS WRITTEN: HE WILL COMMAND HIS ANGELS CONCERNING YOU, TO GUARD YOU, AND: WITH THEIR HANDS THEY WILL SUPPORT YOU, LEST YOU DASH YOUR FOOT AGAINST A STONE. JESUS SAID TO HIM IN REPLY, IT ALSO SAYS, YOU SHALL NOT PUT THE LORD, YOUR GOD, TO THE TEST. WHEN THE DEVIL HAD FINISHED EVERY TEMPTATION, HE DEPARTED FROM HIM FOR A TIME. ♪ (LATIN) VERBUM DOMINI ♪R. LAUS TIBI, CHRISTE THIS 1ST SUNDAY OF LENT WE HAVE THE ACCOUNT OF JESUS TEMPTATION IN THE DESERT. THE CATECHISM TEACHES THAT DURING ADVENT AND LENT AND EASTER VIGIL THE CHURCH REREADS AND RELIVES GREAT EVENTS OF SALVATION HISTORY AND THE TODAY OF HER LITURGY. TODAY THAT THESE MYSTERIES OF JESUS'S LIFE THE SAVING MYSTERIES, HIS BIRTH, HIS PUBLIC MINISTRY, HIS SUFFERING DEATH AND RESURRECTION IN THE LITURGY RE-PRESENTS THESE EVENTS SO WE CAN ENTER THROUGH FAITH AND SHARE IN THEM. LIVE THEM IN OUR LIVES AND WE RECEIVE THE GRACE THAT JESUS IS MERITING FOR US IN THESE MYSTERIES. IN THE CATECHISM SAYS THAT BY THE SOLEMN 40 DAYS OF LENT THE CHURCH UNITES HERSELF EACH YEAR TO THE MINISTRY OF JESUS IN THE DESERT. WHERE HE WENT TO THE DESERT 40 DAYS. FASTING. HE WAS TEMPTED. HE OVERCAME TEMPTATION. HE OVERCAME SATAN. THE PARABLE SAYS THAT HE BINDS THE STRONGMAN. THE STRONGMAN THAT BOUND ADAM AND EVE AND TEMPTED THEM AND THEY GAVE IN AND PLUNDER THEIR GOODS OF SANCTIFYING GRACE AND ETERNAL LIFE. JESUS IS STRONGER THAN THE STRONGMAN AND BINDS HIM AND LIBERATES US AND TAKES BACK THE PLUNDER SO TO SPEAK. HE RECAPITULATES THE TEMPTATIONS OF ADAM IN PARADISE AND OF ISRAEL IN THE DESERT. THE ISRAELITES SPENT 40 YEARS IN THE DESERT. OVERCOMES THERE FAILURES. THEY GAVE IN. THEY IT WAS MUCH SHORTER JOURNEY THAN 40 YEARS BUT THEY ARE DOING LAPS IN THE DESERT TRYING TO LEARN THIS LESSON OF DEPENDENCE ON GOD. SO JESUS IS THE NEW ADAM. REMAINS FAITHFUL. DOES NOT GIVE INTO SIN. THAT HE IS GOD'S SERVANT. THE SON OF GOD DOES THE FATHER'S WILL. TOTALLY OBEDIENT. THE 1ST READING FROM DEUTERONOMY IS A POWERFUL SCENE IT IS SO DRAMATIC. THE ISRAELITES ARE CROSSING THE JORDAN FROM THE EAST INTO THE PROMISED LAND. THEY'RE GOING TO CROSS THE RIVER AND MOSES INSTRUCTS THEM TO BRING THE FIRSTFRUITS WHEN THE INTO THE PROMISED LAND BUT THIS LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY. THAT EVEN TODAY EVEN TODAY IT IS BOUNTIFUL. IT IS A RICH SOIL. TO BRING THESE FIRSTFRUITS TO THE LORD. BECAUSE WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE AS MOSES RECOUNTS THAT GOD BROUGHT THEM OUT OF EGYPT WITH HIS STRONG HAND AND OUTSTRETCHED ARM WITH TERRIFYING POWER. IT WAS GOD WHO LIBERATED THE ISRAELITES THEY WERE WEAK AND ENSLAVED NATION. THEY HAVE TO GO IN AND BATTLE AND FIGHT AND TAKE THAT PROMISED LAND AND OVERCOME THE EGYPTIANS TO GET AWAY BUT THAT IS ALL DONE BY GOD'S POWER. HE WORKS THE SIGNS AND MIRACLES. WITH MOSES. AND IT SAYS BRING THE FIRSTFRUITS OF THE LAND AND HAVING SET THE BEFORE THE LORD YOUR GOD YOU SHALL BOW DOWN IN HIS PRESENCE. SUCH A POWERFUL THING. BRING THE FIRSTFRUITS OF THE LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY AND THEN BOW DOWN BEFORE GOD. BECAUSE HE HAS GIVEN THIS TO YOU. HE HAS LIBERATED YOU FROM THIS BONDAGE FROM SLAVERY. AND WE EXPERIENCE THAT LIBERATION AND WORSHIP. I THINK THAT IS THE THEME HERE. WORSHIPING GOD, GIVING HIM AND PRACTICING RELIGION. THAT IS THE WAY WE OFFER WORSHIP THE WAY WE OFFER THANKSGIVING TO GOD. WE ARE RECOGNIZING HIM AS SOVEREIGN IN OUR LIFE. RECOGNIZING THE PRIMACY OF GRACE THAT HE IS GOD AND I AM NOT HE IS NUMBER 1 AND I'M TO SEEK HIS WILL AND TO OBEY HIM. AND IF THEY DO THAT IF THEY LIVE THE LAW THE HEART OF THE LAW THE 10 COMMANDMENTS, THEY WILL POSSESS THE LAND. THEY WILL POSSESS THE LAND. OTHERWISE IF YOU BREAK THE COVENANT YOU'RE GOING TO SUFFER AND THEY DO. THEY SUFFER INVASIONS FROM THE ASSYRIANS. THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY. THEY ARE HAULED OFF INTO CAPTIVITY FROM THAT PROMISED LAND AND HELD IN BONDAGE IN BABYLON FOR A TIME. THEN GOD BRINGS THEM BACK. THEY REBUILD THE TEMPLE. BUT THERE IS THIS CORPORATE CONTINUING CORPORATE FAILURE OF ISRAEL TO LIVE THAT LONG. AND IT IS TRUE FOR US TODAY. IF WE WANT TO ENJOY THE FULLNESS OF THE LAND OF FULLNESS OF GOD'S BLESSINGS IF WE WANT TO ENJOY FREEDOM IF WE WANT TO ENJOY THE DIGNITY OF BEING A CHILD OF GOD, LIVE THE LAW. THE OF THE COMMANDMENTS. AVOID SIN. DO GOOD. IF WE COMMIT SIN WE FIND OURSELVES IN BONDAGE. WE LOSE FREEDOM. WE MISTAKE LICENSE FOR FREEDOM. TODAY. TODAY TO DO WHATEVER I WANT. AND TO THE EXTENT THAT I VIOLATE GOD'S LAW THE MORE ENSLAVED I GET. I GO BACK TO EGYPT. I GO BACK TO BONDAGE. THE NEXT CHAPTER DEUTERONOMY I THINK IS 27 AS THEY AND THEY CROSSED THE JORDAN INTO THE LAND MOSES INSTRUCTS THEM TO PLASTER THESE BIG STONES AND WRITE THE ENTIRETY OF THE LAW ON THESE STONES AND TAKE STONES AND BUILD AN ALTAR. JUST A STARK REMINDER THAT IF YOU WANT TO STAY HERE KEEP THE LAW. KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS. OFFER WORSHIP. OFFER SACRIFICE TO GOD. WHAT WE HAVE ON THE BIG STONES IN OUR CULTURE? THE ADVERTISEMENTS THE THINGS WE CHERISH EXPRESSED IN OUR CULTURE. IT IS HEDONISM. CONSUMERISM. MATERIALISM. OFTEN. NOT SOLELY BUT OFTEN. IT IS AN EXTREME OF TEMPTATION IN OUR CULTURE TODAY TO DISOBEY THE LAW. THERE ARE LIGHTS AND DEVELOP PEOPLE OF FAITH AND GOOD PEOPLE SEEKING TO FOLLOW THEIR CONSCIENCE. THAT EXISTS. BUT I THINK ANYONE WHO LIVES IN OUR CULTURE, THE VERY AIR WE BREATHE IT IS BECOMING MORE SECULARIZED. IT IS A TEMPTATION. THAT IS WHAT IS BEFORE OUR FACE. THIS FALSE OFFERING OF LIBERTY LICENSE BUT NOT TRUE FREEDOM. LIVE THE LAW, POSSESS THE LAND. AND ULTIMATELY POSSESS OUR HEAVENLY LAND. THE GOSPEL TODAY FROM LUKE'S GOSPEL SHOWS US THE SCENE OF JESUS IS TEMPTATION. THE CATECHISM TEACHES AGAIN THAT JESUS IS TEMPTATION REVEALS THE WAY IN WHICH THE SON OF GOD IS THE MESSIAH. CONTRARY TO THE WAY SATAN PROPOSES TO HIM. AND THE WAY MEN WISH TO ATTRIBUTE TO HIM. BUT, MESSIAH AND IN A DIFFERENT WAY. A DIFFERENT WAY THAN THE CROSS. JESUS CANNOT BE TEMPTED INTERNALLY. WE DO TO THE FALL WE DO NOT, OUR REASON OUR RATIONAL MIND IS NOT DOES NOT HAVE EASY CONTROL OF OUR EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS. WE HAVE JUST ORDERED DESIRES BUT THAT IS NOT JESUS BUT HE IS THE PERFECT HUMANITY. BUT HE CAN BE TEMPTED FROM WITHOUT. EXTERNALLY. DO NOT BECOME A MESSIAH BY THE CROSS BY SUFFERING. WE SEE AS HUMAN NATURE IT RECALLS AT THIS. IN THE GARDEN. A GETHSEMANE. AND SATAN SHOWS HIM DIFFERENT WAYS THAT HE COULD BE A MESSIAH. IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD COMMAND THIS STONE TO BECOME BREAD. FEED THE PEOPLE AND YOU WILL HAVE A GREAT BIG CHURCH. FEED THE PEOPLE AND YOU CAN RAISE UP AN ARMY TO DRIVE OUT THE ROMANS THAT ARE BRUTALLY OCCUPYING OUR LAND TAXING US TO DEATH. CRUCIFYING US AT EVERY TURN. JESUS'S ANSWER, ONE DOES NOT LIVE ON BREAD ALONE. THEN HE TOOK HIM UP AND SAYING THAT YES WE NEED BREAD FOR PHYSICAL LIFE BUT WE NEED GOD IN OUR LIFE. WE NEED GOD TO LIVE THAT LAW TO BE FREE TO FLOURISH. THEN HE TOOK THEM UP AND SHUTTING THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IN A SINGLE INSTANT. THE DEVIL SAID TO HIM I SHALL GIVE YOU ALL THIS POWER AND GLORY FOR IT HAS BEEN HANDED OVER TO ME. DO YOU NOT LOVE THAT DRAMA? SATAN THAT TALKING SNAKE, HE HAS BEEN STIRRING UP CHAOS SINCE DAY ONE HAS THIS RAIN ON THIS FALLEN WORLD. THE WORLD HAS A WAY OF DOING THINGS. AND IT IS ANTITHETICAL TO THE GOSPEL. IT IS LIVING BY POWER. SEEKING A BIG GREAT BIG POWER STRUGGLE PUSHING TO DECIDE RIGHT AND WRONG AND NATURAL MORAL LAW. MIGHT MAKES RIGHT. IT IS UGLY AND BRUTAL IN MAN'S HISTORY. SATAN IS RAINING THERE. WHEN THAT HAPPENS. BUT BENEDICT POINTS OUT THAT ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD THAT JESUS WAS SHOWN THAT DAY WOULD PASS AWAY. THAT IS NOT A LASTING KINGDOM. THE KINGDOM THAT JESUS ESTABLISHES WHERE HIS SUFFERING AND DEATH AND IS LIFTING UP ON THE CROSS IS AT THE CENTER OF THAT KINGDOM THAT IS THE ONE THAT LAST FOREVER. THAT IS NOT 1 OF VIOLENCE AND POWER AND STRUGGLE. HE SAYS JESUS'S ANSWER YOU SHALL WORSHIP THE LORD YOUR GOD AND HIM ALONE YOU SHALL SERVE. SATAN IS TELLING HIM IF YOU BOW DOWN BEFORE ME I WILL GIVE YOU THIS IN JESUS REMINDS THEM THAT GOD IS NUMBER 1. HE IS SOVEREIGN. HE IS THE ONE THAT WE FOLLOW. THERE TEMPTATION SATAN LEADS INTO JERUSALEM AND MAKES HIM STAND ON THE PARAPET OF THE TEMPLE AND SAID TO THEM IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD THROW YOURSELF DOWN FROM HERE FOR IT IS WRITTEN HE WILL COMMAND HIS ANGELS CONCERNING YOU TO GUARD YOU. WITH THEIR HAND THEY WILL SUPPORT YOU LEST YOU DASH YOUR FOOT AGAINST A STONE. IN IF YOU WORK DAZZLING MIRACLES YOU WILL HAVE FOLLOWERS. YOU WILL HAVE THIS INSPIRING MIRACLES THAT PEOPLE WILL BE DRAWN TO YOU MAY BE TO YOUR POWER AND ABILITY BUT NOT TO A RELATIONSHP OF LOVE AND SUBMISSION TO YOUR WILL. MAYBE JUST OVER POWERING AND DAZZLING US THROUGH DEMONSTRATIONS OF POWER. I WAS THINKING MAYBE FOR US TODAY TEMPTATION WOULD BE TO USE RELIGION TO MANIPULATE PEOPLE. THE PHARISEES WERE DOING THAT. THEY HAD PLACES OF AUTHORITY AND THEY WERE EXERCISING THEIR INFLUENCE THROUGH THEIR RELIGIOUS STATUS. THAT IS A TEMPTATION FOR US TO PUT OURSELVES ABOVE OTHERS. DUE TO OUR RELIGIOUS PRACTICE. MAYBE SOME AUTHORITY WE HAVE BEEN A GIVEN. BUT HERE HERE JESUS OVERTURNS THE TEMPTATION BY QUOTING SCRIPTURE. HE IS NOT PUT THE LORD YOUR GOD TO TEST. AND THE CATECHISM TALKS ABOUT THESE TEMPTATIONS ESPECIALLY AS PUTTING GOD'S GOODNESS AND ALMIGHTY POWER TO THE TEST BY WORD OR DEED. TRYING TO FORCE GOD TO ACT. AND IT WOUNDS THE RESPECT AND TRUST WE OWE TO GOD. SO JESUS IS GIVING US THAT EXAMPLE. THAT GOD IS THE FATHER. WE ARE HIS CHILDREN. WE ARE TO HAVE A FILIAL RESPECT AND TRUST. TO LOVE HIM AND TO SEEK HIS WILL NOT TO DOUBT HIS LOVE. NOT TO DOUBT HIS PROVIDENTIAL CARE OVER US. SATAN IS TRYING HE IS SAYING IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD. IF YOU HAVE THIS FILE WILL RELATIONSHIP, DO THESE THINGS. HE IS INSERTING THESE TEMPTATIONS TO REALLY NOT TRUST IN GOD AS FATHER. SEEK POWER. SEEK DAZZLING MIRACLES. SEEK SIGNS. ANYTHING BUT GOD'S WILL OF THE CROSS. THAT IS WHAT THE TELAMON THE CROSS. IF YOU ARE THE SON OF GOD COME DOWN FROM THERE. WHY WOULD THE SON OF GOD BE CRUCIFIED? THAT IS HOW HE SAVES US. AND THAT IS WHAT WE ENTER INTO. THAT IS WHAT OUR HUMAN NATURE REBELS AGAINST SUFFERING. ANYTHING BUT THAT. GO A DIFFERENT WAY. WHEN PETER TRIES REMEMBER TO DISSUADE HIM JESUS ASKED WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM? PETER GETS RIGHT. THE SON OF GOD THE CHRIST. AND HE GIVES A PASSION PREDICTION AND JESUS SAYS FORBID IT LORD THAT YOU UNDERGO THIS. JESUS US GET BEHIND ME SATAN. BUT THAT IS THE SIN PANIC SATANIC TEMPTATION. A DIFFERENT WAY THAN THE CROSS. JESUS ALSO GIVES US A MODEL FOR US IN TEMPTATION. IN THE UNDERLYING THEME. I THINK IN ALL OF THIS IS THE DEPENDENCE ON GOD. HE IS QUOTING SCRIPTURE SHOWING HIS DEPENDENCE AND TRUST ON THE LORD. AND LITERALLY WE CAN DO THAT AS WELL. WHEN WE HAVE TEMPTATIONS WHAT I LIKE TO DO IS FIND A OF GOOGLE AND SAY SCRIPTURE OR PASSAGE ABOUT X OR'S. IN V. COVETOUSNESS. WHATEVER IT IS. AND THEN QUOTE THAT TO YOURSELF. SAY THAT. READ THAT. MEDITATE ON THAT. AND TRUST IN GOD NOT TO TRUST IN OURSELVES BECAUSE IT IS ONLY BY THE POWER OF GOD'S OUTSTRETCHED HAND THAT WE ARE LIBERATED FROM THE BONDAGE OF EGYPT. THE BONDAGE OF SIN AND DEATH. TO DEPEND ON GOD. WHEN WE GET OUT OF THAT THE LITTLE RELATIONSHIP OF DEPENDENCE WE SIN. WE FOLLOW WAY. THE 2ND READING TODAY FROM ROMAN SAYS EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED. AND JESUS ALSO EXHORTS US IN THE GOSPEL THAT IF WE CRY OUT LORD LORD WE HAVE TO SEEK HIS WILL. SO NOT JUST CALLING OUT ON HIS NAME TO REMOVE THIS SO I CAN GO ON MY MERRY WAY BUT GOD WANTS US TO AGAIN HAVE THAT FILIAL RELATIONSHIP OR WE ARE SEEKING THE FATHER'S WILL AND WE CALL OUT TO HIM AND IN DOING HIS WILL HE LIBERATES US. I THINK WE NEED I THINK COUPLE THIS PRACTICALLY TO IS JUST TO GET OUT OF OUR OWN HEADS. THERE IS A FAMOUS TEST THAT WAS DONE THEY CALL IT THE MARSHMALLOW TEST. THERE ARE DIFFERENT FORMS OF IT. YOU PUT SOMEONE IN THE ROOM AND SAY IF YOU DO NOT EAT THE MARSHMALLOW FOR X AMOUNT OF TIME WE WILL GIVE YOU A 2ND 1. RIGHT. MAYBE PUT AN OREO COOKIE. THAT HAS MARSHMALLOW INSIDE OF IT. WE WILL GIVE YOU A 2ND 1. 1 OF THE FORMS OF IT THEY LOOK AT HOW MEN AND WOMEN DID IN THIS TEST AND THEY SAID WOMEN FARED BETTER WHEN THEY TALKED ABOUT THE TEMPTATION. THEY TALKED IT OUT. MEN DID BETTER IF THEY DISTRACTED THEMSELVES FROM IT. THEY DID SOMETHING ELSE. SOME ACTIVITY. WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO DO. YOU HAVE TO TALK IT OUT WITH A FRIEND OR DISTRACT YOURSELF WITH SOME ACTIVITY DO THAT. JUST GET OUT OF OUR HEADS. OUR OWN ISOLATION. IDEALLY SERVING SOMEBODY ELSE AND DOING SOMETHING GOOD, WE ARE MUCH LESS LIKELY TO FALL IN TO TEMPTATION. CLEAN TOILETS. PICK UP TRASH. CALL A FRIEND WHO IS LONELY. IT HELPS US TO GET OUT OF OURSELVES AND CALL ON THE LORD AND DEPEND ON HIM. JESUS GIVES US A MODEL TODAY. HE HAS OVERCOME THE TEMPTER AND WE CRY OUT TO HIM IN HIS NAME HE WILL STRENGTHEN US TO OVERCOME SIN IN OUR LIFE. AND IT IS POSSIBLE. WE HAVE SAINTS. AND HOLINESS DOES NOT MEAN THAT WE ARE NOT TEMPTER. JESUS HIMSELF WAS TEMPTED. IT IS PART AND PARCEL OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. BUT HE OFFERS US LIBERATION AND FREEDOM. HE OFFERS US A HEAVENLY PROMISED LAND. . (PROFESSION OF FAITH ) (PRIEST) LET PROFESS OUR FAITH. (ALL) 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, (AT THE FOLLOWING WORDS, ALL BOW) 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. . (INTERCESSION FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT) (PRIEST INVITES THE PEOPLE TO PRAY.) ...LET US PRESENT OUR PETITIONS TO GOD... 1) THAT OUR HOLY FATHER MAY FIND SUPPORT IN ZEALOUS PRIESTS AND RELIGIOUS WHO WILL SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF LIFE THROUGH LIVES OF CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER AND SACRIFICE. WE PRAY TO THE LORD. 2) FOR THOSE WHO ARE SPIRITUALLY BLIND, THAT THROUGH THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE THEY WILL RECEIVE THE LIGHT OF GOD'S GRACE. WE PRAY TO THE LORD. 3) FOR THOSE WHO ARE OVERWHELMED BY THE SUFFERINGS THEY ENDURE, THAT THEY MAY EXPERIENCE THE LOVING COMPASSION OF OUR GOD. WE PRAY TO THE LORD. 4) FOR AN INCREASE IN VOCATIONS TO THE PRIESTHOOD AND THE CONSECRATED LIFE. WE PRAY TO THE LORD. 5) FOR THE DEAD, AWAITING THE DAY OF RESURRECTION. WE PRAY TO THE LORD. R. LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER (PRIEST CONCLUDES INTERCESSIONS) WE PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE INFERRED INTO THE WAR TAKING PLACE THERE. WE PRAY TO THE LORD. R. LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER. ( PRIEST) ...WE MAKE OUR PRAYER THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. R. AMEN. ♪ ( OFFERTORY ) ( ORGAN ) ♪ (CANTORS) (LATIN HYMN) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ . (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. . . ( LENT, FIRST SUNDAY ) (PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS) (PRIEST) GIVE US THE RIGHT DISPOSITIONS, O LORD, WE PRAY, TO MAKE THESE OFFERINGS, FOR WITH THEM WE CELEBRATE THE BEGINNING OF THIS VENERABLE AND SACRED TIME. 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. . (PREFACE) ("THE TEMPTATION OF THE LORD") (PRIEST) 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, BY ABSTAINING FORTY LONG DAYS pFROM EARTHLY FOOD, HE CONSECRATED THROUGH HIS FAST THE PATTERN OF OUR LENTEN OBSERVANCE AND, BY OVERTURNING ALL THE SNARES OF THE ANCIENT SERPENT, TAUGHT US TO CAST OUT THE LEAVEN OF MALICE, SO THAT, CELEBRATING WORTHILY THE PASCHAL MYSTERY, WE MIGHT PASS OVER AT LAST TO THE ETERNAL PASCHAL FEAST. AND SO, WITH THE COMPANY OF ANGELS AND SAINTS, WE SING THE HYMN OF YOUR PRAISE, AS WITHOUT END WE ACCLAIM: . ♪(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, THEREFORE, (BELLS)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 ♪ ( LATIN) (R.) SALVATOR MUNDI ,SALVA NOS QUI PER CRUCEM ET RESURRECTIONEM TUAM LIBERASTI NOS (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. . (LATIN WORDS OF THE "OUR FATHER" PRAYER) ♪(PRIEST) PRAECEPTIS SALUTARIBUS MONITI, ET DIVINIA INSTITUTIONE FORMATI AUDEMUS DICERE. (PRIEST AND PEOPLE PRAY) ♪ 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 DIMITTE NOBIS DEBITA NOSTRA, SICUT ET NOS DIMITTIMUS DEBITORIBUS NOSTRIS; ET NE NOS INDUCAS IN TENTATIONEM; SED LIBERA NOS A MALO. (PRIEST) ♪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. ♪ R. QUIA TUUM EST REGNUM, ET POTESTAS, ET GLORIA IN SAECULA. ♪ (PRIEST) 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. ♪R. AMEN. ♪ >>PAX DOMINI SIT SEMPER VOBISCUM. ♪R. ET CUM SPIRITU TUO. ♪. (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) . ( LENT, FIRST SUNDAY ) (COMMUNION ANTIPHON) (PRIEST) THE LORD WILL CONCEAL YOU WITH HIS PINIONS, AND UNDER HIS WINGS YOU WILL TRUST. . (FEMALE VOICE) FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT NOW RECEIVE JESUS IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT, WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING PRAYER. ♪ ( COMMUNION PSALM ) ( PSALM 19 ) ( ORGAN) (CANTORS) ♪ONE DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT COMES FORTH FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD. R. ONE DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT COMES FORTH FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD. ♪( CANTOR) 1. THE LAW OF THE LORD IS PERFECT; IT REVIVES THE SOUL. >>THE DECREES OF THE LORD ARE STEADFAST; THEY GIVE WISDOM TO THE SIMPLE. ♪ (CANTOR) 2. THE PRECEPTS OF THE LORD ARE RIGHT, THEY GLADDEN THE HEART. ♪>>THE COMMAND OF THE LORD IS CLEAR; IT GIVES LIGHT TO THE EYES. ♪ R. ONE DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT COMES FORTH FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD. ♪ ( CANTOR) 3.THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS PURE,ABIDING FOREVER. ♪>> THE JUDGMENTS OF THE LORD ARE TRUE; THEY ARE, ALL OF THEM, JUST. ♪ ( CANTOR) 4.THEY ARE MORE TO BE DESIRED THAN GOLD, THAN QUANTITIES OF GOLD. AND SWEETER ARE THEY THAN HONEY, THAN HONEY FLOWING FROM THE COMB. ♪ R. ONE DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT COMES FORTH FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD. ♪ ( CANTOR) 5.SO IN THEM YOUR SERVANT FINDS INSTRUCTION; GREAT REWARD IS IN THEIR KEEPING. ♪>> BUT WHO CAN DETECT THEIR OWN ERRORS? FROM HIDDEN FAULTS ACQUIT ME. ♪ ( CANTOR) 6. FROM PRESUMPTION RESTRAIN YOUR SERVANT; MAY IT NOT RULE ME. ♪ >>THEN SHALL I BE BLAMELESS, CLEAN FROM GRAVE SIN. ♪ R. ONE DOES NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT COMES FORTH FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD. ♪ (ORGAN) ( COMMUNION MUSIC ) ♪ (CANTORS)
