Holy Catholic Mass - 1st Sunday of Lent - 6 March 2022

[Music] prayer for peace in our time o god author and giver of peace the peace which the world cannot give listen to the cry that rises from every corner of this fragile earth give peace in our time especially upon the ukraine and other countries where the human family is torn by violent conflict grand world leaders the wisdom to see beyond the boundaries of race religion and selfish ambitions and arrive at the realm of common humanity that makes us all children brothers and sisters sharing this earth we call home to those who have taken up arms in anger revenge or even in the course of justice grant them the grace of conversion to the path of peaceful dialogue and constructive collaboration to the innocent living in the shadow of war and terror be for them lord a shelter and source of strength haven and hope to those who lost their lives as victims of human cruelty and destruction open wide your arms and unfold them in your embrace an everlasting life grant this through jesus christ your son our lord and through the intercession of our blessed mother mary we pray [Music] amen the sky holy and true sacred all life sacred each other or reflect god who is good o praise be o through brother [Music] splendid ride your glorious sky sacrifice [Music] sacred the sky holy and truly sacred all life secret each other oh reflect god [Music] in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit army the lord be with you and with your spirit as we enter into this season of mercy and repentance we call to mind our sins i confess to almighty god and to you my brothers and sisters that i have greatly sinned in my thoughts in my words in what i've done in what i fail 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 may almighty god have mercy on us forgive us our sins bring us to everlasting life amen lord have mercy lord have mercy christ have mercy christ have mercy lord have mercy lord have mercy let us pray 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 amen a reading from the book of deuteronomy moses said to the people the priests shall take the pania from your hand and lay it before the altar of the lord your god then in the sight of the lord your god you must make this pronouncement my father was a wandering aramaian he went down into egypt to find refuge there few in numbers but there he became a nation great mighty and strong the egyptians ill-treated us they gave us no peace and inflicted harsh slavery on us but we called on the lord the god of our fathers the lord heard our voice and saw our misery our toil and our oppression and the lord brought us out of egypt with mighty hand an outstretched arm with great terror and with signs and wonders he brought us here and gave us this land a land where milk and honey flow here then i bring the first fruits of the produce of the soil that you the lord have given me you must then lay them before the lord your god and bow down in the sight of the lord your god the word of the be to lord [Music] be with my me [Music] be with me lord in my distress he who dwells in the shelter of the most high and the bites in the shade of the almighty [Music] says to the lord my refuge my stronghold my god in whom i trust [Music] upon you no evil shall fall [Music] no plague approach where you dwell for you has he commanded his angels to keep you in all your ways [Music] they shall pay you upon their hands lest you strike your foot against the stone on the lion and the viper you will trust and trample the young lion and the dragon be with me by his first his love he set on me so i will rescue him protect him for he knows my name when he calls i shall answer i am with you i will save him in distress and give him glory [Music] be with [Music] me a reading from the letter of saint paul to the romans scripture says the word that is the faith we proclaim is very near to you it is on your lips and in your heart if your lips confess that jesus is lord and if you believe in your heart that god raised him from the dead then you will be saved by believing from the heart you are made righteous by confessing with your lips you are saved when scripture says those who believe in him will have no cause for shame it makes no distinction between jew and greek all belong to the same lord who is rich enough however many ask his help for everyone who calls on the name of the lord will be saved the word of the lord [Music] king of eternal glory priest the king of eternal glory and dost not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of god [Music] [Music] the lord be with you and with your spirit this proclamation taken from the holy gospel according to sin luke glory to you o lord filled with the holy spirit jesus left the jordan and was led by the spirit through the wilderness being tempted there by the devil for 40 days during that time he ate nothing and at the end he was hungry then the devil said to him if you are the son of god tell this stone to turn into a loaf but jesus replied scripture says man does not live on bread alone then leading him to a height the devil showed him in a moment of time all the kingdoms of the world and said to him i will give you all this power and the glory of these kingdoms for it has been committed to me and i will give it to anyone i choose worship me then and it shall all be yours but jesus answered him scripture says you must worship the lord your god and serve him alone then he led him to jerusalem and made him stand on the parapet of the temple if you are the son of god he said to him throw yourself down from here for scripture says he will put his angels in charge of you to guard you and again they will hold you up on their hands in case you hurt your foot against a stone but jesus answered him it has been said you must not put the lord your god to the test having exhausted all these ways of tempting him the devil left him to return at the appointed time the good news the gospel of the lord praise to you lord lord jesus christ you must have heard of the monkey trap have you heard of the monkey trap it's a well-known trap used by hunters to catch monkeys what they do is they make a hole just big enough for the monkey to put its hand in the coconut then they put some kind of bait their favorite food i heard green bananas and they cut them up and they put them into the coconut then they tie the coconut up in the tree what they find is that the greed of the monkey will always stick its hand into the coconut to grab the bananas or whatever is the bait but with a clenched fish it can't get its hand out when the hunter approaches the monkey panics it tries harder and harder to pull the fruit out it can't and eventually it is captured all the monkey had to do was to open its hand to let go and it was free but this obsession this possession of that fruit keeps the hand the fists clench and it eventually causes the monkey it's like it's freedom silly monkey right hmm silly me i'm that monkey so often what's my coconut what's yours today's gospel tells us what our coconuts are we have marked ourselves with ashes on wednesday to prepare ourselves to celebrate the great feasts of easter a special time of recalling the gift of our baptism and our freedom to live as god's children today in this first sunday of lent the narrative the gospel narrative points to the three ways in which we often trap ourselves being lured to the coconut's promising satisfaction success and domination it invites me lures me with false desires with traps i want i want i want i must have i must have i must have and eventually my fist grabs my hand is inside the coconut and eventually i'm trapped because i find it very hard to let go it's an insidious logic isn't it that first temptation so natural i'm hungry so legitimate after 40 days of hunger one needs to survive one needs food and so i begin insidiously to say this is what i need and eventually that need grows into a greater need and a greater need and eventually it becomes i want when i'm tempted i find i do not eat to live i live to eat and this eating becomes my purpose and meaning in life to satisfy my cravings it possesses me how insidiously it works and very soon it's not food it's everything that first works with i need to eventually begin to possess me perhaps less insidious but more deadly is my vain glory my sense of importance my need to possess control and dominate i mean i have friends who are influences and sometimes they work themselves to death to try to gain more followers and more followers and it's never enough it seems that there's nothing about the content anymore it's just what grabs the headlines what will get more eyeballs and eventually all that drives me is to reach to the top to dominate when instead i'm called to be humus to be soiled to be humble the reference is not me the reference is god but how often my grades my possessions my status becomes that vain glory and this eventually brings us to the parapet of the temple and then the parapet of temple i begin to temp god i begin to serve like say i will use my god and manipulate him i will test him i am his beloved let him prove that i am i'm blessed he will surely save me and so my life moves from just what i need to survive to eventually the focus on myself and eventually i become the tempter temptations will always be part of our lives no matter our age or circumstances in life len provides us with that season to discipline ourselves to see things as they are yours traps that can eventually steal my life to examine what my fist is clenched with what is it that i'm holding on to and i can't let go anger pride maybe even sloth and eventually with the grace of god and of the season to let go to save my life let us not be depressed discouraged or nervous but humble enough to know that this is a season of grace given to you and me to allow myself to move from being in the middle where every reference is about my wants and my desires and my addictions but to allow that center to be god's word god's love god's forgiveness and mercy perhaps an expression that dramatically comes home for me about our excessive consumption was when i read in the news that 470 billion plastic bottles are used just for one single purpose 470 billion plastic bottles are floating in the river choking our wildlife destroying our planet who's consuming them me it's never enough the harmony between creator humanity and creation is disrupted by our presuming to take the place of god and refusing to acknowledge our limitations and what is enough when we act out of greed at the lack of respect by grabbing and possessing by excessive satisfaction and consumption for self for my own comfort we damage our relationship with god jesus in the desert invites us to unite with him and to see that our dependence is on god as the source destination of our lives that slowly allows me to let go and get my hand out of that monkey trap let us together take this season enter into it participate into it and find our freedom to love i believe in god the father almighty creator of heaven and earth and in jesus christ his only son our lord who was conceived by the holy spirit born of the virgin mary suffered and the pontius pilate was crucified died and was buried he descended into hell on the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of god the father almighty from there he will come to judge the living and the dead i believe in the holy spirit the holy catholic church the communion of saints the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the body and life everlasting amen heavenly father hear our cries to you for help during this lent as we present our needs and those of the world for the catholic church that we be strengthened to live lives marked by humility and love we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for political and civil authorities that they be guided by a sense of duty integrity and justice in their work we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for the church community that we be attentive to god's call and be worthy witnesses of jesus to our families communities and all peoples we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for medical and health care front liners that the lord protect them and their families as they carry out their duties of service and care for the sick and elderly we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for those who are sick seeking employment and distress financially that they be supported by relevant care agencies and the community we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer that our efforts in curbing our excessive wants will be our lenten practices that will change our hearts in the way we care for the world we care for our common home and we care for our brothers and sisters so that we be in a relationship with god who gave us this world to live in we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer loving father grant us our prayers that we be like jesus in the desert placing his full trust in his father we ask this through our lord jesus christ amen blessed are you lord god of all creation for this through your goodness that we have this bread and wine to offer fruit of the earth fruit of the vine work of human hands it will become for us our spiritual food and drink bless be god forever pray my sisters my brothers pray that what you bring in this offering the prayers you pray the sacrifices you make pray that your offering and mine here may be acceptable to god our 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 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 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 then 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 through christ our lord by abstaining 40 long days from 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 feasts and so with the company of angels and saints we sing the hymn of your praise as without end we acclaim holy holy holy lord god of hopes heaven and earth are full of your glory hosanna in the highest blessed is he who comes in the name of the lord hosanna in the highest you are indeed holy o lord the fount of all holiness make holy therefore these gifts we pray by sending down your spirit upon them like the dewfall so that they may become for us the body and blood of our lord jesus the 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 he gave the chalice to his disciples saying take this all of you and drink from it for this is the chalice of my blood the blood of the new and eternal covenant which will be poured out for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins do this in memory of me the mystery of faith save us savior of the world for by your cross and resurrection you have set us free therefore as we celebrate the memorial of his death and resurrection we offer you lord the bread of life the chalice of salvation giving thanks that you have held us worthy to be in your presence minister to you humbly we pray that partaking in the body and blood of christ we may be gathered into one by the holy spirit remember lord your church spread throughout the world in the violence of our world in the distress of our brothers and sisters help us and bring us to the fullness of charity together with francis our pope william our bishop and all the clergy remember our brothers our sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection all who have died in your mercy welcome them into the light of your face and have mercy on us all we pray that with the blessed virgin mary mother of god with blessed joseph her spouse the blessed apostles which in francis and sinclair with all the saints who have pleased you throughout the ages that we in our age that we too may merit to be coheirs to eternal life may praise glorify you through your son jesus christ for it is through him and with him and in him oh god almighty father in the unity of the holy spirit all glory and honor is yours forever and ever amen 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 amen deliver us lord we pray from every evil and graciously grant peace in our day that by the help of your mercy we may be free from sin safe from all distress as we await the blessed hope and coming of our savior jesus christ for the kingdom the power and the glory are yours now and forever lord jesus christ you said to your apostles peace peace i leave you my peace i give to you look not on our sin but look look on the faith of your church and graciously grant her peace and unity in accordance with your will who live and reign for ever and ever amen the peace of the lord be with you always and with your spirit let us then extend this peace to those who might be with us offer this peace to the world the peace that the lord gives us peace be with you lamb of god you take away the sin of the world have mercy on us lamb of god you take away the sin of the world have mercy on us lamb of god you take away the sin of the world grant us peace the word of god by which we live by the bread of life by which we live by behold the lamb of god who takes away the sin of the world bless blessed are those called to the supper of the lack lord i am not worthy that you should enter under my roof but only say the word and my soul shall be healed [Music] my jesus i believe you are really here in the blessed sacrament i love you more than anything in the world and i hunger to receive you but since i cannot receive communion at this time feed my soul at least spiritually i unite myself to you now as i do when i actually receive you in holy communion amen [Music] let us pray renewed now with heavenly bread by which faith is nourished hope increase and charity strengthen we pray o lord that we may learn to hunger for christ the true and living bread and strive to live by every word which proceeds from your mouth through christ our lord amen the lord be with you let us pray may bountiful blessing o lord we pray come down upon your people that hope may grow in tribulation virtue be strengthened in temptation and eternal redemption be assured through christ our lord and may almighty god bless you father son and holy spirit amen the mass is ended let us go in peace glorifying the lord by our lives thanks be to god [Music] come beloved and rest your mind leave the things of this world behind here i will be your daily bread all that you need into the desert i will leave here in the silence my word will speak and you will find the peace you seek here in the desert [Music] stay [Music] stream all that you need into the desert i will lead here in the silence [Music] you seek here in the desert from this desert your life will bloom out of despair it's all prelude and from this death you're [Music] here in the silence [Music] here in the desert [Music] and you find the peace you seek here in the desert [Music] here in the desert [Music]

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Length: 41min 54sec (2514 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 05 2022