Livestream - Pontifical Requiem High Mass (Extraordinary Form) Mozart Requiem in D Minor

holy mass just a reminder that all cell phones should be silenced at this point and we should keep an additive silence in the sanctuary as we prepare for this holy mass to pray for our faithful departed and so we thank you for being here this evening i would also ask that you refrain from taking photographs during mass as we do have professional photographers do you remember that this evening service is not a concert but it is a prayer and so the right comportment should be due for this time [Music] [Music] [Music] me [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] me [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so [Music] is [Music] shall i see god [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] god [Music] is [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] um [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] foreign [Music] hey 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[Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] uh right [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] so [Music] um [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] is [Music] is [Music] one [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] in resurrection [Music] please be seated our scripture reading for this all souls day the first mass the epistle comes from the first letter of saint paul to the corinthians brethren behold i tell you a mystery we shall all indeed rise but we shall not all be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye the last trumpet for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall rise incorruptible and we shall be changed for this corruptible body must put on incorruption and this mortal body must put on immortality but when this mortal body puts on immortality then shall come to pass the word that is written death is swallowed up in victory o death where is thy victory o death where is thy sting now the sting of death is sin and the power of sin is the law but thanks be to god who has given us the victory through our lord jesus christ and please stand for a reading from the holy gospel according to john at that time jesus said to the multitudes of the jews amen i made and i say to you the hour is coming and is now here when the dead shall hear the voice of the son of god and those who here shall live for as the father has life in himself even so he has given to the son also to have life in himself and he has granted him power to render judgment because he is son of man do not wonder at this for the hours coming in which all who are in the tomb shall hear the voice of the son of god and they who have done good shall come forth unto resurrection of life but they you have done evil unto resurrection of judgment please be seated we welcome all of you to saint john kansas on this all souls day i'm father joshua caswell the pastor of saint john kansas church it's a great privilege to have so many visiting clergy from around the archdiocese of chicago so many seminarians from the university of saint mary of the lake common line seminary i know we have a parish trip from our parish in springfield and many people visiting from all around the area who are very welcome here as we gather here to pray for our departed loved ones not only do we remember those who have gone before us among our family and friends but in a special way this evening remember victims of violence here in our city of chicago and prayer for healing and peace a special thank you this evening to our saints to see the acquired orchestra under the baton of massimo scapen as well as our organist karate kavali as pope benedict xvi told us whether it is mozart or bach that we hear in church we can gather an idea of what the gloria day means there is much truth here than in many many sermons he says truly in tonight's music that is the case we invite you to save the date and to come back for our nine lessons and carols that will be held saturday december 11th at 7 pm this christmas tradition is returning this year and will be a beautiful addition to your advent details will be forthcoming on our website as well as our bulletin and we extend our thanks this evening to bishop joseph perry auxiliary bishop of chicago for celebrating this math mass with us this evening and for preaching tonight's sermon welcome bishop harry uh [Music] good evening one and all eternal restaurant unto them o lord may they rest in peace sin reward punishment have all been ever perplexing problem mysteries for christians for all time the christians struggle to live consistently in the embrace of god's grace is perhaps no more summed up well than in saint paul's words in his letter to the romans chapter 7 where he says and i quote for even though the desire to do good is in me i am not able to do it don't do the good that i want to do instead i do the evil that i do not want to do if i do what i don't want to do this means that no longer am i the one who does it instead it is the sin that lives in me unquote this world of ours is a time of trial and struggle it ends for each of us with death consistent in church teaching derived from the sacred scripture are the lessons about divine judgment the doctrine of purgatory is rooted in passages that are found there namely that there is a need for personal holiness in order to enjoy the vision of god we find in the first letter to the corinthians chapter 3. and what this all points to friends is that our cultivated attitudes have not been fully purified corrected in life that the basic good direction and the life of grace which corresponded to our baptism is still wrapped up in peripheral wrong attitudes and wrongdoing in my thoughts and in my words in what i have done and in what i have failed to do as we recite at the start of mass purgatory entails this formal purification of the slightest imperfection the need for satisfaction [Music] penance needed to be done after sins are forgiven saint clement of alexandria taught in the first century that those who repent on their death beds who obviously do not have time to do works of penance in life will yet be sanctified in the next by a purifying fire saint augustine of hippo the famous fourth century bishop in his commentary on the sounds of the old testament he asks god to purify him in this life so that it will not be necessary after death for him to undergo that cleansing fire saint catherine of genoa 5th 15th century italian mystic says the fires of purgatory are god's love burning the soul to the extent that had not succeeded and so that it might succeed now for this reason the church reasons that the souls in purgatory are truly fortunate they are the suffering saints we call them the church suffering while we are the living [Music] are the church militant still struggling fighting off the enticements of evil in order to be found worthy of the kingdom the greatest desire of the poor souls is to be united with god saint augustine describes it so well the soul's great sense of longing for god when he says and i quote our souls are restless o lord restless until they finally rest in thee unquote the nature of the suffering of purgatory is not entirely known but saints and mystics have given us intuitions of what this is over the course of a couple millennia images from this side of the grave are used to get close to the definition of purgatory fire is the bible's image for purgative suffering and saint paul describes a kind of fire that both purifies us and burns away any imperfections again in first corinthians the third chapter he says judgment day will be revealed with fire and the fire itself will test the quality of one's works at best we can speculate that this fire is a pain of deprivation of absence of being without god like a child lost frightened in the dark who longs for its mother among my earliest memories as a little boy a boy of four or five years i remember my mother one sunny day took me downtown to her favorite department store on state street carson perry scott i remember the store counters being taller than i was to the extent that i could not see the top of the counters where these numbers of women were picking things up and picking that up looking at it and putting it down and picking something else up to look at and putting that down i found myself like all children in this predicament bored stiff yet before i knew it i lost my mother i had been at her side all along until somewhere she shifted to another counter to look at this look at that and i could not find her it couldn't have been more than three or four minutes at most but three or four minutes for a child of that age can seem like an eternity i had lost my mother where she had lost me and did not know it i began looking frantically for her every which way after these minutes i found her at another counter doing what women do picking stuff up laying it down picking something else up and examining it needless to say it was a relief to have found my mother after such a long time and the worst part about it my mother didn't know i was lost that experience for me those few minutes was purgatory or hell however one wishes to label it nothing can be worse for a child than to lose its parent especially its mother thinking that she's gone forever it's the closest that i can explain purgatory for what i have read and studied of the saints and the mystics separation from god for whom we are created is the greatest agony of a soul suspended between heaven and earth there are no words to describe it until you breathe your last this longing for god is smothered to a certain extent in this earthly surgeon distracted as we are by so much we hardly notice it but in the realm of eternity stripped of everything and undistracted as we are there this knowledge this longing for god is keen and acute and it is truly agonizing so saith the mystics and the saints the soul is hypersensitive in face of the goodness of god the soul suffers from knowing that it is for an indeterminable while impeded from the beatific vision by obstacles of its own making and this is the source of the soul's profound depression yet a certain peace alongside the suffering the soul is certain of eventual salvation when god eventually finds that soul saints and mystics tell us there is a great difference between the suffering of hell and the suffering of purgatory it is the hopelessness of hell's eternal eternal damnation and separation from god as opposed to the certainty of purgatory's eventual release from its pit of agony which is at stake and we the living on this side we suffer as well we the survivors many ache with the burden of unfinished business and lost opportunities especially if death was an unexpected arrival [Music] unresolved quarrels and unanswered questions unspoken words of love and unforgiven injuries all of this remains on this side of the grave is a painful legacy for us who are the living the moment the soul leaves the body at death it is exposed to the full power of god's pull on it we have nowhere else to go at that point crazed with hunger for god the soul beats itself against the barriers of its own remaining imperfection until finally it is purged by the very agony of its own struggle the barrier found in that realm for which there is no time or tick of a clock suddenly falls and suddenly god is there embracing the soul like a child suddenly finding its mother when he thought she was gone forever this much can be assured from the sacred writings and the saints and mystics who have been treated to intuitions and intimations of life beyond this one they tell us consistently in unison and in no uncertain terms [Music] that the remarkable outcome of all of this is that the infinite love that god harbors for each and every soul exerts its pull on that soul until christ wins that soul for god and here we are in prayerful worship of this evening behind every face here there may be stories of dying and rising there may be the stories of pain and loss joy thanksgiving hope anxiety wonderment these are the stories that put flesh and what it means to die and rise redeemed in christ as the lord himself said to his disciples that it was not the will of his father that he should lose anyone who believes in him and with this the church has always believed that the souls in purgatory can be aided by the prayers and the works of those of us who are still living we the church militant are very much aware of the bonds that link us with those who have gone on beyond us those in christ whose faith is known to god alone the church never ceases to remember to pray for the church suffering notice in every mass we special mention is made of them then too friends it's inconceivable that these saints suffering would forget us and the powerful intercession that they have on our behalf this evening's memorial offers us the living some consolation the deceased whom we have known or whom have left an imprint on our lives along life's journey are not beyond the reach of us who live in christ in prayer we can yet be with them in prayer we know that christ makes up for any and everything that was left unsaid or undone while they were with us here in prayer we know that there is still time to finish the unfinished business with our living on this side today we think of all those with whom we were bonded or mere acquaintances and we miss them sometimes very deeply who can ever find the words to express in any adequate way the sense of loss of one who loses a spouse after decades of life together or the loss of a friend who has been a true support in life [Music] who can give utterance to the pain of a parent who was laid in the grave a son or a daughter lost because of sickness or tragedy we cannot express it in words but our hearts know the wrenching emptiness of it all it's souls such as these for whom we pray with special mention in this mass of all souls day and should any of these deceased ones be suspended between heaven and earth and the purifying fires of perfection we implore god's mercy upon them that they may see god soon it's out of these mysteries that we come to know what it means to believe in life after death in heaven and in the resurrection of the body we come to know what it means to have a savior [Music] who for reasons unknown to us was required to die to this life and who himself has risen from the dead incorruptible and has marvelously wrapped us all in his own resurrection so as the catechism of the catholic church states the church holds that all who die in god's grace and friendship but still imperfectly purified undergo the process of purification which the church calls purgatory so as to achieve the holiness necessary to see god face to face this final purification of the elect is entirely different from the punishment of the damned therefore when one thinks of it purgatory can rightly be called the mystery of god's mercy god's final act of love on the soul when the soul through so much a part of the human condition hardly noticed god's love for that soul nothing unclean shall enter heaven so if we don't repair the consequences of our sins on earth by prayer and meditation fasting good works penance then making amends for what we've done will take place in that next place we can offer all of our good works our masses our prayers our fasting suffering or sacrifices to help deliver the poor souls to heaven sooner than later the 16th century post-reformation council of trent said this there is a purgatory and the souls there detained are assisted by the suffrages of the faithful but most especially by the most acceptable sacrifice of the altar and with that faith we pray eternal rest grant unto them o lord may their souls and all the souls of the faithful departed to the mercy of god rest in peace [Music] um hmm so is [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] april [Music] oh 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