Mass - Ash Wednesday

so so so [Music] you are merciful to all o lord and despise nothing that you have made you overtook people's sins to bring them to repentance and you spare them for you are the lord our god [Music] god of mercy and compassion [Music] returns to thee [Music] jesus [Music] never will [Music] in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen the grace of our lord jesus christ and the love of god and the communion of the holy spirit be with you all and with your spirit we are entered we already enter into the season of land and begin with today the ashes given by the exchange symbolized to repentance so these 40 days for the church given by the church is for all of us to have a retreat yearly retreat you know jesus also do he did a retreat before he start his ministries his mission so this 40 days retreat is for prepare us for the resurrection and the resurrection is prepare us for the pentecost for mission so now let us acknowledge our sins and in this mass we be humble and acknowledge what we have done and ask god for pardon so let us pray grant oh lord that we may begin with holy fasting this campaign of christian service so that as we take up battle against spiritual evils we may be armed with weapons of self-restraint through our lord jesus christ your son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the holy spirit god forever and ever amen a reading from the prophet joel now now it is the lord who speaks come back to me with all your heart fasting weeping moaning let your hearts be broken not your garments torn turn to the lord your god again for he is all tenderness and compassion slow to anger rich in graciousness and ready to relent who knows if he will not turn again will not relent will not leave a blessing as he passes oblation and libation for the lord your god sound the trumpet in zion order a fast proclaim a solemn assembly call the people together summon the community assemble the elders gather the children even the infants at the breast let the bridegroom leave his bedroom and the bride her alcove between vestibule and altar let the priests the ministers of the lord lament let them say spare your people lord do not make a heritage a thing of shame a byword for the nations why should it be said among the nations where is their god then the lord jealous on behalf of his land took pity on his people the word of the lord thanks be to god [Music] have mercy on us oh lord for [Music] have mercy on us oh lord for we have sinned have mercy on me god in your kindness in your my compassion o wash me more and more from my guilt and cleanse me from my sin have mercy on us oh lord for we have sinned [Music] my offenses truly i know them my sin is always before me against you you alone have i sinned what is evil in your sight i have done have mercy on [Music] your heart create for me o god [Music] do not cast me away from your presence nor deprive me of your holy spirit have mercy on us o lord for we [Music] sinned give me again the joy of your help with the spirit of fear sustain me o lord open my lips and my mouth shall declare your praise on us oh lord for we have seen [Music] a reading from the second letter of saint paul to the corinthians we are ambassadors for christ it is as though god were appealing through us and the appeal that we make in christ's name is be reconciled to god for our sake god made the sinless one into sin so that in him we might become the goodness of god as his fellow workers we beg you once again not to neglect the grace of god that you have received for he says at the favorable time i have listened to you on the day of salvation i came to your help well now is the favorable time this is the day of salvation the word of the lord thanks be to god [Music] lord jesus [Music] harden not your hearts today but listen to the voice of the lord [Music] [Music] the lord be with you and with your spirit a reading from the holy gospel according to matthew glory to you oh lord jesus said to his disciples be careful not to parade your good deeds before men to attract that not notice by doing this you will lose all reward from your father in heaven so when you give arms do not have it trumpeted before you this is what the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets to win men's admiration [Music] i tell you solemnly they have had their reward but when you give arms your left hand must not know what your right is doing your arms giving must be secret and your father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you and when you pray do not imitate the hypocrites they love to say the prayers standing up in the synagogues and at the street corners for people to see them i tell you solemnly they have had their reward but when you pray go to your private room and when you have shut your door pray to your father who is in that secret place and your father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you when you fast do not put on a gloomy bloke as the hypocrites do they pull long faces to let men know they are fasting i tell you solemnly they have had their reward but when you fast put oil on your head and wash your face so that no one will know you are fasting except your father who sees all that is done in secret and your father who sees all that is done in secret will reward you the gospel of the lord praise you lord jesus christ long time ago there was a king who has four wives some may heard this story before the first why he has was because of political reasons alliance with other countries so he has to marry her but this king never loved this wife because no relationship is arranged so he he doesn't love this woman he never spent time with her he never [Music] bothered her then the second wife he loved the second wife because the second wife very capable this wife no matter what problems you have when the king got some problems cannot solve he will when he will go to this second wife and the second wife would solve every problem for him so he loved her because of that very capable woman and then the third wife the king loved a very loved her more why because the third wife very pretty very pretty whenever the king bring her out to some places or whatever everyone looking at them and jealous the king feel proud about the third wife very pretty and then the fourth wife the king loved her the most just because he loved her the most just simple reason sometimes we love someone because we just love that person right because that person is the one the one so the the king spent most of his time most of his uh possessions his wealth for the fought wife so one day this king discovered that he has a terminal illness and he only left one month to live then he very sad and very disappointed and very scared because he's scared when he died he would be alone so came to his mind was the fourth wife then he went to the fourth wife and asked her darling i'm so scared i just left one month to live when i die can you follow me die with me you know those times when the king died right they have to bury together why not so the fourth one said nonsense no way you go and die by yourself the king was so upset so disappointed because he loved the one he loved the most refused refused him abandon him but he straight away come to his mind he said never mind i still got the third wife this is the advantage of have to have many wives you know so he he went to the third wife and said darling [Music] i'm going to die can you die with me the third wife said no way you stupid i said she said um when you die after you die i'm so pretty you know that the wife so pretty i got a lot of men waiting for me he said she said then the king was you know my my pretty wife want to follow other men then come to his mind he said i still got the second wife then he went and he said to himself this second wife must be able must able to to settle [Music] my problems you know capable of whatever problems he she can settle and she went to there she went to her and she said no way i can help you whatever problems you have i can solve for you only this only death i have no way i don't know how you must face death by yourself i can't help you then the king so upset this time despair hopeless and he just walked by himself alone back to his room before he reached his room he heard a voice from the back saying no matter where you go i will follow you and the king turned and see he saw the first wife the one he never spent time the one he never bothered about the one he never loved now she said no matter where you go i will follow you very touch the king said if i have a second chance i will treat you better i would spend more time i would love you but too late for him my brothers and sisters why today ash wednesday i tell you this story this story telling us we all are the king no matter you are man or woman feel male or female the king symbolize us and who are the four wives all of us we got four wives so we are so fortunate we are blessed all of us we got four wives please bishop also got four wives the four wise symbolize the fourth wife the fourth wife symbolize ourselves our ego our the self the body our ego everything we spend most of the time for ourselves we build out our ego we build out the self the image we build out some even our body we spend most of the time most of the effort and most money for our body you know today how much time we spend for our body doing exercise myself also doing we spend a lot of food for ourselves we spend all the supplements the healthy food all these we spend go for beauty go for everything gym not easy no we put a lot effort for that no why because we love our body we love the self but when one day you have to go you have to leave this world your body said i cannot follow you bye bye darling your body will say i cannot follow you bye bye darling then what is the third wife the third wise symbolize our possessions material possessions our our bungalows our big houses our branded bag lv whatever our big cars luxurious cars those things are beautiful whenever we have it whenever we go people would admire we think people will admire we will feel proud of it very beautiful but when you die they will they would change owner you look for other men other people will own it not you you cannot they they won't follow you that is the third wife then the second wife what is that the second wise is our the people around us whom we love those people very helpful in our life help us when we have problems when we have problems we go and seek for help these people may be your parents maybe your siblings maybe your children maybe your good friends maybe your church member they are good they are good but when you die they said they also said i cannot follow you the only thing they can do is conduct a a good funeral for you conduct a good funeral or do a seven-week prayer for you right that's all offer must for you then what is the first wife who what is the first wife sorry jesus any [Music] no no so someone said i was so when we die your soul will say i will follow you wherever you go but most of the time we do not spend time we we we do not spend enough time for our soul most of the time we overlook or we just neglect spiritual matter so my brothers and sisters today we celebrate this ash wednesday the ashes telling us when we put the ashes repent believe in the gospel or you come from dust and you will return to dust tells us reminds us we all come from dust and return to dust nothing you can carry along only your soul is eternal everything will go but your soul will follow you eternally so this land length is for us to to be able to look into spiritual things because the whole year we may move to material things we will move to everything but we need glad spiritual one so my brothers and sisters let us start this land with looking to spiritual things not material things sometimes we very often like the during land especially today ash when i say we say fasting arms giving and prayer fasting prayer and arms giving right yes this is a spiritual exercise exercises but first of all what does it mean for us by doing this is it the doing so important because usually i always heard people said uh how long should i fast how many meals i eat uh how much should i eat all this meat can eat or not this cannot that is how to do it but first of all i i want all of us to focus more on why we do it why we do it don't just focus on how but why the why is very important if you know how but no you do not know the why [Music] fasting becomes starving now arms giving become just donation only no meaning then praying become mumbling why we do it all these spiritual exercises is to help us to make our ego smaller become smaller to let go our ego to let go and allow god become bigger in our life this is when we said blessed are those blessed are the poor in spirit these are poor in spirit recognize that we need god we need god when you fast is to make your will become weaker and allow god's will become stronger in your life if your will becomes so strong that god's will not able to fulfilled in your life then our life become we dominate our life not god so my brother and sisters this is how when this land we should see and should remind ourselves allow god become bigger and bigger just like jesus he started 40 days of fasting because he made himself total surrender to the father and after the 40 days he start his mission if not he would not able to go until the cross to reach the cross all of us we have our own cross to go and most of the time halfway we already turn back because we we do not allow god become god god must be god of our life amen other ashes ashes so now let us stand together dear brothers and sisters let us humbly ask god our father that he be pleased to bless with the abundance of his grace these ashes which we will put on our heads in penitents oh god who are moved by acts of humility and respond with forgiveness to works of penance lend your merciful ear to our prayer and in your kindness pour out the grace of your blessing on your servant who are marked with these ashes they may be worthy to come with minds made pure to celebrate the possible mystery of your son through christ our lord amen so now the communists may come forward we will come to give you all the ashes so this year we won't [Music] put on the forehead we will just sprinkle on the uh hey let our horse change our garments to sackcloth and ashes let us fast and weep before the lord that our god rich in mercy might forgive us our sins let us change our garments to sackcloth and ashes let us fast and weep before the lord that our god rich in mercy might forgive us our sins let the priests the ministers of the lord stand between the porch and the altar and weep spare your people do not close the mouths of those who sing your praise oh lord [Music] let the priests the ministers of the lord stand between the porch and the older lord spare your people do not close the mouths of those who were sing your praise o lord [Music] plot out my transgress o lord have mercy on me o lord according to your great mercy and according to the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions [Music] blot out my transgressions wash me at more from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sins out my transgressions [Music] so now let us stand together we pray for those who are in need as we begin our lantern journey of conversion and growth in our relationship with god and others we make our needs known to a life-giving god for our holy father pope francis bishops priests and religious that as they enter into the season of land they may through their preaching and holy life lead to god's kingdom the people entrusted to their care let us pray to the watch lord prayers for the many catholics who are estranged from god or the assembly that the season of land be a time of conversion and coming back to god let us pray to the lord for all gathered in eucharistic worship everywhere that god will give us a true spirit of penance during lent and we may learn to follow the teaching of jesus disciplining ourselves by prayer fasting and acts of charity let us pray to the lord r prayer for the pope's intentions for the people of ukraine may the queen of peace preserve the world from the madness of war for resources to build a church and all other needs of our parish for our own intentions and all the intentions offered for this mass let us pray to the lord [Music] merciful god you hear the prayers of those who cried to cried out to you may our lantern penance bring us closer to you and to each other we ask this through christ our lord amen [Music] oh lord in take the bread and wine and make of [Music] myself [Music] my [Music] thy [Music] blessed us [Music] is [Music] just [Music] pray brothers and sisters 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 good of all his holy church as we solemnly offer the annual sacrifice for the beginning of land we entreat you o lord the true works of penance and charity we may turn away from harmful pleasures and cleanse from our sins may become worthy to celebrate diwali the passion of your son who lives and reigns forever and ever amen today pope francis asked us to especially pray for the tension the peace in ukraine the invasion of russian so i will use the eucharistic prayer for reconciliation too pray for peace not only for ukraine but among us in our life also we ask for peace the lord be with you and with your spirit lift up your hearts we lift them up to the lord let us give thanks to the lord our god it is right and just it is truly right and just that we should give you thanks and praise o god almighty father for all you do in this world through our lord jesus christ for though the human race is divided by dissension and discord yet we know that by testing us you change our hearts to prepare them for reconciliation even more by your spirit you move human hearts that enemies may speak to each other again adversaries join hands and people seek to meet together by the working of your power it comes about oh lord that hatred is overcome by love revenge gives way to forgiveness and discord is changed to mutual respect therefore as we give you sisless thanks with the choirs of heaven we cry out to your majesty on earth and without hand we acclaim holy holy holy [Music] are full of your glory o god i in the highest blessed is he who comes in the name of the lord [Music] you therefore almighty father we bless true jesus christ your son who comes in your name he himself is the word that brings salvation the hand you extend to sinners the way by which your peace is offered to us when we ourselves had turned away from you on account of our sins you brought us back to be reconciled oh lord so that converted at last to you we might love one another through your son whom for our sake you handed forward to death and now celebrating the reconciliation christ has brought us we entreat you sanctify these gifts by the outpouring of your spirit that they may become the body and blood of your son whose command we fulfill when we celebrate these mysteries for when about to give his life to set us free as he reclined as supper he himself took bread into his hands and 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 in a similar way on the same evening he took the chalice of blessing in his hands confessing your mercy and gave the chalice to his disciples saying take this out 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 the savior forever your cross and resurrection you have set us free celebrating therefore the memorial of the death and resurrection of your son who left us this pledge of his love we offer you what you have bestowed on us the sacrifice of perfect reconciliation holy father we humbly beseech you to accept us also together with your son and in this saving banquet graciously to endor us with his very spirit who takes away everything that enstranges us from one another may he make your church a sign of unity and an instrument of your peace among all people and may he keep us in communion with francis our pope and julian leo our archbishop or the bishops and your entire people just as you have gathered us now at the table of your son so also bring us together with the glorious virgin mary mother of god blessed joseph her spouse with your blessed apostles and all the saints with our brothers and sisters and those of every race and tongue who have died in your friendship bring us to share with them the unending banquet of unity in a new heaven and a new earth where the fullness of your peace will shine forth in christ jesus our lord 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 forever and ever [Music] at the savior's command and formed by divine teaching we dare to pray 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 deliver us lord we pray from every evil graciously grant peace in our days that by the help of your mercy we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our savior jesus christ for the kingdom the power and the glory are yours now and forever lord jesus christ who said to your apostles peace i leave you my peace i give you look not on our sins but on the faith of your church and graciously grant her peace and unity in accordance with your will who live and reign forever and ever amen the peace of the lord be with you always and with your spirit now let us offer each other the sign of peace lamb of god you take away the sins of the world have mercy on us lamb of god you take away the sins of the world have mercy on us lamb of god you take away the sins of the world grant us peace 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 lord i am not worthy that you should enter under my roof but only say the word and my soul shall be healed he who ponders the law of the lord day and night will yield fruit in new season [Music] jesus [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] oh is [Music] is is [Music] r [Music] is [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] thank you what oh so let us pray may the sacrament we have received sustain us o lord that our london fuss may be pleasing to you and be for us a healing remedy through christ our lord amen the lord be with you and with your spirit pour out a spirit of compulsions oh lord oh god on those who bound before your majesty and by your mercy may they merit the rewards you promised to those who do penance through christ our lord amen may almighty god bless all of you the father the son and the holy spirit amen go in peace glorify the lord by your life thanks be to god [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] foreign you

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Published: Wed Mar 02 2022