Mass on the 8th Sunday in Ordinary Time with Fr. Rob Galea 27/02/2022

[Music] do [Music] you bring light to the dark [Music] that is [Music] are you [Music] great are you is [Music] [Applause] [Music] our hearts will cry these walls will sing great are you [Music] our hearts will cry these wounds will sing great [Music] me [Music] in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit the lord be with you i welcome you back to saint augustine's church in the heart of melbourne city it's a privilege to celebrate this mass in this 160 year old church a place where thousands tens of thousands of people come to find consolation come to find the presence of jesus i feel united also in the many people who have prayed here before and will continue to pray and i'd like to offer this mass for those of you who desire god in their lives those of you who feel like you've walked miles away and need the presence of god may be overcome by sin by temptation by the struggles in your life i'm praying for those who have put in their prayer requests through our web page but also for those who have left their prayer requests on our social media we pray for you our team prays for you and we will continue to bring your intercessions your prayers your needs to the lord our frg ministry partners thank you for making this mass possible so let us begin this time of prayer asking god for his mercy asking god to hear our prayers asking god to reach into those dark cold places of our lives lord you are never disappointed disgusted by us but you love us so much reach into those places that have darkness in them and bring your light lord have mercy christ have mercy lord have mercy and may almighty god have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life amen glory to god in the highest and on earth peace to people of good will we praise you we bless you we adore you we glorify you we give you thanks for your great glory lord god heavenly king o god almighty father lord jesus christ only begotten son lord god lamb of god son of the father you take away the sins of the world have mercy on us you take away the sins of the world receive our prayer you are seated at the right hand of the father have mercy on us for you alone are the holy one you alone are the lord you alone are the most high jesus christ with the holy spirit in the glory of god the father amen let us pray grant us o lord we pray that the course of our world may be directed by your peaceful rule and that your church may rejoice untroubled in her devotion through our lord jesus christ your son who lives and reigns with you in unity of the holy spirit one god forever and ever amen the first reading from the book of ecclesiastes the test of a man is in his conversation in a shaken sieve the rubbish is left behind so to the defects of a man appear in his talk the kiln tests the work of the potter the test of a man is in his conversation the orchard where a tree grows is judged on the quality of its fruit similarly a man's words betrays what he feels do not praise a man before he has spoken since this is the test of men this is the word of the lord thanks be to god response oriole psalm lord it is good to give thanks to you lord it is good to give thanks to you it is good to give thanks to the lord to make music to your name almost time to proclaim your love in the morning and your truth in the watches of the night lord it is good to give thanks to you the just will flourish like the palm tree and grow like a lebanon's theater lord it is good to give thanks to you planted in the house of the lord they will flourish in the courts of our god still bearing fruit when they are old still full of sap still green to proclaim that the lord is just in him my rock there is no wrong lord it is good to give thanks to you the second reading from the first letter of saint paul to the corinthians death is followed up in victory when this perishable nature has been put in imperishability and when this mortal nature has been put on immortality then the words of scripture will come true death is swallowed up in victory death where is your sting death where is your victory the sting of death is sin and sin gets its power from the law so let us thank god for giving us the victory through our lord jesus christ never given then my dear brothers never admit defeat keep on working at the lord's work always knowing that in the lord you cannot be laboring in vain this is the word of the lord thanks be to god [Music] offering the word of life [Music] the lord be with you a reading from the holy gospel according to luke jesus told the parable to his disciples can one blind man guide another surely both will fall into a pit the disciple is not superior to his teacher fully trained disciple will always be like his teacher why do you observe the splinter in your brother's eye and never notice the plank in your own how can you say to your brother brother let me take the splinter out of your eye when you cannot see the plank in your own hypocrite take the plank out of your own eye first and then you will be able to see clearly enough to take out the splinter that is in your brother's eye there is no sound tree that produces rotten fruit no again a rotten tree that produces sound fruit for every tree can be told by its own fruit people do not pick figs from a thorn nor gather grapes from brambles a good person draws what is good from the store of goodness in his heart but a bad person brings what is bad from the store of badness for a man's words flow out of what fills their heart the gospel of the lord do you have a problem with swearing with lying do you have a problem with exaggerating do you have a problem with boasting gossip maybe you see these things these habits don't come out of nowhere these addictions don't come out of nowhere they come out of an overflow of what we let into our hearts you see if you swallow if you drink if you consume poison what is going to happen the minute you are shaken the minute you tilt the glass you are going to overflow with poison so this is why we need to protect our hearts this is why we need to stand under the flow of god's mercy the flow of god's love and away from the poison the people the situations that bring poison that bring dirt into our lives it's like having a glass of water and pouring this into this glass just dirty water poisoned water and it's dirty and again what we say what we do when someone tells us something bad we get upset or we find ourselves cornered the first thing that's going to come out is the poison that we have consumed that pours out into the world but what we need to do is to stop to allow ourselves to be placed under the water flow of god god's fresh water and as he pours this water this glass starts to overflow and with the dirt before the foot of the cross we can turn to the lord and ask the lord to take this dirt to take this mess from our lives and god is not disgusted not disappointed he's the one we need to turn to with our mess he's not going to think any less of us he's not going to love us any less god is the one we can go to with our brokenness and he will love us unconditionally and as that starts to overflow even as we do this people will still throw dirt into our lives poison will still come our way because just because you follow jesus it doesn't mean that your your world is going to be perfect but if you stay under the flow of god's love even that poison cannot stick to you cannot stay with you because you're overflowing the dirt keeps coming out until eventually you're washed clean till eventually all that people see when there's reactions when there are when there's things that happen is not the swearing it's not the lying it's not the addictions it's not the the last that comes out but the purity of god's love what overflows from your heart what is the first thing that happens when things go wrong just a few days ago i was in my car driving my car and i nearly crashed into the car in front of me and i slammed down the brake and i'm skidding towards the car in front of me and i'm thinking i'm going to hit this car but vocally maybe in the past i would have sworn i would have said words that were not good for this homily but instead i cried out jesus jesus my lord my lord i found myself saying those things and i'm thinking wow you see we spend time in the presence of the lord what is going to happen is we're going to overflow the name of jesus the power of jesus the salvation of jesus the breakthrough of jesus so spend time with jesus spend time in the flow of god's love allow him to purify you to sanctify you to take away the poison in your life let us now together proclaim our faith in a god who gives us his living water 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 under 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 and so now we bring our poison to the lord we bring the darkness the brokenness the places that need to be scrubbed out and be placed with a water overflow lord we give you our sinfulness our temptations our addictions we give you those times where we allow ourselves to fall into the patterns of this world instead of trusting in you give us your breakthrough give us your deliverance lord hear us we pray for the church the universal church lord bring us to our knees take away the poison of sin that we have allowed to enter and give us your freedom and let us be sources of this living water in this world lord hear us the silence of your own hearts with your families let us bring our prayers to the lord so we bring our prayers to the lord through the intercession of mary our mother hail mary full of grace the lord is with thee blessed art thou amongst women and blessed the fruit of thy womb jesus holy mary mother of god pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death amen [Music] bless the lord [Music] the lord my soul who leads me [Music] through your business [Music] is [Music] bless the lord bless the lord [Music] is [Music] are you lord of all creations [Music] bless the lord [Music] so pray my 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 the good of all his holy church o god who provide the gifts to be offered to your name and count our oblations as signs of our desire to serve you with devotion and we ask for your mercy so that what your grant as a source of merit may also help us to attain merit reward through christ our lord the lord be with you lift up your hearts let us give thanks to the lord our god 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 through his death we celebrate and love his resurrection we confess with living faith and his coming in glory we await with unwavering hope and so with all the angels and saints we praise you as without end we acclaim [Music] 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 christ at the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his passion he took bread and giving thanks he broke it then 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 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 the mystery of faith [Music] is [Music] 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 with peter our bishop and all the clergy remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection just a moment of silence just pray for those who have died those who especially have no one to pray for them 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 would bless joseph her spouse with the blessed apostles and all the saints who have pleased you throughout the ages we may merit to be coheirs to eternal life and may praise and glorify you through your son jesus christ 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 amen at the savior's command and formed by divine teaching we dare to say 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 and 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 and lord jesus christ who set your apostles peace i leave you my peace i give you look not on our sin 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 the peace of the lord be with you always and let us offer each other a sign of peace oh foreign [Music] yes [Music] 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 [Music] this is [Music] is [Music] i am [Music] is [Music] is this is [Music] me peace [Music] [Applause] [Music] like to say a prayer for you for your needs for your intentions the lord knows the lord is present with you and he wants to answer your prayers he desires more than you do for you to be free for you to be delivered from anything that's holding you back physical spiritual emotion god is a god of breakthrough and so father god i thank you for every person i thank you that you love them you know them you know their need for deliverance lord i just pray for your presence your power your glory to enter into their hearts lord i'd like to pray for someone who's been praying for a healing of a stomach cancer lord lord you are able you are powerful lord i just ask you to take that and send it straight to your cross lord i'd like to pray for someone who has knee problems as well thank you lord that you are a god of healing lord i'd like to pray for someone who's who's feeling so hopeless and alone right now they're missing someone who has died recently lord jesus embrace them hold them show them that you are with them lord i'd like to pray for those who feel that they are abandoned abandoned by you abandoned by people around them lord show them how close you are to them thank you for your goodness and love for your healing lord i'd like to pray for those going through financial problems give them this that everything they need and more thank you holy spirit so together let us pray an act of spiritual communion my jesus i believe that you are present in the most holy sacrament i love you above all things and i desire to receive you into my soul since i cannot at this moment receive you sacramentally come at least spiritually into my heart i embrace you as if you were already there and unite myself holy to you never permit me to be separated from you amen on behalf of frg ministry thank you for praying with us for joining us please continue to to support this ministry we need your support your donations if you are able to most of all please pray for us we need your prayers our team need your prayers our outreach needs your prayers so just go to frgministry.com forward slash donate if you're 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your saving gifts we ask for your mercy oh lord that by the same sacrament with which you feed us in this present age you may make us partakers of life eternal through christ our lord the lord be with you and may almighty god bless you the father the son and the holy spirit the mass has ended go in peace [Music] the [Music] oh yes you are [Music] oh oh [Music] is [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] i am so excited to invite you on behalf of f r j ministry to our pilgrimage to the holy land in the middle of october we are going to head to israel to the holy land to seek jesus the jesus of history to walk where he walked where he talked where he interacted with people we're going to have time to pray time to worship we're going to have musicians there we're going to have time to fall in love with jesus the spaces are limited and we invite you to register now we look forward to seeing you and journeying with you in the footsteps of jesus encounter by frg ministry presents our online 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Published: Sat Feb 26 2022