Sunday Holy Mass for February 27, 2022

foreign [Music] r [Music] [Music] is oh oh like [Music] and the oh [Music] women and blessed jesus [Music] god [Music] [Music] oh oh [Music] oh foreign [Music] [Music] now uh the archangels thank you [Music] so good morning and welcome to st mary of pine bluff one announcement today every household received a letter from bishop hein regarding the 2022 diocese of madison annual catholic appeal each family should prayerfully consider making a pledge payable over six months to the appeal your gift will enable the diocese to reach its goal and provide for many ministries education and services throughout our diocese please be generous [Music] hey [Music] oh [Music] hey [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] so so [Music] foreign oh is [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] ah in the name of the fallen son of the holy spirit the lord be with you my brothers and sisters let us acknowledge our sins and so prepare ourselves to celebrate these sacred mysteries 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 have done and in what i have failed to do through my fault through my fault through my most grievous fault therefore i ask blessed mary ever virgin [Music] and you my brothers and sisters to pray for me may almighty god have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life [Music] christopher [Music] is [Music] glory to god in the highest and [Music] lord jesus christ [Music] mercy on most us jesus christ with the holy spirit [Music] let us pray grant us o lord we pray that the course of the world may be directed by your parochial 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 the unity of the holy spirit one god forever [Music] a reading from the book of sirach when a sieve is shaken the husks appear so do one's fault when one speaks as the test of what the potter molds is in the furnace so in tribulation is the test of the just the fruit of a tree shows the care it has had so too does one speech disclose the bent of one's mind praise no one before he speaks for it is then that people are tested the word of the lord oh [Music] a reading from the first letter of saint paul to the corinthians brothers and sisters when this which is corruptable clothes itself with incorruptibility and this which is mortal closed itself with immortality then the word that is written shall come about death is swallowed up in victory whereo death is your victory where o death is your sting the sting of death is sin and the power of sin is the law but thanks be to god who gives us the victory through our lord jesus christ therefore my beloved brothers and sisters be firm steadfast always fully devoted to the work of the lord knowing that in the lord your labor is not in vain the word of the lord [Music] oh is the lord be with you a reading from the holy gospel according to luke [Music] jesus told his disciples a parable can a blind man guide a blind man will not both fall into a pit no disciple is superior to the teacher but when fully trained every disciple would become like his teacher why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own how can you say to your brother brother let me remove that splinter in your eye when you don't even notice the wooden beam in your own eye you hypocrite remove the wooden beam from your eye first then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother's eye a good tree does not produce rotten fruit nor does a rotten tree bear good fruit every tree is known by its own fruit for people do not pick figs from thorn bushes nor do they gather grapes from brambles a good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good but an evil person out of a store of evil produces evil for from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks the gospel of the lord [Music] so you can see the big screen here we're going to watch uh just the amazing ministries that uh are produced by our diocese and we'll do that first and then uh i'll be back since the earliest days of our church the faithful have set out on pilgrimage to jerusalem to rome to santiago to benton wisconsin okay so maybe pilgrimages to benton wisconsin aren't as ancient as others but for the past three years the faithful of our diocese have come together to journey from dubuque iowa to the village of benton this past august i joined more than 70 people who spent three days trekking through southwestern wisconsin pilgrimage reminds us that our faith life isn't static we're always moving forward journeying to heaven on the day we are baptized we set out on pilgrimage for the father's house that is our goal when i think about the pilgrimages i've done in the past i think of all the people that helped me along the way those who fed me housed me gave me water offered encouragement we never pilgrimage alone whether we're walking towards an earthly destination or we're walking towards eternal life it's why here in the diocese of madison we seek to provide program services and initiatives to help our more than 200 000 catholics and the broader community and to provide this support we need your support each year around this time we ask for both your prayers and your financial backing so we may continue providing programs and services of excellent quality to catholics and people of all ages the theme for this year's annual catholic appeal is open the way for the gospel your generosity helps us to continue supporting all of the initiatives events and programs that provide support on our journey towards the father's house we are abundantly blessed here in the diocese of madison the offerings are vast think of camp grey love begins here dozens of top-notch catholic schools provide remarkable formation in college ministries both at uw-platteville and madison encourage students in their faith when distractions are at an all-time high catholic charities the catholic multicultural center hispanic and migrant ministry rural life ministry and others do outstanding work reaching out to the vulnerable among us additionally the funds raised by our aca go to provide training for our teachers seminarians priests and our family ministries and your support allows us to maintain our diocesan cemeteries that they may remain beautiful and reverent places none of this is possible without you and we cannot express enough our gratitude to you for your continued support we encourage you to open the way for the gospel open your hearts to the possibility of god and his love for you and listen to the truth of the catholic church speaks when we embrace it we find a life of joy purpose and meaning beyond anything we can fabricate on our own and in this pilgrimage of life from birth to eternity we strive to serve you and support you on this spiritual journey so why do we walk from dubuque dependent [Music] because we follow in the footsteps of a man named father samuel mazzuchelli a remarkable person born in 1806 in milan italy he became a dominican at the age of 17. mazzakelli had a tremendous zeal for mission work so he came to america in 1828 right away he got to work evangelizing the vastness of the wild mid-19th century midwestern united states his fervor took him all over the midwest he built churches established schools and even helped with city planning when given the task of naming the streets of shalsburg wisconsin he chose the virtues travel to schulzberg and you might find yourself at the corner of faith and mercy there are more than 20 parishes in our diocese that trace their roots to the work of father mazu kelly for him every place every relationship every opportunity was a moment for him to proclaim the gospel of christ the extraordinary good news of jesus christ crucified and risen each of us should strive to be more like him so that is why we walked certainly much has changed since the time of father mazza kelly but the human heart has not human desires have not changed we're all still looking for meaning and purpose to realize that our life has some vast significance beyond the daily and the ordinary as we walk toward the final resting place of father mazza kelly what a joy to share it with so many wonderful people journeying together towards the prize father mazzakelli roamed this wild land more than 150 years ago long before pope pius xii established our beloved diocese 75 years ago in many ways though father mazzakelli is the spiritual father that planted the seeds of the diocese of madison in 1993 saint john paul the second declared mazzakelli venerable and with gratitude for his example we pray that his cause for beatification and canonization will soon follow friends it's an enormous blessing to serve as your bishop as we journey towards the father's house together know of my continued prayers for you thank you for your prayers and for your financial support of all the goodness being done here in the diocese of madison venerable father mazza kelly pray for us [Music] so the diocese is set aside this weekend for the um uh annual catholic appeal and i just know too that you know you've heard me say before you guys get it and i've always pointed to that holy spirit gift of wisdom and you do get it and you understand that there are many forces right now that are coming against us and we need to be a united force as a parish but then as a diocese and then as the roman catholic church so we can be those lights those bright lights that push out the darkness and we have parishioners who are i mean um dice and employ employees that are parishioners are in our pews and i know they sacrifice they don't get paid a lot they put in a lot more hours than they uh get paid for and they're just beautiful souls so this is a beautiful way for us to uh contribute to the many beautiful missions that our diocese does and i know you've been so generous in the past i pray you're uh you continue to do so so i'm off the script here what do we got so um so ask one member of each household to take a pledge envelope and a pencil please open the envelope and uh in the space provided print your first and last names complete address phone and email address while you're doing that i'm going to take the time to say this wednesday is ash wednesday and it begins our lenten journey and this is going to be a very very special one for us here's the book i kept it up here but this is our tool this uh peace your strength prayer journal that's going to help us to spend beginning on ash wednesday um 90 days getting closer and closer and closer to our lord falling and deeply in love with him like we've never been before so that's kind of my synopsis what this is all about but you've heard me talk before about it so i've got about a dozen or six or so of these journals in the back i've got a box full over the rectory if we run out of those so you can get your journal if you haven't gotten it already all right let's continue so uh if you have already made a gift to the aca by mail please check the box at the bottom of the envelope until or under the credit card eft section and do not fill out in any thing else at this time ask everyone else to look at the right side of the envelope and check the amount that you wish to give if you wish to contribute an amount other than the ones that are indicated please check the box other and write in your pledge amount and then toward the bottom please confirm your gift amount and select if you will be paying this all at once or a six months or in six monthly payments please also consider joining the perpetual stewardship society and making a monthly uh gift via credit card or direct debit with no end date you can do this by filling out your monthly gift amount under the credit card eft section who am i competing with back there i always tell people i come from a family of seven so i don't hear that if you wish to include a credit card or eft information please fill out that section underneath your information to the left of your gift amount always look see how many heads are down right now please if you would join us today at 6 30 at st peters for the kickoff of 40 days for life it's going to be a beautiful time together father eric sternberg is going to be the speaker and he's amazing i'll be there then please seal the envelope and return it uh indicate where uh wherever your parish has decided to collect these be sure to not seal the pencil inside the envelope how am i doing a few more heads are still lowered on behalf of bishop hein and everyone throughout the diocese thank you for your contribution to the catholic annual appeal and may god bless you and your family and while those are being collected uh just one more thing about our 90-day journey that begins on ash wednesday uh i will be emailing daily reflections it's just going to be like two or three lines with a link that you can read the a larger part of that reflection um you can go to read that but anyways it's just food for thought for doing your daily mental prayer just kind of get the wheels turning the first 40 days will come from the let freedom ring book that father peckman father altman and myself wrote and the last 50 days will be from the uh 54 day basic training and holiness that i wrote and you'll you'll get that in your email every day if you sign up um for the u.s grace force you can go to usgraceforce.com to find a place to sign up for the u.s grace force i'm so excited about this this awesome i made it look really good because i want us to take this super seriously thanks guys [Music] basically to just um there's a few little prayers that we want to get ingrained to do daily morning offering the angelus rosary uh but the big thing is to take 15 minutes every day in quiet hey honey i'm going to be up in the corner of the bedroom can you watch the kids you know doing your mental prayer okay we need that thanks everyone you've always been very generous i'm very proud of saint mary's we've always been in the very high percentile of giving like i say you get it praise god i believe [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] from [Music] and so loving father we offer you our prayers today we pray in a special way for ukraine and for peace throughout the world and so we offer our prayers with hope in our hearts for pope francis may god preserve his health as he leads the church in wisdom and love let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for political leaders may the lord assist them in working to promote peace among nations let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for all who work for an end to abortion that they may be strengthened by prayer let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer that each of us prayerfully respond to bishop hines letter to each parish family by making a generous pledge to the annual catholic appeal let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for all who have died may they received every good gift from the father in heaven let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer the intention of this mass is joseph and alba ragnall let us pray to the lord lord hear our lord come holy spirit fill the hearts of your faithful and in kindle in them the fire of your love we pray this through christ our lord is [Music] momentum [Music] so [Music] me [Music] so pray my brothers and sisters that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to god the almighty father oh god who provide gifts to be offered your name and count our oblations as signs our desire to serve you with devotion we ask for your mercy that what you grant as the source of merit may also help us attain merits reward through christ our lord the lord be with you lift up your hearts [Music] let us give thanks to the lord our god he's truly right and just our duty to our salvation always and everywhere to give you thanks lord holy father almighty and eternal god for we know it belongs to your bones glory that you came to the aid of moral beings with divinity and even fashion for us the remedy out of mortality itself that the cause of our downfall might become the means of our salvation through christ our lord through him the host of angels endures your majesty and rejoices in your presence forever may our voices we pray join with theirs in one chorus of exalted praise as we acclaim [Music] thank you [Music] to you therefore most merciful father we make humble prayer petition through jesus christ your son our lord that you accept and bless these gifts these offerings these holy and unblemished sacrifices which we offer you firstly for your holy catholic church be pleased to grant her peace to guard united governor throughout the whole world together with your servant francis our pope and donald our bishop and all those who holy the truth had in the catholic and apostolic faith remember lord your servants and all gathered here whose faith and devotion are known to you for them we offer you the sacrifice of praise for they offered for themselves and all who are dear to them for the redemption of their souls in hope of health and well-being and paying their homage to the eternal god living and true in communion with those whose memory we venerate especially the glorious of the virgin mary mother of our god and lord jesus christ and blessed joseph her spouse your blessed apostles and martyrs peter and paul andrew james john thomas james philip bartholomew matthew simon and jude linus pleades clement's sixties cornelius cyprian lawrence misogynist john and paul cosmos and damien and all your saints we ask that through their merits and prayers in all things we may be defended by your protecting help therefore lord we pray graciously accept this oblation of our service that of your whole family order our days and your peace and command that we be delivered from eternal damnation counted among the flock of those you've chosen be pleased oh god we pray to bless acknowledge and approve this offering in every respect make it spiritual and acceptable so may become for us the body and blood of your most beloved son our lord jesus christ and the day before he was to suffer he took bread in his holy and venerable hands with eyes raised to heaven to you god is almighty father 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 when supper was ended he took this precious chalice in his holy and venerable hands and once more giving you thanks he said the blessing and gave the chalice to his disciples saying take this all of you 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 [Music] the mystery of faith [Music] therefore o lord as we celebrate the memorial of this compassion the resurrection from the dead and the glorious ascension into heaven of christ your son our lord we your servants and your holy people offered to your glorious majesty from the gifts that you've given us this pure victim this holy victim this spotless victim the holy bread of eternal life and the chalice of everlasting salvation be pleased to look upon these offerings with a serene and kindly countenance and to accept them as once you are pleased to accept the gifts of your servant able to just the sacrifice of abraham our father in faith and the offering of your high priest melchizedek a holy sacrifice a spotless victim in humble prayer we ask you almighty god command that these gifts be born by the hands of your holy angel church on high in the sight of your divine majesty so that all of us who through this participation at the altar receive the most holy body and blood of your son may be filled with every grace and heavenly blessing remember also lord your servants who've gone before us with a sign of faith and rest in the sleep of peace grant them o lord we pray in all who sleep in christ a place of refreshment light and peace to us also your servants who those sinners hope in your abundant mercies graciously grant some share in fellowship with your holy apostles and martyrs with john the baptist stephen matthias barnabas ignatius alexander marcelinus peter felicity perpetua agatha lucy agnes cecilia anastasia and all your saints admit as we beseech you into their company not weighing our merits but granting us your pardon through christ our lord through whom you continue to make all these good things oh lord you sanctify them fill them with light bless them and be stowed down upon us 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 at the savior's command informed by divine teaching we dare to say [Music] oh [Music] 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 of glory are yours now 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 for ever and ever the peace of the lord be with you always [Music] is [Music] jesus christ 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 um [Music] oh [Music] uh [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] for me [Music] oh [Music] me [Music] hello [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] goodbye [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] the body first yes [Music] goodbye the body bye guys the word [Music] [Music] goodbye oh [Music] oh [Music] goodbye [Music] [Music] the body of christ the body of christ the body of christ the body of christ the body [Music] the body goodbye the bible the body of christ the body of christ the body of christ the body of christ the body of christ [Music] so [Music] oh [Music] friends [Music] so [Music] foreign so [Music] [Music] no so so so um let us pray nourished by these saving gifts we beseech your mercy lord that by this sacrament with which you feed us in this presentation you may make us partakers of life eternal through christ our lord [Music] federica foster [Music] oh saint michael the archangel defend us in battle be our defense against the wickedness and snares the devil may god rebuke him we humbly pray and do thou a prince of the heavenly hosts by the power of god cast into hell satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the root of souls [Music] foreign oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] me 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Published: Sun Feb 27 2022