Sunday Mass for February 13, 2022

[Music] so [Music] so [Music] good morning welcome to mary queen of peace as we celebrate the sixth sunday in ordinary time we especially welcome all those visitors who are joining us today we have a few announcements joyful discovery preschool our parish school is now registering students ages three to five for the 2022-22 school year our next synod listening session is on monday february 14th at 7 pm we have also recently added two sessions for teens please register to attend through the parish website this weekend we have a special collection for preparers an initiative of the washington state bishops to provide a nurturing response and promise to mothers and fathers who have chosen life you may use the envelopes in the pews to give given the collection basket drop off envelopes at the paris office or electronically through the parish website thank you for your generosity father chad is away on retreat next week the daily and sunday mass schedules will remain the same one exception is that the daily mass there will be a liturgy of the word and communion led by deacon on saturday morning february 19th at 9 am there will also be no confessions this friday or saturday save the dates for all three nights of the lenten parish mission sunday monday and tuesday february 27th 28th and march 1st at 7 pm for more information on these and other liturgies and events in our parish please check the bulletin or in the mqp website in today's readings we hear the following the prophet jeremiah proclaims the lord's message cursed is the one who trusts in human beings blessed is the one who trusts in the lord saint paul asserts that if jesus has not risen from the dead the corinthians faith would be in vain in the gospel of luke jesus speaks to the crowd of disciples giving examples of those who are blessed and those who experience woe so often we can be the source of our own suffering worldly pursuits and desires for wealth status promotion and the like deceive us into placing our hope in people and things rather than the lord this life is fading and only god can offer us true satisfaction in the kingdom of heaven as we participate in the holy sacrifice of the mass let us reflect on how blessed are those who trust in the lord and now let us take a moment to prepare our minds and hearts to receive the lord in word and sacrament [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] so your grace is [Music] my [Music] let your people bless you as your cup is [Music] in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit the grace of our lord jesus christ and the love of god and the communion of the holy spirit be with you all with your spirit brothers and sisters let us acknowledge our sins and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries lord jesus you came to gather the nations into the peace of god's kingdom lord have mercy lord jesus you come in word and sacrament to strengthen us in holiness christ have mercy lord jesus you will come in glory with salvation for your people lord have mercy may almighty god have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life amen [Music] we praise you we bless you [Music] we give you thanks for your great glory lord god lord jesus christ [Music] you take away the sins of the world have mercy on us [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] let us pray o god who teach us that you abide in hearts that are just and true grant that we may be so fashioned by your grace as to become a dwelling pleasing to you 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 [Music] a reading from the book of the prophet jeremiah thus says the lord cursed is the one who trusts in human beings who seeks his strength and flesh whose heart turns away from the lord he is like a barren bush in the desert that enjoys no change of season but stands in a lava waste a salt and empty earth blessed is the one who trusts in the lord whose hope is the lord he is like a tree planted beside the waters that stretches out its roots to the stream it fears not the heat when it comes it leaves stay green in the year of drought it shows no distress but still bears fruit the word of the lord so [Music] blessed are they in the lord [Music] wicked is meditates on his [Music] is [Music] by the way [Music] a reading from the first letter of saint paul to the corinthians brothers and sisters if christ is preached as raised from the dead how can some among you say there is no resurrection of the dead if the dead are not raised neither has christ been raised and if christ has not been raised your faith is in vain you are still in your sins then those who have fallen asleep in christ have perished if for this life only we have hoped in christ we are the most pitiable pitiable people of all but now christ has been raised from the dead the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep the word of the lord oh [Music] will be raised the lord be with you r a reading from the holy gospel according to luke jesus came down with the twelve and stood on a stretch of level ground with a great crowd of his disciples and a large number of people from all over judea and jerusalem and the coastal region of tyre and sidon and raising his eyes toward his disciples he said blessed are you who are poor for the kingdom of god is yours blessed are you who are now hungry for you will be satisfied blessed are you who are now weeping for you alive blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude and exult you and denounce your name as evil on account of the son of man rejoice and leap for joy on that day behold your reward will be great in heaven for their ancestors treated the prophets in the same way but woe to you who are rich for you have received your consolation woe to you who are filled now for you will be hungry woe to you who laugh now for you will grieve and weep woe to you who all speak well of you for their ancestors treated the false prophets in this way the gospel of the lord a year ago at christmas a friend knowing that i like started liking house plants in the last few years gave me a potted desert rose plant as a gift does anybody have one or seen those before i'd never seen one before they're quite uh quite interesting plants they are a succulent plant that is native to east africa and then arabia and it has so it has a green trunk and at the base of the trunk it has it kind of bulges that's where it stores its water for drought times and has shiny green leaves most of time but every so often little buds appear and when you see a little bud it's not going to be too long before quite dramatically these buds very quickly rapidly grow into these quite striking beautiful red rose-like blossoms therefore it's desert rose in order for this type of plant to flourish outside of its native area it has to be well you have to try to give it some of the same elements that it's used to so keep it fairly warm give it a lot of sun so in a you know a southern window with a lot of sunlight the soil needs to be kind of a sandy type of soil that can drain pretty easily and my first winter with this plant went quite well i got it a year ago and i received it already had a few little buds so i was hopeful that it would soon blossom and it did it was it was it was really exciting and those those blooms fall off after a few weeks and then a few months later more little buds came and another another round of blossoms and a few times it happened throughout the year so i was like yeah this is going well i'm taking good care of this plant it's flourishing it likes its spot so the first year went very well with this plant last month we began the second year of my care of this plant and i started to notice that at the towards the base that a few of the leaves started turning yellow and then brown and then i you know plucked them off out maybe that's just kind of part of the natural cycle loses a few leaves every so often every year maybe so i plucked them off hoping that was that would be it but then a few days later kind of the next layer up started to turn yellow so i was like oh what's going on here so i go on the internet and i type in why do i have yellow leaves in my desert rose plant you know into google and so the first hit came back and it so i clicked on the link and it said first line said well desert rose plants can develop yellow leaves for several reasons and some are as simple and benign as a change of seasons so i stopped reading there i thought well maybe that's that's what it is just change the seasons right it made me feel better so um but then you know a few days later kind of the next level up started to turn yellow and it kept happening and it was like basically getting close to the the last leaves at the top are the only ones left and i was like okay this doesn't seem like change of seasons maybe so i went back to that website read further down and it said so the the following may cause yellowing leaves too much water too little water uh too little light fungal infection um pest infestation so those are different options that i was now dealing with what what's what is this what's causing this so then i uh looked in a book that i was given for christmas this year a book on house plants as it went to the desert roads page and it said this when the light levels are low and is cold do not water much if at all never water them if it is cold where they are placed as they will rot quickly so i looked more closely at you know at my plant i was kind of touching it and felt down to the bulge area and what was supposed to be kind of a nice hard firm bank of uh water for it's stored up for itself i pressed on it and it was spongy and actually kind of broke through when i pressed on it and i realized my worst fears for this plant was that it had a fungal infection and so and there was no way to save it at this point and i'm not so i'm not like a plant doctor i'm not an expert i'm still learning many of you might some of you might correct me afterwards or give me more advice on this but my diagnosis is that you know i did watered i didn't water it too much in my opinion you know i watered it just once a month or so i waited for the soil to get dry before i watered it but i did water it late december when it was really cold and it sits right by a window the furthest away from my wall heater uh it is the coldest part of my rectory and all i can guess is that i i watered it when it was really cold and and because it was so cold the water couldn't evaporate it couldn't drain very well and and it just sat on the plant and as the book said caused it to rot quickly so maybe you might be wondering why am i why am i using this homely time to give you update on my houseplant situation and others you might be saying keep going this is more interesting than your typical homilies right either way the point i'd like to make is you know it's contained in a verse that was shared by the first reading today and the psalm blessed are they who hope in the lord they're like a plant like a tree planted near running water as scripture often reminds us there are so many spiritual lessons we can learn that are offered to us through our observation of nature as saint paul wrote to the romans ever since the creation of the world his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made in other words god created the world and his creation not only shows his glory it also contains and reveals to us truths about who god is who we are and how we are to best relate to him and so looking at nature even taking care of house plants teaches us many lessons about how we either are or are not relating well to god in this case you could say i wasn't you know i wasn't attentive enough to my desert rose the temperature was getting too cold and i watered it at the wrong time and the water became stagnant in the pot and it it caused it to rot and and trying to take care of this pla house plant i can not only learn some the things about how to better take care of the plant i can also learn some things about myself right and being attentive to the plants condition i can also maybe reflect on my own condition right how am i doing right now am i like a desert rose planted in in well-draining soil that's being kept warm and and receiving enough light am i flourishing and producing vibrant blossoms or am i more like a desert rose sitting in stagnant water getting soft losing my leaves starting to rot in my core now desert rose planted in a pot sitting on a windowsill it really it's really helpless it can't do much about its circumstances but it's not so with us we're not helpless we can do something about our circumstances friday was the memorial of our lady of lourdes and if you were at that mass or heard the homily you heard some of these things i'm going to say about about that feast day it was on february 11 1858 that mary first appeared to st bernadette in a grotto in southern france it was really you know a cave on the outskirts outside of town really a place that locals often dumped out their garbage and bernadette was there with her sister and a friend and they were looking for firewood to bring back home to keep themselves warm and after that first appearance over the next five months she appeared to bernadette in that same place 18 times and over the course of her appearances there were well there were there were three specific things that mary asked bernadette to do one see that priest build a chapel there took some convincing but it happened chapel was built eventually a major basilica and now millions of pilgrims go there every year she said number two pray for sinners number three she said look for a stream and washing it perhaps this was the strangest of the of the three things and bernadette wasn't quite sure what to do with that instruction so she you're she's standing in a cave and looking up at mary and okay look first so she looked around and there's there is a stream nearby so she went over started going over there and she realized mary's like nope not there look again and so she this at this point there's she started gathering a crowd whenever bernadette went there people started to go to see what would happen and so at this point hundreds of people are watching her and so she's mary's kind of indicating no look for a stream right here and washing it and so as bernadette wrote her own words you know i went to the stream over there but it was the only stream i could see but then she may realize that it was not that stream that but she was indicating a little trickle of water close by and when i got to it i could only find a few drops mostly mud so i cut my hands to catch some liquid but i couldn't and so then i started to scrape the ground and i managed to find a few drops but it was only after four times of scraping to the ground the fourth attempt was their sufficient amount of any kind to drink and as i said with hundreds of people looking on as she was doing this strange thing bernadette unearthed the miracle of lourdes that a stream of fresh pure life-giving water was flowing was unseen by human eyes but her obedience her faithfulness her hope her love for our blessed mother and for god led her to dig a little bit through the mud and the muck to unearth this treasure for the world and as i said ever since you know millions of pilgrims have visited this holy place thousands have been miraculously healed by these waters that are flowing still flowing today and many more thousands have been healed in ways that only god knows mary used this flow of water to teach bernadette to teach all of us that the life-giving waters of jesus christ they're always flowing sometimes though we need to look in a place we weren't expecting sometimes we need to humble ourselves and follow instructions be obedient be open to learning sometimes we need to be willing to try something new or even try something that we think is impossible to work and all the time we need to be checking if we are or are not connected rooted in the lord's life-giving running water and if we're not then maybe assess well what am i connected to if we're not connected to the lord well here are some other things we could be connected to that we heard in the first reading a barren desert a lava waste perhaps a salty and empty earth and as that first reading said if our hearts are turned away from the lord if we're not connected to his running waters then we're cursed we're cursed if we're putting our hopes in human beings and the material things of this world that give us only temporary comfort then we're cursed because we're going to experience problems when we face the heat or the droughts the storms the floods that do come in every person's life that's why this since last summer we've been talking about the absolute necessity of having retreat experience every day there's just no other way right absolute necessity to check if we're rooted near the lord and being fed by his life-giving running water or if we've drifted over to a desert or slid over into a swamp if i'd been more attentive to my desert rose on a daily basis maybe i could have saved it it's too late for my desert rose but it's never too late for us thanks be to god never too late for us with the lord it's never too late for us he's always ready to send forth his life-giving running water even in a place that we wouldn't expect to find it the daily retreat experience is important essential but so is an actual retreat so you may have read in the bulletin letter this week i'll be making my own annual retreat this coming week an annual retreat it is required by canon law for priests and religious for good reason but it retreats not only for priest and religious though it sometimes seems that way during one of the times you know i've mentioned before that i've in my formation for priesthood i left seminary twice and one of the times that i had withdrawn from seminary i was still well i had formed the habit of making annual retreats so i still thought it was good to do so i still made annual retreats even when i was at a seminary and one time i was talking to a friend about yeah i need to discern i knew what am i going to do with my life i think i'm going to go on a retreat and she was sort of like well uh you know you go on more retreats than anybody i know you know and i was just like oh yeah really and she's like i think partly her point was you know make a decision move on with your life but also her point was you go on too many retreats another time when i was in seminary when i was in seminary i was talking to another friend about uh about that i was going on a retreat i think i felt a little bit guilty that i had the sort of the luxury of being going on retreats as a seminarian and well she said to me well it's kind of your job to go on retreats i think as a way to console me or encourage me to give me permission so to speak that it was okay as a seminarian to make time for retreats but either way it's a problem for us if we think a retreat is optional or excessive or unnecessary or luxurious or a waste of time or if you think it retreat is something that's the job of someone else like a priest or religious but not for everyone else now i'm not saying it's easy to make time for retreat i know it's not and there might be circumstances in someone's life that makes it very difficult if not seemingly impossible so that's where the daily retreat experience you know becomes even more of a necessity but it's worth considering you know how hard have you tried to make a retreat happen for you to schedule it whether it's you know maybe starting with just a half day retreat or full day retreat or even a multi-day retreat or how hard have you tried to help make a way for your spouse to have time to get away and go on a retreat we have options and places for retreats nearby the archdiocese retreat center in federal way as well as you know up on shaw island in the in the san juan islands there's two communities of religious sisters who host retreats my seminary down in oregon mount angel beautiful place to go on retreat many other places nearby please let me know or ask friends if you have looking for ideas or places to go for a retreat but in the meantime as you're considering the possibility of making a retreat i highly encourage you to put our lenten parish mission on your calendar three nights it's not each night's different so please come to all three nights and it's just before the start of lent so what better way you know it's saturday or something excuse me sunday monday tuesday february 27th 28th march 1st at 7 p.m no better way to spend mardi gras than right here right church it's not the same as thing as a retreat but it has many of the same benefits mainly the same retreat like qualities it's a valuable opportunity for those you know those three letters we talked about last summer what were those three letters so let's say all together just make sure we're on the same page the first letter is okay all together the first letter is t p and g which stands for time place and god right retreats offers us that daily retreat experience offers us that lenten mission offers us that opportunity uh you know set aside time putting on your calendar now to come to this place this holy place to reconnect with god right to assess that essential question am i planted right now near god's running water and if i'm not then as mary said to bernadette now is the time to look for the stream now we send forth with our blessings our catechumens and candidates you've shared with us the word of god and we send you forth with our blessing to meditate upon it more deeply and we look forward to the day that you will share with us fully at the lord's table [Music] my i believe in one god the father almighty maker of heaven and earth of all visible and invisible i believe in one lord jesus christ the only begotten son of god born of the father before all ages god from god light from light true god from true god begotten not made consubstantial with the father through him all things were made for us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven and by the holy spirit was incarnate of the virgin mary and became man for our sake he was crucified under pontius pilate he suffered death and was buried and rose again on the third day in accordance with the scriptures he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the father he will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end i believe in the holy spirit the lord the giver of life who proceeds from the father and the son who with the father and the son is adored and glorified who has spoken through the prophets i believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church i confess one baptism for the forgiveness of sins and i look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come amen trusting in god who sent his own son for our salvation let us offer our prayers for the church especially during the worldwide synod may the lord strengthen her in her mission to be a beacon of hope for the world we pray to the lord for the leaders of nations may the holy spirit fill their hearts and minds with the thirst for righteousness we pray to the lord for families in difficult circumstances may god strengthen them through trials and comfort them in their distress we pray to the lord for married couples may they strive daily to faithfully and lovingly live out their marriage promises bearing witness to the lord love to the love god has for each of us we pray to the lord for those burdened by illness especially laura and timothy jarbo isabello chavez mary jane souza daniel dougherty bob nerve scene jerry jesse virginia minmao bridget halogen delilah alvarez gustavo basudo and rosemary voigt may our prayers and our pastoral care bring them god's healing love we pray to the lord for all those who have died especially jose montero irma verdun nogida and francis herrera may they be welcomed into the heavenly kingdom by the communion of saints we pray to the lord loving god source of all wisdom we humbly ask that you hear our prayers and answer them according to your holy will through christ our lord please pick up your prayer card for prayer parish mission prayer invite ramona and jane to lead us in our prayer as we prepare for the parish mission prayer is an important part of preparing for that ramona and jane almighty father once again you're at the door and knock during our parish mission you ask us to open the door of our hearts to your abundant mercy rouse us purify a loom in our hearts enter into every home of our parish recall those far off raise the fallen awaken the indifferent strengthen those who seek to be near you may no one refuse your invitation lord expand our hearts so that we may be merciful to others as you are so merciful to us o mary mother of mercy we entrust to you this time of mission may produce abundant fruits in our christian life amen mary queen of peace [Music] you'll be [Music] in the is forever [Music] all of earth [Music] is forever blessed are the single-hearted people they will live to see his ones who face and seek us they are called the children of the lord blessed are you when they mock and hurt [Music] is rejoice forever [Music] [Applause] rejoice [Music] pray brothers and sisters that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to god the almighty father r may this oblation o lord we pray cleanse and renew us and may it become for those who do your will the source of eternal reward through christ our lord [Music] 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 in you we live and move and have our being and while in this body we not only experience the daily effects of your care but even now possess the pledge of life eternal for having received the first fruits of the spirit through whom you raised up jesus from the dead we hope for an everlasting share in the paschal mystery and so with all the angels we praise you as in joyful celebration we acclaim [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] you are indeed holy o lord and all you have created rightly gives you praise for through your son our lord jesus christ by the power and working of the holy spirit you give life to all things and make them holy and you never cease to gather a people to yourself so that from the rising of the sun to its setting a pure sacrifice may be offered to your name therefore o lord we humbly implore you by the same spirit graciously make holy these gifts we have brought to you for consecration that they may become the body and blood of your son our lord jesus christ at whose command we celebrate these mysteries from the night he was betrayed he himself took bread 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 when supper was ended he took the chalice and giving you thanks he said the blessing and 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 [Music] oh therefore o lord as we celebrate the memorial of the saving passion of your son his wondrous resurrection and ascension into heaven and as we look forward to his second coming we offer you in thanksgiving this holy and living sacrifice look we pray upon the oblation of your church and recognizing the sacrificial victim by whose death you willed to reconcile us to yourself grant that we who are nourished by the body and blood of your son and filled with his holy spirit may become one body one spirit in christ may he make of us an eternal offering to you so that we may obtain an inheritance with your elect especially with the most blessed virgin mary mother of god with blessed joseph her spouse with your blessed apostles and glorious martyrs with saint bernadette and with all the saints on his constant intercession in your presence we rely for unfailing help may this sacrifice of our reconciliation we pray oh lord advance the peace and salvation of all the world be pleased to confirm in faith and charity your pilgrim church on earth with your servant francis our pope and paul our bishop and eva sebio his auxiliary bishop the order of bishops all the clergy and the entire people you have gained for your own listen graciously to the prayers of this family whom you have summoned before you in your compassion o merciful father gather to yourself all your children scattered throughout the world to our departed brothers and sisters and to all who are pleasing to you at their passing from this life give kind admittance to your kingdom there we hope to enjoy forever the fullness of your glory through christ our lord through whom you bestow on the world all that is good 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 [Music] 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 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 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 let us offer each other the sign of peace peace [Music] oh [Music] me [Music] is [Music] please 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 and were fully satisfied [Music] they were not deprived [Music] please join me in 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 so [Music] do [Music] i will [Music] i won't hunger anymore [Music] there is peace at the table of the lord there is [Music] is [Music] at the table [Music] is anymore [Music] is easy [Music] [Applause] [Music] i know he is a place [Music] see [Music] is [Music] at the table of god i'm invited [Music] i'm invited to the table of the lord [Music] we um [Music] lord jesus [Music] them [Music] longer foreign [Music] for jesus [Music] and we are [Music] pray oh [Music] foreign [Music] so so so let us pray having fed upon these heavenly delights we pray o lord that we may always long for that food by which we truly live through christ our lord speaking about plants you notice that we around our church here in the church and through the hallways we really have really beautiful plants and foliage that are expertly taken care of by our arts and environment committee they've noticed that sometimes others are watering those plants they're not meant to be watered by anybody except a e because they are measuring the water all the time so thank you for your concern if the plant looks dry it's actually not it's just waiting for its next scheduled watering from the arts and environment so please please do not water our plants in the church thank you the lord be with you and with your spirit may almighty god bless you the father and the son and the holy spirit amen go in peace glorifying the lord by your life is is [Music] joyful is [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so [Music] you

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Published: Sun Feb 13 2022