Thu, Mar 3 - Holy Mass from the National Shrine

[Laughter] take up thy cross or save your side if the words might decide for me take up thy cross with and humbly after me [Music] in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen the grace of our lord jesus christ the love of god and the communion of the holy spirit be with you all and with your spirit well thank you for joining us everyone i'm father chris one of the miriam priests with brother alex and uh brother ken and brother mark we're grateful you could be with us we continue our prayers as we enter into the season of lent uh yesterday began lent with ash wednesday and uh fridays from this season now will be abstaining from meat so we ask that you join us in prayers especially for the situation in europe in the ukraine and for us to do what the gospel tells us today to see the value of the cross not in and of itself but in the joy of the resurrection it leads us to so brothers and sisters let us acknowledge our sins and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries have mercy on us o lord for we have sinned against you show us o lord your mercy and grant us your salvation may almighty god have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life amen let us pray prompt our actions with your inspiration we pray o lord and further them with your constant help that all we do may always begin from you and by you be brought to completion 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 book of deuteronomy moses said to the people today i have set before you life and prosperity death and doom if you obey the commandments of the lord your god which i enjoin on you today loving him and walking in his ways and keeping his commandments statutes and decrees you will live and grow numerous and the lord your god will bless you in the land you are entering to occupy if however you turn away your hearts and will not listen but are led astray and adore and serve other gods i tell you now that you will certainly perish you will not have a long life on the land that you are crossing the jordan to enter and occupy i call heaven and earth today to witness against you i have set before you life and death the blessing and the curse choose life then that you and your descendants may live by loving the lord your god heeding his voice and holding fast to him for that will mean life for you a long life for you to live on the land that the lord swore he would give to to your fathers abraham isaac and jacob the word of the lord thanks be to god blessed are they who hope in the lord blessed are they who hope in the lord blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked nor walks in the way of sinners nor sits in the company of the insolent but delights in the law of the lord and meditates on his law day and night blessed are they who hope in the lord he is like a tree planted near running water that yields its fruit in due season and whose leaves never fade whatever he does prospers blessed are they who hope in the lord not so the wicked not so they are like chaff which the wind drives away for the lord watches over the way of the just but the way of the wicked vanishes blessed are they who hope in the lord praise to you lord jesus christ king of endless glory praise to you lord jesus christ repent says the lord the kingdom of heaven is at hand praise to you lord jesus christ king of endless glory the lord be with you and with your spirit a reading from the holy gospel according to luke glory to you o lord jesus said to his disciples the son of man must suffer greatly and be rejected by the elders the chief priests and the scribes and be killed and on the third day be raised then he said to all if anyone wishes to come after me he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me for whoever wishes to save his life will lose it but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it what profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself the gospel of the lord praise to you lord jesus christ i would like first to welcome every first thursday we marians our live stream here which is truly become international praise be god is joined by the world apostolic congress and mercy asia and now this is a group father seraphim and father kaz had been intimately involved with god bless father seraphim and rest his soul he was so instrumental in working with them and the wonderful work they do and this particularly is what they call wacom the world apostolic congress on mercy and asia is the specific part or location and so to all of our brothers and sisters part of wacom and part of asia everyone knows my love for the philippines and i cannot wait to return there to go back i feel like macarthur i shall return my beautiful brothers and sisters that are over there but all of asia we have representatives from indonesia singapore and others uh so welcome it is a joy and an honor to have you with us and father kaz sends his best as he is on the road right now but we want to um also at this time take an opportunity to ask for your prayers we're getting bits and pieces of updates on our brothers our miriam priests in ukraine specifically kharkiv is a location a large city in the east eastern part of the ukraine closer to the russian border and that's where a lot of the original bombing had begun there is now i think an occupation of the city so the bombing to my understanding has decreased or if not stopped yet but it's not a good ending there is an occupation of the city and we have our marian fathers 20 priests and brothers there one deacon and one seminarian now we just learned that our house had been hit by a bomb we don't believe that it was targeted that the bombs were targeted for the marian house these cluster bombs and other missiles and stuff are kind of almost randomly shot and so we don't believe or we don't have reason to believe that our house was targeted but we do know it was hit my understanding is that it was not totally destroyed our priests and brothers have remained right now in the ukraine they are harboring parishioners and some religious sisters and they are in desperate need um right now and so at the end of mass we ask you to stay with us after the final blessing not before it's not proper during mass but after the final blessing brother mark will put up a website if you would like to help and assist in any way and i can promise you every single penny every not just every dollar every penny will go to them there will not be one cent that is retained here for administrative costs or anything like that every bit will go there because even after this war is over we will need to support their efforts there's a lot of destruction a lot of rebuilding they will need food they will need supplies medical supplies clothing shelter is any any staples of life water you know you can only imagine and so we ask that you keep them in your prayers we have not had any reports of any deaths at this time praise be god and so we continue to pray and for the whole situation um for for russians and the ukrainians and so thank you again if you would like to help support brother mark after the final blessing we'll show a website that you can help us again everything will go directly to them rome has contacted us and asked us if we could be so kind as to ask our marian helpers to assist and god bless you who have already done that and if god places on your heart to help then thank you if not that's okay we understand things are tough for many people but prayers are free you know those are those are things we need to be doing no matter what no matter what our financial position no matter what we are going through no matter how tough our times are we can pray and so thank you and i i see again god who's always laid out even in the gospel passage uh something that's always applicable you know um our lord says here for whoever wishes to save his life will lose it but whoever loses his life for my sake basically the faith will save it this is the feedback we are hearing from christians in the ukraine it's a very christian country um these are amazing people um these are people that are willing to die for their faith you know only something worth dying for is something worth living for my cell phone isn't worth dying for so it therefore isn't really something worth living for my life should not be centered around it i could say that about television sports recreation or whatever it is money sex power whatever it is that has become our god the only thing worth dying for is that is also worth living for and number one on those lists is our faith our belief in god and so we have in our faith everything worth dying and living for praise be those in the ukraine who have refused to abandon their faith even in the midst of the bombings they are attending mass our marians were holding a mass in the basement of a house that had been hit by a bomb and yet they are continuing to have mass in the basement this is worth dying for and so our prayers and our um support goes out to those brothers and and also our marians in poland are harboring many refugees and so we will be trying to assist them as well so um both the locations of the ukraine marians and the marians in poland are harboring refugees uh the as i said in the ukraine it's also parishioners and religious sisters so you can be proud to be a marian helper because this is what our family is all about this is the work of the lord despite the fear despite the danger there are our priests and brothers and so thank you for your prayers for them and your support you know when our lord tells us that the cross is the way he doesn't mean the cross is the end the resurrection is the end but the cross is the way to that end there's no easter sunday without good friday and so what we have is an understanding of what our lord asks us now are we going to pick up that cross or not you know the old saying in our faith is that the cross is when our will which is on this earth this earth is horizontal this is our will and when our will that only goes this way because it's all about ourselves crosses god's will which connects heaven and earth you have a cross so this is god's will connecting heaven and earth this is our will we only see what's in this world from side to side if we don't look up to see what's above or down to see the threats of hell or up to see the glory of heaven if we don't do that and our eyes are only focused in this realm we have a cross so our tradition tells us when our will crosses god's will his will needs to be done that's what it means to deny ourselves you know we can either accept that cross like the first station in the stations of the cross where it says jesus accepts his cr our second station first station he's condemned in the second station what does it say jesus accepts his cross now brother is going to read from paragraph and i forgot to tell you this alex 4 46. brother alex is going to read from saint faustina's diary 4 4 6. and in it saint faustina says i had a vision and there were a whole multitude of people and there were three groups of people the first group was on their cross crucified with christ that basically means they accepted their cross like jesus did she said i saw a second group that were not nailed to their cross but they were holding it that's like most of us who want to share with christ but we're still wimpy or we're still afraid or we're still not fully letting ourselves be nailed to the cross we're preserving ourselves that's human nature okay that's the second group she saw then she saw the third group that was not nailed to their cross and was not holding their cross in other words they rejected their cross but she saw them walking trying to run away from it and they were dragging it because you can't avoid it now father jesus you're giving us a lot of hope here in this morning absolutely we are the hope the cross leads to is the resurrection there is hope there is hope that we will deny ourselves pick up our cross follow christ and therefore to have the glory of the resurrection you know it's interesting because brother allen or i'm sorry alex just read in the first reading i was just listening to him he says today i set before you life and prosperity or death in doom there is hope if you saw the count or the reports of the congress yesterday that bill that was trying to go through the senate which already passed the house oh my and was trying to go through the senate was actually going to eliminate all state prohibitions on abortion and make abortion legal at any point all the way up to birth it would have been the most catastrophic you can ever imagine attack on life that would have been choosing death in doom instead praise be to god the senate shows life and prosperity and this bill was defeated this bill said without any constraints abortion right up to birth even though 80 percent of americans are against that 80 percent of americans are against that our congressman through the house sailed the bill sailed through praise be to god it didn't get through the senate and was defeated praise be to god please have mercy on us lord because there is still hope and yesterday lord god please have mercy on us we chose life and prosperity over doom and death our lord says we have the choice and we made that choice yesterday praise be to god let us now make that choice in the ukraine we can continue the bombing and the killing civilians where we can pray for life and prosperity this is what our marian fathers are attempting to do there you can do it you can be the hands and feet right from your own couch you can support it in many ways donations true yes that's beautiful but at least if you can't do that anyway anyway spread the message spread it around prayer is the greatest of all and so praise be to god that we have an opportunity to still in our world make a difference and yesterday was an example and today we pray for those in ukraine and russia you know as we become a disciple it's not easy jesus told us this it is not easy and so as we we know that denying ourselves and picking up our cross and following him [Music] is going to incur suffering and challenges but that is the way to the resurrection as again we hope and pray for the safety of our brothers and sisters we pray for the safety of those in asia who have joined us on wacom we pray that the aggression of some nations in asia will not be overflowing into these nations that are seeking peace let us now come together eight o'clock tomorrow night we invite you to join us as we will live stream the first friday at 8 pm eastern time here in the united states or 5 o'clock west coast but we will be doing our first friday devotion and will be offering that hour of reparation for the ukraine then join us saturday for first saturdays at 11 well i will be talking about this whole meaning of the connection of what's happening with russia and the ukraine and its connection to fatima please join us at 11 o'clock as we talk about that following that after half hour 40 minutes we will do the devotions of the first saturday remember that's what mary asked in order to have a conversion of russia not just the consecration of russia but that we also do our first saturdays many of you have said father my church doesn't even do first saturdays anymore that's not okay but we can work around that you can join us please join us tomorrow at 11 and we will partake in those first saturday devotions will walk you through everything that is why jesus said that mankind will not have peace until he turns with trust to my mercy let us stand now and offer our petitions to our heavenly father who is rich in compassion and mercy for pope francis bishops and priests may god continue to bless their ministries as they lead his flock let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for judges may the holy spirit grant them wisdom in making just decisions let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for all who feel unworthy of god's forgiveness may the lord open their hearts to the gift of the to the gift of mercy that he is eager to bestow let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for all of us gathered here may christ the lamb lead us in a spirit of penance through this lent let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for those who have died and for all the souls in purgatory may jesus welcome them into the eternal joy of heaven let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for all the members of the association of marian helpers and the confraternity of the immaculate conception both living and deceased and for all the intentions they have entrusted to us as well as all those who call a right to us may the lord favorably hear their prayers and strengthen them in faith hope and love let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer and let us continue to pray for those in the ukraine and the russians and ukrainian people that there may be peace and an end to any of the killing especially of civilians let us pray to the lord r lord hear our prayer heavenly father we place all these in the hands of our lady of fatima and ask through her prophetic words that we follow your lead we ask this through christ our lord amen [Music] blessed are you lord god of all creation for through your goodness we have received the bread we offer you fruit of the earth and work of human hands will become for us the bread of life blessed be god forever by the mystery this water and wine may we come to share in the divinity of christ who humbled himself to share in our humanity blessed are you lord god of all creation for through your goodness we have received the mind we offer you fruit of the vine and work of human hands so become our spiritual drink blessed be god forever and the spirit [Music] this day be pleasing to you lord god wash me over for my iniquity and cleanse me from my sins [Music] pray brethren that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to god the almighty father may the lord 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 regard with favor o lord we pray the offerings we set upon this sacred altar that bestowing on us your pardon our oblations may give honor to your name through christ our lord amen the lord be with you and with your spirit lift up your hearts we lift them out to the lord let us give thanks to the lord our god it is right and just 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 you have given your children a sacred time for the renewing and purifying of their hearts that freed from disordered affections they may so deal with the things of this passing world as to hold rather to the things that are eternally endure and so with the angels and saints we praise you and without end we acclaim [Music] he will columns in the name of the lord [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 broke it 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 my lord and my god my lord and my god my lord and my god 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 my jesus [Music] the mystery of faith when we eat this bread and drink this we proclaim your death oh lord until you come again [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 and mitchell william our bishop and all the clergy remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen asleep in the hope of the resurrection and all who have died in your mercy welcome them into the light of your face have mercy on us all we pray that with the blessed virgin mary mother of god with blessed joseph her spouse with the blessed apostles with saint faustina with saint catherine drexel 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 oh 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 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 the kingdom the power and the glory are yours now and forever lord jesus christ you 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 amen the peace of the lord be with you always and with your spirit [Music] lamb of god you take away the sins of the world have mercy on us of mercy on us lamb of god you take away the sins of the world have mercy on earth [Music] peace [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 the body of christ keep me safe for eternal life of christ keeps angry [Music] the body of grace [Music] the body of christ the body of christ the body of christ the body of christ the body of christ the body of christ [Music] four four six [Applause] an act of spiritual communion and thanksgiving my jesus i believe that you are present in the most blessed sacrament i love you above all things and a 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 from the diary of saint faustina entry 446. then i saw the lord jesus nailed to the cross when he had hung on it for a while i saw a multitude of souls crucified like him then i saw a second multitude of souls and a third the second multitude were not nailed to their crosses but were holding them firmly in their hands the third were neither nailed to their crosses nor holding them firmly in their hands but were dragging their crosses behind them and were discontent jesus then said to me do you see these souls those who are like me in the pain and contempt they suffer will be like me also in glory and those who resemble me less in pain and contempt will also bear less resemblance to me in glory among the crucified souls the most numerous were those of the clergy i also saw some crucified souls whom i knew and this gave me great joy then jesus said to me in your meditation tomorrow you shall think about what you have seen today and immediately jesus disappeared on me let us pray having received the blessing of your heavenly gifts we humbly beseech you almighty god that what they may always be for us a source both of pardon and salvation through christ our lord amen the lord be with you and with your spirit may almighty god bless you the father the son and the holy spirit amen go forth the mass has ended thanks be to god well thank you everybody before the saint michael prayer we have just a few announcements um thank you for celebrating this mass with us especially those part of wacom the world apostolic congress and mercy asia especially those in the philippines that are part of that and other countries nearby and also especially as we mentioned for the ukraine i mentioned earlier that if you'd like to be able to help us you can there is a website or a landing page at marion.org slash ukraine so m a r i a n dot o r g slash ukraine u-k-r-a-i-n-e so hopefully brother mark was able to show that uh rome has requested that we ask for assistance if you can't that's okay please we're not here to make anybody feel bad we're just saying pray if you if you can do nothing else that's the most important also too if you don't like the internet i didn't give brother mark this number so it's not on the screen but you can call us at four 800-462-7426 two seven four two six it actually spells for the number four marion m-a-r-i-a-n and you can give over the phone again 100 every penny will go there that we are able to receive from your bountiful hearts so we pray we ask for god his forgiveness and that's why we want you to join us um on tomorrow night at eight o'clock is we will have a very important prayer time for the ukraine russia we'll be talking about this we'll be praying the first friday making reparation to the sacred heart of jesus remember the power when the numbers of prayers are multiplied by people joining together and then on saturday we will do the first saturday at 11 a.m well i will be giving a talk on the connection between what is happening in the ukraine and russia right now with what mary said at fatima very important and we invite you to join us at 11 a.m tomorrow eastern time eight o'clock west coast or wherever you are and then following that we'll be doing the first saturday devotion so if you can just remember friday at 8 saturday at 11 a.m friday at 8 p.m saturday 11 a.m and you can join us we'll walk you through everything now more than ever we need this time of prayer thank you and god bless you saint michael the archangel defend us in battle be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil may god rebuke him we humbly pray and do thou o prince of the heavenly host by the power of god cast into hell satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the rune of souls amen may the divine assistance remain always with us and may the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of god rest in peace amen god bless everybody thank you [Music] take off thy cross and follow christ nor think till death too lay it down for only those who bear the cross may hope to wear the glory [Music] the image of jesus the divine mercy incarnate represents the lord as coming forth from the holy of holies in heaven to ensure us of the forgiveness of our sins after having entered there to bring the offering of his life to the father as the ransom the dark background symbolizes the total darkness in the holy of holies of the earthly tabernacle which was illumined only by god's presence as he received the atoning sacrifice that scene of christ's coming out of the holy of holies with rays emanating from his wounded side represent the blood and water that is the holy spirit as the source of life handed over according to saint john's gospel at the moment of his death as one of the prayers of saint faustina points out you died jesus but the source of life gushed out for the souls and the sea of mercy opened up for the whole world you

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Published: Thu Mar 03 2022