Thu, Sep 16 - Holy Mass from the National Shrine

so faith of our fathers living still in spite of donald fire and sword [Music] whenever we hear the glorious word fave of ours [Music] we will be true to thee [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 i'd like to invite you to our celebration of this most holy eucharist here at the national shrine of divine mercy today we honor saints cornelius as a pope and saint cyprian bishop of carthage martyrs they gave up their life for christ they witnessed to the end that he is the only one he is our savior and our lord let's turn to him let's turn to our father and place ourselves before him let us ask him to purify us to forgive us our sins so that we may be worthy to celebrate the sacred mysteries i confess to almighty god and to you my brothers and sisters that i have greatly sinned in my thoughts and my words in what i have done and i failed to dale to do through my fault for my faith for my most grievous father's fault therefore i ask the blessed mary ever virgin all the angels and saints and you my brothers and sisters to pray for me to the lord our god may almighty god have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life amen [Music] christ of mercy [Music] lord have mercy [Music] let us pray oh god you gave saints cornelius and cyprian to your people as diligent shepherds and valiant martyrs grant that through their intercession we may be strengthened in faith and constancy and spend ourselves without reserve for the unity of the church through our lord jesus christ your son who lives and reigns with you the unity of the holy spirit one god forever and ever r amen a reading from the first letter of saint paul to timothy beloved let no one have contempt for your youth but set an example for those who believe in speech conduct love faith and purity until i arrive attend to the readings exhortations and teachings do not neglect the gift you have which was conferred on you through the prophetic word with the imposition of hands by their presbytery be diligent in these matters be absorbed in them so that your progress may be evident to everyone attend to yourself and to your teachings preserve in both tasks for by doing so you will save both yourself and those who listen to you the word of the lord thanks be to god how great are the works of the lord how great are the works of the lord the works of his hands are faithful and just sure are all his precepts reliable forever and ever rot in truth and equity how great are the works of the lord he has sent deliverance to his people he has ratified his covenant forever holy and awesome is his name how great are the works of the lord the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom prudent are all who live by it his praise endures forever how great are the works of the lord oh [Music] [Music] are burdened and i will give you rest says the lord [Music] the lord be with you and with your spirit a reading from the holy gospel according to luke glory to you o lord a certain pharisee invited jesus to dine with him and he entered the pharisee's house and reclined at the table now there was a sinful woman in the city who learned that he was at table in the house of the pharisee bringing in an alabaster flask appointment she stood behind him at his feet weeping and began to bathe his feet with his tears then she wiped them with her hair kissed them and anointed them with the ointment when the pharisee who had invited him saw this he said to himself if this man who a prophet he would not know he would know who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him she is a sinner jesus said to him in reply simon i have something to share with you to say to you tell me teacher he said two people were in debt to a certain creditor one owed 500 days wages and the other owed since they were unable to repay the debt he forgave it for both which is which of them will love him more simon said in reply the one i suppose whose larger debt was forgiven he said to him you have judged rightly then he turned to the woman and said to simon do you see this woman when i entered your house you did not give me water for my feet but she has bathed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair you did not give me a kiss but she has not ceased kissing my feet since the time i entered he did not anoint my head with oil but she anointed my feet with ointment so i tell you for many sins have been forgiven and she has shown great love but the one to whom little is forgiven loves little he said to her your sins are forgiven the others at table said to themselves who is this who even forgive sins but he said to the woman your faith has saved you go in peace the gospel of the lord praise to you lord jesus christ the story we that we have just heard in the gospel is an extraordinary beautiful story very tender story and it carries so much of meaning so much significance instructions for all of us here we have a jesus we have the pharisee and then we have this woman who does not open her mouth does not say anything and she's a silent witness of so many aspects of jesus that no words could actually describe let's look at her so we have a situation a pharisee invited jesus to a dinner and there are many people who came he must be quite well to do and then not only that but all of a sudden we have there was a sinful woman in a city who learned that he was a table in the house of pharisee so she invited herself she came perhaps was an open party maybe the pharisee didn't want to have just invited guests as such because he knew that if he invited jesus he would have to invite quite a few because there's a whole group walking around with him so so there we have now the situation goes further and so this woman who comes she's a she's well known she's a sinful woman probably well-known prostitute and so what happens is this she brings with her an alabaster flask appointment and and then what happens is that she approaches jesus from behind and begins to anoint his feet anoint his feet and not only that as she's anointing she is crying her tears are flowing she does not have a towel she does not have anything she only has hair and so we see her that she was not ready to come and wash his feet she just wanted to anoint his feet that's all she did not but in the act of the anointing tears begin to flow so much so that she's washing his feet with her tears and so she does not have a towel and she's washing drying them with her hair now we have the pharisee as a leading religious figure and this is what's going on in him he's thinking if this man were prophet he would know who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him that she's a sinner okay so what we have is pharisee invited jesus to check him out who is he is he prophet not okay so the first thing that he does is okay prophet is has to know the character of a people and this obviously jesus does not know because if he knew that she's a prostitute he he as a prophet would have recognized so and he would not have allowed himself to be touched by her so immediately we see what's going on inside of the heart of the mind of the of of this pharisee he already has judged not only he knows who she is but he tested jesus and he testing jesus he says he can't be a prophet because he would have known then secondly secondly not only that he should have if he were truly holy man he would not allow himself to be touched by a prostitute because he became unholy he was tainted now he has to do some form of penance cleansing purification and so immediately simon draws conclusions that this jesus cannot be a prophet he cannot be holy man because otherwise he would have done what what a prophet or holy man would have done so he immediately the the pharisee judges him and and jesus knows what's going on simon i have something to to say to you tell me teacher so the lord does not teach him first he gives him an example so he wants to lead him to a different way of thinking or perhaps he can recognize that what jesus is doing is proper and correct but the lord wants to give him first a a parable teaching yet as a there's a there are two people who are in debt to a certain creditor one of 500 days wages the other 50 and then they are not able to pay the debt but he gives forgives them all so now he asks him to draw the conclusion so who do you think you know who do you think would appreciate him for doing such a thing who would would love him more and and of course simon says yeah obviously is the one who was forgiven more because they appreciated more because the debt was higher and they could not afford so now but then he says there's you have judge rightly and now we have jesus turning to to this this woman and in a very tender way and then not only he turns to her but also makes sure that simon understand what took place do you see this woman when i entered your house you did not give me water for my feet and that was the custom pharis he said if you respected the guest you washed the feet of the one who came because it was dusty it was you know everybody who walked there's a lot of dust every place and then the second aspect was not only washing your feet but also to give a kiss which means to acknowledge someone of of the importance that was there was a custom and so simon did not give him he did not wash his feet that means he didn't really respect him he didn't give him a kiss also showing that he did not really consider him too important and then not only that but the last one is that often if you were a special guest you would put some perfume oil on on one's head acknowledging as anointing someone which is very very much a custom so we see who this simon is he's testing jesus he does not really respect him but in contrast we see completely someone who is an outsider a sinner and so and jesus says you didn't do this but she has bathed my feet with her tears and wiped in with her hair you do not kiss me but she has not ceased kissing my feet since i have entered and she did not and you did not know in my head but she has anointed my feet with the ointment so i tell you her many sins have been forgiven because she have shown this great love why did i go through this gospel itself because there's so much here what do we see this woman who must have heard that jesus loves sinners she has she must have heard that she can approach him even though it could cause her she was very humiliated perhaps because people know well she is this one you know people knew who she was and so she didn't didn't care she wanted to show she wanted to show that she cared for him so she had the courage to go up because he knew she knew that he loved sinners that he welcomed sinners so is the courage to do so this is a powerful statement for all of us we love the lord no matter how sinful we are we're not afraid to go we're not afraid to come to him we're not afraid of him even though we may sometimes feel god why did i do it could be some reluctance on our part but this is why we go into confession even if it costs us perhaps you know you know the priest and and the priest would say well you know you think well maybe he knows me and i don't want to go there to confession because what do you think of me but ultimately the priest who's in a confessional represents jesus he's not the judge he's the one who is ambassador of mercy so we can go and we can confess the sinful woman confessed with without of saying a word she just came to jesus she acknowledged him as someone who's special someone who would be able to do this for her she did not know she just wanted to be welcomed she just wanted to be received she just wanted to be close too and she was willing to to be there she wanted to show respect for him so she brought this alabaster class would perfume oil but but then her heart was moved because the lord welcomed her she felt welcome he didn't say no way don't don't touch me get away from me no he did he welcomed her and so to be welcomed by god by jesus to be welcome is so important because we're all broken so to be welcomed by him is something which fulfills the deepest levels of who we are we know we're sinners and he welcomes us and not only does he welcome us then her tears her tears came because she felt she was not only welcome but that she was loved because he could have pushed her away but he didn't because jesus does not push any sinners away he does not push anyone away from him no matter how broken we are no matter how bad we have been he welcomes us and so there she is a witness to that love and then on only that there's more here the lord on his not only does he welcome her but he reminds the pharisee you have not done this she has done this because you consider yourself so righteous self-righteous that you don't need you don't need to be forgiven you think that you're fine you're fine so therefore you don't love you don't love the lord because why would you love the lord you don't even consider yourself a sinner so why would he even consider to turn your turn into you know expressing this type of love to god see this is the problem with pharisees is that we consider ourselves fine we're doing great job and this is why jesus said because you consider yourself healthy you don't need a doctor so therefore you don't want to be forgiven so therefore you don't really experience god as god you don't experience his love and mercy because you don't need and see this is the difficulty today how many people are who they don't need god and yet they need drugs because they can't live without drugs you know going and you know buying the the weeds every place now seems like whether you're healthy or not because you can't function you can't function because we can't function without god we can't live without god god is the very water if we are to be the the fish that we swim and live in water we need water we so we need god as human beings because we're in self-sufficient we can't be so what do we do to cover it up drugs and alcohol and the addictions and everything else because we can't function god is the very heart of who we are you know during the communist period in russia when they secular forces re remove god from the hearts of the people where they turn become alcoholics one third of the population is alcoholic because we can't live without god we can't there's no way god has made us in such a way where we are fulfilled by him if not then we will turn to something else to preoccupy our minds preoccupied or drug our minds or whatever because we can't function so this is what the lord says if you believe you know to simon that you know there's no need here for for god there's no need for forgiveness because you're fine you will not receive it but you will not receive the joy you will not receive the tears of joy and tears of gladness which the woman manifests and so this is what what this gospel is beautiful gospel because and the lord says to to simon yes the one who has sinned much when they're forgiven they love much you love much and so he turns to her and says your faith has saved you because she wanted to be accepted by by this person whom she saw as one who loves as one who in whom god is so visible the father is so visible and we know that it was jesus himself as our lord and our god who is the one who loves how many people have kissed the cross when they are forgiven how many people who have come to church or at home because you realize what the lord has done for you not just forgiveness but the graces that flow how many tears have been shed when you know a person of faith who has a cross kisses across hugs the cross holds on to the cross i have seen how many people were carrying a cross in their hands because they're afraid to even walk by themselves because they know the power of god's love yes it is it is an instrument you know we honor even the wood and the carving of jesus because we you know who it represents but then the lord gives even special graces through these sacramentals people pray and touch these wonderful gifts that god gives and they receive healing just like from this cross for 300 years people were kissing and you know and touching and wishing as they entered the church they wanted to have something they wanted to be forgiven they're going to be reconciled because as they walk to the church they will see it as jesus and this is what we have before us in our homes you know we have we have the cross we have his image and and you know i remember my own mom you know who took an image of of our lord sacred heart and she was touching and hulking holding and kissing it all these things are at your homes because the love that you have for the lord requires us to do something i you know how many people kiss the the the the photographs of their children they're not kissing paper they're kissing their children but that's the closest they can get in a visual way and so this is this is that love that love that's so essential but we can never be and we'll never be disappointed if we love him if we accept him if we acknowledge him even without words touching holding you know i i anointed someone yesterday and at the foot of the bed there was a beautiful divine mercy image so that person rays when they open their eyes the only ones they see is jesus i this is the first time i've seen that you know there's there's a beautiful image so that the loving family member knows and realizes that when this person needs just to look because of sickness of the elderly age of pains and sufferings that endures the only one they see jesus the risen one the loving one merciful one how beautiful that is so maybe then today as we receive this special teaching from the gospel and of course saying you know saint timothy uh saint paul's letter to timothy saint timothy is instructed by by paul and what does he say love and teach give witness don't worry about your age people may say that you're too young but you know you you witness you witness to the power of christ at work in you the power of christ at work with all of us because he came here he came as as as the son of god to offer us salvation love forgiveness mercy to bring us home and that's that's what we had that's all paul says to him just be faithful be faithful to the teachings that you have received be faithful the gospel and the rest everything will be okay and finally you know the two saints that we commemorate saint cornelius and and saint cyprian um saint cyprian said something very interesting if we accept if we accept god as our father then we have to accept the church as the mother because the church possesses and gives us everything the sacraments are coming from the church the teaching comes from the church the living witness comes to the church all those things which are essential comes to a church and you are the church you're the people you give witness may we like this woman in the silence but by her actions of love tenderness care trust faith may we likewise manifest to others and move others to a deeper faith and love so they may share the eternal glory trusting in the love that empowers us to bear witness to the world we bring our petitions to god for all the members of the church may christ confirm us ever more closely to him let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer for civic leaders may god open their hearts and lead them to a greater compassion of selflessness in their service let us pray to the lord r lord lord prayer for those who struggle to trust in god's love may they encounter the mercy and tenderness of christ let us pray to the lord r lord hear our prayer for this community of faith may we have the grace to know god's will and to follow it freely let us pray to the lord r lord r prayer for those who have passed away may they rest in the peace of god's embrace let us pray to the lord r lord hear our prayer 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 their intentions they have entrusted to us as well as all who call or write to us may the lord favorably hear their prayers strengthen them in faith hope and love let us pray to the lord lord hear our prayer a special way we pray for father angelo casimiro's father who passed away his member of our community in steubenville that his father who passed away may be welcomed by the our lord into heaven his name so for ariel for the repose of his soul we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer and for the many prayers that we have in our hearts many people ask us to pray for them but we pray above all for those who suffer for those who are dying those who are in prisons those who are living on the streets or those who many ways have been so hardened by sin and violence we pray for those who die in our cities because of drug related violence we also pray for people of afghanistan and for all those who in any way are persecuted for them we pray to the lord lord hear our prayer god of mercy hear these prayers as we offer you today and we ask this through christ our lord amen so [Music] is [Music] spirit and continues [Music] pray my brothers and my sisters that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to god the almighty father right and the lord accept this sacrifice at your hands for the praise and glory of his name for our good and the good of all his holy church receive we pray o lord the offerings of your people in honor of the passion of your holy martyrs saint cornelius and cyprian and may these gifts that gave them courage under persecution make us to steadfast in all trials through christ our lord amen the lord be with you and with your spirit lift up your hearts we lift them up to the lord let us give thanks to the lord our god it is right and just it is truly right and just our duty and our salvation always and everywhere to give you thanks lord holy father almighty and eternal god for the blood of your blessed martyrs cornelius and scipien poor god like christ to glorify your name shows forth your marvelous works by which in our weakness you perfect your power and on the feeble bestow strength to bear your witness through christ our lord amen so the powers of heaven we worship you constantly on earth and before your majesty without end we acclaim [Music] earth [Music] is is he who comes he who comes in the name of the lord [Music] is [Music] you are indeed holy o lord the fount of all holiness make holy there for 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 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 [Music] so 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 [Music] the mystery of fate when we eat this bread and drink this top we proclaim your death oh lord until [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 lord remember your church spread throughout the world and bring her to the fullness of charity together with francis our pope and william our bishop and all the clergy remember your servant ariel whom you have called from this world to yourself grant that he who was united with the son with your son in a death like his may also be one with him in his resurrection 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 our soul we pray that with blessed virgin mary mother of god the blessed joseph her spouse with the blessed apostles with saint cornelius and saint cyprian cyprian 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 used forever [Music] the savior's command and formed by divine teaching we there 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 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 [Music] christ 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 for 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 right and with your spirit offer to one another sign of christ peace [Music] the sins of the mercy on [Music] of us world of mercy on us lamb of god you take away the sins of the world grant us peace lord jesus christ son of the living god who by the will of the father and the work of the holy spirit through death gave life to the world free us by this your most holy body and blood from all of our sins and from every evil he was always faithful to your commandments and never let us be parted from you 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 lord i say am lord [Music] 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 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 you were already there and unite myself holy to you never permit me to be separated from you in the diary of saint faustina number 1032 during holy mass i saw the lord jesus nailed upon the cross amidst the great torments a soft moan issued from his heart after some time he said i thirst i thirst for the salvations of souls help me my daughter to save souls join your sufferings to my passion and offer them to the heavenly father for sinners [Applause] uh let us pray through these mysteries which we have received we humbly beseech you o lord that by the example of the martyr saint cornelius and cyprian we may be strengthened with the fortitude of your spirit to bear witness to the truth of the gospel through christ our lord amen couple announcements see we have a special program schedule here and i know not only the nine o'clock mass here at the shrine but also at one o'clock exposition of blessed sacrament confessions and 1 30 rosary for life two o'clock mass and three o'clock our great mercy for those who are watching us through facebook we also have the three o'clock hour of great mercy as well as five o'clock prayed primarily for the intentions of the association of marian helpers and for all the personal needs that we have we are grateful to each one of you not only those of you who come here for the daily mass but also for all those who are watching us through the live stream we wish to share with you this great joy this great news from us which we proclaim here the gospel we wish to proclaim the gospel which is a life-giving gift that christ has given to us but also sharing sharing our faith sharing our prayers so we can strengthen each other on this journey and just like saint paul says to timothy give witness to the power of the gospel in your life we may always give that witness to the power and so this is why why here we gather and we're very strong we do not know how many are sharing with us this journey but when we pray together for the various intentions i know the lord and his love and his mercy hears us because he wants us to to ask the father the two or three are gathered there he gives us the various things because it shows that we we have one heart and with one heart we ask the father so we pray for each one of you we pray for those family members who no longer practice their faith we pray for their conversion we also pray for those in a special way who are hardened by sin and are addicted so much that they have no way of being freed from this torment which they have to endure so we pray for them 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 forth the mass has ended to love and serve the lord and one another thanks be to god say michael the archangel defend us in prayer protection and all the evil spirits will prowl about the world the world speaking of souls amen and prayer during this pandemic lord jesus hear our pleas our good shepherd and divine position we implore your mercy in the wake of an outbreak of serious illness and disease guide our efforts to prevent contagion and make preparations to care for those most vulnerable assist all professionals and volunteers who work to eradicate the epidemic now spreading your actions be marked by your status love and self as service and never by panic or fear bestow your comfort in healing to the sick sustain and strengthen them by your grace may they know your closeness as they carry the cross of illness and may all you have called from this life to worship and eternal to come to worship you eternally with all the saints as you grant consolation and peace to their mourners amen holy mary health of the sick pray for us so joseph hope of the sick prayer syndrome protector against epidemics pray for us maria faustina the great apostle and secretary of god's mercy pray for stannis as patron of those in mortal danger pray for us [Music] faith of our fathers we will love both friends in all our strife and preach thee to as love knows all faith of our fathers [Music] we will be true to [Music] in order to get to heaven we need grace and one of the best ways to receive that grace is through prayer so if you would like a religious community to be praying for 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