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TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (A) – 6 SEPTEMBER AD2020

PUBLIC LITURGIES SUSPENDED DUE TO COVID-19 OUTBREAK IN MELBOURNE FOR DETAILS PLEASE VISIT THE PARISH WEBSITE

LET US JOIN IN PRAYING FOR AN END TO THE COVID-19 PESTILENCE

LEADER: God is our refuge and our strength. ALL: A helper in all tribulations.

LEADER: Lord, save your servants. ALL: Who trust in you, my God.

LEADER: O holy God! O holy strong One! O holy immortal ALL: Have mercy on us.

LEADER: Help us, O God, our Saviour. ALL: And deliver us, O Lord, for the glory of your name.

LEADER: Lord, hear my prayer. ALL: And let my cry come before you.

Let us pray. Almighty God, do not disdain your people who cry to you in their affliction, but for the glory of your name be pleased to help us who are so sorely troubled. Show us, O Lord, your inexpressible mercy and blot out our transgressions. We entreat you, Lord God, grant us, your servants, the enjoyment of lasting health of body and mind; and by the glorious intercession of blessed Mary, ever-Virgin, free us from present sorrow and give us everlasting joy. Graciously hear us, O Lord, in our tribulation, and heed the holy prayers of your Church, and grant that we fully obtain whatever we ask for in faith; through Christ our Lord. ALL: Amen.

ENTRANCE: YOU ARE JUST, O LORD, AND YOUR JUDGEMENT IS RIGHT; TREAT YOUR SERVANT IN ACCORD WITH YOUR MERCIFUL LOVE.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM: O THAT TODAY YOU WOULD LISTEN TO HIS VOICE! HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA! GOD WAS IN CHRIST, TO RECONCILE THE WORLD TO HIMSELF; AND THE GOOD NEWS OF RECONCILIATION HE HAS ENTRUSTED TO US. ALLELUIA!

COMMUNION: LIKE THE DEER THAT YEARNS FOR RUNNING STREAMS, SO MY SOUL IS YEARNING FOR YOU, MY GOD; MY SOUL IS THIRSTING FOR GOD, THE LIVING GOD.

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Catholic Fathers – To Be Models of Faith We all know that mothers matter, as psychological studies by people like John Bowlby have shown. But fathers are also crucial in providing a complementary male influence – or indeed, stepping in to fill the gap when a mother dies or is absent. This was true of the father of St Therese of Lisieux, who parented his five daughters on his own after their mother died of breast cancer when Therese was only four. By all accounts he fulfilled his role in an exemplary way.

I am just reading about another father. This was Karol Wojtyla senior, father of the future John Paul II (together in the photo at right), and the book is “John Paul II, Man of Prayer” by Clare Anderson and Joanna Bogle, published by Gracewing. Sub-titled “The spiritual life of a saint”, it shows how the young boy’s spiritual formation began with the devoted care of his father, widowed when the boy was only nine. Whenever I have read accounts of the late Pope’s early life in Wadowice, Poland, such as the reminiscences of his boyhood Jewish friend, Jerzy Kluger, I have warmed to the portrait that emerges of the quiet, upright, retired soldier and former tailor, known as “the Captain”, who made his young son’s clothes himself, did the cooking and cleaning and encouraged his son in his friendships, his studies and his sports.

Above all, he formed the boy’s early faith. He set, and was himself, an example of prayer. The future Pope was to describe their modest apartment as a kind of “domestic seminary”, in which his father taught mainly through his own deep yet unselfconscious piety. A man of complete integrity, the older Wojtyla did not simply follow the culture of Catholic life in Wadowice which it would have been easy to do in a country steeped in the traditions of the faith. The book puts it that “Prayer was a constant in their lives; the Captain prayed often during the day, on his knees. The two read the Bible and prayed the rosary together.” It includes the significant detail, “Sometimes the young boy would wake in the night and see his father kneeling in the dark, praying silently.”

The book also includes a moving anecdote. Once, when his son told him he was worried about a maths exam the following day, his father gave him a prayer to the Holy Spirit (included at the end of the book), directing him to pray it every day. The Pope did this faithfully to the end of his life. Speaking in 1979 to a conference of Catholic charismatics, he told them “I have remained obedient to this order that my father gave nearly fifty years ago…This was my first spiritual initiation, so I can understand all the different charisms.” It says a great deal about the close bond the father and son shared, that the young boy never forgot his father’s advice.

Long before it became de rigueur for fathers to be hands-on parents, in a simple apartment in a provincial Polish town an unknown father was giving his own son the loving paternal guidance he would need to become a man – and what a man as well as spiritual father the young Karol Wojtyla was to become in his turn.

- FRANCIS PHILLIPS, THE CATHOLIC HERALD (U.K.), 16 JUNE 2014

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THE ORDER OF MASS

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON

PENITENTIAL ACT

I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, (STRIKING THEIR

BREAST, THEY SAY:) through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.

ENTRANCE ANTIPHON

PENITENTIAL ACT

I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, (STRIKING THEIR

BREAST, THEY SAY:) through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.

THE KYRIE

THE GLORIA

THE NICENE CREED

I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things 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, (ALL BOW)

and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man. (RISE) 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.

LORD OF ALL HOPEFULNESS, LORD OF ALL JOY, Whose trust, ever child-like, no cares could destroy, Be there at our waking, and give us, we pray, Your bliss in our hearts, Lord, at the break of the day.

2. Lord of all eagerness, Lord of all faith, Whose strong hands were skilled at the plane and the lathe, Be there at our labours, and give us, we pray, Your strength in our hearts, Lord, at the noon of the day.

3. Lord of all kindliness, Lord of all grace, Your hands swift to welcome, your arms to embrace, Be there at our homing, and give us, we pray, Your love in our hearts, Lord, at the eve of the day.

4. Lord of all gentleness, Lord of all calm, Whose voice is contentment, whose presence is balm, Be there at our sleeping, and give us, we pray, Your peace in our hearts, Lord, at the end of the day.

THE SANCTUS

THE MYSTERY OF FAITH

We proclaim your death, O Lord, and profess your Resurrection until you come again.

THE AGNUS DEI

COMMUNION ANTIPHON

FAITH OF OUR FATHERS, LIVING STILL, In spite of dungeon, fire and sword; O how our hearts beat high with joy Whenever we hear that glorious Word! Faith of our fathers, holy faith! We will be true to thee till death.

2. Faith of our fathers, we will strive To win all nations unto Thee; And through the truth that comes from God, We all shall then be truly free. Faith of our fathers, holy faith! We will be true to thee till death.

3. Faith of our fathers, we will love Both friend and foe in all our strife; And preach Thee, too, as love knows how By kindly words and virtuous life. Faith of our fathers, holy faith! We will be true to thee till death.

SALVE REGINA

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A PRAYER TO ST JOSEPH Glorious Saint Joseph, spouse of the immaculate

Virgin, obtain for me a pure, humble, charitable

mind, and perfect resignation to the divine Will. Be

my guide, my father, and my model through life that

I may merit to die as you did in the arms of Jesus

and Mary. Amen. *************************************************************************

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