Sixth Sunday of Easter - Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes - Oakland 05-10-2026

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[00:00:29]Oh my god.

[00:00:37]Hello >> and welcome.

[00:00:41]Happy Mother's Day >> today. Please also join us in welcoming the parents, families, and friends of Nathaniel Clark and Daniel Sullivan, who will be receiving their first communion this morning.

[00:01:12]Today's gospel speaks of an advocate.

[00:01:16]This translates a Greek word pariclete.

[00:01:22]Our Lord was a pariclete and he would send another.

[00:01:28]That is how our Lord Jesus Christ saw himself.

[00:01:33]His role was not to condemn but to plead the case for mercy and compassion.

[00:01:41]Is there anyone here visiting for the first time today? If so, please raise your hand, including the visitors for the first communion.

[00:01:59]If so, thank you for being here. You enrich our our worship. Now, please turn off or silence all cell phones as we begin our liturgy and stand and greet each other by your first name if you wish.

[00:02:49]in by the spirit by the blood of Christ our There's our salvation trusting his pro praise we sing.

[00:03:18]Baptized in water, sealed by the spirit, dead in the tomb.

[00:03:29]Christ the king.

[00:03:32]Our truth is rising freely and forgi by the spirit with the sun of Christ our Born of one father, we are his children.

[00:04:09]Joyfully thou go.

[00:04:28]The Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. The grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

[00:04:40]>> And with your spirit.

[00:04:42]>> Oh, you could do better than that.

[00:04:44]>> And with your >> with you all.

[00:04:47]>> And with your spirit.

[00:04:49]>> Thank you. We're alive. We have had our coffee. I give thanks to God this morning for Father Ed. He's from the other coast, so we won't hold that against him. Somewhere in his life, he decided to come to Monterey, get rid of the New Jersey accent, and now lives lovingly down in Monterey and the Holy Dasis down there. We welcome him. Give him a round of applause.

[00:05:18]>> He's here for the first communicants as as connected and family members. And we and then lovingly we have our very own father Jim Shak Snder with us. And so we give thanks to God.

[00:05:34]>> Let us take a moment to recognize the holy ground that we all stand on. No matter what is happening in the world, God is always on the throne. Amen.

[00:05:44]>> Amen.

[00:05:45]>> God is always in charge. And God is always working with us and for us, loving us and calling us to be the best version of ourselves. So let's just take a moment and recognize that every single one of us stand on the shoulders of our mothers.

[00:06:03]>> Yes.

[00:06:04]>> Let us pray for those mothers, including my own, and I'm sure many of you here whose mothers are in heaven.

[00:06:12]For those mothers who are here with us, we rejoice and are glad. And for those mothers to be and those who want to be mothers, let's just take a moment.

[00:06:28]>> Lord have mercy.

[00:06:30]>> Lord have mercy.

[00:06:32]>> Christ have mercy.

[00:06:33]>> Christ have mercy.

[00:06:34]>> Lord have mercy.

[00:06:36]>> Lord have mercy. May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us all to everlasting life.

[00:06:44]>> Amen.

[00:06:44]>> We better not forget Michael Denton's birthday. That's why he's not here. He's off celebrating with his family, and he has served you so well. So, just keep Michael in your prayers and thanksgiving. In song, let us praise our God.

[00:07:04]>> Glory.

[00:07:06]Glory to God in the highest.

[00:07:10]Glory.

[00:07:12]Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to people.

[00:07:23]We praise you. We bless you. We adore you. We honor you.

[00:07:31]We give you thanks for your great glory.

[00:07:40]Lord and heavenly king, oh God almighty father on earth.

[00:07:49]Lord Jesus Christ, only begotten son, Lord God, lamb of God, son of the world.

[00:08:01]Take away the sins of the world. Have mercy on all.

[00:08:08]You take away the sins of the world.

[00:08:12]Receive our pray. You are seated at the right hand of the father.

[00:08:20]Have mercy on us.

[00:08:25]For you are the holy one.

[00:08:30]You are the Lord.

[00:08:34]You are the most high Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit in the glory of God.

[00:08:50]Glory.

[00:08:51]Glory to God in the highest.

[00:08:55]Glory, glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to people will let us continue our prayer.

[00:09:20]Grant Almighty God that we may celebrate with heartfelt devotion these days of great joy which we keep in honor of the risen Lord and that what we relive in remembrance we may always hold in what we do how we live and how we love through our Lord Jesus Christ your son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit God forever and ever and let the church say >> amen Amen.

[00:09:57]>> A reading from the Acts of the Apostles.

[00:10:03]Philillip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed the Christ to them.

[00:10:11]With one accord, the crowds paid attention to what was said by Philillip.

[00:10:19]when they heard it and saw the signs he was doing.

[00:10:25]For unclean spirits crying out in a loud voice came out, and many possessed people and many paralyzed and crippled people were cured.

[00:10:39]There was great joy in that city.

[00:10:43]Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent them Peter and John, who went down and prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Spirit.

[00:11:03]For it had not yet fallen upon any of them.

[00:11:08]They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.

[00:11:14]Then they laid hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit.

[00:11:22]The word of the Lord.

[00:11:24]>> Thanks be to God.

[00:11:59]Let all the earth cry out in joy. Joy to the Lord.

[00:12:08]Let all the earth cry out in joy to the Lord.

[00:12:17]Let all the earth cry out in joy to the Lord.

[00:12:25]Hallelujah.

[00:12:27]Let all the earth cry out in joy to the Lord.

[00:12:36]Cry out in joy to the Lord, all peoples on earth.

[00:12:43]Sing to the praise of God's name.

[00:12:48]Proclaim forever.

[00:12:53]Command is your peace for us.

[00:12:58]Holy earth to the Lord.

[00:13:06]Hallelujah to the Lord.

[00:13:17]leading your people safe through fire and water, bringing their souls to life.

[00:13:29]We sing of your glory.

[00:13:34]Your love is eternal.

[00:13:39]Oh, lift all the earth and joy to the Lord.

[00:13:51]My heart to me as I sing my love of the Lord who answers the prayer of my Lord who brings me to save me from damage. Heat. Heat.

[00:14:30]and all the earth.

[00:14:33]Give joy to the Lord.

[00:14:39]To the Lord.

[00:15:05]A reading from the first letter of St. Peter.

[00:15:10]Beloved, sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts.

[00:15:17]Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope.

[00:15:28]But do it with gentleness and reverence, keeping your conscience clear, so that when you are maligned, those who defame your good conduct in Christ may themselves be put to shame.

[00:15:45]For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that be the will of God, than for doing evil.

[00:15:57]For Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous, that he might lead you to God.

[00:16:09]Put to death in the flesh, he was brought to life in the spirit.

[00:16:18]>> The word of the Lord.

[00:16:20]>> Thanks be to God.

[00:16:42]Hallelujah.

[00:16:43]Hallelujah.

[00:16:46]Hallelujah.

[00:16:51]Hallelujah.

[00:16:53]Hallelujah.

[00:16:56]Hallelujah.

[00:17:01]If we have hope that we trust in the Lord, God will protect us from a sword.

[00:17:09]Fill us with love and the peace of his word. Hallelujah.

[00:17:19]Hallelujah.

[00:17:21]Hallelujah.

[00:17:23]Hallelujah.

[00:17:29]Hallelujah.

[00:17:30]Hallelujah.

[00:17:33]Hallelujah.

[00:17:39]>> The Lord be with you.

[00:17:41]>> And with your spirit.

[00:17:42]>> A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.

[00:17:46]>> Glory to you, Lord.

[00:17:51]Jesus said to his disciples, "If you love me, you will keep my commandments, and I will ask the Father, and he will give you another advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept because it neither sees nor knows him.

[00:18:13]But you know him because he remains with you and will be with in you.

[00:18:19]I will not leave you orphans.

[00:18:23]I will come to you in a little while.

[00:18:26]The world will no longer see me, but you will see me because I live and you will live.

[00:18:36]On that day, you will realize that I am in the Father and you are in me and I am in you.

[00:18:44]Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my father. And I will love them and reveal myself to them.

[00:19:01]>> My sisters and brothers, the gospel of the Lord.

[00:19:05]>> Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.

[00:19:11]Hallelujah.

[00:19:13]Hallelujah.

[00:19:16]Hallelujah.

[00:19:26]My first thing to this is a very complicated liturgy today and I am not smart enough to be able to weave all of these different things in together. So, you're a holy mother of this lovely communicant. I stole these from St. Columba. That's what they're giving out this morning. So, it's not that I put it together, but happy Mother's Day and happy Mother's Day.

[00:19:52]Thank you. God bless. Give them a round of applause when when I do. So, can I have your permission to do something first?

[00:20:06]Can I have your Are you all alive?

[00:20:11]>> Can I have your permission to do something?

[00:20:15]>> Okay. So, I'm not going to talk about the readings today, >> okay?

[00:20:19]>> Because it's Mother's Day, it's first holy communion, and I can't just bring all of those things together. So, I'm just going to do two things separately.

[00:20:29]And so, is that okay?

[00:20:32]>> Yes, Father.

[00:20:34]Um, I love doing first holy communion. I I when I when I first left the seminary, we had what a really great priest in our dasis that should have been a a bishop uh father Brian Joyce at at uh uh Christ the King and when he would do first holy communions, you know, you learn this is a good reason why you sit at the feet of senior priests in the dasis. That's why you the the parental role passes on to us. So the first thing is So what's your name?

[00:21:09]>> Danny. And >> oh well we'll just deal with that. Okay.

[00:21:16]And so uh where do you mostly eat when you're at home? Don't tell me in front of the TV or with an iPad in your hand. Where do you usually eat when you eat?

[00:21:30]Good man. I hope that's the right answer. Where do you eat?

[00:21:37]>> Yeah. Kitchen.

[00:21:38]>> Kitchen table. Yeah. Okay. I put that word in your mouth. Okay. And then of all the breads that exist in the world, which is the one that you like the best.

[00:21:50]>> A baguette. How lovely. A baguette. And what's your favorite bread?

[00:21:58]Don't Don't be telling him. He knows what his own bread is. What bread do you like the best?

[00:22:05]>> Homemade. Okay. Or fresh bread.

[00:22:09]>> Wow. What a wonderful mother you must be. And then So, what are you going to be when you grow up?

[00:22:18]>> Oh, come on. Say something. What does your dad do? What does your mom do?

[00:22:27]Is there anything you would like to do?

[00:22:31]>> Well, we'll have bu building. Let's go with building. Okay. And >> what do >> No. For work to make money to keep body and soul together.

[00:22:47]>> Yes.

[00:22:50]>> Are you a builder too? Sing. You want to be a singer? Sure. Okay, let's go with that.

[00:22:56]>> You see, the the wonderful tradition is to keep it simple for you. I I had down at Holy Spirit in Fremont, the pastor Matthew is in heaven now, but he left me with a hundred kids for for to do first holy communion. Father Ed, have you ever had big numbers like this? So I went around I tried to engage all of the kids and there was so when I got to the part of where what do you want to be when you grow up this little Filipina she just folded her arms and she says father I want to be a PRIEST you know I'm not shy and on the tip of my tongue.

[00:23:45]I said, "Well, sister St. Terresa of Lujour had the soul of a priest. And if God wants you to pre be a priest, you'll be a priest." Applause.

[00:23:53]>> Yes.

[00:23:57]>> And really, the Eucharist is the source and summit of our lives, and it's an invitation for us to come around the table. Keep in mind, the early church just had a kitchen table. It was a dining room table. That's what it was.

[00:24:14]has become more formalized in 2,000 years, but essentially it is somewhere where we're fed the type of bread the church has institutionalized but you know unleaven bread uh that you like and and there we're nourished by and then it nourishes us because our mothers bring us and our parents bring us to the table. The community brings us to the table as it does right now. And so, uh, the invitation really today is for them to get that connection that they are loved, that God is hopelessly in love with the dream and each of each and every one of us. And we are all invited to feed at this table and to come back on a regular basis as our body needs that feeding in order for us to live the life that God is calling us to. And that's really what the readings are about to just as a reference to them.

[00:25:11]It's an invitation. God is not going to leave us orphans.

[00:25:16]He is leaving his spirit. And if we live out of that joy, if we live out of that spirit, then not situations and difficulties of life notwithstanding, we are all invited to have that joy and to live our best lives in the community for the common good, for justice, for love, and to see one another. Last Monday night, uh the the Cardinal Archbishop from Ghana, Father Peter Turken, gave a talk over at Oakland Museum. It wasn't very widely uh announced or advertised.

[00:25:52]My God, I have never met an ecclesial type of person like that who was so humble, so engaging, and so just down to earth.

[00:26:04]In fact, I was hoping he would be pope him or car Cardinal Tagley from the Philippines. But I'm quite happy with this pope as he's engaging right now.

[00:26:13]So, God wanted that. But he he was really lovely. But when he got up to talk about ecology and Africa and the connection between Silicon Valley and what we can bring to the continent, uh he talked about that one of his personal philosophies is that in scripture in Greek that idea it speaks about brothers.

[00:26:40]I always encourage my at my church to say sisters and brothers wherever we can be inclusive that the church has hasn't gotten around to being that inclusive they have permission to be inclusive.

[00:26:54]And he said we are all born of the same womb and that we are all sisters and brothers of that same womb and we are invited not to come here just for the sake of this. This is not an end in itself. It's an invitation to be out in the world to love to be present to be just and to see and hear one another.

[00:27:24]The uh I I love this particular saying. The glory of God is the human being fully alive, mind, body, soul, and sexuality.

[00:27:39]Now, St. Iranius said that he did not say sexuality, but he meant to say it.

[00:27:46]In fact, you can add on on the 4th century anything that enhances the human spirit to love all God's people. Amen.

[00:27:58]>> And so, we're invited to do exactly the same. God is not leaving us orphans. God continues to love us and bless us. And I want to do that through three different ways uh in three different modes.

[00:28:16]So the first one is now as an Irish Catholic I would have been stoned if I had have said this but I know you're a lot more loving and progressive than that.

[00:28:29]I begin with a provocative sentence that st stems from the year 1978.

[00:28:36]God is not only father but even so more mother who wants only to be good to us.

[00:28:46]Wants only to love us. Especially if and even in moments where negativity or missing the mark comes to the four even more than father. God is mother.

[00:29:01]The person who uttered these words was John Paul I in his 34 days of his pontificate. Can you imagine with that sort of understanding? Because you and I know no person or God or the universe fits into our language.

[00:29:22]Amen.

[00:29:23]>> Amen.

[00:29:23]>> It doesn't. It's to to even suggest that God somehow or another fits into one way of thinking, a patriarchal way of thinking. God is so much more. It's almost sacrilegious to think that God is just father.

[00:29:39]>> God is so much more than that. And it blows my mind. If I could go back to young Aiden in my 20s and talk like that, I'd probably slap myself.

[00:29:53]But the invitation is to see God, God as mother. Think of that moment when the people of Israel are locked in that captivity of Egypt and they cry out to their God and there and Zion says to them.

[00:30:13]But Zion says, "The Lord has forsaken me. My Lord has forgotten me.

[00:30:22]Can a woman, a mother, forget her suckling child that she should have no compassion on the fruit of her womb? And even if they forget, even if she forgets, behold, I have carved you on the palm of my hand.

[00:30:46]That is the level of intimacy. There are many moments that Jesus uses the female face of God in the widow's might, in the lost coin, and in the women that are around.

[00:31:00]I invite you today to expand your idea beyond what you might have been told into the totality of who God is. In that idea of God as feminine, God who gives life, allow that image to give you life on this day in the same way that you have been given life by your mother. These things are not separate. They're all intertwined and they're all one.

[00:31:33]The second uh way in which I invite you to look at this is through the eyes of the blessed mother. And I don't think I would ever have used her in this context because Mary is so high on a pedestal that no mother could ever be like her.

[00:31:55]But what we tend to forget is she was a young woman, an uneducated young woman in an agrarian culture 2,000 years ago.

[00:32:10]She had the ability to say no, but she said yes.

[00:32:17]I'm sure she was scared.

[00:32:20]I'm sure she didn't understand.

[00:32:24]But the power of God came into her life and she was invited to say yes. But you have to allow her to say no.

[00:32:34]She said yes.

[00:32:36]And one of the most beautiful images and there are many images uh in in our Catholic Orthodox Christian tradition.

[00:32:47]The one that I love the best is the Virgin of Guadalupe.

[00:32:52]Why? Because the Virgin of Guadalupe comes into uh and meets Juan Diego on the road, an indigenous man who didn't speak Spanish.

[00:33:06]She loved him. She made him the messenger. And she asked him to point to Christ. The blessed mother will always always That's what we celebrate as Catholics.

[00:33:20]She points to Christ always.

[00:33:24]And she appears to him as a pregnant woman.

[00:33:29]Go figure, ladies. A pregnant woman.

[00:33:34]And she speaks to her to Mand Diego and to the church as a woman of faith, pregnant and brown and indigenous looking. God comes to us through who we are, where we are, how we're planted, and loves us exactly as we are, and calls us to the fullness of what St. Arania said to us in the beginning that we are fully God loves and is present when we are fully alive fully embracing ourselves.

[00:34:07]A few months ago at St. Colombia, a a Muslim, a a a woman came to us with a play and the play was about Mary and Miriam.

[00:34:21]And the play was two women, Mary, the Mary that we know, the Mary that's in the where is she? She's here somewhere over here. There. uh that the Mary that we understand in faith and then Miriam in the Muslim tradition because they honor Jesus and they honor Mary and so the play was a twooman woman play about those two women. You can see it online if you're really interested in it. It's uh at st columba-oke.com but on our YouTube channel like you have here. So it became a very intimate conversation between the two Marys. And I loved it because at one point because the the Muslims have a very interesting perspect they they hold her tight but we hold her in a different way. And one of the things that Mary said to Miriam, he says, "They have put me on a very high pedestal.

[00:35:33]They have wrapped me in so much piety that I can I am hardly human." My words, our invitation is to to uh is to embrace that yes of the blessed mother and embrace the feminine and embrace Mary as a model of yes. Even in those two times when she said yes, when she said it to the angel as a young woman and at the foot of the cross, she says Jesus says, "Behold your mother to John." Behold the mother and behold every mother.

[00:36:16]And lastly, we behold all mothers everywhere and always. And I want to do it through Ford. Am I keeping you too long or are you bored?

[00:36:29]Just want to make sure.

[00:36:32]I know some people want to shout out, "Father, we're done now. We've heard enough."

[00:36:37]The first The first way to honor mothers is through praise. Glory to God for the lifegivers.

[00:36:45]The lifegivers.

[00:36:47]All of you who have given life.

[00:36:51]Glory to God who has shared with women so divine a power you brought this child into the universe.

[00:37:03]It's an amazing gift. My mom was 21 when she had me. Apparently she screamed the hospital down and my father was never going to do this again.

[00:37:15]But she was five more babies after that.

[00:37:17]So, she mustn't have uh followed through on that one. But imagine being 21 and she's in heaven now. And as I come, she died at 65.

[00:37:29]And now that I'm in my 64th year, you know, you kind of it's a funny year to to think about your mother and who she is and what she has done. But God is shaping in God's image humans who reveal the fe feminine side of God. Number two, thanksgiving. Gratitude to God for the vocation of mothers, which is second to none. It's better than a priest. It's better than a bishop. It's better than a CEO, although they have to be CEOs sometimes.

[00:38:08]It's better than any other vocation in the world for what it does and we must be grateful to them. I'm great only grateful not only without my mother my very existence would be doubtful.

[00:38:21]Think about that for a moment. Or all that mothers do cleaning us when we're kids and giving us a little smack. I'm not into corporal punishment but sometimes I remember it's necessary.

[00:38:36]tolerating our adolescent.

[00:38:39]Let's just take a moment for a moment here and you can close your ears and anybody who's like really young, but you know those times you acted crazy with your mom.

[00:38:51]Do you remember the poor woman? Well, you're not there yet. Ed a teenager. But we we give thanks for the having to put up with our antics and temper tantrums and our search for independence.

[00:39:07]Suffering somehow my focus on myself.

[00:39:10]Surrendering present pleasure for future gift. Doing without so that I might have.

[00:39:19]Like Jesus, we are called to grow in age, in wisdom, in favor, and be the human beings God calls us to be. And a petition for our mothers. Let us storm heaven for all our mothers wherever they may be.

[00:39:36]For mother in our fair land who must be a mother under the poverty line. who must watch one of her children grow up with minds stunted and bodies shriveled because of poverty in a country that has the ability to feed and educate and love all. We cry to heaven for mother to for mothers to be for mothers whose passion uh for those who have dependencies on anything that is not helpful for the mothers in our world today of Gaza, the Ukraine, the Sudan, Iran, Cuba or any of the other 50 theaters of the war for all mothers everywhere who need and cry out for their children, for mothers who must play both mother and father roles for all mothers. And fourth, contrition. Let us ask forgiveness for our blindness. And let us sorrow for our failure to support all of these women. For those who have to deal with minimum wage, for crowding homeless mothers into rat infect infested hvels, forgiveness of the feminization of poverty, unequal wages, glass ceilings, low retirement benefits, epidemic violence against women, machismo in state and church and clergy attitude that would bring you to tears, even Christ to tears in the way that women are treated. did sorrow for a way of life where we women are seen as thrown away.

[00:41:26]Sorrow for an infinite mortality rate that shames our vaunted and low healthc care system. Good friends, we love our mothers. And I invite you just for a second to call out your mother's name. Don't worry about anybody else, how loudly or how little they do it. right now calling out to heaven to God, call out your mother's name. I shout out Mary Jane.

[00:41:56]>> Come on, mothers.

[00:42:00]>> We love those who are called out. We love the idea of being challenged for the feminine face of God. We give thanks for Mary and her yes and our yes, united to hers. And we give thanks to God for every mother and every mothering spirit.

[00:42:19]And we ask all of this love through Christ our Lord. Let the church say, "Amen." Give the women a great big round of applause.

[00:42:35]So, what I would like to do now, I saw that you're looking at your watch and you're saying, "He's talking too long."

[00:42:42]Well, too bad. All the women come up and we do a big circle around the altar.

[00:42:48]>> All women.

[00:42:50]>> All mothering spirits.

[00:42:54]>> All mothering spirits.

[00:42:56]>> Father, help me give out these.

[00:43:00]>> Just stand like this facing out.

[00:43:06]>> Stand like this facing out. Turn around.

[00:43:16]Maybe the ushers could come and help us give out the flowers.

[00:43:25]>> Give a few.

[00:43:33]>> Oops.

[00:43:54]He's coming around.

[00:43:56]I have a script.

[00:44:00]Now, do you see guys how many women there are in the church and how many men there are and what authority they should have.

[00:44:09]Excuse me, father.

[00:44:12]So, let's extend our hands in blessing.

[00:44:15]You probably need to go the other way.

[00:44:19]This is where everybody gets to participate. Are you on your phone?

[00:44:26]Okay.

[00:44:27]Better put my glasses on. So ladies with another hand you could put it on the woman beside you just women are much more touchyfey and part of God's gift.

[00:44:44]So has everybody got a flower and everybody got a hand on their shoulder and all of us are extending our hands and blessings sister don't want to leave anybody out.

[00:44:56]>> Okay.

[00:44:59]We bless you and we praise you, God of our mothers, for you have fashioned us into being and knit us together in our mother's womb.

[00:45:10]We thank you, God, for the gift of these mothers, our grandmothers, our godmothers, our aunties, stepmothers, foster mothers, adopted mothers, and mothers-in-law, and any mothers who we have not named properly. Send your Holy Spirit on all who have been mothers to us in the past and in the future. In whose arms we have been cradled, on whose backs we have been carried, by whose hands and bodies we were fed, and on whose shoulders we all now stand.

[00:45:45]From their wisdom, we are instructed at times corrected. In their strength, we learn to work and play and pray. and at their side. We hear your word and celebrate your mysteries. Heal their pain and their silent pain and their disappointments.

[00:46:05]Forgive all the needs to be forgiven.

[00:46:09]Give to them the good they have given to others. Welcome into your loving arms those who have died and gone before us marked with the sign of peace and love.

[00:46:22]Fill this world, oh God, with a mother's love. We ask this through your son, Jesus Christ, who learned his courageous faith from his own mother and lives who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever. Let the church say, "Amen." Give them all a big round of applause.

[00:46:50]God bless.

[00:46:52]>> Oh, what's your book? What's your name?

[00:46:56]>> Myra. Oh, good. Good.

[00:47:15]Let us stand together and offer our prayers uh of the faithful for our mothers and for our world, for our church and especially for this community.

[00:47:31]We give thanks to God for our holy father, Pope Leo, who has completed his first year as leader of the church and pray for his continued health and wisdom.

[00:47:47]We pray for the leaders of every nation to work diligently for peace and pray especially for wars to end in Iran, Gaza, Ukraine, and Sudan.

[00:48:02]We pray for all citizens as they prepare to vote to do so responsibly, seeking advice and to understand the issues on the ballot.

[00:48:18]We pray on this Mother's Day for mothers everywhere and especially for the mothers of Iran, Ukraine, Gaza, and Sudan who have lost their children through war.

[00:48:34]May their hearts be comforted.

[00:48:40]We pray for children everywhere celebrating their mothers on this day devoted to mothers. And we pray for peace to come to the countries where war has torn their mothers away from them.

[00:49:01]We pray for all nurses during this National Nurses Week. May they show to those in their care the compassionate heart of a mother and share with proficiency the skill of their profession.

[00:49:19]We pray for the comfort of all who are ill, in pain, or suffering in any way.

[00:49:28]Especially for Mitty Phillips, Dennis EMTT, Ael Romero, Harvey Hyman, and John Czech Snider.

[00:49:41]We pray for all those who have died recently and for the faithful departed that they may be raised to eternal life.

[00:49:54]Today's mass is offered for the repose of the soul of Maria Aurelia Viroli people >> and we pray now for our own intentions.

[00:50:16]today.

[00:50:20]We pray for all child in the most loving loving act of surrender on our roses.

[00:50:40]We pray for Peggy Monroe, our Eucharistic minister, her full recovery from her surgery.

[00:51:11]God and the faithful, God merciful, God of the people, here our prayer.

[00:51:25]I am the faithful.

[00:51:29]I am the merciful.

[00:51:32]God of the people here.

[00:51:42]Dear sisters and brothers, as we stand here at the font and through the pascal mystery, we have been buried with Christ in baptism so that we may walk with him in newness of life. And so now, as we celebrate this Easter season, let us renew the promises of holy baptism by which we once renounced Satan and his empty works and promised to serve God in the church. And so I ask you all enthusiastically, do you renounce Satan?

[00:52:18]>> I do.

[00:52:20]>> All his empty works.

[00:52:22]>> I do.

[00:52:23]>> All his empty promises. I do.

[00:52:25]>> Do you renounce sin so as to live in the freedom of God's children?

[00:52:30]>> I do.

[00:52:31]>> Do you renounce the lure of evil so that sin may have no mastery over you?

[00:52:37]>> I do.

[00:52:38]>> Do you renounce the hinderer, the author and prince of sin?

[00:52:42]>> I do.

[00:52:43]>> Do you believe in God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth?

[00:52:48]>> I do. Do you believe in Jesus Christ, his only son, our Lord, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered death and was buried, rose again from the dead, and is now seated at the right hand of the father?

[00:53:00]>> Amen.

[00:53:01]>> Do you believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.

[00:53:10]>> Amen. My sisters and brothers and may almighty God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit bless us and keep us always. The Lord who has bestowed on us forgiveness of our sins, keep us by his grace and love through Christ our Lord. Amen.

[00:54:14]Hallelujah.

[00:54:18]Sit.

[00:54:34]Is there a collection?

[00:54:59]star to wash your dream.

[00:55:06]This is my love you.

[00:55:17]is me and I am You have the voice of the world that I glor. Glory and sing of God.

[00:56:21]I star.

[00:56:32]This is my I am I am for you Heat. Heat.

[00:57:09]Heat. Heat.

[00:57:23]Heat. Heat.

[00:57:33]Heat. Heat.

[00:57:44]Heat. Heat.

[00:57:55]Heat. Heat.

[00:58:11]as I am.

[00:58:18]I am the heat.

[00:58:29]Heat. Heat.

[00:58:42]Heat. Heat.

[00:58:52]Heat. Heat. Heat.

[00:59:02]Heat. Heat. Heat.

[00:59:12]Heat. Heat. Heat.

[00:59:25]as I have you as I have for you.

[00:59:45]Pray my sisters and brothers that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to the Lord our God.

[00:59:52]>> May the Lord accept the sacrifice to the praise and glory of God's name for our church. May our prayer prayers rise up to you, oh Lord, together with the sacrificial offerings so that purified by your graciousness and love, we may be conformed to the mysteries of your mighty deeds. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

[01:00:18]>> Amen.

[01:00:19]>> The Lord be with you.

[01:00:20]>> And with your spirit.

[01:00:21]>> Lift up your hearts.

[01:00:23]>> We lift them up to the Lord.

[01:00:24]>> Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

[01:00:26]It is right and just.

[01:00:28]>> It is truly right and just our duty and our salvation at all times to acclaim you, oh Lord. But at this time above all to lord you yet more gloriously when Christ our Passover has been sacrificed.

[01:00:42]For with the this old order destroyed, a universe cast down and renewed and integrity of life is restored to all of us in Christ. Therefore, overcome with pascal joy, every land and every people exalts in your name, and even the heavenly powers and angelic hosts sing together the unending hymn of your glory as day and we acclaim, holy, holy God and full of your glory. Heat. Heat.

[01:01:35]Hosana in the highest.

[01:01:48]>> I'd like I'd like you to could we just have the one posture, whatever that is.

[01:01:54]Everybody kneels. Does everybody kneels in the church? We're invited to in this community to kneel or just sit in the front row. It's just one posture for all. That's the invitation of the Eucharist that we do the same thing. But I would like to invite you just for a moment to put your hand not literally on your mother's shoulder.

[01:02:25]May your mother be in heaven.

[01:02:27]May your mother be here on earth but is a little bit away.

[01:02:34]For all of the mothering spirits in this world and the God that is in them and the mystery that that represents, let's just take a moment to revel in that joy.

[01:02:54]And so we pray. You are holy indeed, O Lord, the font of all holiness. Make holy, therefore, these gifts we pray by sending down your holy spirit upon them like dwfall so that they may become for us the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.

[01:03:13]At the time that he was betrayed and entered willingly into his passion, Jesus took bread and giving you, Father, thanks and praise, broke it, gave it to his disciples and friends, saying, "Take this all of you and eat of it, for this is my body which will be given up for you.

[01:03:42]In a similar way, when the supper was ended, Jesus took the chalice once more, father, giving you thanks and praise, gave it to his disciples and friends, saying, "Take this, all of you, and drink from it. For this is the chalice of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant, which will be poured out for you and for all, so that sins may be forgiven. Do this in memory of me.

[01:04:21]My sisters and brothers, the mystery of faith.

[01:04:27]And we drink this cup.

[01:04:33]We proclaim your death until you come again.

[01:04:44]until you come again.

[01:04:50]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 all worthy to be in your presence to minister to you and to one another. Humbly we pray that partaking of the body and blood of Christ, we may be gathered into one by the Holy Spirit. Remember Lord all people everywhere made in your image and likeness. Remember your church spread throughout the world. Bring her to the fullness of charity, justice, love, and radical inclusion for all. Together with Leo, our pope, Michael, our bishop, the clergy, and the entire family your son has gained for you.

[01:05:38]Remember also our sisters and brothers, all who have fallen asleep in the hope of resurrection, and especially our mothers and grandmothers, and all who have died in your mercy and love.

[01:05:50]Welcome them to the light of your presence.

[01:06:02]>> Have mercy on us all. We pray that with the blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God, with the blessed Joseph, her spouse, with the blessed apostles and all the saints who have pleased you throughout the ages, we may merit to be coairs to eternal life and may praise and glorify you through your son Jesus Christ.

[01:06:30]And so we pray, through him and with him and in him, O God, almighty Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is yours forever and ever.

[01:07:07]At the Savior's command and formed by divine teaching, we pray the prayer that we pray with all of creation in one voice. Our Father, who art in heaven, 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, from every evil and grant us peace at our day. In your mercy, keep us free from sin and protect us from all anxiety and useless worry as we await the blessed hope, the coming of our savior Jesus Christ.

[01:07:57]>> For the kingdom, the power, and the glory are yours now and >> Lord Jesus Christ, you said to your apostles, I leave you peace, my peace I give you. Look not on our sins, but on the faith of your church and grant us the peace and unity of your kingdom where you live forever and ever.

[01:08:17]>> Amen.

[01:08:17]>> The peace of the Lord be with you always.

[01:08:20]>> And with your spirit.

[01:08:21]>> Let's offer one another a sign of that love and peace.

[01:08:25]>> Thank you, brother. Peace. Peace.

[01:08:27]Peace be with you. Peace.

[01:08:33]Peace.

[01:08:36]Peace. Is this one of your one of your big sons? Not as Yes. He looks a wee bit like Joey.

[01:08:45]>> Peace, sister. Peace.

[01:08:50]Peace.

[01:09:19]You're all very shy over at St. Columba.

[01:09:21]Everybody shakes hands with everybody.

[01:09:24]It takes about 15 minutes, but just because you're quiet doesn't mean I have to be. Please, please, please take have mercy on us.

[01:10:07]God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

[01:10:23]Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world.

[01:10:44]>> My sisters and brothers, this is the lamb of God who takes us takes away the sin of the world. Happy are those who are called to the supper of the lamb.

[01:10:54]>> Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter the word.

[01:11:01]>> With the body and the blood of Christ bring us all to everlasting life. Amen.

[01:11:22]So we're going to invite uh the families of the two young ones who are receiving their first holy communion to receive from father first and then once they have received then we will do communion the regular way as you do it here. So I'll do this part.

[01:11:47]Yeah. Come all the way up.

[01:12:24]Heat.

[01:12:33]Heat.

[01:12:36]of his spirit spirit.

[01:13:04]Go spirit spirit.

[01:13:37]Heat. Heat.

[01:13:47]Jesus Christ.

[01:14:13]Heat. Heat.

[01:14:23]Heat.

[01:14:25]Heat.

[01:14:35]Heat. Heat. Heat.

[01:14:54]is to spit on my My last rejoice.

[01:15:53]Let his His true is so the beautiful My soul in the soul desire many of his spirit.

[01:16:50]Some spirit Heat. Heat.

[01:17:25]for in the long to spy.

[01:17:53]Some of the spirit is all his spirit was to pray in the sky.

[01:18:35]for the children.

[01:18:45]Mary spy His spirit and his son.

[01:19:57]What happens?

[01:20:08]Mary full of grace the Lord is with me. Blessed are Lord of heaven and blessed is the thy Jesus.

[01:20:40]Oh, great.

[01:20:59]our death.

[01:21:02]Amen.

[01:21:18]Almighty and everliving God, who restore us to eternal life and the resurrection of Christ, increase in us the fruits of this pascal feast and pour into our hearts the strength and the love that we need to see one another and live in justice and truth. through Christ our Lord. Let the church say >> amen.

[01:21:42]>> Is there anyone um celebrating anything that you can celebrate in church >> a birthday?

[01:21:53]>> Okay, you need to come up here. Anybody who's celebrating anything, wedding anniversaries, degrees, >> it's your birthday, isn't it? Come on up.

[01:22:08]Are you telling me that nobody was born in this month here >> or nobody got married in this month?

[01:22:16]>> Ah.

[01:22:18]Oh, you see me >> anniversary >> Tuesday.

[01:22:24]>> Deacon Brandon's last day.

[01:22:27]>> You too, father. Oh, good. Good.

[01:22:32]>> Okay.

[01:22:33]Are you sure you don't have anything else to celebrate?

[01:22:38]I did notice that you got up very quickly earlier. You want the mass to be over quickly, but I I know these two.

[01:22:46]>> Um, okay. And what's your name?

[01:22:50]>> Myra.

[01:22:51]>> Myra. And yourself?

[01:22:52]>> 90.

[01:22:53]>> You're 90. Well, congratulations, Maria.

[01:23:01]>> Satress.

[01:23:05]See, this is my uh Spanish teacher. She comes every every Friday morning and we talk and she corrects my bad Spanish all the time. And your name?

[01:23:17]>> Nathan. And And how old are you?

[01:23:19]>> Nine. Congratulations.

[01:23:22]>> Holy Father, >> I'll be uh I'll be 81 at the end of month.

[01:23:26]>> 81. Okay. Young there.

[01:23:30]And >> which one?

[01:23:34]>> 36 years.

[01:23:35]>> You both agree. Oh, 36.

[01:23:42]>> So, can we sing Stevie Wonders happy birthday?

[01:23:48]>> No, that's not Stevie. No, no, no.

[01:23:52]>> You have to listen to father.

[01:23:55]>> So, one, two, three. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday.

[01:24:07]Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.

[01:24:15]Happy birthday.

[01:24:29]Brothers and sisters, we have a few quick announcements because we know you want to get to your Mother's Day brunch.

[01:24:35]Uh, this month is older Americans month.

[01:24:39]May observes older Americans, a time to recognize your contributions, highlight aging trends, and reaffirm our commitment to serving those that are a little bit older than the rest of us.

[01:24:53]May we celebrate this month in good health.

[01:24:58]Next Sunday, Samsa is going to talk to you about a new ministry called the Magnificat for Mothers, which is going to be for young mothers, old mothers, and all the mothers looking to bring children into this world or take care of children. So, we'll have more information next month, but or next Sunday. So, please um come back and learn more about our new ministries. And also in our letter from Father Leo last week, he told us we needed to do five things. He said we had to continue to pray, continue to show up, continue to give, continue to welcome, and continue to have hope. So, this month we are going to focus on prayer. So at the back of the church is the Save Our Lady of Lords prayer. Please take it home and say it every morning or every evening.

[01:25:56]We will also continue to do the rosary and pray for our patron mother um every Sunday at 9:30. So this is a month of prayer for our lady of lords. Thank you father.

[01:26:11]>> Thank you.

[01:26:12]>> Thank you.

[01:26:14]>> I want to thank uh father Ed for being here. They said uh there was a priest coming from another dascese. So I was a little nervous in case he was very traditional and would be shocked at anything that I would say suggesting that God was feminine. Like how could you not? But you're not shocked are you father?

[01:26:38]>> Uh well yes. So as soon as he walked into the sacry, you know the way you can judge whether someone's loving or caring a kind. Uh brother Brandon the deacon is this is his second to last Sunday. So we thank Oh, second last day. A >> he leaves on a plane tomorrow.

[01:26:58]>> Are you Oh, you're leaving like going away. Oh, come up. We need to do a blessing of you. Did we do it?

[01:27:06]>> You did it. Okay. We'll give him a round of applause.

[01:27:16]Last Sunday as I began my homaly, uh you do know that the liturgy at St. Columba 2 hours long.

[01:27:24]You all go, "Oh my god." Okay. But uh I started my homaly off.

[01:27:32]How did I start my homaly off?

[01:27:35]Oh, have you ever felt the glory and the love and the presence of God?

[01:27:40]>> Yeah.

[01:27:40]>> I said, and I want you to think back to a moment, and that's what the gospel was about. I says, I cannot imagine getting up in fronting of our our Lady of Lords today or any of the 13 parishes and saying the same asking the same question. But I want to let you know that we uh we continue to pray with you and for us and just realize that God's on the throne and that we will continue to uh pray for one another and be present for one another. Uh the church is more than a building although it break this breaks my heart that this building is but there are many ways to do this and I hope and pray that they find one that would allow this place to still be a sacred place on the lake.

[01:28:30]Happy Mother's Day. I hope you have wonderful branches. Congratulations to the two boys. The Lord be with you.

[01:28:36]>> And with your spirit.

[01:28:38]>> May almighty God bless you all. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen.

[01:28:43]>> Our mass has ended. Let us go in the peace and the love of Christ.

[01:28:47]>> Thanks be to God.

[01:28:58]Oh Lord my God, when I in awome wonder consider all the work I see.

[01:29:16]Heat. Heat.

[01:29:28]and my soul to me.

[01:29:40]How great my savior to me.

[01:30:01]through the wood and forest place I wonder and hear the singer.

[01:30:23]and feel and feel the gentle myior to my soul.

[01:30:50]Savior to me.

[01:31:00]How great.

[01:31:48]Heat. Heat.