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Sunday Worship
15th May 2011
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Radio 4 Opening Announcement:
Time now for Sunday Worship which comes live from Leeds Cathedral with
Mass for Vocations Sunday. The celebrant is the Dean of the cathedral Monsignor Philip Moger* and the service beings with the hymn - This Joyful
Easter-tide.
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Introit
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Introductory Rites
Mgr M
In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen
All
Mgr M
Choir
HYMN: This joyful Easter-tide
All
The grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all
And also with you.
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Introduction
Mgr M
Good morning and a very warm welcome to Leeds Cathedral, in the centre of
Yorkshire’s largest city. As our opening hymn reminded us, we’re still very
much in joyful Eastertide. And in this morning’s Gospel, which we’ll hear later,
Jesus speaks as the shepherd who gave the fullness of life to us - his sheep and keeps us safe. In our Mass this morning, we’re celebrating a special day
of prayer for vocations and will be hearing from Fr Paul Grogan, our Diocesan
Vocations Director, will preach on the call each of us has from God.
But first, let us call to mind our sins:
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Mgr M
All
Mgr M
All
Mgr M
All
Mgr M
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Penitential Rite
You raise us to new life:
Lord, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
You forgive our sins:
Christ, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy.
You feed us with your Body and Blood:
Lord, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.
May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins and bring
us to everlasting life.
Amen
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Gloria Cantor/Choir
Gloria in excelsis Deo
et in terra pax hominibus bonae voluntatis. Laudamus te. Benedicimus
te. Adoramus te. Glorificamus te. Gratias agimus tibi propter magnam
gloriam tuam. Domine Deus, Rex coelestis, Deus Pater omnipotens.
Domine Fili unigenite, Jesu Christe. Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius
Patris, Qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. Qui tollis peccata
mundi, suscipe deprecationem nostram. Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris,
miserere nobis. Quoniam tu solus Sanctus. Tu solus Dominus. To solus
Altissimus, Jesu Christe. Cum Sancto Spiritu in gloria Dei Patris.. Amen.
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Mgr M
Collect
Let us pray.
Almighty and ever-living God,
Give us new strength
From the courage of Christ our shepherd,
And lead us to join the saints in heaven,
Where he lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit,
One God, for ever and ever.
All
Amen
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Reading
Reader
A reading from the Acts of the Apostles
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On the day of Pentecost Peter stood up with the Eleven and addressed the crowd
with a loud voice: “The whole House of Israel can be certain that God has made this
Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.”
Hearing this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the apostles,
“What must we do, brothers?” “You must repent,” Peter answered, “and every
one of you must be baptised in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of
your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise that was
made is for you and your children, and for all those who are far away, for all
those whom the Lord our God will call to himself.” He spoke to them for a long
time using many arguments, and he urged them, “Save yourselves from this
perverse generation.” They were convinced by his arguments, and they
accepted what he said and were baptised. That very day about three thousand
were added to their number.
This is the word of the Lord.
All
Thanks be to God.
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Organ
Choir
Gospel Acclamation
Improvisation, leading into:
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia
I am the good shepherd, says the Lord;
I know my own sheep and my own know me.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia
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Deacon
All
Gospel
The Lord be with you.
And also with you.
Deacon+
All
A reading from the holy Gospel According to John
Glory to you Lord.
Deacon
Jesus said: “I tell you most solemnly, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold
through the gate, but gets in some other way is a thief and a brigand. The one
who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the flock; the gate-keeper lets
him in, the sheep hear his voice, one by one he calls his own sheep and leads
them out. When he has brought out his flock, he goes ahead of them, and the
sheep follow because they know his voice. They never follow a stranger but
run away from him: they do not recognise the voice of strangers.”
Jesus told them this parable but they failed to understand what he meant by
telling it to them.
So Jesus spoke to them again:
“I tell you most solemnly,
I am the gate of the sheepfold.
All others who have come
are thieves and brigands;
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but the sheep took no notice of them.
I am the gate.
Anyone who enters through me will be safe:
he will go freely in and out
and be sure of finding pasture.
The thief comes
only to steal and kill and destroy.
I have come
so that they may have life
and have it to the full.”
This is the Gospel of the Lord
All
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
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Choir
Alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia
Organ
Fanfare
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Homily
Fr Grogan
When I was a student I did a pastoral placement with an elderly parish priest.
One day whilst we were chatting at the end of a meal in the kitchen he told me
that he was gravely ill with cancer. He had returned from the doctor a couple of
months before and had sat down, alone, in that same room, to come to terms
with the news. Then the telephone rang. A woman in the parish wished to see
him: she had just been diagnosed with inoperable cancer. “So I got the oils and
my stole and I went out and from then on I’ve been all right!” he told me. He
died not long after my placement.
It was clear to me, by the way he told the story, that he had experienced joy in
setting out that evening to minister to his parishioner. I have thought about our
conversation much subsequently. I know that when particular incidents like
these become fixed in our memories, this is God’s way of consoling,
strengthening and enlightening us. That evening Christ, who half a century
before had called this man to the priesthood, now called him out of a dreadful
solitude – resulting from his illness - to continue his service of others, whilst his
strength remained.
Sometimes we can have an unduly rarefied understanding of what Christian
vocation is. Yes, the Holy Spirit resounds in the hearts and minds of all
believers and prompts us to follow Christ. But we need to get on with the
following straightaway, not become spiritually paralysed, wondering how exactly
God wishes us to serve him. After all this same Holy Spirit, whose coming at
Pentecost was recounted by St Luke immediately before our first reading,
showed himself under the form of wind and fire!
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Just before Easter a group of students from Leeds Trinity University College
where I am Chaplain went on pilgrimage to Rome and we attended the Papal
audience. What is that holiness to which God calls all Christians, the Pope
asked? : it is charity lived wholeheartedly, he said. We were all struck by that.
There is something hard-edged and steely about this Christian charity. After all,
this elderly priest went out into the night, knowing that both his own life and that
of the lady were probably drawing to a close. Yet this thought did not rob his
ministry of purpose. On the contrary, its beauty became more pronounced. He
was doing Christ’s bidding, being obedient to his will. This same Christ who
describes himself variously in our gospel as the gate of the sheepfold, the
gatekeeper and the shepherd who protects those entrusted to him was himself
to fall victim to those who “kill and destroy.” Yet now, and this is the central
Christian paradox, as the Risen One, his power is boundless. We have to share
in his suffering, but the victory is assured.
It was to impress this truth upon me, I have no doubt, that the elderly priest told
me his story. In this way, he was, like a good pastor, gently, indirectly urging me
to strive to be similarly obedient. Looking back I can see that God was calling to
me very powerfully at that moment through the priest’s story. Isn’t that an
experience that all of us have had? We meet somebody and we want to be like
them. Through simple human interaction, informed by the presence of the Holy
Spirit, we become more aware of our capacity for goodness. That is exactly
what happened in our first reading as the crowd was captivated by the words of
St Peter “They were convinced by his arguments, and they accepted what he
said and were baptised.”
The particular way in which this man of whom I speak sought to practise
Christian charity was as a priest. A number of Christian traditions share the
Catholic understanding that the priest is one who ministers in the person of
Christ. When he visited the lady he was able to forgive her her sins and to heal
her definitively through the sacraments that had been entrusted to his
stewardship. In those moments she would have encountered Christ in a highly
personalised manner. “What is the priesthood?” St John Mary Vianney, the
patron saint of priests whose 150th anniversary we recently celebrated, once
asked. “It is the love of the heart of Jesus.” Hence when we allow ourselves to
be ministered to by a priest we are allowing Christ into our lives; or, to put this
another way, we are disposing ourselves to be attentive to his call.
The reason this priest attended that lady was because she formed part of the
community of believers that had been entrusted to his pastoral care. This
background fact helps us to understand Christian vocation a little more
completely. We always experience God’s call as members of the Church,
whose first day was described in our first reading. This can seem rather
surprising because we are all so influenced by individualism. We can fall into
assuming that our relationship with God is at its most authentic when it is
entirely private. To correct this tendency we need only look back in our mind’s
eye to the three thousand people crowding around the twelve apostles as they
dutifully baptised them one after another on that day long ago. In one respect,
no doubt, they resembled a flock of sheep. We live out our faith as Christians in
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constant contact with one another. As we seek to respond to God’s gracious
invitation of entering into communion with the Blessed Trinity, so we are drawn
into communion and ever deeper friendship with each other.
This leads us to apprehend one other dimension of our Christian vocation, and
it is with this one that I will finish. As Christians, God not only calls to us; he
calls to others through us. I have already mentioned that Christ works in a
special way through the priest’s ministry. But this ministry is aimed at something
greater than itself, namely the building up of the Church, the new People of
God. We need great priests like Blessed John Paul II, but we also need great
lay people such as the many whom he beatified during his long pontificate. I
never met the lady to whom the priest I knew ministered. I know however that
she will have had opportunities to witness to Christ in ways that were denied to
the priest: to her husband and children perhaps; to her friends.
Through such human agency, Christ, whose Sacred Heart burns in love for all
people, tenderly but urgently calls them to himself.
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Apostles’ Creed
Mgr M
I believe in God,
All
the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ,
his only Son, our Lord.
He was conceived by the power
of the Holy Spirit
and born of the Virgin Mary.
He suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.
He descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again.
He ascended into heaven,
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.
Amen.
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Prayer of the Faithful
Mgr M
We turn to the Father in prayer, confident that he will hear us and will respond
in love.
Reader
For the Shepherds of the Church: Benedict, our Pope, Arthur our Bishop and all
priests that they may be strengthened in their ministry and be ever more faithful
witnesses to Jesus Christ.
Cantor
Choir
Dominum precemur
Exaudi Christe
Reader
For the Church community: that we may understand the richness of our baptism
and be a people ready to respond with generosity to the call of God in our lives.
Cantor
Choir
Dominum precemur
Exaudi Christe
Reader
For all who govern nationally or locally: inspired by God’s Spirit, may they be people
of integrity who care about their people and their needs.
Cantor
Choir
Dominum precemur
Exaudi Christe
Reader
We pray for young men and women who feel called to give their lives in dedicated
service to God and the Church: that the Holy Spirit will guide them in their
discernment and that they may be willing to take the risk of “putting our into the
deep”.
Cantor
Choir
Dominum precemur
Exaudi Christe
Reader
For all our prayers: that they may be joined with those of Mary, Mother of
Unfailing Help and St Anne our patron as we pray:
All
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Hail Mary, full of grace, The Lord is with thee.
Blessed art thou amongst women,
and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.
Mgr M
Father, teach us to follow Christ your Son more faithfully. By listening to His
voice may we become a community more attuned to your call in our lives. We
ask you to hear the prayers we make to you today, those made aloud and in the
silence of our hearts and grant them through your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Amen.
Now, as we sing our hymn, ‘The king of love my shepherd is’ the bread and
wine to be consecrated are brought to the altar
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Preparation of the Gifts
shepherd is
HYMN: The King of love my
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Preface
Mgr M
Pray, brothers and sisters,
that our sacrifice may be acceptable
to God, the almighty Father.
All
May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands
for the praise and glory of his name,
for our good,
and the good of all his Church.
Mgr M
Lord, restore us by these Easter mysteries.
May the continuing work of our redeemer
bring us eternal joy.
All
Amen.
Mgr M (Sung) The Lord be with you.
All
And also with you.
Mgr M
All
Lift up your hearts.
We lift them up to the Lord.
Mgr M
All
Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
It is right to give him thanks and praise.
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Mgr M
Father all powerful and ever living God,
We do well always and everywhere to give you thanks
Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
We praise you with greater joy than ever in this Easter season,
When Christ became our paschal sacrifice.
In him a new age has dawned,
The long reign of sin is ended,
A broken world has been renewed,
And man is once again made whole.
The joy of the resurrection renews the whole world,
While the choirs of heaven sing for ever to your glory:
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Sanctus
Choir
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus,
Dominus Deus Sabaoth.
Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua.
Hosanna in excelsis.
[Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini.
Hosanna in excelsis]
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Eucharistic Prayer
Mgr M
Lord, you are holy indeed,
The fountain of all holiness.
[bells]
Let your Spirit come upon these gifts to make them holy,
So that they may become for us the body and blood of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
Before he was given up to death, a death he freely accepted,
He took bread and gave you thanks.
He broke the bread,
gave it to his disciples, and said:
Take this, all of you and eat it:
This is my body which will be given up for you. [bells]
When supper was ended, he took the cup.
Again he gave you thanks and praise,
Gave the cup to his disciples and said:
Take this all of you and drink from it:
This is the cup of my blood, the blood of the new and everlasting covenant.
It will be shed for you and for all so that sins may be forgiven.
Do this in memory of me.
[bells]
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(sings)
Let us proclaim the mystery of faith.
Choir
Christ has Died,
Christ has risen,
Christ will come again
Mgr M
(Spoken)
In memory of his death and resurrection,
We offer you, Father, this life-giving bread,
this saving cup.
We thank you for counting us worthy to stand in your presence and serve you.
May all of us who share in the body and blood of Christ
Be brought together in unity by the Holy Spirit.
Fr McL
Lord, remember your Church throughout the world;
Make us grow in love, together with Benedict our Pope,
Arthur, our bishop, and all the clergy.
Remember our brothers and sisters
Who have gone to their rest
In the hope of rising again;
Bring them and all the departed
Into the light of your presence.
Fr G
Have mercy on us all;
Make us worthy to share eternal life
With Mary, the virgin Mother of God,
With the apostles, and with all the saints
Who have done your will throughout the ages.
May we praise you in union with them,
And give you glory
Through your Son, Jesus Christ
Mgr M (sings)
Through him, with him, in him,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
all glory and honour is yours,
almighty Father, for ever and ever.
All
Amen.
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Lord’s Prayer
Mgr M
Let us pray for the coming of the kingdom as Jesus taught us:
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Choir:
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.
Mgr M
(sung)
Deliver us, Lord, from every evil, and grant us peace in our day. In your mercy,
keep us free from sin and protect us from all anxiety as we wait in joyful hope
for the coming of our Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Choir:
For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours, now and for ever.
Mgr M
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 for ever and ever.
All
Amen.
Deacon:
The peace of the Lord be with you always.
All
And also with you.
Deacon:
Let us offer each other the sign of peace.
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Agnus Dei
Choir
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,
miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,
miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi,
dona nobis pacem.
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Intro to Communion
Mgr M
This is the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
Happy are those who are called to his supper.
All
Lord, I am not worthy to receive you, but only say the word and I shall be
healed.
<Distribution of Communion> [bells]
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Choir
Holy Communion
HYMN: Be Thou my Vision
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Collect
Mgr M
Let us pray
Father, eternal shepherd,
watch over the flock redeemed by the blood of Christ
and lead us to the promised land,
through the same Christ our Lord
All
Amen.
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Mgr M
All
Concluding Rite
The Lord be with you
And also with you.
Mgr M
May Almighty God bless you, + the Father, and the Son, and the
Holy Spirit.
Amen.
All
Mgr M (Sung)
Go in peace of Christ
All
Thanks be to God.
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Organ
Organ Voluntary
Finale ‘in mode festivo’ – Dixon
Closing Announcement:
Sunday Worship came from Leeds Cathedral and was led by the Dean,
Monsignor Philip Moger and the preacher was the Reverend Paul Grogan.
The Director of Music was Benjamin Saunders and the Organist was
Christopher McElroy. The producer was Mark O'Brien.
Living Stones is the theme of next week’s Sunday Worship live from St Mary’s
Episcopal Cathedral Glasgow.
BBC Radio 2's search for their Young Choristers of the Year 2011 has
already begun and details can be found on the events page of their website.
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