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Leeds Cathedral Sunday Worship 15th May 2011 Please note: This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it was prepared before the service was broadcast. It may include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor spelling and other errors that were corrected before the radio broadcast. It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to reflect current events. 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. 1 Introit 2 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. 2a 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: Sunday Worship 15/05/11 -1- Leeds Cathedral 3 Mgr M All Mgr M All Mgr M All Mgr M All 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 4 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. 5 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 6 Reading Reader A reading from the Acts of the Apostles Sunday Worship 15/05/11 -2- Leeds Cathedral 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. 7 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 8 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; Sunday Worship 15/05/11 -3- Leeds Cathedral 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. 9 Choir Alleluia Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia Organ Fanfare 10 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! Sunday Worship 15/05/11 -4- Leeds Cathedral 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 Sunday Worship 15/05/11 -5- Leeds Cathedral 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. 11 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. Sunday Worship 15/05/11 -6- Leeds Cathedral 12 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 Sunday Worship 15/05/11 -7- Leeds Cathedral 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 13 Preparation of the Gifts shepherd is HYMN: The King of love my 14 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. Sunday Worship 15/05/11 -8- Leeds Cathedral 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: 15 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] 16 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] Sunday Worship 15/05/11 -9- Leeds Cathedral (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. 17 Lord’s Prayer Mgr M Let us pray for the coming of the kingdom as Jesus taught us: Sunday Worship 15/05/11 - 10 - Leeds Cathedral 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. 18 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. 19 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] Sunday Worship 15/05/11 - 11 - Leeds Cathedral 20 Choir Holy Communion HYMN: Be Thou my Vision 21 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. 22 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. 23 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. Sunday Worship 15/05/11 - 12 - Leeds Cathedral