Journey into the Heart of Compassion
| Image from Daughters of Carmel, used with permission |
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| Bridget Mary Meehan at ordination in Altamonte, Florida on Jan. 31, 2016 |
GATHERING SONG: Room at the Table for Everyone by Carrie Newcomber
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92OM5bdQ4N4
GREETING
Presider: Let us
begin in the name of our God, a God of Love, Wisdom, and Liberation.
ALL: Amen
PENITENTIAL RITE
Presider: God of tender compassion ,You are our peace. ALL:
Now and forever, we will be your peace.
Litany of Peace by Dan Schutte (sung): “Let us be your peace”
Gloria: Glory
to God, glory. O praise God, alleluia.
Glory to God, glory. O praise the name of our God.
Glory to God, glory. O praise the name of our God.
OPENING PRAYER
Presider: O Lover of All, in this
journey into the heart of compassion, we celebrate your love unfolding in the
healing and wholeness of everyone and of every living thing.
You
call us to see goodness and beauty everywhere and to live in harmony with
creation. You call us to heal the wounds of hatred and violence, discrimination
and oppression in our world. You call us to warmly welcome everyone who comes
through our doors as your presence among us.
In communion with Jesus, our
brother, and in the power of the Your Spirit, we will live your love poured out
each day. ALL: Amen.
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| Jim Marsh, Co-Presider |
LITURGY OF THE WORD
First Reading:Isaiah 6:1-2, 3-8
Responsorial Psalm Ubi
Caritas is response to Psalm 138
Second Reading: 1 Cor: 15:1-11
Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia (eightfold)
Gospel: Reader: A reading from the Gospel according to Luke 5:1-11
ALL: Glory to you O God.
Reader: The good news of Jesus, the Christ!
ALL: Glory and praise to
you, Jesus the Christ!
Link to Shared Homily:
http://bridgetmarys.blogspot.com/2016/02/homily-starter-for-mary-mother-of-jesus.html
Link to Shared Homily:
http://bridgetmarys.blogspot.com/2016/02/homily-starter-for-mary-mother-of-jesus.html
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| Bridget Mary Meehan and Jim Marsh share homily |
HOMILY
Creed :
We believe in a God of extravagant love who
dwells within us, rejoices with us in our blessed selves and who weeps with us
in our struggles, losses and sufferings.
We believe that we are one with all creatures
great and small in a dynamic, evolving cosmos.
We believe in Jesus, whose life, death and
resurrection, shows us how to live fully and joyfully and to serve others
especially the outcaste and heavy burdened.
We believe in Your Spirit, who works through
us for justice and peace and to overcome oppression of all kinds whether based
on gender, sexual orientation, race or class.
We believe that we are called to live in mutual respect as
disciples and equals in inclusive communities of empowerment.
We believe that we are forgiven, healed and whole in the heart
of divine mercy.
We believe that we are united forever with all who have gone
before us in the communion of saints.
GENERAL INTERCESSIONS
Presider: With hearts filled with loving compassion, we lift up the needs of our
community at this time.
Presider:
That those who suffer abuse, may be healed and empowered, we pray.
Response: God of all compassion, love through us.
Presider: That those bound by hatred, hostility, and
violence will be set free, we pray. R.
Presider: That the sick may be healed, especially (mention names), we pray. R.
Presider: That the dead may live forever in God's
presence, we pray. R. (Other
Intentions)
Presider: We hold these
and all our unspoken intentions in our hearts as we gather around the Banquet
Table today.
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| Left to right; Janet Blakeley, Katy Zatsick, Peg Bowen, Bridget Mary Meehan, Sally Brochu, Jim Marsh |
PREPARATION OF THE GIFTS
Presider: Blessed are you, God of all life, through
your goodness we have bread, wine, all creation, and our own lives to
offer. Through this sacred meal may we
become your new creation.
ALL: Blessed be God
forever.
Presider: God is with us, loving and showing mercy through
us.
ALL: Namaste
Presider: Lift up your hearts.
ALL: We lift them up in
tender love, open to serve.
Presider: Let us give thanks to our God.
ALL: It is our joy to give
God thanks and praise.
EUCHARISTIC PRAYER
Voice One: Holy Wisdom, You embrace us with extravagant
affection in our blessedness and brokenness. We thank you that in this festive
meal, your Spirit continues to be poured out among the circle of disciples
gathered here in our giving and receiving forgiveness and offering the gift of your shalom/peace. We
join with the angels and saints and people of every race, faith and nation to
glorify your presence as we sing:
ALL: Holy, holy, holy.
Karen Drucker
Voice Two: Gracious God, you set the banquet table and
invite all to the feast of unending delight. Here we encounter
the glory of God in an evolving cosmos. Here divine compassion connects us to the young, the old, the
least and the last, to everyone everywhere on our journey into the heart of
mercy.
Voice Three;
We especially thank you, Nurturing God, for Jesus, Your anointed, who shows us
how to love with a peaceful and courageous spirit. In Jesus, you show us how to
care for those who face illness, and grief and how to help those who experience
rejection and marginalization.
Voice Four:
God of tenderness, Jesus showed us the heart of mercy when he preached good
news to the poor, release to the captives, recovery of sight to the blind,
healing to the broken. Jesus called women to be apostles and disciples and
treated them as equals in his circle of companions.
Voice Five
In response to people’s sufferings, Jesus broke rules and violated religious
taboos. He shared meals with women, saved a woman from being stoned and said
that prostitutes would enter heaven before religious leaders. He healed the
sick and comforted the lonely. He challenged the priestly class and political
leaders of his time and so they ridiculed, tortured and put him to death.
Voice Six:
In faithful love, You raised the crucified Jesus, radiant and glorious to new
life. Like the holy ones throughout the
ages, Moses and Miriam who led their people from oppression to freedom, Jesus’
life, death and resurrection shows us how to live freely and joyously in the
midst of injustice, darkness and evil and death.
(Please all extend hands as we recite the Epiclesis and
Consecration together)
All: May your Spirit, present in these gifts and in us, fill us
with a new outpouring of love that makes us more deeply one Body in the Cosmic
Christ living the fullness of your compassion.
Presider: On the night before he was betrayed, Jesus
gathered with his friends for a meal. He took bread into his hands, broke it
and said
ALL: Take this all of you. This is my body. Do this to remember
me.
Presider: In the same way after supper, Jesus took the
cup, raised it with love beyond all telling. Jesus gave thanks and shared the
cup with those at table and said:
ALL: Take this all of you and drink from it. This is the cup of my
life blood, of the new and everlasting covenant. Every time you drink of it,
remember me.
Presider: Now then, in sacred memory, let us proclaim
the mystery of our faith:
ALL: In
every creature that has ever breathed, we see your tenderness; in every living
being that has passed on before us, we see your goodness; in everything yet to
be, Christ will come again! In our
breaking of the bread of earth, Christ of the Cosmos is being re-membered!
Voice Seven: Holy One, your transforming energy is always
moving within us and working through us.
We give thanks for all holy women and men who have been your face in our lives.
They showed us how to forgive self and others, let go of guilt, refrain from
judging others and see the good in people who irritate us. Let us pause to remember and name some of these holy women and men
aloud or in the silence of our hearts.
Voice Eight:
God, who opens doors and hearts, enlighten our religious ministers and
political leaders. May they welcome refugees, transform poverty into plenty,
and work for human dignity and justice for all. We pray for our pope and
bishops, especially _____ , and all God’s holy people.
Voice Nine: We remember those who are sick and
suffering. May they be healed and
strengthened, and filled with every blessing in your loving presence. We
remember Mary, mother of Jesus, Mary Magdala, Peter, Paul, Junia, our patron
saints and all the saints and angels who surround us with loving prayer each
day. We remember our loved ones and all those who have died into your embrace.
ALL: Through Christ, with
Christ, in Christ, all praise and glory are yours, Loving God. Amen.
THE PRAYER OF JESUS
ALL: Our Father and Mother . . .
THE SIGN OF PEACE
Presider: Holy One, we pray for peace and unity as we join hands
in a circle of love and sing one of the following hymns; “Peace is flowing like
a River” or “Let there be peace on earth” or Peace before us, Peace behind us,
Peace under our feet, Peace within us, let all around us be peace.”
LITANY FOR THE BREAKING
OF BREAD
ALL: Loving God, You call us to live
mercy, we will do so. Loving God, You
call us to live justice, we will do so. Loving God, You call us to live
equality, we will do so.
Presider: This is Jesus, who calls us to open doors
that are closed and share our bread on the altar of the world. All are invited
to eat and drink at this sacred banquet of love.
ALL: Jesus we are worthy to
receive you and to be your compassion in our world. We are the Body of Christ.
Presider: Let us share the Body of Christ with the Body
of Christ! ALL: Amen.
Communion: "Shaina Noll You Can
Relax Now" Music Video, by Wendy Van Der Zee
"You can relax now, I am with you.
You are a child of God
and that will never change.
You can relax now....you had a dream
You are a child of God
and that will never change.
You can relax now....you had a dream
you misunderstood,
you thought we were separate
but now you hear my voice and You can relax now."
There Is Only Love by Karen Drucker
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
Reflection: Jim Marsh: Astronaut Ed Mitchell just died ….. he
was part of the Apollo 14 mission in 1971 (45 years ago this month) and was the
sixth man on the moon. That experience
for him was life-changing. It was an
epiphany that focused his energies on studying consciousness, physics and other
mysteries. In his own words, he had this
to say: “What I experienced during that 3 day trip home was nothing short of an
overwhelming sense of universal connectedness. It occurred to me that the molecules of my
body and the molecules of the spaceship itself were manufactured long ago in
the furnace of one of the ancient stars that burned in the heavens above
me.”
Presider: O God of Compassion, Jesus showed us how to
love one another and heal our hearts.
Through the power of Your liberating Spirit at work within us, we will
give and receive forgiveness, live joyously, and work for healing, justice and
equality for our earth and for all God’s holy people. ALL: Amen
CONCLUDING RITE
Presider: Our God is with you.
ALL: and also with
you.
BLESSING
(Everyone please extend your hands in mutual
blessing)
ALL: May the God of Abraham
and Sarah,
the Blessed One of Jacob and Rachel,
Sophia, Holy Wisdom,
walk with us and all created life
on our journey into the heart of compassion! Amen.
DISMISSAL
Presider: Go in the peace of
Christ. Let the service begin! ALL: Thanks be to God.
Recessional: “Room at the Table for
Everyone” by Carrie Newcomber https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92OM5bdQ4N4
CONCLUDING HYMN
Bridget Mary Meehan
Association of Roman Catholic Woman Priests
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