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Sunday, July 15, 2018

Mary Mother of Jesus Inclusive Catholic Community:15th Week in Extra-Ordinary Time Our Lady of Mount Carmel July 14, 2018 Presiders: Karen Hylen and Lee Breyer




Theme: Strength for the journey

Opening Welcome

Presider:  Welcome, everyone.  Once again, we gather here to celebrate the God that is within each of us, the one who is giving us the blessings to hear God’s message as we proclaim it in today’s liturgy and to understand it more clearly as we share it in our community.  And today, we honor Mary in her title of “Our Lady of Mt. Carmel”, the mountain on which Elijah with Yahweh encountered the priests of Baal.  And as we do this, we remember and make present in our prayers our ARCWP family members who are on their annual retreat so that, on their return, they will be an enriched support and strength to us for our journey.

Opening Hymn: Table of Plenty  #310  vs 1 & 3

Opening Prayer

ALL:  God of compassion, God of truth, you who directs all creation to its ultimate fulfillment in Jesus, the Christ.  Open our hearts to your messages today through Paul and Mark, so that through them we may have your peace rule in our hearts and your justice guide our lives on our journeys.  May we recognize and respond to your blessings in ways that result in meaningful movements for justice and peace, liberation and life for everyone, everywhere. Loving God, bless all of us gathered here now and all those of our community who are not with us today, especially those who are in Fort Myers - refreshing themselves for your service and ours.  We ask this of you, our brother Jesus, and our Wisdom Sophia.  Amen.

Penitential Rite and Community Forgiveness

Presider: O Holy Spirit, pour out your healing grace on us.

ALL (With an outstretch arm to our brothers and sisters):   Loving God, through Jesus’ life death, and resurrection, he reconciled the world to you and he taught us that nothing can separate us from your infinite love.  We realize we have a never-satisfied need to grow in understanding and compassion so that we may – in turn – learn to forgive our brothers and sisters, whoever and wherever they may be. Give us the strength to extend your merciful and forgiving blessing that is your gift - through us –  to all those with whom you share your unending love.  We ask this in the names of Jesus, our brother, and the Holy Spirit, our healer and comforter.  Amen.
Glory to God

Presider: let us give glory to our loving Creator.  We give thanks to our God for the wonder of the Spirit that supports everything that exists in the universe and for the Christ vision that strengthens all of us on our journeys.  And, in gratitude, we sing…

ALL: (Sung)  Glory to God, Glory, O praise God, alleluia.  Glory to God, glory, O praise the name of our God.  (3x)

Liturgy of the Word

First Reading: Colossians 1: 15-20                                              ALL: Thanks be to God
Psalm 85         Responsorial: Forever I will sing the goodness of our God   #790
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 12: 4-11                                     ALL: Thanks be to God
Gospel Acclamation:      ALL: Alleluia  (Celtic version)
Gospel:  Mark 6: 6-11 & Matthew 10: 40 and 11:1                       ALL: Thanks be to God
  

Shared Homily & Community Reflections

Profession of Faith

ALL:  We believe in God, the divine mystery that is beyond all description and understanding.  We believe that God, the Creator, is the very heart of all that has ever been or will ever exist in the expanding universe.  We believe in Jesus, the Christ, the touch of God to humankind, the sacred messenger of God’s word, a carrier of God’s healing and the soul of God’s boundless and everlasting compassion.  It is through him that we become a new people, called beyond the consequences of our brokenness.  We believe in the Spirit, the breath of God in the cosmos who supports us that we may be instruments of peace and justice in the world. It is by her grace that we are strengthened on our journeys.   We believe that the message of the gospels is summed up in the love of God - who is love, and in love of our neighbor – who is everyone that lives anywhere.  We believe that God’s kindom is here with us now and always will be for those with eyes to recognize it, hearts to receive it, and hands to make it known to everyone.

Prayers of the Community

Presider:  We are a people of faith; we believe in the power of prayer. We are mindful of God’s unconditional love and care for each of us.  And so, we now bring the needs of the people to our merciful and gracious God.  After each intercession, please respond: Compassionate God, we ask you to bless our petitions.
                                               
Presider:  Healing God, strengthen us in our concerns and care for one another, those here and those throughout the world. We ask you to bless our efforts for justice and equality so that, with our sisters and brothers, we may promote cultures of peace and nonviolence everywhere in our world.  And, as we always do, we make these prayers to you, O God, in the names of Jesus, our Brother, and the Holy Spirit, our Wisdom.  Amen.

Offertory Procession and Song: Here I am Lord  #377  vs 1 & 3
Gathering of the Gifted

Presider:  Jesus, who has often sat at our tables, now invites all of us to join him at his.  Everyone is welcome to share in this meal. So please join us around God’s family table.

Presider: (when all are gathered around the table): God dwells in each one of us.
ALL: Namaste!  Namaste! Namaste!  (with a nod)

Presider:  Blessed are you, God of Creation, through your goodness we have this bread to offer…this grain of the earth that human hands have made for our use. It will become for us our spiritual food. 
ALL: Blessed be God forever.

Presider: Blessed are you, God of Love, through your goodness we have this wine to offer…this fruit of the vine that human hands have made for our use.  It will become for us our spiritual drink.
ALL:  Blessed be God forever.

Presider:  In these gifts, Christ is present.  Through these gifts, Christ will make us whole.


Eucharistic Prayer

ALL:  Gracious God, we recognize your presence that is with us always, and especially when we gather at this, your banquet table, where you have invited all of us to join in your feast. We are united in this sacrament by the love of Jesus who proclaimed your power and mercy for everyone, especially the marginalized and oppressed … those without sufficient basic care for themselves, food for their days, or even their own tables to put it on.  Here your divine compassion connects us to the young and the old, the most and the least, the first and the last…your whole creation.


Voice 1:  Ever loving God, we do well always and everywhere to give you thanks.  In you we live and move and have our very being.  Each day you show us your love.  Your Spirit dwelling in us gives us the promise of unending peace and joy with you.  And so in gratitude, we sing with thankful praise….

ALL:  Holy, Holy, Holy God, God of power, God of light.  Heaven and earth are full of your glory.  Hosanna in the highest.  Blessed are all who come in the name of our God.  Hosanna in the highest.


Voice 2:  We thank you for the gift of Jesus in history - and the gift of Jesus in faith. Through him, you breathe life into us.  During his earthly life, he burned with the constant vision of his mission here among us. He revealed you through his compassionate love for everyone with whom he came in contact.  And he showed us, through his example of a life well lived, not only how we should live, but also, like him, for what we might even die.

Voice 3:  And when his time here had come to its end, Jesus, accepting his destiny, gave up his life for the values that he deeply believed, taught, lived and would die for…his conviction that love is stronger than death.  And he provided an example of this wisdom for all people in ages to come -- he opened wide his arms…and died. Then the Spirit, in raising him from the dead, revealed to us another truth -- that life is eternal, love is immortal, and death is only a horizon.

ALL:  As we gather around this Eucharistic table, we recall God’s blessings and love for us as we celebrate - once again - the gifts we have received and now share with one another at this feast.  May the Spirit of life and wholeness, who will transform these simple gifts also transform us well.  And may we, then, be empowered by her grace to bring mercy, love and healing to all those whose lives we touch.

Presider: We remember the gift with which Jesus blessed us on the night before he died…

ALL: (With an outstretched arm, let us pray the consecration together.  Jesus gathered with his friends to share a final Passover meal. And it was at that supper that he took bread, said the blessing and then shared it with them saying: take this, all of you, and eat it.  This bread is you; this bread is me.  We are one body, the presence of God in the world.  Do this in memory of me.  (Pause a moment))

In the same way, Jesus took the cup of wine, said the blessing and gave it to them saying: take this all of you and drink it.  This wine is you; this wine is me.  We are one blood, the presence of God in the world.  Do this in memory of me.

Presider: Jesus, who was with God “in the beginning of the creation of the heavens and the earth,” is with us now in this bread.  The Spirit, of whom the prophets spoke of in history, is with us now in this cup.    Let us proclaim this mystery of faith.

ALL:  Christ has died.  Christ is risen.  Christ lives in us in the world today.

Voice 4:  May all of us who share this sacred meal be strengthened in our unity by the grace of the Holy Spirit.  And may that Spirit, that Wisdom, that moved in Jesus move just as freely in our lives as She did in his.

Voice 5:  God, we know that you grace your blessed people throughout the world. Help us grow in love, together with Francis, our Pope; Bridget Mary, our Bishop; and all your family everywhere - especially those who live on the margins of church and society. We remember, as well, the entire communion of saints, those living and dead, who touched our lives and left your footprint on our hearts. We remember especially …(names are mentioned).
                                                                                                                                                    
ALL: Through Christ, with Christ, and in Christ, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is yours, Creator God, forever and ever…hold hands and sing) Amen (x times). 

ALL:  Our Father and Mother, who are in heaven, blessed is your name. May your kindom come…

Presider:  God, we have just prayed that “your kindom may come among us.”  Strengthen in us your grace and love so that we may open our hearts to make it real - and our hands to serve one another.
The Sign of Peace

Presider: Jesus, you said to your disciples, “My peace I leave you; my peace I give you.”  Look on the faith of those gathered here today and …

ALL:   …. grant us your peace.  O Loving God, following the example of Jesus and with the strength of the Spirit, help us spread that peace throughout the world, to everyone, everywhere, no exceptions.  Amen.

Presider:   May the peace of God be always with us, and let us extend that peace to one another as we join hands in a circle of love and sing…. Let there be peace on earth   #532 
                                                              using the following
 “…God as creator, family all are we”   and    “With every breath I take, let this be ...” )


                Litany for the Breaking of the Bread,

Presider:  Loving God… All: you call us to a Spirit-filled service and to live the Gospel of peace and justice, we will live justly.

Presider:  Loving God… All: you call us to be your presence in the world and to be bearers of understanding and compassion, forgiveness and healing everywhere -  in your name.  We will love tenderly.

Presider:  Loving God… All: you call us to speak truth to power and to live respecting the equality of our brothers and sisters.  We will walk humbly with you.

Presider:  This is Jesus, who liberates, heals, and transforms us and our world.  He calls us, his sacred people, to open those doors that are closed and to share the Eucharist on the altar of the world.  All are invited to partake of this banquet of love.  ALL:  We are the Body of Christ.

Pre-Communion Prayer

Presider: Gracious God, as we come to share the richness of your table, we cannot forget the poverty of so many of our brothers and sisters, our friends and neighbors…all members of the one family.

ALL:  We cannot eat this bread, your Body, and forget those who are hungry.  O God, your world is one world and we are the stewards of its nourishment for all your people.

We cannot drink this wine, your Blood, and forget those who are thirsty.  O God, this very earth and its people cry out for environmental justice.

We cannot listen to our words of peace and not grieve for the world at war’s doors.


Communion  Musical Background:   Ave Maria  (Andrea Boclli)


Post-Communion Song:  You are the Face of God
(The lyrics are on the last page)


Prayer of Thanksgiving after Communion

Presider:  Loving God, may this Eucharist in which we shared Christ’s healing love deepen our oneness with you and with one another. And may wonder and thanksgiving fill us with the knowledge, understanding and deeply personal experience of your love and compassion that we will be true witnesses of your presence among your blessed people.   ALL:  Amen.

Introductions, Gratitudes, and Announcements

Closing Community Blessing (Extend an arm to one another in mutual blessings)

ALL:   May our hearts be glad on our journeys as we dream new dreams and see new visions.

Presider: May we remember all our sisters and brothers throughout the world in our love and prayers and by our compassionate and justice-making actions. And may we remember, especially, those who are participating in the ARCWP retreat and social sharing this weekend.

ALL: May we work to create a culture in a world where suffering and pain are diminished, where justice and peace are restored, and where all people can live in health and wholeness.   

Presider:  May we learn to bless and honor and hold in reverence the Earth and each other.

ALL:  May we always remember, with gratitude, that we are the face of God to the world. Amen.


Closing Community Commissioning:  

Presiders:  As we go, let us take the love of God with us, sharing our recognition of the-God- in- us to all those we meet.  Let us remember always that, as we sang in our post communion song, we are the face of God on earth.

So then, let us be the blessed people that God created us to be.  And let our service continue.

ALL:  Thanks be to God.  Let it be so!


Closing Hymn:  On Eagles Wings  #437  vs 1, 2. 3  (with “Lord” to “God”)

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