The Catholic Church and Personal Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham with Saint Cuthbert Mayne TWELFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
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Readingsp.784 (21 OT) THE INTROIT HYMN
Immortal, invisible, God only wise, In light inaccessible hid from our eyes, Most blessèd, most glorious, theAncient of Days, Almighty, victorious, thy great name we praise.
Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light, nor wanting, nor wasting, thou rulest in might; Thy justice, like mountains high soaring above Thy clouds which are fountains of goodness and love.
To all life thou givest--to both great and small; In all life thou livest, the true life of all; We blossom and flourish like leaves on the tree, Then wither and perish--but naught changeth thee.
Great Father of glory, pure Father of light, Thine angels adore thee, all veiling their sight; All praise we would render; O help us to see 'Tis only the splendour of light hideth thee.
OFFERTORY HYMN
We hail thy presence glorious,O Christ our great high priest, o’er sin and death victorious, at thy thanksgiving feast: as thou art interceding for us in heaven above, thy Church on earth is pleading thy perfect work of love.
Through thee in every nation thine own their hearts upraise, offering one pure oblation, one sacrifice of praise: with thee in blest communion the living and the dead are joined in closest union, one body with one head.
O living Bread from heaven, Jesu, our Saviour good, who thine own self hast given to be our souls’true food; for us thy body broken hung on the cross of shame: this bread, its hallowed token, we break in thy dear name.
O stream of love unending, poured from the one true vine, with our weak nature blending the strength of life divine; our thankful faith confessing in thy life-blood outpoured, we drink this cup of blessing and praise thy name, O Lord.
COMMUNION HYMN
Jesu, grant me this, I pray, Ever in thy heart to stay; Let me evermore abide
Hidden in thy wounded side. If the evil one prepare, Or the world, a tempting snare, I am safe when I abide
In thy heart and wounded side.
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PRAYER OF ST MICHAEL
If the flesh, more dangerous still, Tempt my soul to deeds of ill, Naught I fear when I abide
In thy heart and wounded side. Death will come one day to me; Jesu, cast me not from thee: Dying let me still abide In thy heart and wounded side.
Holy Michael, Archangel, defend us in the day of battle. Be thou our defence against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, thrust down to hell Satan, and all wicked spirits, who wander through the world for the ruin of souls. Amen.
THE ANGELUS
The angel of the Lord brought tidings to Mary And she conceived by the Holy Ghost. Hail Mary...
Behold the handmaid of the Lord. be it unto me according to thy word. Hail Mary...
The Word was made flesh. And dwelt amongst us. Hail Mary...
Pray for us, O Holy Mother of God. That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
Let us pray.
We beseech thee O Lord, pour thy grace into our hearts: that, as we have known the Incarnation of thy Son Jesus Christ by the message of an Angel, so by his Cross and Passion we may be brought to the glory of his resurrection, through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.
NOTICES Sundays: Year A Weekday: Year I (20 OT)
M 28th St Augustine Bp & Dr 12.00
T 29th The Passion of St John The Baptist 18.30
W 30th Feria 10.00
Th 31st Feria 10.00
F 1st Feria 10.00
S 2nd BVM on Saturday Mass at Topsham 12.00
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Tuesday-Thursday 7.50
Friday& Sunday 9.00
Please note there is no mattins or mass on Saturday at OLW because of TheMarchforLife but there is a celebration of The Mass at Topsham at 12.00. Please pray for the unborn child and for the witness to life.
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Reflection on today’s Gospel
Simonmakes his profession of faith, and Jesus names him the “rock” upon whom He will build His Church
“After Simon said who Jesus is, Jesus said who Simon is, according to His own plan for building the Church.” So St. John Paul II summarised our Gospel today in which Simon professes his faith in Jesus as the Christ, and Jesus gives him a new name – Cephas, translated as Peter, the “rock” – to signify his “new mission” as the foundation of the Church.
The declarationis indeed solemn: ‘I say to you.’ It involves Jesus’ sovereign authority. It is a word of revelation, of effective revelation in that it accomplishes what it says. …[B]y giving him a new name, Jesus made Simon Peter a sharer in His own capacity as foundation.
…Jesus in fact said “my Church.” This means that the Church will always be the Church of Christ, the Church which belongs to Christ. She does not become Peter’s Church. However, as the Church of Christ she is built on Peter, who is Cephas in the name and by the power of Christ.
—GeneralAudienceofNovember25,1992.
“Jesus entrusted a specific authority to Peter,” as the Catechism teaches:
The ‘power of the keys’ designates authority to govern the house of God, which is the Church…The power to ‘bind and loose’ connotes the authority to absolve sins, to pronounce doctrinal judgments, and to make disciplinary decisions in the Church.Jesus entrusted this authority to the Church through the ministry of the apostles and in particular through the ministry of Peter, the only one to whom He specifically entrusted the keys of the kingdom. –paragraph553.
This pastoral office of Peter and the other apostles belongs to the Church’s very foundation and is continued by the bishops under the primacy of the Pope [the successor of St. Peter]. –paragraph881.
Benedict XVI emphasised that the heart of this “new commission…is the grace of forgiveness.”
The Church is founded upon forgiveness…Behind the talk of authority, God’s power appears as mercy and thus as the foundation stone of the Church. –CalledtoCommunion,p.64.
27/08/22
