HYMN SHEET TRINITY XXI &

The Catholic Church and Personal Parish of Our Lady of Walsingham with Saint Cuthbert Mayne

TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY DWSM Propers P.1066 Readings p.1021 (32 OT) THE INTROIT HYMN FIGHT the good fight with all thy might, Christ is thy strength, and Christ thy right ; Lay hold on life, and it shall be Thy joy and crown eternally.

Run the straight race through God's good grace.

Life up thine eyes, and seek his face ; Life with its way before us lies, Christ is the path, and Christ the prize.

Cast care aside, upon thy Guide Lean, and his mercy will provide ; Lean, and the trusting soul shall prove Christ is its life, and Christ its love.

Faint not nor fear, his arms are near, He changeth not, and thou art dear ; Only believe, and thou shalt see That Christ is all in all to thee.

RESPONSORIAL PSALM I shall be filled, when I awake, with the sight of your glory, O Lord.

OFFERTORY HYMN AT the Lamb's high feast we sing Praise to our victorious King: Who hath washed us in the tide Flowing from his pierced side !

Praise we him whose love divine Gives the guests his Blood for wine, Gives his Body for the feast, Love the Victim, Love the Priest.

Mighty Victim from on high, Powers of hell beneath thee lie; Death is broken in the fight, Thou hast brought us life and light.

Now thy banner thou dost wave, Conquering Satan and the grave.

See the prince of darkness quelled; Heaven's bright gates are open held.

Where the Paschal blood is poured, Death's dark angel sheathes his sword ; Israel's hosts triumphant go Through the wave that drowns the foe.

Christ, the Lamb whose Blood was shed, Paschal victim, Paschal bread !

With sincerity and love Eat we Manna from above.

Paschal triumph, Paschal joy, Only sin can this destroy; From sin's death do thou set free, Souls re-born, dear Lord, in thee.

Hymns of glory, songs of praise, Father, unto thee we raise.

Risen Lord, all praise to thee, Ever with the Spirit be.

COMMUNION HYMN And now, O Father, mindful of the love That bought us, once for all, on Calvary's tree, And having with us him that pleads above, We here present, we here spread forth to thee That only offering perfect in thine eyes, The one true, pure, immortal sacrifice.

Look, Father, look on his anointed face, And only look on us as found in him; Look not on our misusings of thy grace, Our prayer so languid, and our faith so dim; For lo, between our sins and their reward We set the passion of thy Son our Lord.

And then for those, our dearest and our best, By this prevailing presence we appeal; O fold them closer to thy mercy's breast, O do thine utmost for their souls' true weal; From tainting mischief keep them white and clear And crown thy gifts with grace to persevere.

And so we come: O draw us to thy feet Most patient Saviour, who canst love us still; And by this food, so aweful and so sweet, Deliver us from every touch of ill: In thine own service make us glad and free, And grant us never more to part with thee.

After the Dismissal PRAYER OF ST MICHAEL 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 Spirit.

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 upon us, that as we have known the incarnation of thy Son Jesus Christ by the message of an Angel, so by His death and passion we may be brought unto the glory of His resurrection, through Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Sundays: Year C Weekday: Year II

(32 OT)

Feria 10.00 ALL SAINTS OF ENGLAND NO MASS DEDICATION OF THE LATERAN BASILICA NO MASS Feria NO MASS St Martin of Tours Bp 10.00 St Josaphat, Bp & M 10.00

The clergy of The Ordinariate are meeting in Walsingham this week so unfortunately we cannot have our usual timetable for mass and mattins.

Mattins will be said publicly on Monday & Friday and at 7.50 Saturday and Sunday at 9.00.

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ourladyofwalsingham.online REFLECTION ON THE GOSPEL OF TODAY Today’s Gospel offers us a wonderful teaching of Jesus on the resurrection of the dead. Jesus is asked by some Sadducees, who did not believe in the resurrection and therefore provoke Him with an insidious question: in resurrection, whose wife would be a woman who had seven successive husbands, all brothers, who all died one after another? Jesus does not fall into the trap and replies that the risen in the hereafter “neither marry nor are given in marriage,

for they cannot die anymore, because they are equal to angels and are sons of God, being sons of the resurrection” (vv.

35-36). This is how Jesus responds.

With this answer, Jesus first of all invites His interlocutors – and us too – to think that this earthly dimension in which we live now is not the only dimension, but that there is another, no longer subject to death, in which it will be fully manifested that we are children of God. It gives great consolation and hope to listen to this simple and clear word of Jesus about life beyond death; we need it so much especially in our time, so rich in knowledge about the universe but so poor in wisdom about eternal life.

Jesus’ clear certainty about the Resurrection is based entirely on the fidelity of God, Who is the God of life. In fact, behind the question of the Sadducees lies a deeper question: not only whose wife the widow of the seven husbands will be, but to whom will her life belong. This is a doubt that touches the mankind of every age and also us: after this earthly pilgrimage, what will become of our lives? Will it belong to nothing, to death?

Jesus responds that life belongs to God, Who loves us and cares so much about us, to the point of linking His name to ours: He is “the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Now He is not God of the dead, but of the living, for all live to him”. (vv. 37-38).

Life exists where there is bond, communion and brotherhood; and it is a stronger life than death when it is built on true relationships and bonds of fidelity. On the contrary, there is no life where one has the pretension of belonging only to oneself and of living as an island: in these attitudes death prevails. It is selfishness. If I live for myself, I am sowing death in my heart.

May the Virgin Mary help us to live every day from the perspective of what we say in the final part of the Creed: “ We look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come”. Awaiting the hereafter.

Pope Francis 2019