Homily: Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year B – Sunday, 6 October 2024. (EPISODE:499)

Homily: Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year B –

Sunday, 6 October 2024. (EPISODE:499)

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(EPISODE:499)

Readings for Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year B
FIRST READING: Gen 2: 18-24
Ps 128: 1-2, 3, 4-5, 6. "May the Lord bless us, all the days of our lives. "
SECOND READING: Heb 2: 9-11
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (1 John 4: 12). Alleluia, alleluia! If we love one another. God will live in us in perfect love.
GOSPEL: Mark 10: 2-16 or 10: 2-12

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Please listen to the audio-recordings of the Mass – (Readings, prayers and homily), for Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year B  - Sunday, October 3, 2021 by clicking this link here https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/faith-hope-and-love-27th-sunday-ordinary-time-year-b-episode-499/s-j0vSZ6i03bj  (EPISODE:499)
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* (Prologue:  Fr Paul Kelly)
In the readings this weekend there is a recurring theme about the membership of a family. God has made us his children. We are all adopted sons and daughters of God through God's gracious action. God now treats us as full members of the family and with all the rights and duties of a member of the family. It is through Jesus that we become part of God's family. We are all brothers and sisters of Jesus.
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This is such a special and profound gift. Through our baptism, we become part of God's family, which includes being brothers and sisters with all the saints who have gone before us into eternal life and stand in the presence of God praising him night and day and continuing to pray for us and intercede for us to Our Heavenly Father.
 
If the world truly realised and acted upon the truth of this message we would be living in a different situation. If everyone acted as if they were truly brothers and sisters to each other, then surely we would be so much closer to an end to war and violence and hatred. They say 'blood is thicker than water" but in the Christian mindset, (which turns on its head the values of the world), the water of Baptism is much thicker and stronger than the ties of blood relations. The first reading is also powerful as it reminds us that men and women were created to be equal and to be helpers and supporters of each other along life's path.
"Your Son went down from the heights of his divinity to the depths of our humanity. Can anyone's heart remain closed and hardened after this?" —Saint Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)

The readings this weekend speak of the sanctity of marriage and its indissolubility, since in marriage the man and woman become a new creation, a unity, then God intends that this unity cannot be separated.

 

Jesus criticizes the people who are trying to trap him over the issue of marriage by replying that even though Moses was forced to make concessions about marriage due to the hard-heartedness of people, the intention of God remains to form and preserve a unity of equality between man and woman in a lifelong, committed, loving bond of marriage.

 

The first reading speaks of God's creation of woman and the relationship intended between man and woman in Genesis.

In that beautiful reading, God took a bone from Adam's side, the rib bone. The rib bone was taken in preference to any other bone because the rib bone is the closest bone to the human heart. Therefore, the rib bone surrounds, embraces and protects the human heart, just as the love of husband and wife is meant to surround, protect and embrace each other's hearts.

 

This shows the tender and close love between a man and woman as they share together this commitment, this unity. It also picks up on a thing called complementarity between the love of a man and woman. Both the man and the woman bring something of themselves that enriches the other.

 

The two become one, but it's not as if it's just a fusing of two individuals into one. The union of husband and wife is more than the sum of the parts. It's a new creation that involves the beauty and the individuality of the couple, who remain unique and lovable people and give entirely in love for their blessed spouse.

 

This reading also acknowledges that marriage is an exciting, beautiful adventure and a new chapter. There's a new creation involved not only in the marriage, but in the family relationships. They change, not end, and  take on a new reality, -- take on a new shape.

 

Married couples continue their loving relationship with their families, which are beautiful and unique. These loving relationships of family have already been nurtured long before their marriage, and now with marriage in a new way with the same love and respect and warmth, adult to adult, to their family members.

 

The major message of the readings this weekend is the equality of man and woman, the complementarity of man and woman, and that the intention of marriage is for a lifelong unity of persons that is for each other's upbuilding, protection, respect and equality.

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References:

Fr Paul W. Kelly

Ideas taken from short commentaries found within: When We Marry. (1985). Brisbane, Qld.: Liturgical Commission.

 

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Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year B    (EPISODE:499)
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (or/ The Lord be with You)
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{{Peace and greetings to you all.}} Welcome everyone, as we gather in Silence, reflection, prayer and contemplation of our God.

Brothers and sisters, the Lord is full of love and mercy. And so, as we prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries, let us acknowledge our sins.

Lord Jesus, you have revealed yourself as the way to the Father: Lord, have mercy//You have poured out on your people the Spirit of truth: Christ, have mercy//You are the Good Shepherd, leading us to eternal life: Lord, have mercy.//

May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life.  Amen.
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Memorial Acclamation
3. Save us, Saviour of the world, for by your Cross and Resurrection you have set us free.
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Ps 128: 1-2, 3, 4-5, 6. "May the Lord bless us, all the days of our lives. "

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (1 John 4: 12). Alleluia, alleluia! If we love one another. God will live in us in perfect love.
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PREFACE: own preface  Sundays IV
EP IV
(theme variation: 1 )

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{I pray that you have a wonderful and grace-filled week. }

Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.
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Further information relating to the audio productions linked to this Blog:
"Faith, Hope and Love - Christian worship and reflection"  - Led by Rev Paul Kelly

Prayers and chants  — Roman Missal, 3rd edition, © 2010, The International Commission on English in the liturgy. (ICEL)

Scriptures - New Revised Standard Version: © 1989,  and 2009 by the NCC-USA. (National Council of Churches of Christ - USA)

"The Psalms" ©1963, 2009,  The Grail - Collins publishers.

Prayers of the Faithful -   " Together we pray" by Robert Borg'.   E.J. Dwyer, Publishers, (1993) . (Sydney Australia).

Sung "Mass In Honour of St. Ralph Sherwin" -  By Jeffrey M. Ostrowski. The Gloria, Copyright © 2011 ccwatershed.org.

- "Faith, Hope and Love" theme hymn - in memory of William John (Bill) Kelly (1942-2017) -  Inspired by 1 Corinthians 13:1-13. Music by Paul W. Kelly. Arranged and sung, with additional lyrics by Stefan Kelk. 2019.

"Quiet Time."  Instrumental Reflection music. Written by Paul W Kelly. 1988, 2007. & This arrangement: Stefan Kelk, 2020.

- "Today I Arise" - For Trisha J Kelly.  Original words and music by Paul W. Kelly. Inspired by St Patrick's Prayer.  Arranged and sung, with additional lyrics by Stefan Kelk. 2019.

Sound Engineering and editing -  P.W. Kelly.
Microphones: - Shure Motiv MV5 Digital Condenser.

Editing equipment:       NCH software - MixPad Multitrack Studio Recording Software

NCH – WavePad Audio Editing Software. Masters Edition v 12.44

Sound Processing:  iZotope RX 6 Audio Editor

[ Production -  KER -  2024]

May God bless and keep you.
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