Second Sunday of Lent. Year A - Sunday, March 8, 2020

Homily Second Sunday of Lent. Year A - Sunday, March 8, 2020

 

Readings for 2nd Sunday of Lent – A

 

FIRST READING: Genesis 12:1-4a

 

PSALM: Psalm 33:4-5, 18-19, 20+22. "Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you."

 

SECOND READING: 2 Timothy 1:8b-10

 

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (cf. Matthew 17:5). Glory and Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ! From the shining cloud, the Father's voice was heard. This is my beloved Son, hear him.

 

GOSPEL: Matthew 17:1-9 – Transfiguration

 

Image Credit: Shutterstock Licensed. ID: 1206378808. The Holy Transfiguration of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ. Illustration - fresco in Byzantine style. By Julia Raketic

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Please listen to my audio recordings of the readings, prayers and reflections for the Second Sunday of Lent. Year A - Sunday, March 8 2020, by clicking this link here: https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/faith-hope-and-love-ep-210-lent-2-a-2020/s-OaIE2  (EPISODE: 210)

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The Transfiguration of Our Lord on the mountain is another powerful affirmation that the Messiah, God's Son, truly is intended to walk the path of suffering and give his life on the Cross and by this means achieve glory and our salvation.  it was so difficult for both disciples and opponents alike to get rid of their preconceived ideas that the Messiah would come in power and military victory and that God's approval will be shown by showering Jesus with success, spectacle and worldly power.  Already Our Lord has had to correct Peter about the path of Calvary he must take. Glory and affirmation would come through his faithful endurance of so much sacrificing love.  This mountain top experience is a powerful but brief confirmation that Jesus is in the right path. A difficult path. this is faith hope and love. 

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In the gospel, we are told that Jesus shone like pure light… and the aspect of his face was changed….

 

In the Old Testament, we hear of Moses' face shining with light after praying to God.

 

In the case of Jesus, the transfiguration reveals what was the case all the time, but not always obvious…. That Jesus is truly God and truly human. And that his glory as God would be revealed again in and through his suffering, death, resurrection and ascension.

 

In the case of Moses, his shining face is slightly different from Our Lord's radiant face. Jesus' light shines from within his own divine nature. Whilst, Moses' face is "reflected light." (Moses  is reflecting that glory which had experienced in his prayerful encounter with the presence of God and in his worship of God).

 

The fact is, Jesus wasn't actually momentarily glorified... He was always glorious… He was always "shining brightly"… In every moment of his life… 

 

He was, at all times, utterly alive with the glory of being both fully God and fully human… However, for most of the time, people only perceived an ordinary-looking man, seemingly just another person walking the same dusty roads like everyone else. The disciples only glimpsed this inner glory occasionally. but it was always there… It didn't come and go at different times of his life, even if it was more obvious at some high-points than other times. Christ shone with glory in what he did and in what he said, and in his priorities and teachings….. He was glorious in the "every day and the ordinary," as well as the extraordinary.  The three Apostles' mountaintop glimpse of Christ's abiding glory, teaches us to see and hear with the eyes of faith. the apostles were encouraged to keep looking for the glory of his truth even when they came back down from the mountain-top to the ordinary and the every-day as well as the challenging and the awful moments of life. 

 

In this revelation of Christ, the Heavenly father says…  "this is my son… I am well pleased with him… listen to him!"   -  … This invites us to  a deep, new openness to see and hear the "new" and the "different." Christ is inviting to go much deeper and to see what lies within. 

 

If we are to truly accept Jesus' glorification, we must also accept the advice that went along with it. We must do what he tells us to do; (and live as he has taught us).

 

One scripture commentator asks a good question about what the disciples saw on the mountaintop. "Was Jesus transformed, or were his disciples' eyes opened?" That is, on one special day, for a few precious seconds, they glimpsed fully, and astoundingly the glorious truth about their friend and teacher, Jesus, - the Truth that was always there to be seen  – Whether realized by others or not

 

Even though the Transfiguration of our Lord is a rather unique moment of revelation about the divine nature of Christ, we Christians, not unlike Moses, shine with this light of Christ in us.

 

We have received the light of Christ at our baptism -  we are children of the Light. We carry the light of Christ to all we meet….

 

We are called to shine that light for all to see, so that people can in turn worship God, the source of that light…

 

We have seen, throughout the generations, people whose lives have been truly transfigured by God's love and grace…. They are people we have known who truly shine with God's love and graciousness…. People who certainly do seem to radiate God's love, forgiveness, compassion and kindness…- their faces almost literally shine… And it is not the glow of good health, or a good moisturizer, or the radiance of good fortune.... or even the glow of youth. Since, many of these saints have shown that inner glow- A radiating love-  I am sure WE have all met people like this - people who shine out with God's love even though age, extreme ill health and misfortune are very much part of their daily lives… It is nothing short of a miracle- and it is truly God's grace that shines out….

 

Sadly, we have probably all come across some who do not radiate this light- this grace… and we pray that no matter what is happening in our lives, we can all radiate that serenity and grace that implanted in our hearts by our loving and faithful God.

 

May this lent enlighten all of us, so that we may, no matter what our situation, radiate God's love and light to all … / May the light of Christ expose all those dark and false areas of our lives. Things that distract and misdirect us -  leading us away from the light of God's love and self-forgetting service) ……

 

After all, this is our calling, this is the gift God gives to us…. And this is our final destiny… to be with God, in Jesus, who is light from light!!!

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References:

Fr Paul W. Kelly

 

Image Credit: "Shutterstock" Licensed. ID: 1206378808. The Holy Transfiguration of our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ. Illustration - fresco in Byzantine style. By Julia Raketic.

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Archive of homilies and reflections:  http://homilycatholic.blogspot.com.au To contact Fr. Paul, please email:  paulwkelly68@gmail.com  To listen to my weekly homily audio podcast, please click this link here.  NB - It is often a week or so Ahead:  https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/tracks   You are welcome to subscribe to Fr Paul's homily mail-out by sending an email to this address: paulkellyreflections+subscribe@googlegroups.com 

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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).

 

Lenten Hymn: "Have Mercy"  inspired by Psalm 50(51). Music by Paul W. Kelly. Arranged and sung, with additional lyrics by Stefan Kelk. 2020. 

 

[ Production - KER - 2020]

May God bless and keep you.

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 Second Sunday of Lent. Year A. Sunday, March 8, 2020  (EPISODE: 210)

 

The Lord be with you.

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{{May Our Lord's care, comfort you}}

 

Coming together as brothers and sisters in Christ, let us prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries by recalling our sins and remembering Christ's greater mercy.

 

I confess to Almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault,* through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.

 

May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen.

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Memorial Acclamation

2. When we eat this Bread and drink this Cup, we proclaim your Death, O Lord, until you come again.

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Sunday Lent II

 

Eucharistic Prayer III

 

Communion side. pwk: LH

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{I am very grateful for you joining us for this special time of prayer and reflection}.

 

Go forth, the Mass is ended.

 

First Sunday of Lent. Year A - Sunday, March 1, 2020

Homily First Sunday of Lent. Year A - Sunday, March 1, 2020

 Readings for 1st Sunday of Lent – A

 FIRST READING: Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7

 PSALM: Psalm 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14+17. "Be merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned"

 SECOND READING: Romans 5:12-19

 GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (Matthew 4:4b). Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ, king of endless Glory. No one lives on bread alone. But on every word that comes from the mouth of God.

GOSPEL: Matthew 4:1-11 – Temptation

Image Credit: Shutterstock Licensed ID: 778363450 "Mount of Temptation next to Jericho - a place where Jesus was tempted" - By  Sopotnicki

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Please listen to my audio recordings of the readings, prayers and reflections for the First Sunday of Lent. Year A - Sunday, March 1, 2020, by clicking this link here:   https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/faith-hope-and-love-ep-209-lent-1-a-2020/s-KkQer   (EPISODE: 209)

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Prologue:  Our Lenten journey has well and truly begun.  It is a wonderful time of extra prayer,  reflection and penance - in order to re-focus our sights upon Christ and his gospel. this weekend we hear of the temptation of Our Lord in the desert.  I had always seen this time as a preparation for Christ's public ministry - and in a sense that perfectly true. But it's more than that.  It turns out that this is his first and definitive battle (and victory),  in God's war against the derailing effects of temptation, (to ignore the Fathers will in a distorted and self-justified attempt to follow our own will). This has wracked the human condition since the beginning. In the desert, Christ strikes the first blow against humanity's alienation from God.  This is faith,  hope and love. 

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Our Lord wastes no time going straight to work of achieving his Heavenly Father's mission.  Jesus is God made human,  the new Adam.  and he quickly sets about reversing the failures to temptation that has been around since from the beginnings of humanity and which we still face today.  

Although Jesus is God he is also completely human like us,  so in his humanity, he faces temptation and defeats it.  

We can see this forty days in the desert as a massive battle between for forces of the Gods Kingdom and the forces of evil.  Our Lord shows us how to take on temptation and not succumb to its distortion of the truth.  

 Our Lord uses prayer,  fasting and intense focus on the will of the Father to cut through the lies of the evil one. 

We notice too that Satan turns up to assail him near the end of his forty days.  Our Lord would have been tired,  extremely hungry and at his physical and emotional weakest.  and this is when Satan begins his cowardly attacks. It's good to keep in mind - we are often attacked by temptation when we are at our lowest and most vulnerable. The powers and values that oppose the kingdom of heaven do not fight fair, but we must be prepared. 

What is also fascinating is God turns even a malicious temptation by the enemy as a means to strengthen and reinforce the steely resolve of his faithful ones.  Jesus was tried and passed through the trial with flying colours. where Adam and his ancestors failed,  Jesus succeeded and schools us in how to deal with temptation ourselves.  

We learn that temptation is deceitful.  it often comes in the form of taking a good thing and luring us to use a good motive or a good thing for a bad or excessive reason. 

• 1 Corinthians 10:13 New International Version (NIV). God never lets us face more than we can handle and gives us the help to escape its clutches.  

there are two areas of temptation

•  temptations to people in leadership positions 

and

personal temptation.

First satan appeal to Our Lord as a leader.  

• the temptation to show, to prove and to be 'relevant' to an audience.
• Tempted to be popular and spectacular.
• The temptation to use "power" over others.

and see how Jesus counters it:

 "temptation to be relevant" and prove oneself, is countered by prayer and discernment of The Father's will. 

temptation to be spectacular to convince.  v. obedience and humility.

temptation to power v. vulnerability and trust in God's providence and grace being sufficient. 

Temptations in our personal needs- 

• actions to meet our physical needs. Not trusting that our true needs will be given us without recourse to the extreme and the controlling. 
• Confirm/test god's will and love.  presume on it. when we already have been shown Gods love and care in so many ways.  Our Lord knew he had been very powerfully affirmed and commissioned,  to test that or to ask for more confirmation would have been mere self-indulgence.  
• Pride and power.

• Devil wants to trick us to think –
• God has abandoned us
• And that we can handle temptation on our own.

But,  Our Lord shows us that the real question we need to focus upon ;

•  "Is this what God the Father wants for me?   Can I do this thing and truly love God and delight in God…."   ?? 
• Is this choice putting God as the source and destination of our delight and our goals. 

It's very telling that after this extreme tussle in the wilderness - Christ commands satan to be off and he goes.  Jesus has succeeded in fending off the prideful and misleading lies of the tempter and afterwards, we are told Angels come to tend to him and give him what he needs.  

There is more than a sense that his army come to support him in this first of many victories and give him what he needs which he KNEW would be provided by his Father and not from rash acts of wilfulness, force or pride. 

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References:

Fr Paul W. Kelly

From  Wilkins, M. (2004). Matthew : NIV Application Commentary. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan. E-edition. November 2014. Around p 153-164.

Image Credit: Shutterstock Licensed ID: 778363450

"Mount of Temptation next to Jericho - The place where Jesus was tempted" - By  Sopotnicki

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First Sunday of Lent. Year A

(Sunday, March 1, 2020)

(EPISODE: 209)

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

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{{May Our Lord's empathy abide in you.}}

 As we begin the Holy Eucharist, let us acknowledge our sinfulness, so as to worthily celebrate the sacred mysteries.

I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my fault,* through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.

May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life.  Amen.

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Memorial Acclamation

1. We proclaim your Death, O Lord, and profess your Resurrection until you come again.

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Sunday Lent I

Eucharistic Prayer II

Communion side.  PWK:  RH

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{I gratefully acknowledge and give thanks to God for your prayers at this time of prayer and reflection upon our God. }

Go in peace. (glorifying the Lord by your life)

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Archive of homilies and reflections:  http://homilycatholic.blogspot.com.au
To contact Fr. Paul, please email:  paulwkelly68@gmail.com

To listen to my weekly homily audio podcast, please click this link here.
NB - It is often a week or so Ahead:  https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/tracks

You are welcome to subscribe to Fr Paul's homily mail-out by sending an email to this address: paulkellyreflections+subscribe@googlegroups.com

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).

 Lenten Hymn: "Have Mercy"  inspired by Psalm 50(51). Music by Paul W. Kelly. Arranged and sung, with additional lyrics by Stefan Kelk. 2019. 

 [ Production -  KER -  2020] 

 May God bless and keep you

Third Anniversary of William John (Bill) Kelly 8th June 1942-27th February 2017

Remembering with love, William John (Bill) Kelly on the occasion of the third anniversary of his passing into eternal life. 27th February 2017. 

A special prayer and reflection Liturgy in thanksgiving for the life of William John (Bill) Kelly.  Lovingly known to us his family as Dad. 

May he rest in the Peace of Christ. 

Please visit this link for the prayer and reflection: 

 

https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/in-remembrance-of-william-john-kelly-on-the-third-anniversary-of-his-passing-27th-february-2017/s-V8A2F

Ash Wednesday - Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Ash Wednesday - Wednesday, February 26, 2020

THE LITURGY OF THE WORD
First Reading: Joel 2:12-18
Psalm: Ps 50:3-6. 12-14. 17. "Be Merciful, O Lord, for we have sinned."
Second Reading: 2 Corinthians 5:20 - 6:2
Gospel Acclamation: cf Ps 94:8
Gospel: Matthew 6:1-6. 16-18
Homily
Blessing and Distribution of Ashes
       Distribution of Ashes
       Song
Prayer of the Faithful

Image Credit: Shutterstock Licensed stock vector ID: 590506187. Banner with bowl with ashes of some palm branches that represents the beginning of the Lent on Ash Wednesday.By PenWin
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Please listen to my audio recordings of the readings, prayers and reflections for the Ash Wednesday - Wednesday, February 26, 2020 by clicking this link here:   https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/faith-hope-and-love-ep-208-ash-wednesday-2020/s-EVwqs  (EPISODE: 206)
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PROLOGUE

We begin today the great season of Lent.  Which is a season of six-and-a-half weeks' length, which is modeled on the forty days in the wilderness, with prayer and fasting, that Our Lord undertook, prior to beginning his public ministry.   The Lenten season is slightly longer than forty days as it does not include the weekends, largely because every Sunday is considered a little-Easter in itself.  Lent is marked by a spirit of additional prayer, penance and fasting and acts of charity.   It is a wonderful season of renewal and growth as we prepare for the great feast of Easter. 

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Ash Wednesday is neither a Sunday nor a holy day of obligation,

Yet churches across Australia and the world are often packed. Why is this day and its ceremony so important and popular with so many? ...  whether they be Catholic or not...  since anyone who wants can come forward to receive the ashes...  I believe it is because we want to be marked with ashes as a sign of repentance and new beginnings, and of recognizing our real need for God's generous love, grace and mercy in our lives.

 

The ashes are made from the palm leaves used on Palm Sunday,  the previous year.

 

These ashes, then, are the product of a "death" - in the sense that these dead palm branches,  having been used as such a powerful symbol in Palm Sunday, have been dried out and burned and turned into a fine powder of ash. We use this sign of death at the beginning of Lent to mark our journey from death toward a new life. 

When we think about Lent, we generally think in terms of giving something up - which is a kind of 'dying' to self.

 

But the readings for today suggest to us that merely 'giving up' something cannot be an end in itself.

Lent is about beginnings,m about allowing God to help us to :

1.       Come to new life,

2.       Deepen our relationship with God and others, and

3.       Transform who we are and how we live.

 

Why do we perform Lenten deeds of penance (alms-giving, prayer, fasting)?

 

Not for the passing reward of public acclaim,  but for the everlasting reward of God's transforming grace (see second reading).

 

Our penance is thus "rewarded" by a deeper relationship with God and each other that comes from returning to God with our whole heart (see first reading). And the reward is given now.

 

One an anonymous writer once described this Lenten time by saying:

LET TODAY BE THE END OF WHO WE HAVE BEEN AND THE BEGINNING OF WHAT GOD HAS CALLED US TO BECOME.

 

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POPE FRANCIS has been attributed to the following SUGGESTIONS FOR FASTING!

It is never too late to give something up for Lent.

Nor is there a rule that prevents you from changing your fasting objects during Lent.

 

And so, if you want to fast this Lent:

Fast from hurting words and say kind words

Fast from sadness and be filled with gratitude

Fast from anger and be filled with patience

Fast from pessimism and be filled with hope

Fast from worries and trust in God

Fast from complaints and contemplate simplicity

Fast from pressures and be prayerful

Fast from bitterness and fill your heart with joy

Fast from selfishness and be compassionate to others

Fast from grudges and be reconciled

Fast from words and be silent so you can listen

{Attributed to Pope Francis}.

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Back in 2011, I was on a pilgrimage, in the desert region in what is now the country of Jordan. I saw and touched the waters of the Jordan river where John the Baptist was baptizing…. and it was a profound moment of reflection and faith. 

 

This Gospel reminds me that, after Jesus was baptized, the voice of his Heavenly Father said… "this is my son, my beloved….  I am well pleased with him… listen to him…."….   So, what did Jesus do next….    he had just received the most perfect and most important and public affirmation from none other than God the Father, himself....  and in response, Our Lord Jesus felt absolutely impelled, by the Holy Spirit, to go immediately into the wilderness for 40 days…..    This tells us that the love and favour of the Heavenly Father was more than sufficient for everything Our Lord truly needed. ……    Since he knows he has that love and faith place in him, then Christ knew that fame, fortune, possessions or earthly influence meant nothing……..    And the wilderness… the desert reminded him of his total connection to his Father in heaven, and the need to reject anything that was not of his Father …..   If people were to listen to him.. he must speak ONLY that which comes from his Father's will …. His father's word….. this needed a deep time of preparation and prayer…. And letting go of everything, except that which lasts forever…….

 

Love, given freely without expectation,

Kindness and mercy, without expectation of return….   

Acts of charity not for recognition or approval but for the sake love alone…..     

Random acts of kindness for which no one will ever know we are the instigators.   (setting up a pattern not only for the 40 days of Lent but for every day of our lives after that....) 

 

Lent is a time of renewal to deepen that extraordinary movement of the heart ever-closer towards God.  Moving deeper into the Love of God which is its own reward....    Where we seek no other reward but to love God and be very close to God... and closer to one another.  For the glory and praise of God alone…

 

This time of prayer, penance and fasting is still a wonderful, joy-filled time of self-denial and making space for God… fostering positive habits for the year-round….  

 

To mark the start of the Lenten season last year, Pope Francis prayed the traditional Stations of the Cross at St. Anselm Church in Rome. He said, "We will never move forward if we are heavily weighed down," he continued. "The poverty of the wood, the silence of the Lord, his loving self-emptying show us the necessity of a simpler life, free from anxiety about things."

 

"The small mark of ash, which we will receive, is a subtle yet real reminder that of the many things occupying our thoughts, that we chase after and worry about every day, nothing will remain," he stated. "Earthly realities fade away like dust in the wind," he said, reminding Catholics that no material possessions or wealth go with them past the grave.

 

"Lent is the time to free ourselves from the illusion of chasing after dust," he urged. "Lent is for rediscovering that we are created for the inextinguishable flame, not for ashes that immediately disappear; for God, not for the world; for the eternity of heaven, not for earthly deceit; for the freedom of the children of God, not for slavery to things."

"We should ask ourselves today: Where do I stand? Do I live for fire or for ash?" 

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References:
Fr Paul W. Kelly

https://catholicherald.co.uk/news/2019/03/07/lenten-fasting-is-a-wake-up-call-for-the-soul-pope-says/

 

+ Quotes from the commentary section in :  "Liturgia" © Copyright Liturgy Brisbane 2020. 

 

Pope Francis on giving up for Lent,,...  similar in theme to this message:   https://cruxnow.com/vatican/2019/03/give-up-gossiping-for-lent-pope-suggests/

Image Credit: Shutterstock Licensed stock vector ID: 590506187. Banner with a bowl with ashes of some palm branches that represents the beginning of the Lent on Ash Wednesday. By PenWin
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Archive of homilies and reflections:  http://homilycatholic.blogspot.com.au
To contact Fr. Paul, please email:  paulwkelly68@gmail.com

To listen to my weekly homily audio podcast, please click this link here.
NB - It is often a week or so Ahead:  https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/tracks

You are welcome to subscribe to Fr Paul's homily mail-out by sending an email to this address: paulkellyreflections+subscribe@googlegroups.com

Ash Wednesday  (Wednesday, February 26, 2020)  (EPISODE: 206 )

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
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{{Goodness and faithfulness to you all}}

 

No penitential rite, ashes after Homily replaces this.

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Memorial Acclamation
Save us, Saviour of the world, for by your Cross and Resurrection you have set us free.

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Preface: Lent III
Eucharist Prayer II
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Communion side.  pwk:  LH
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{my heartfelt thanks for your participation in this time of reflection, prayer and praise.}

Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord. 

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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. }

 "Have Mercy" Lenten theme, words inspired by Psalm 50 (51). Music:  written by Paul W. Kelly.  Arranged and sung with additional lyrics by Stefan Kelk 2020.

 [ Production -  KER -  2020]

 May God bless and keep you.