Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. -Year B - Sunday, 29 September 2024 (EPISODE:498)
Readings for Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.- Year B
FIRST READING: Num 11:25-29
Ps 19:8, 10, 12-13, 14. "The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart."
SECOND READING: Jas 5:1-6
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (cf. John 17:17b+a). Alleluia, alleluia! Your word, O Lord, is truth. Make us holy in the Truth.
GOSPEL: Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48
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Please listen to the audio recordings of the Mass – (Readings, prayers and homily) for the Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year B - Sunday, 29 September 2024 - by clicking this link here: https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/faith-hope-and-love-26th-sunday-ordinary-time-year-b-episode-498/s-4MmS4v9qjfj
(EPISODE:498)
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GOSPEL THIS WEEKEND
Homily: Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.Year B - Sunday, 29 September 2024
Work with God wherever he is working, whenever he is working, and whomever with he chooses to work.
This weekend, the core of Christ's message of unselfish service and love strikes us. I love these readings for their practicality and clarity. God reminds us that God's Spirit blows wherever it will. God acts in and through whom God wants. We cannot limit God or demand that God works only through official channels. We are God's servants and do not direct God; we serve and follow God's ways.
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The readings speak of God's Spirit blowing where it wills, and we cannot try to limit God's action. God works in and through anyone God chooses. Eldad and Medad are two people in the First reading who receive the spirit of God even though they were not in the tent with the others. There was some consternation about that… should we stop them because they did not receive the Holy Spirit in the same way we did and the way WE think they should have received it? God says I will give the Spirit to whomsoever I choose and how and when I choose.
Our job is not to limit God but to respond and cooperate with God wherever God's action is found. The names Eldad and Medad are rather interesting… Eldad means 'the one whom God has loved," and Medad means "love" or "waters of love." It could also remind everyone that God's love and action flow freely and generously, without boundaries or limitations. The waters of God's love flow whichever course God chooses, and the Spirit of God blows wherever it wills.
We are warned: Jealousy is not a virtue in the Kingdom of God. Do not be jealous of anyone who is doing God's work. Do not compare yourself and your work of the Kingdom and someone else. There is enough work for the labourers of the Kingdom to occupy us all. Do not look at others and who they are or what they are not doing. Do your work diligently…. Everyone has a different part of the work of the Kingdom (as we heard last week, making comparisons and being jealous and trying to monopolise God's work… none of that is really the qualities to be found in the real Kingdom of God…)
Saint James encourages a healthy aversion to possessions and wealth, particularly if wealth and comfort are gained at the expense of others who are going without the necessities of life and are in dire need. And especially if the wealth is gained from dishonesty and unjustly ripping off others… this will all come back to bite them, Saint James warns…
The gospel.. rather than talking about literally "cutting off" parts of the body, is speaking metaphorically using a surgical idea that sometimes the integrity and health of the whole body need to be preserved by amputating or removing a diseased part of the body.
So, this is really talking about the Community, the church, as the Body of Christ. This image refers to the members of the community… For all who are doing the work of the gospel, let them do it unobstructed, and cooperate with them in their work where possible… Do not interfere with others' work or dismay or overload them….. But, if anyone is doing things opposite to the gospel's values or disrupting the Gospel's work, cut them off quickly… Remove them so they do not poison the community in its good work and rightly-ordered values… This is quite challenging and sobering stuff…
The readings today are a great encouragement for ecumenical cooperation among people of other Christian church denominations and even broader cooperation with people of a non-Christian faith, or even those who do not believe in God at all but who practise human values that do not contradict Jesus' values and message in essence or effect.
Anyone who (even though they do not personally know of Jesus), anyone who still holds Jesus' values and lives the gospel's principles and values, is a friend of God and will be welcomed into God's family.
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References:
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Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year B -(Sunday, 29 September 2024) (EPISODE: 498)
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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{{Good wishes to you all.}} welcome everyone, we gather - To Pray, listen and reflect upon God and God's Kingdom. On this Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
My brothers and sisters, we have gathered to celebrate the Holy Eucharist, - so let us pause and reflect upon our sins, so as to rejoice in Gods loving mercy.
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 19:8, 10, 12-13, 14. "The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart."
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (cf. John 17:17b+a). ). Alleluia, alleluia! Your word, O Lord, is truth. Make us holy in the Truth.
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PREFACE: Ordinary 6
Eucharistic Prayer 4
(theme variation: theme 4 )
(post version: v2-short)
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{14. May God's grace strengthen your faith hope and love, and may the Lord' love surprise you, even in the trials and challenges of this week.}
4. Go in peace.
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"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 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. And (2024+) Rode Nt-1 + AI-1 Sound Mixer.
Editing equipment: -- MixPad Multitrack Studio Recording Software v10.49 (NCH Software).
NCH – WavePad Audio Editing Software. Masters Edition v 17.63 (NCH Software)
Sound Processing: iZotope RX 10 Audio Editor (Izotope Inc.)
Text transcription as per the recorded podcast version is transcribed by TurboScribe.ai
{excellent and accurate transcription from voice to text}
[Production - KER - 2024]
May God bless and keep you.
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