Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. -Year C - Sunday, 10 August 2025 (EPISODE: 542)
Readings for Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.- Year C
FIRST READING: Wisdom 18:6-9
Psalm 33:1+12, 18-19, 20-22. "Happy the people the Lord has chosen to be his own"
SECOND READING: Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19 or 11:1-2, 8-12
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (Matt 24:42a+44). Alleluia, alleluia! Be watchful and ready. You know not when the Son of Man is coming.
GOSPEL: Luke 12:32-48 or 12:35-40
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Please listen to the audio recordings of the Mass (Readings, prayers, and homily) for the nineteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time. Year C - Sunday, 10 August 2025 - by clicking this link here: https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/faith-hope-and-love-ep-542/s-CAVhG3FtGtb (EPISODE: 542)
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PROLOGUE:
The story of Abraham is extraordinary because even without seeing the promise fulfilled, Abraham never stopped believing in God's promise to him. Abraham trusted in the promise, expected its fulfilment, and lived it as a deep truth even though he would not see the promise completely fulfilled in his lifetime. Abraham is a wonderful model of faith.
He didn't need to see it fulfilled or hold it in his own hands in order to set his life according to that promise. God's word was enough for him. When Jesus says God is pleased to give us the kingdom, is that good enough for us? Or will we cling to a different or another backup like material comforts or bury our hearts along with them? God is faithful to his promises to us; He cannot be anything but faithful.
Our Lord fulfils these promises and assures us that we are truly beloved children of God and really heirs to God's kingdom. We believe in this and live in this promise with faith, hope, and love.
HOMILY:
How prepared am I, and how does my awareness of the need to always be ready to respond to our Master affect my everyday actions, behaviour choices, and priorities? It's a sobering reminder, making us think about what we want to achieve in this life. Because time is comparatively short, there's only a relatively limited time to build up on the things that really last and really matter. Even for people who live very, very long and healthy lives, life is still relatively short.
Time goes past so fast. Even a hundred years isn't really that much time when you think about it. So for everyone, time is to be savoured.
The readings today focus on two major themes, faith and readiness. Faith is about putting our trust and belief into something, even if we cannot see the results now or in the near future. Faith allows us to keep going forward according to our vision and values, even when the goal seems quite out of sight and even at times when the prize seems so unlikely to be achieved.
Our faith and trust in God allows us to keep going, especially when things are really tough, because we're right to trust in God's promises. We know God's timeline is not like our own, and it can be helpful and reassuring to know that although God achieves his promises, it is in God's own time and in God's own way. We might be expecting, naturally, for God to fulfil our hopes in days or weeks or perhaps years, but God works away constantly and works in the hearts and minds and events of life as they unfold.
So it might take years, decades, or even longer, but God achieves what God sets out to do. Who am I to demand that God fulfil his plans with me as his personal witness? That is prideful. God's kingdom doesn't revolve around me, but you and I are delighted to participate in God's wonderful plan in any way God chooses.
So we put our hope in God, and we humbly walk in his paths, doing our bit, offering our small contribution to the much, much bigger view that is God's picture, the whole picture. The other theme this weekend is readiness. Be watchful, we're told.
Stay alert. Be ready. Be about the work of the master that you've been given.
God's grace and activity is constantly coming into our lives. If we're not alert or not ready, we could easily miss the countless opportunities God gives us to participate in building up God's kingdom. There are many ways God is at work in our daily life. We simply can't afford to miss those many opportunities that come our way daily, possibly hourly, because our attention can be distracted or because we're focusing on the wrong priorities, looking in the wrong directions.
Instead, God wants disciples who are active, alert, and fully immersed in the work of the kingdom, as well as shareholders in the kingdom, not merely hired day workers who aren't necessarily committed to the big vision and the whole project. And what a wonderful project it is, the most perfect project, God's world, God's vision.
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References:
Homily Fr Paul W. Kelly
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Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Year C -(Sunday, 10 August 2025) (EPISODE: 542 )
3. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (or/ The Lord be with You)
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{{Hi}} welcome everyone, we gather - Praise, Worship of God on this Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
My brothers and sisters, trusting in God's mercy and love, let us call to mind our sins.
Lord Jesus, you raise us to new life: Lord, have mercy.
Lord Jesus, you forgive us our sins: Christ, have mercy.
Lord Jesus, you feed us with your body and blood: 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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Psalm 33:1+12, 18-19, 20-22. "Happy the people the Lord has chosen to be his own"
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (Matt 24:42a+44). ). Alleluia, alleluia! Be watchful and ready. You know not when the Son of Man is coming.
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PREFACE: Ordinary 4
Eucharistic Prayer various 1
(theme variation: theme 1 )
(post version: v1-short)
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{3. Many thanks for participating in this time of praise, worship and reflection upon our God's infinite love.}
1. Go forth; the Mass is ended.
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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 - 2025]
May God bless and keep you.
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