Sixth Sunday of Easter. -Year B - Sunday, 5 May 2024 (EPISODE: 477)

Sixth Sunday of Easter. -Year B -  Sunday, 5 May 2024 (EPISODE: 477)

 
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Readings for Sixth Sunday of Easter.- Year B
FIRST READING: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48 (diff)
Ps 98:1, 2-3a, 3b-4. "The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power."
SECOND READING: 1 John 4:7-10
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (John 14:23). Alleluia, alleluia! All who love me will keep my words, and my Father will love them and we will come to them.
GOSPEL: John 15:9-17
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Please listen to the audio-recordings of the Mass – (Readings, prayers and homily), for Sixth Sunday of Easter. Year B - Sunday, 5 May 2024 - by clicking this link here: https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/faith-hope-and-love-sixth-sunday-of-easter-year-b-episode-477/s-8BpUkpyePYu  
(EPISODE: 477)
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All of the weekend scripture readings say a lot about the core of Christ's message.  There are quite a few lines that jump out at me as we listen to the readings this weekend.
 
Lines such as these:
Saint Peter said to Cornelius: "Get up. I myself am also a human being."….. 
 
"the believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit should have been poured out on the Gentiles …."
 
Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.
 
Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love.
 
God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. ,…..he loved us first and sent his Son as expiation for our sins.
 
Jesus said to his disciples: "As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.
 
"I have told you  this so that my joy may be in you and your joy might be complete.
 
"No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you.
I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends
 
It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. This I command you: love one another."
 
These lines from the readings this weekend are profound and important, and worth deeper thought and reflection.
 
 In summary, what these lines say to me is, we must keep in mind that our Christian faith is not ultimately about us, but it is about God. That might, at first glance, seem to be an obvious truism, however, we do acknowledge that in a world where ME, ME, ME  is often front and centre,  we as a whole, can sometimes forget that we are merely men and women and not 'little gods' in charge of our destiny, and we are ultimately not the centre of our own world or the world around us. 
 
How wonderful that the Holy Spirit of God took initiative and fell upon Gentiles even before they were baptised. God's Spirit blows where it wills, inspires, and acts upon people in and outside the visible confines of religion and church and does what God wants.  That is also an important and humble corrective. We will never be able to limit God's generous and proactive activity in and among the peoples and cultures of the world. Nor should we ever want to stop this divine right of God to do as God wishes and act in and through whom God wants. (nor could we ever stop God anyway).
 
Also, the readings today remind us that God's very nature is LOVE. One cannot know God if we do not know love or show love. This love is to show itself in the way Jesus showed love. And the kind of love Jesus shows us is self-sacrificing love which gives and does not count the cost, and reaches out to give rather than grasping to possess. 
 
And in connection to this, God's desire and plan for us is to have joy to the full and to be not servants or slaves but friends who are willing co-workers and colleagues with God, in God's plans. We are indeed friends and colleagues with Jesus, but also friends who know our place in the sense that we never get a 'big head' and think that since we are "co-workers" and "friends" of Christ, we could ever "play God for our own benefit" over others.
 
So, today's readings say to me: Be joyful, be loving, be free, be friends, be not slaves and nor ever be begrudging labourers, but rather,  be as Christ showed us, because God is all about self-giving, self-forgetting love which reaches out to everyone without fear and favour, and which is about practical and joyful service and compassion which reduces ego and self-interest and acts and thinks more as a brotherhood and sisterhood of humanity rather than "them and us"    These are sound foundations upon which to build our true discipleship of Christ.    
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References:

Homily  Fr Paul W. Kelly

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Sixth Sunday of Easter.  Year B  -(Sunday, 5 May 2024)  (EPISODE: 477 )
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (or/ The Lord be with You)
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{{May God's Spirit of Fortitude and self control abide with you.}} welcome everyone, we gather -  To take time to reflect upon the meaning of God's word for our everyday lives On this Sixth Sunday of Easter.

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.
You were sent to heal the contrite of heart. Lord, have mercy . You came to call sinners: Christ, have mercy . You are seated at the right hand of the Father to intercede for us: 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 98:1, 2-3a, 3b-4. "The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power."

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (John 14:23). ). Alleluia, alleluia! All who love me will keep my words, and my Father will love them and we will come to them.
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PREFACE: Easter 5
Eucharistic Prayer 1
(theme variation: theme 3 )

(post version: v1-long)

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{10. thanks everyone. And may God sustain you with his grace and love.}

3. Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.

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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.

"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.

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


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.)

[Production -  KER -  2024]

May God bless and keep you.
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Fifth Sunday of Easter. -Year B - Sunday, 28 April 2024 (EPISODE:476)

Readings for Fifth Sunday of Easter.- Year B
FIRST READING: Acts 9:26-31
Ps 22:26-27, 28+30, 31-32. "I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people."
SECOND READING: 1 John 3:18-24
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (John 15:4a+5b). Alleluia, alleluia! Live in me, and let me live in you, says the Lord. My branches bear much fruit.
GOSPEL: John 15:1-8

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Please listen to the audio-recordings of the Mass – (Readings, prayers and homily), for Fifth Sunday of Easter. Year B - Sunday, 28 April 2024 - by clicking this link here: https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/faith-hope-and-love-fifth-sunday-of-easter-year-b-episode-476/s-QNq0JOxIRmU  
(EPISODE:476)
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Homily: Fifth Sunday of Easter.Year B- Sunday, 28 April 2024

One of my all-time favourite images in the New Testament writings, is this concept of us "abiding"  or living in God,  and God abiding and living in us…..   It is mentioned several times, including in John's Gospel but also in John's letters and other New Testament letters*

Can we picture a more deep connection than being united with God by means of God dwelling in our hearts and making a home in us…  and us in him…  this is the profound concept of communion in the widest sense of that word.   
Inspired by these wonderful readings this weekend…..
To me, the following things would be a wonderful rule of life, they should constantly be in our thoughts and prayers:
Prayer, and connection to God
Attention to what God is doing in our lives.
Reflection on our lives and actions.. to honestly and openly and regularly look back at our decisions, our actions and our values and see how they match with God's love. 
Stillness, to allow God to be present to us and speak to our listening and attentive hearts......
Oneness, we are called to unity with God and each other!!

We are all invited to be disciples and friends of Jesus…… 
The word "Disciple" means "one who learns"…… which is really
a very good thing. Our role is to learn from Jesus. To get to know him, to learn something about his words and his teaching to observe reverently what he nurtures as his deeply-embedded attitudes and values  …. so that we might capture and nurture that same Spirit, that same inner strength and drive as our teacher possesses by his very nature. 
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Our Gospel this weekend is that great image of the Vine and the branches….. it shows the deep connection we have and are 
called to have with Jesus……

We are called to not only observe and learn about Jesus, but to allow Jesus' and his presence, his message, his attitudes, to become so much part of us that Jesus lives in us, and we live in God…… we abide in each other……. Further….. we gain our source, our meaning and our fruitfulness FROM that connection to Christ….
Without Jesus, our efforts are misdirected and fruitless…… connected to Jesus, our actions and efforts can bear much fruit, by God working in and through our lives………
The connection of this image of the vine and branches… can't help but highlight the importance of Eucharist. In Eucharist, Jesus comes to us in the form of food and drink…. we take Jesus in and he becomes part of us….. so that we may become more like Christ in our words and actions. and lives…
At this time, many young ones all around the world are preparing in their parishes to receive their first holy communion …..
this Gospel we heard today is very special because it shows us that we are all connected the Our Lord.....   We are friends and members of  Jesus.

Whenever we gather at Mass, we come together as disciples and friends of Jesus and we do as Our Lord taught us to do...  we take and eat the bread of life... and we drink of the chalice of  the Lord's blood.  And we believe that this is not just a SIGN of our connection to Jesus, but it actually joins us to Jesus...  like the branches are necessarily joined to the vine..........  We also believe by receiving Jesus in this way.....  God renews us, forgives us, unites us and commissions us… we believe that Jesus comes to us in this receiving of his body and blood in Eucharist......, that Jesus is really present in this sacrament, and that Jesus comes into our hearts and we become more and more part of Jesus' life…. (we become the branches of a heavenly plant… and Jesus is the life-giving and living vine)……..and then we go out into our daily lives to live his commandments to show God's love and care for each other in practical ways…

"I am the vine, says the Lord, and you are the branches…. whoever abides in Jesus and Jesus abides in them will bear much fruit in their lives."
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References:

Fr Paul W. Kelly

* https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Abiding-In-Christ 

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Fifth Sunday of Easter.  Year B  -(Sunday, 28 April 2024)  (EPISODE:476)
The Lord be with you.
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{{May God's Spirit of  Wisdom and Awe abide in you.}} welcome everyone, we gather -  To offer or praise, prayers and intercessions to our loving God On this Fifth Sunday of Easter.

As we begin the Holy Eucharist, let us acknowledge our sinfulness, so as to worthily celebrate the sacred mysteries.
option two on the cards Have mercy on us, O Lord. For we have sinned against you. Show us, O Lord, your mercy. And grant us your salvation.
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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Ps 22:26-27, 28+30, 31-32. "I will praise you, Lord, in the assembly of your people."

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (John 15:4a+5b). ). Alleluia, alleluia! Live in me, and let me live in you, says the Lord. My branches bear much fruit.
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PREFACE: Easter 4
Eucharistic Prayer 2
(theme variation: theme 2 )

(post version: v2-long)

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{9. heartfelt thanks to you all ,for uniting in prayer and for reflection, upon God's overflowing goodness and care.}

2. Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord.

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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:  https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/tracks

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.

"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.

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

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.)

[Production -  KER -  2024]

May God bless and keep you.
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ANZAC DAY MEMORIAL – AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. - - 25TH APRIL Surfers Paradise Catholic Parish - Mass – Podcast. (2024).

ANZAC DAY MEMORIAL – AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. - - 25TH APRIL Surfers Paradise Catholic Parish - Mass – Podcast. (2024).

Image: Australian War Memorial Archive – Canberra. Photograph H06769. Claud Castleton VC, (1893-1916).
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LEST WE FORGET ANY OF OUR BRAVE.
Including -
Claud Castleton VC, (1893-1916)  -
Died aged just 23 years.
Photograph H06769
Service number           1352Ranks Held           Private, Sergeant
Service Australian Imperial Force
Units    •          2nd Australian Machine Gun Battalion
5th Australian Machine Gun Company
Conflict/Operation       First World War, 1914-1918

ANZAC DAY MEMORIAL – AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. - - 25TH APRIL
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Please listen to my audio recordings of the readings, prayers, and reflections for Anzac Day, April 25th 2024, by clicking this link here:  https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/faith-hope-and-love-anzac-day-weekday-memorial-years-abc-episode-475/s-eB0MxPxlGEc

 

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Readings for ANZAC DAY

FIRST READING  **2024** Wis 3:1-9: He accepted them as a holocaust.
or 
Is 9:1-6 - Wide is the dominion of the Lord, in a peace that has no end.

PSALM: **2024** Ps 71:2–4, 7–8, 12–13, 17: Justice shall flourish in his time and fullness of peace forever.
Or
Ps 114:5–6, 115:10–11, 15–16 (p.851): R. I will walk in the presence of the Lord, in the land of the living.

SECOND READING  
**2024** Eph 2:13-18: He is our peace; destroying the hostility in your body.
or  
1 Cor 1:18-25 -: God's weakness is stronger than human strength.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: **2024** Alleluia, alleluia! Happy are those who have died in the Lord; let them rest from their labours for their good deeds go with them. Alleluia! (Rev 14:13)
or  
Alleluia, alleluia! Peace, I leave with you, says the Lord; my own peace I give you. Alleluia! (Jn 14:27)

GOSPEL –
**2024** John 12:23-28. "If a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies, it yields a rich harvest."
Or
 John 14:23-29. The Holy Spirit will teach you everything and remind you of all I have said to you.

Image: Australian War Memorial Archive – Canberra. Photograph H06769. Claud Castleton VC, (1893-1916).
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At dawn on this day in 1915, during World War I, soldiers from the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps landed at Gallipoli; this national day of remembrance honours the courage and the self-sacrifice of those who served in that campaign and that war and, indeed, all wars, and conflicts and peace-keeping operations. We particularly recognise the sacrifice of the fallen. We commend them to God's eternal care... and we also pray fervently that the peace and justice that they sought to defend and preserve will dwell richly in our land and in our world and that God's peace and reverence will make a home in the hearts of every person in this world.
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Many who returned from serving in the wars often did not speak of their experiences. They were so deep and indescribable. Today, we respect their silence, and we also respect their times of sharing whatever they feel is vital for us to know and to take to heart, never to forget, lest we forget, lest past history be repeated or core principles that were fought so hard and for so long could be lost.

Today and every year at this time we willingly and gratefully pause to remember and pray and give thanks for those countless men and women who served in time of war and who sacrificed everything for the sake of their families, their friends, their colleagues, their mates and their country and they sacrificed everything for the freedom, the love, the friendship and peace that lay behind their service and sacrifice.

Over many decades now there's been a conscious collecting of many recollections of those who lived through these times, to preserve their voices and their messages for future generations long after they have gone to God.

Claud Castleton (1893-1916) enlisted on March 1915 in Sydney. He served on Gallipoli with the 18th Battalion and in March 1916 transferred to the 5th Machine Gun Company.

Castleton was killed at Pozières on 29 July 1916 during an action for which he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.

During a night attack on enemy trenches, the infantry was driven back and then held down by intense enemy machine-gun fire. Many wounded men were left lying in no man's land, (and with his own assigned station disabled, Castleton - on two occasions went out in the face of enemy fire to bring in wounded men on his back. When he went out a third time, and while carrying a wounded soldier on his back, he himself was hit in the back and killed instantly. His body was later recovered and buried in the main British war cemetery at Pozières. Such bravery whilst repatriating wounded soldiers in the midst of battle.
We honour Claud and all who served valiantly in time of war….  Including all those whose acts of sacrifice and bravery are unknown or unsung.  God sees all and repays all, (in Heaven), for their bravery and sacrifice.

From a Christian perspective we hear from our Lord's own lips, no one has greater love, says the Lord, than those who lay down their lives for their friends. And today we commemorate the ultimate sacrifice of all who served in times of war and those who risked life and limb for those they loved and also those especially who lost their lives for those they loved. We can't help but notice the echo of Christ's death on the cross, in the death of all who gave up their irreplaceable lives, defending and protecting their loved ones from real and frightening dangers.

We remember the sacrifices and losses of war in order to respectfully remember those who paid that ultimate sacrifice of their lives and others paid the price of their health and peace of mind in the face of terrible aggression on true assaults on human dignity and freedom. Remembrance steals our commitment to peace and justice by reminding us of the alternative which always comes at too high a price. The world deeply wants to learn from the past violence and destruction in order to avoid future repeats.

We know that familiar ode so well, we know it by heart, age shall not weary them. That is, those men and women who have already lost their lives, lest we forget the reason they died, the horrors they saw and suffered, the horrors that they urgently fought to prevent if the aggressor were to get the upper hand, the loss of the values that underpin our very society. Also we remember the effects on those who are still with us and still need us.

There are many, many sacrifices that were made by those who served in times of war and those who serve now too. As well as the sacrifice of some people's lives, there's also their loss of their youth, their health and their emotional well-being. Those who did come back, came back injured in body, mind or spirit from their experiences.

Anyone in any way affected by the horrors of war and its aftermath, we remember them too with profound respect and gratitude. How can we repay them? The human cost of war, of people risking and often losing life for the defence of others, can never be adequately calculated and it cannot be repaid. Our prayer today and for the future is for that peace which only Christ can give the world.

 

A peace and a love that quenches the all-too-real hatred and misunderstanding that exists in the world and a peace that banishes all that leads to enmity and violence. We long for this. These are the ones who served and prayed and struggled for it.

We continue this prayer year after year, especially on this day and all days. May peace be in the hearts and minds of every person throughout the world, not just on this day but every day. May the peace of God's Kingdom one day soon put an end to all war and violence.

In remembering and acknowledging the human cost of war and the price beyond telling of those who served, we not only remember them but we commit ourselves to a world where the values they fought are cherished, protected and remembered. We pray that God's reign of peace, justice, dignity and love will all come in its fullness and that the values of those who struggled and suffered for us will always and everywhere be respected, preserved and built up ever stronger.

 

Today we recall the extraordinary poem, of which a paragraph has become immortalised as The Ode.

This poem, written by Laurence Binyon in 1914, now over a hundred years old but still deeply relevant today, captures the importance of remembering and commemorating this day. Elsewhere in that same poem, not used in The Ode, he writes a passage that echoes our belief that those who have made sacrifices in the service of others remain not only in our hearts and memories but, although hidden from sight, they live on in the everlasting life of God's Kingdom where there is true peace, no more suffering, no war, no pain.

 

Our constant prayer is that God's Kingdom come, not only in heaven, but that that peace and justice of God's Kingdom will take hold and express itself ever more here on earth and that the freedoms and values that our past generations have sacrificed everything for will be assured for all and forever.

And so Laurence Binyon's poem continues where it says,

"Where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;

As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain."**….

(We will remember them) ..

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- Reflection by Fr Paul Kelly

- Australian War Memorial Website - https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P11051710

 

https://www.abc.net.au/religion/what-must-we-remember-on-anzac-day-moral-reflection-without-mili/10094782


- ** Robert Laurence Binyon, (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943). "For The Fallen", The Times, (London), 21 September 1914.

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_Australia

Image: Australian War Memorial Archive – Canberra. Photograph H06769. Claud Castleton VC, (1893-1916)
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ANZAC DAY MEMORIAL – AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND.  - 25TH APRIL..

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

You raise the dead to life in the Spirit. Lord, have mercy//
You bring pardon and peace to the sinner. Christ, have mercy//
You bring light to those in darkness. 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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Let us pray for peace in our world, and in our hearts and homes. Lord Hear Us.

Let us pray for all servicemen and women, who served our nation with bravery and honour. Lord Hear Us.

Let us pray for those men and women who died in the time of war, defending the freedom, the values and the people they love. Lord Hear Us.

Let us pray for all those who have been injured or in any way physically or emotionally affected by war. Lord Hear Us.

Let us pray for those who presently serve in armed forces, that they may be protected and strengthened. Lord Hear Us.

Let us pray that we will experience a deep sense of unity with God and with one another. Lord Hear Us.

Let us pray that the ANZAC spirit of self-sacrifice, bravery, and support may always live in the memories and hearts of all Australians. Lord Hear Us.

For people around the world - suffering the effects of war, violence and assaults on human dignity and rights. That they may be given peace and dignity and practical assistance in their suffering. And that God's peace will spur people to find every paths to peace and justice.
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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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Preface: Christian death II
Eucharistic Prayer II
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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 the weekly homily audio podcast, please click this link here.
https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/tracks
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 – Jerusalem Bible (1966)
"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. }

"Today I Arise" - For Patricia 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.

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May God bless and keep you.
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