Sunday's English Mass @ 11am EST | Reprinted with permission under ONE LICENSE, License # A- 735443 All rights reserved | By Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Ridgewood, N.J. | Facebook | Okay. now. I see Missy and I think they celebrated their birthdays last night. Please, does she have? It really doesn’t get her off a little bit in my mouth. my love of my But no, it was the my love. and he gave her some strange thing. Some strange gift. one loves that First, I thought it was a cake but it isn’t. Okay. I’d love to see how she decorated her. Good morning. we assemble in faith assured that god’s gifts are abundant for all The celebrant of this Mass is father Ron assisted by deacon Nick Deluca. The mass today is offered for an eel and Frankel. Please stand and begin our praise and worship of god Please join us as we sing our gathering table of plenty. You may follow along using our worship aids or the screens throughout the church. Come to the feast. Here at the And sit at my table. sinners. I pray Come to the feast of heaven and earth. Come to the table. Oh Come and eat. my feast of gladness. Spirit. Come to the to the table. at the table. In the name of the father and of the son and of the holy Spirit, amen. The grace of our lord Jesus Christ and the love of god and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all with his spirit. Welcome brothers and sisters to the celebration of our lord’s love for us in the Eucharist, the lord who walks with us in our journey through life. The lord who encourages us, lifts us up and brings us his hope. As we begin our Eucharist, let us first acknowledge our sins and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries. Lord Lord Jesus, you are the giver of all things. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. Lord Jesus, you are the living bread. Christ have mercy. Christ have mercy. Lord Jesus, you are the alpha and the omega. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. May almighty god have mercy on us. Forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life. Glory to god in the highest and on earth peace to people of goodwill. We praise you. We bless you. We adore you. We glorify you. We give you thanks for your great glory. lord god. Heavenly king, Oh god almighty father. Lord Jesus Christ, only begotten son lord god, lamb of god, son of the father, You take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. You take away the sins of the world, Receive our prayer. You are seated at the right hand of the father. Have mercy on For you alone are the holy one. You alone are the lord. You alone are the most high. Jesus Christ with the Holy Spirit in the glory of god the father. Amen. Let us pray. Oh god. protector of those who hope in you without whom nothing has firm foundation. Nothing is holy. Bestow in abundance. your mercy upon us and grant that with you as our ruler and guide, we may use the good things that pass in such a way as to hold fast even now to those that ever endure through our lord Jesus Christ, your son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit. God forever and ever. Amen. a reading from the second Book of Kings, A man came from be bringing to Elijah, the man of god. Twenty barley loaves made from the first fruits and fresh grain in the ear. Elisha said, give it to the people to eat but his servant objected. How can I set this before 100 people? Elisha insisted give it to the people to eat for thus says, the lord. they shall eat and there shall be some left over and when they had eaten, there was some leftover as the lord had said, the word of the lord Let all your works give you thanks oh lord and let your faithful ones bless you. Let them discourse of the glory of your kingdom and speak of your might the eyes of all look hopefully to you and you give them their food in due season, you open your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. The lord is just in all his ways. and holy in all his works. The lord is near to all who call upon him to all who call upon him in truth. A reading from the letter of Saint Paul to the Ephesians, Brothers and sisters, IA prisoner for the lord. urge you to live in a manner worthy of the call. you have received with all humility and gentleness and with patience bearing with one another through love striving to preserve the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace. One body and one spirit as you were also called to the only hope of your call One lord, one faith, one baptism, one god, and father of all, who is over and through all and in all the word of the lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. and clear. I’m Jesus went across the sea of Galilee. A large crowd followed him because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain and there he sat down with his disciples the Jewish feast of Passover was near when Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him. He said to Philip, where can we buy enough food for them to eat? He said, attached them because he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered 200 days wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little one of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon, Peter, said to him, there is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish What good are these for so many? Jesus said, have the people recline Now, there was a great deal grass in that place. So, the men reclined about 5000 a number. Then, Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, distribute them to those who are reclining and also as much of the fish as they want when they had had their fill, he said to his disciples gathered the fragments left over so that nothing will be wasted. So they collected them and filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat when the people the sign he had done. They said, this is truly the prophet. The one who is to come into the world Since Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off to make him king. he withdrew again to the mountain alone. The gospel of the lord. Praise to you lord Jesus Christ. a spiritual writer. brothers and sisters admits that when he was a boy, he used to think when he heard the gospel, he used to think that his grandmother was at the multiplication of the loaves. That was because whenever he heard the gospel with his family members, they were all the adults, they would all turn to one another and say, oh, grandma must have been there. You know, the kind of person you go to when they’re never short of anything. There’s always an abundance. I had a classmate uh who lived in Jersey City when we were in the seminary and no matter how many people went to his house, his mother always had enough food. everybody. said that brothers and sisters because this gospel is about abundance. but not just Ab. We have to understand where we came from last week. If you remember last week, Jesus had been preaching by the seashore and then he gets in the boat and he goes away and the crowd, the crowd finds out where he’s going and they race to get there before him along the shore No small feet for them to do that and so by the time Jesus arrives there, he sees them and told that he sees their hunger. They they hunger for his word and his teaching. They hunger for his touch and the healing that came with it. and he says, he hungered for those needs. It’s it says he saw them and was moved because they were like sheep without a shepherd. That’s where it ended last week and that was the gospel of Mark. This week, we turned out to the Gospel of John and it’s a kind of a follow up of that. Now, they follow Jesus up a mountain and this this time sees their real hunger. They are not just hungering for his word. They are really hungry. They’ve chased him all over Galilee and they’re hungry and he sees that and he addresses that hunger He satisfies that hunger. You know, the me of the loaves is the only miracle. The only one. It’s the only miracle that’s mentioned in all four gospels. It’s the only one Nothing else. Just that one mentioned twice in Matthew twice in twice in Matthew, twice in Mark, once in Luke and once in John, the only one. So, they must have considered this gospel to be of some importance if they all included it. but for John, it’s not just a miracle John for John, it’s a sign as I said last week to the masses that I that I preached that we will be listening to this the rest of this gospel from chapter six of John for the next four or 5 weeks It is the doorway. into Jesus speaking about how god feeds us not just feeds us in terms of the food we eat but feeds us in terms of our emotions, feeds us in terms of our character, feeds us in terms of all of these things that we really seek in life. Deep down the ones that we don’t always talk about fulfillment, peace, contentment, um all of those things John gives us the six chapter in which Jesus is going to teach us all of those things that he’s going to say as abundantly as I multiply these loaves. So will god multiply in you all that you need all that you need The people who hear in this gospel would have understood some of the illusions in it. We don’t understand that John is a great one for signs and so for instance, he mentions it was near Passover. What what why is he telling us that just because he wanted us to flip the calendar page in case we’re on the wrong place because with Passover would would come the whole remembrance of the feeling in the desert for 40 years. The abundance that god gave them that they would never they never went to in want. that was one illusion The other illusion is what he talks about specifically saying they’re barley loans. A reference to the first reading that we heard today when Alicia multiplied the loaves and fed the hundred out of twenty small rolls and then of course, there’s the Eucharistic implications at the end. All of this will come in the next weeks. that Jesus will teach us in the next weeks that god loves us so much that he wants to care for us and our needs and he will not be outdone in his blessings and in his abundance the beginning of the mass when we opened the Mass, we pray for the abundance of mercy but there are many other abundance is that the lord promises us the abundance of peace the abundance of of of love. His love for us, which is never ending and never stopping and never limited. his presence in our lives. The abundance of his presence in our lives In that second reading, Paul says, uh remember, be worthy of the hope to which you are called. What is the hope of the one god and father who is in all through all and all that’s the hope. the deepest hope in our lives brothers and sisters is that god doesn’t deserve us. done that in the last 18 months. or we’ve searched for that in the last 18 months, we’ve wanted to be reassured of that in the last 18 months that God doesn’t deserve us. God never leaves us that god watches over us and sees us. He sees every pain we suffer. He sees every side that we make And that’s what this bread of life gospel which we begin today. That’s what we’ll be hearing in these next week. So, the church invites you today, brothers and sisters simply to make an act of faith. What is that Faith that god has ready for us and abundance of all that we need. to live in this world. and abundance. and he can never be outdone in that abundance. Amen. believing that Jesus is god’s word of life For us, we profess our faith together. I believe in god the father almighty, creator of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ, his only son, our lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell on the third day. He rose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of god, the father almighty. From there, he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen. Renewing our trust in the father’s love for us. we turn to with our needs. that the church may stand as a living witness to truth and freedom to peace and justice. We pray to the lord. Lord, hear our prayer. That the peace of Christ will vanish violence from our midst and defend us against every evil. We pray to the lord. Lord, hear our prayer. That we always hold in prayer. the poor and the homeless having faith in god’s loving care. We pray of the lord. Lord hear our prayer. For the grace of a deeper love and gratitude for the gift of the Holy Eucharist, the bread of life we pray to the lord. Lord, hear our prayer. For the sake of the parish, especially Jim Davis, Bill Gatti, Frank Gillen, Sidney Hein, Michael Hayes, Margaret Dunn, Claudia Lafrance, Jeff dont matter and Julia Whitney and the people listed in the bulletin, we pray to the lord. Lord, hear our prayer. For those who have died recently that they may be welcomed into the eternal banquet especially Yolanda Lanza. We pray to the lord. Lord, hear our prayer. Loving father, when we call you, answer us, you build up strength within us. Help us now. in our need, We ask this through Christ our lord. Amen. Hey, my brothers and sisters that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to god, the almighty father, except the lord. We pray the offerings which we bring from the abundance of your gifts. that through the powerful working of your grace these most sacred mysteries may sanctify our present way of life and lead us to eternal gladness through Christ our lord. The lord be with you. Lift up your hearts. Let us give thanks to the lord our god. It is truly right and just our duty and our salvation. always and everywhere to give you thanks Lord, holy father, almighty and eternal god For in you, we live and move and have our being while in this body, we not only experience the daily effects of your care but even now the of life eternal for having received the first fruits of the spirit through whom you raised up Jesus from the dead. We hope for everlasting share in the pastoral mystery and so with all the angels, we praise you as a joyful celebration. We acclaim the lord. You are indeed holy oh lord, the fountain of all holiness. may holy therefore these gifts we pray by sending down your spirit upon them like the dew fall so that they may become for us the body and blood of our lord Jesus Christ. At the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his passion, he took bread and giving thanks, broke it and gave it to his disciples saying, take this all of you and eat of it for this is my body which will be given up for you. In a similar way, when supper was ended, he took the chalice and once more giving thanks, he gave it to his disciples saying, take this all of you and drink from it For this is the chalice of my blood, the blood of the new and eternal covenant which will be poured out for you and for many, for the forgiveness of sins. Do this in memory of me The mystery of faith. when we eat this bread. we proclaim Therefore, as we celebrate the memorial of his death and resurrection, we offer you lord the bread of life and the chalice of salvation. giving thanks that you have held us worthy to be in your presence and minister to you Humbly, we pray that partaking of the body and blood of Christ. you may be gathered into one by the Holy Spirit Remember, lord, your church spread throughout the world and bring her to the fullness of charity together with our Pope and Joseph Howard and all the clergy Remember also our brothers and sisters who have asleep in the hope of the resurrection and all who have died in your mercy, Welcome them into the light of your face. Have mercy on us all. We pray that the blessed Virgin Mary, mother of god with blessed Joseph, her spouse, and the blessed apostles and all the saints who have pleased you throughout the ages. We may merit co heirs to eternal life and may praise and glorify you through your son, Jesus Christ. through him and with him and in him, oh god, almighty father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is yours forever and ever. at the savior’s command and formed by divine teaching. We dare to say our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Deliver us Lord. we pray from every evil graciously grant peace in our days that by the help of your mercy, we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress. As we await the blessed hope and the coming of our savior. Jesus Christ. Lord Jesus Christ, who said to your apostles, peace I leave you, my peace I give you. Look not on our sins but on the faith of your church and graciously grant her peace and unity in accordance with your will. who live in reign forever and ever The peace of the lord be with you always. extent of each other. you. take away the I as we approach the table of the lord. Please join us in singing our communion song, The feast meant for everyone. For the the house. the feast. Ready for the shelter. I’m in this here in the feet. for to thirsting for more. drinks for more. run out of is more than just enough. to the in this The are the same. The where we are. in this Great. It’s meant for for for for it. those who need nothing but all We all come to the man. thirst for more. for the Who’s more than just enough. is the Let us pray. We have consumed oh lord, this divine sacrament, the perpetual memorial of the passion of your son, Grant. we pray that this gift which he himself gave us with love beyond all telling may profit us for salvation through Christ our lord. Amen. Please remember to take your worship aid with you when you leave the church after mass. bulletins are available on the tables at the doors of the church as you leave Mass Church support may be placed in the boxes as you leave church today. Please continue to check the parish website to learn how new COVID-19 directives are being implemented at Mount Carmel adoration of the blessed sacrament has reopened and during July, adoration takes place in the daily chapel on Mondays from 9 AM to 4 PM in August. Adoration in the Daily chapel will take place on Mondays and Thursdays. Don’t forget to think about signing up for an hour in the Adoration Chapel. The lord be with you with your spirit. May almighty god bless us the father and the son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Go in peace Glory to god with your life. Thanks be to god. Have a nice day everyone. as we go forth, Please join us in singing. We are The Light of the World. Are They are poor in spirit. theirs is the kingdom of Bless us oh lord. make It’s the light of the May your light shine. what we do and give the lord Are they? for me And Tumble. They will inherit the earth. Bless us oh lord. make us and tremble. bless us oh lord. We are that to me. See the good that we do and give