Holiness in the America's

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A reading from the book of Deuteronomy.
 
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Moses said to the people, hear Israel and be careful to observe the commandments that
 
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you may grow and prosper the more in keeping with the promise of the Lord, the God of your
 
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fathers, to give you a land flowing with milk and honey.
 
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O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord alone.
 
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Therefore, you shall love the Lord your God
 
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with all your heart and with all your soul
 
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and with all your strength.
 
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Take to heart these words which I enjoin on you today.
 
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Drill them into your children.
 
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Speak of them at home and abroad,
 
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whether you are busy or at rest.
 
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Find them at your wrist as a sign
 
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and let them be as a pendant on your forehead.
 
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Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.
 
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This is the word of the Lord.
 
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Thanks be to God.
 
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I will bless the Lord at all times.
 
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I will bless the Lord at all times.
 
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His praise shall ever be in my mouth.
 
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Let my soul glory in the Lord.
 
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The lowly will hear me and be glad.
 
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I will bless the Lord at all times.
 
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Glorify the Lord with me.
 
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Let us together extol his name.
 
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I sought the Lord, and He answered me,
 
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and delivered me from all my fears.
 
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I will bless the Lord at all times.
 
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Look to him that you may be radiant with joy,
 
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and your faces may not blush with shame.
 
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When the afflicted man called out, the Lord heard.
 
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And from all his distress he saved him.
 
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I will bless the Lord at all times.
 
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This is a reading from the Holy Gospel
 
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according to Saint Matthew.
 
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When Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on the mountainside.
 
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After he had sat down, his disciples gathered around him
 
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and Jesus began to teach them. How blessed
 
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are the poor in spirit, the reign of God is theirs.
 
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Blessed too are the sorrowing,
 
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they shall be consoled. Blessed
 
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Blessed are the lowly, they shall inherit the land.
 
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Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for holiness,
 
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they shall have their fill.
 
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Blessed are they who show mercy, mercy shall be theirs.
 
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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall see God.
 
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Blessed too are the peacemakers,
 
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they shall be called sons of God.
 
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Blessed are those persecuted for holiness' sake.
 
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The reign of God is theirs.
 
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Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you
 
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and utter every kind of slander against you because of me.
 
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Be glad and rejoice, for your reward in heaven is great.
 
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This is the gospel of the Lord.
 
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in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
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Your Eminence Cardinal Miranda,
 
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my dear brother bishops and priests,
 
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my dear brothers and sisters in Christ,
 
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in the year 1910,
 
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the First Eucharistic Congress of North America
 
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was held in Montreal, the city of my birth,
 
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this year played host to another international event of a somewhat
 
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different caliber. Notable among the distinguished prelates of the United
 
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States were Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore and Archbishop O'Connell of
 
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Boston who was created Cardinal a few months later. This of course for better
 
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or for worse was before the days of Episcopal conferences and democratic
 
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elections which have since permitted bishops of little importance to be
 
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thrust into positions of responsibility and above all of representational dimensions.
 
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I feel somewhat inadequate to be here as the President of the Canadian Catholic Conference
 
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of Bishops knowing full well that I cannot live up to the precedents set in 1910.
 
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But other Canadians, both French and English-speaking, et ceux d'y a des compatriotes francophones,
 
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je les salue dans leur langue, are here to pick up the slack and since the topic assigned to me
 
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as holiness or sanctity, perhaps yours,
 
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will be up to listening with simplicity
 
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to my attempt at a thoughtful presentation
 
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of the word of God.
 
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Everything said and done, that word is greater
 
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than all the messengers,
 
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and the medium is of little importance.
 
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As you know, the theme of our Congress
 
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is the hunger in the hearts of men,
 
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particularly in the context of the Eucharist.
 
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Here we are gathered to give thanks to the Father
 
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for the graces which have been lavished
 
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upon the people of the Americas, especially
 
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on those who have been chosen to lead us to the truth in Him
 
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and whose lives have been singled out
 
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by the Church through beatification or canonization.
 
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And we are here also to beseech the Lord
 
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that he continue to send to us his grace and his strength.
 
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I would like to warn you from the beginning
 
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against a familiar but all too prevalent trap.
 
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It is a tendency which too many of us
 
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experience that when we hear the word sanctity or holiness,
 
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we shrug our shoulders and we say, well, I'm no saint.
 
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And we seem to think that we've closed the issue
 
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or that we have escaped a threat, which is perhaps
 
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even more pertinent.
 
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Non-involvement is a very faulty attitude
 
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when it comes to holiness, as well as
 
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when it comes to accidents or difficulties of a civic nature.
 
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We have been lured by worldly philosophy
 
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into a false image of saints, as if they were
 
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some sort of pallid creatures, in some way divorced
 
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from the concerns, the vicissitudes,
 
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to the involvements of normal people like ourselves.
 
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Nothing, nothing could be farther from the truth.
 
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The saints were the realest of people.
 
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We might even say the most human of humanity.
 
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I am not, of course, against the practice of the church
 
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of signaling out certain men and women
 
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for canonization of beatification,
 
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but it would be wrong to make too much of a distinction
 
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as if the spirit which moved them
 
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were different from the spirit which moves us
 
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and which has moved so many, quotes,
 
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ordinary people in the course of their lives
 
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and their aspirations.
 
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The movement of the spirit which we see
 
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with such generosity about us in the course of these days.
 
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The image that comes to mind when we look at the last 200 years, which has been the springboard for this Congress,
 
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when one looks at the history of all of the Americas, is an image of strength.
 
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The spirit of man is simply unquenchable and in its own way, invincible.
 
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Now this is so because God has placed within us
 
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the sparks of his own divinity and his own truth.
 
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Today is dedicated to that hunger for truth.
 
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And that is why holiness is the strongest thing in the world
 
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and manifests itself in strength
 
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because it is the combination of the strength of God
 
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and the strength of man.
 
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God appeared from the beginning to have decided to use his powers through man,
 
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and only through man.
 
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We call it in theology the incarnational principle.
 
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He could have saved us, redeemed us, sanctified us in many other ways.
 
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He chose to do it through a human being.
 
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And since that time, and the person of his own son,
 
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The strength of the human race has resided in this closeness to God,
 
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a closeness sometimes unknown or unrealized even by him who exercises it.
 
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It is the holy, in a sense, those close to God, at least by the direction of their aspirations
 
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and the value of their motives, that unleash the strength of humanity.
 
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And this, my friends, was the strength of the pioneers of the Americans.
 
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They had to be physically and morally strong to fight the perils of the frontier.
 
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They had to be men and women of principle not to tolerate despotism in any form.
 
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The principle of freedom, of equality, of brotherhood,
 
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which have dominated here in the United States and in my own country,
 
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even though we followed a somewhat different road,
 
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were based on the same conviction of the value of man
 
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and his sacredness before God.
 
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We sometimes forget how deeply these human truths
 
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were embedded in the lives of those
 
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who made this country great.
 
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This moral fiber dominated the early decades of America,
 
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a sense of righteousness of things
 
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that was rooted in a God-oriented country
 
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and a God-oriented universe.
 
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There was no other way to describe it as their faith,
 
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which St. Paul defines so well as the substance of things
 
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to be hoped for, the conviction of those things
 
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which do not appear.
 
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Our forebears saw more than that which met the eye
 
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or which the reason could reach.
 
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They were not even overwhelmed by the greatness
 
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of the country which they had discovered,
 
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because they believed that there was another world,
 
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a world still unexplored, which would always captivate and occupy the energies of man forever.
 
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This was the hunger that drove them much more than the hunger for new lands or political freedom.
 
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They hungered for truth in God, as St. Augustine so well defined it many years before America was even discovered.
 
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Howell, the Pope, in his recent publication on evangelization, writes,
 
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writes, man's profound and definitive calling
 
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in both continuity and discontinuity
 
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with the present situation, beyond time and history,
 
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beyond the transient reality of this world,
 
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and beyond the things of this world,
 
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of which a hidden dimension will one day be revealed,
 
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beyond man himself, whose true destiny is not
 
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restricted to his temporal aspect, but will be revealed in the future life.
 
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My dear friends, this Congress marks the 200th anniversary of the foundation of this great
 
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nation.
 
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I would be remiss at this time if I did not look at the past, and if I did not ask if
 
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the same forces are now at work.
 
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The facts are not reassuring.
 
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Wherever we turn our eyes in all of our countries, we see violence, injustice, flouting of the
 
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law, corruption in high places, a general atmosphere of greed based upon a clear postulate
 
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of materialism and temporalism.
 
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We are infiltrated, penetrated, permeated by the eat, drink, and be merry syndrome.
 
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Our very topic cannot be very popular.
 
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In a fat and overfed society, nothing is more removed than death or more rejected than a
 
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suggestion of hunger.
 
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We even have people in our church who take the attitude that there is something immoral
 
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about being hungry.
 
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We seem to have totally forgotten the message of the book of Revelation to the church in
 
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Laodicea.
 
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You say to yourself, I am rich, I have made a fortune, I have everything, never realizing
 
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that you are wretchedly and pitifully poor and blind and naked too?
 
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Nor have we in the Church any right to stand and superciliously condemn the world in which
 
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we are living because we too are suffering the same syndrome.
 
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What, think you, has brought about the difficulties of the Church in the Americas in the present
 
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time, particularly in the United States and in Canada?
 
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but if not a decrease in faith and a decrease in holiness.
 
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We have come to value so much the things of time
 
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and the things of this world that we have largely
 
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lost sight of the truth of eternity
 
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and of another lasting existence, which
 
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is the only possible explanation of our origin and destiny,
 
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as the pope has so well put it.
 
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Time does not permit me to do more than touch
 
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with the tip of my finger the dangerous conditions
 
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of the Church at the moment.
 
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I would like to say in passing, and this was not
 
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in my original intentions, I consider
 
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that this Congress may well prove
 
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to be a great antidote to the evils which I bewail.
 
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I believe that the Church has taken hold of itself.
 
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I believe it will be a turning point.
 
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I believe it will be a strength and a great giver of morale
 
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to all of us.
 
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But I must ask nevertheless what has brought us to this perilous state. Why the decrease of vocations? Is it not because they call for sacrifice of material and temporal pleasures?
 
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Why the unconcern for Christian education,
 
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which has been manifested in many places,
 
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except when we realize that who cares if the faith is passed on
 
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from one generation to another when the faith does not bring
 
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prosperity and sensuous pleasures or popularity?
 
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The bitter criticism of authority,
 
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perhaps the thing we suffer the most from,
 
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even its rejection and downright disobedience.
 
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which we are witnessing even on the international scene.
 
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Is it anything more or less than the fruit of not really believing in the Catholic Church in the first place?
 
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What a moment this Congress provides to us to get a hold on ourselves,
 
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to reassert the values that have made us great.
 
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As I've already noted, this celebration is in honor of those who have been beatified or canonized,
 
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and those who have experienced the movement of the Spirit within them.
 
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The example is there beyond question.
 
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The churches of Latin America have given us the first fruits of sanctity.
 
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And I'm pleased that Cardinal Miranda is the chief celebrant of this Mass.
 
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We all know the faith of the Mexican people is manifested in the great shrine of God Lupe.
 
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For us in North America, the martyrs who first gave their lives to the Indians, particularly
 
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the heroic Jesuit martyrs, blessed Catherine Tecuhitha, St. Francis Cabrini, St. Elizabeth
 
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we honored yesterday, blessed John Newman,
 
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who was ever present at this Congress,
 
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the fourth Bishop of this city.
 
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These are examples of men and women
 
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who are not content with the horizons of the moment.
 
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What a contrast between their concept of truth
 
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and the values of our society,
 
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in which the acclaimed are the current overpaid idols
 
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of our athletic arenas or of our television-oriented society.
 
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What then, my friends of the future?
 
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It is our problem and our choice,
 
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because it is the same spirit, but the spirit needs us.
 
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Where are our values going to be placed?
 
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The hunger for sanctity is an ongoing, ever-present thing.
 
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Our Lord has said,
 
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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness,
 
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for they shall have their fill.
 
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In the gospel we just heard.
 
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We honor those who have eaten at the table of the Lord
 
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and have been filled.
 
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They now have their reward.
 
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For us on this Pilgrim's Day, our road is still before us
 
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and our fulfillment still in doubt.
 
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We know that God will not fail us.
 
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What a terrible thing if after 200 years
 
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of outstanding examples of sanctity,
 
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we were to fail him.
 
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The choice is as ancient as the human race,
 
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to live on the surface for the moment,
 
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as Shakespeare puts it, for so much trash
 
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as may be grasped thus,
 
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or to reach for the untouchable,
 
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the immortal, the eternal, the transcendent.
 
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All our choice, and this is my conclusion,
 
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is summed up in two passages in the life of Jesus.
 
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They are starkly different.
 
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One of the most disturbing passages, to my opinion,
 
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in the whole of the gospel is the contact made by Jesus
 
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with the people called the Gadarenes, or the Geresenes,
 
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according to the various gospel writers.
 
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Briefly, we'll recall that in traveling through this province
 
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to the east of Galilee, he was confronted
 
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by the terrifying spectacle of a dehumanized demoniac who
 
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beseeched that the evil spirits in him
 
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be permitted to enter a herd of pigs.
 
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The Lord consenting, the pigs plunged into the ocean.
 
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Putting aside entirely the mystery of this passage,
 
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what concerns us is a reaction of the people of the area.
 
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This was so far outside their built-up concepts,
 
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their adopted attitudes, and their closed vision of life,
 
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that they could think of nothing better
 
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than the terrifying request that he would
 
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depart from the neighborhood.
 
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Jesus, the Son of the Father, Savior of the world,
 
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the most beautiful of the sons of men,
 
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with all the kindness and the hope
 
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of the future of the human race within himself,
 
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coming to pay them a visit, and all they could do
 
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was to ask him to depart.
 
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He disturbed them.
 
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He threatened them.
 
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He upset them.
 
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May I suggest to you that it is still happening?
 
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Our Lord is present in our midst, in his church,
 
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in his Eucharist, in this Congress.
 
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What is the general attitude of the world?
 
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I fear it is mostly to ask him to leave us alone.
 
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And these words themselves are very significant.
 
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Leave us alone, because alone we will be without.
 
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This is the end of side one.
 
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To hear side two, turn the cassette over now.

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How much more beautiful is the other incident which you know so well, and which we have
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already celebrated.
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The disciples on the road to Emaus, how they were comforted by his words, enlightened by
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his teaching.
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And then, of course, finally they sat down at the table, and as the scripture has it,
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they recognized him in the breaking of the bread.
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Once again, the story of the Eucharist.
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And when they had left him, they said to each other,
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we're not our hearts burning within us
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as we walked in the way with him and talked.
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But here were two men who were ready to listen.
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And when Jesus spoke, their hearts inevitably burned.
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But what had been their attitude?
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Was it to ask him to leave the neighborhood
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and to leave them alone
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because in some way he disturbed them?
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No, these men had the request of the saints,
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the search for the ultimate truth.
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They said, stay with us, Lord, because it is growing dark.
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Not leave the neighborhood.
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Stay with us, Lord.
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It is growing dark.
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For all of us, my friends, the young, the middle-aged,
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or the old, it is growing dark.
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The world has grown dark in the absence of holiness.
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We have come together here to recognize Jesus
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in the breaking of the bread, and we
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can have no other prayer than that of the disciples.
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Remain with us, Lord, a little longer, much longer,
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because we have need of you in this darkness.
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How about you?
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Thank you.
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Let us pray to our Lord, asking for the strength to follow him and his saints on the path of
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holiness.
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Let our Holy Father, Pope Paul, and the other bishops may continue to be teacher and exemplar
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of holiness to the people of God.
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We pray to you, Lord, that the holiness of the Church may be expressed in compassion
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for the needy of the world.
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We pray to you, Lord, that the Holy Spirit may awaken us to the need and inspire us to
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the desire for holiness in our daily lives.
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We pray to you, Lord, that we may recognize Jesus in the Eucharist as the sign and source
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of love we pray to you Lord that our heritage in the Saints of the Americas
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may constantly challenge us to live up to the demands of sanctity in our own
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time we pray to you Lord that the joy of those who share the word and the
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Eucharist may help all people to find that same joy we pray to you Lord that
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that the call to holiness may become a real motive,
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a way of life for every person in this hemisphere,
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we pray to you, Lord.
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Lord, hear our prayer.
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Father in heaven,
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you have made us for yourself.
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Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.
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rest in you. Fulfill this long going through Jesus. Give bread of light so that we may
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witness to him who alone satisfies the hunger of the human heart. By the power of your spirit
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Lead us to the heavenly table where we may feast on the vision of your glory forever and ever.
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Amen.
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When we eat this bread and drink this wine, we proclaim your death, Lord Jesus, until
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you come in glory.
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When you eat this bread and drink this cup,
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we proclaim your death, Lord Jesus,
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until you come in glory.
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Amen, amen, amen, amen, amen.
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Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world.
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Have mercy on us.
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Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world.
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of mercy on us.
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Lamb of God, you take away
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the sins of the world,
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have mercy on us.
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Land of God, you take away the sins of the world, and mercy on us.
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Land of God, you take away the sins of the world, and mercy on us.
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Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world.
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Have mercy on us.
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And, O God, you take away the sins of the world.
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Have mercy on us.
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Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world.
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Have mercy on us.
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Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world.
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♪ Have mercy on us
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♪
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♪ How long you take away
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♪ The sins of the world
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Have mercy on us.
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Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world.
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Have mercy on us.
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Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world.
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grant us peace.
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Praise the Lord, keep an angel in heart,
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♪ The song of glory, songs of joy
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♪ Praise the Lord
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♪ He's born in heaven
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♪ Glory, glory, glory
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♪ Glory, glory, glory
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♪ Glory, glory, glory
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♪ Glory, glory, glory
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♪ Glory, glory, glory
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♪ I enjoy all the holidays of joy
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♪ We enjoy all the holidays of joy
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♪
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And proclaim His grace and glory.
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♪ Alleluia, our true God, the mighty Son of man ♪
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♪ That is the glory and songs of joy, glory and songs of joy, glory and songs of joy, glory and songs of joy, glory and songs of joy ♪
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I will make His grace and glory.
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I will make His grace and glory.
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I will make His grace and glory.
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Hallelujah!
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Hallelujah!
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Hallelujah!
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♪ Alleluia, alleluia, unto God's almighty Son, Almighty Son, Almighty Son, Alleluia, alleluia, unto God's almighty Son.
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Praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord.
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In holy songs of joy, in holy songs of joy.
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Praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord.
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In holy songs of joy, in holy songs of joy.
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Praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord.
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In holy songs of joy, in holy songs of joy.
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Praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord.
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In holy songs of joy, in holy songs of joy.
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Praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord.
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In holy songs of joy, in holy songs of joy.
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Praise the Lord.
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In holy songs of joy, in holy songs of joy.
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Praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord.
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In holy songs of joy, in holy songs of joy.
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Praise the Lord.
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In holy songs of joy, in holy songs of joy.
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Praise the Lord.
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In holy songs, in holy songs, praise the Lord in songs of joy.
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Praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord.
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In holy songs of joy.
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In holy songs of joy.