Mass in Honor of Blessed John Neumann

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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
 
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Peace be with you.
 
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The entire theme for this Mass is based upon the constant prayer of Blessed John Newman,
 
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Give me holiness.
 
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My brothers and sisters, to prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries, let us
 
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call to mind our sins.
 
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Lord Jesus, you have shown us the way to the Father.
 
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Lord have mercy.
 
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Lord Jesus, you have given us the consolation of the truth.
 
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Christ have mercy.
 
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Lord Jesus, you are the good shepherd leading us into everlasting life.
 
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Lord have mercy.
 
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May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life.
 
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Let us pray.
 
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Father, you called Blessed John Newman to lay before the gospel among the people of
 
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the New World.
 
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His ministry strengthened many others in the Christian faith.
 
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Through his prayers, may faith grow strong in this land.
 
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Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and
 
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the Holy Spirit, one God forever and ever.
 
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Amen.
 
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In the liturgy of the Word, keep in mind that the liturgy of this Mass honors Blessed John
 
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Newman, and the theme for the first reading is as follows.
 
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The Lord God anointed me and sent me to bring good news to the poor.
 
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The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me.
 
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He has sent me to bring glad tidings to the lowly, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim
 
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liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners, to announce a year of favor from
 
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the Lord and a day of vindication by our God, to comfort all who mourn, to place on those
 
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who mourn in Zion a diadem instead of ashes, to give them oil of gladness in place of mourning,
 
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a glorious mantle instead of a listless spirit.
 
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This is the Word of the Lord.
 
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Thanks be to God.
 
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The theme for the second reading, I became the servant of the Church when God made me
 
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responsible for delivering his message to you.
 
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A reading from the letter of Paul to the Colossians.
 
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Even now I find my joy in the suffering I endure for you.
 
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In my own flesh I fill up what is lacking in the sufferings of Christ for the sake of
 
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his body, the Church.
 
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I became a minister of this Church through the commission God gave me to preach among
 
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you his word in its fullness, that mystery hidden from all ages and from all generations
 
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past, but now revealed to his holy ones.
 
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God has willed to make known to them the glory beyond Christ, which this mystery brings to
 
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the Gentiles, the mystery of Christ in you, your hope of glory.
 
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This is the Christ we proclaim while we admonish all men and teach them in the full measure
 
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of wisdom, hoping to make every man complete in Christ.
 
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For this I work and struggle, impelled by that energy of his, which is so powerful a
 
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force within me.
 
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This is the Word of the Lord.
 
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Thanks be to God.
 
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
 
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
 
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
 
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The Lord be with you.
 
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And also with you.
 
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A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.
 
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Glory to you, O Lord.
 
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Jesus said, I am the good shepherd.
 
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The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.
 
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The hired hand, who is no shepherd nor owner of the sheep, catches sight of the wolf coming
 
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and runs away, leaving the sheep to be snatched and scattered by the wolf.
 
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That is because he works for pay.
 
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He has no concern for his sheep.
 
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I am the good shepherd.
 
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I know my sheep and my sheep know me in the same way that the Father knows me and I know
 
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the Father.
 
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For these sheep, I will give my life.
 
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I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold.
 
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I must lead them too and they shall hear my voice.
 
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There shall be one flock then, one shepherd.
 
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And this is the Gospel of the Lord.
 
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Praise be to the Lord Jesus Christ.
 
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Your Eminence Cardinal Crowell and other members of the hierarchy and dearly beloved in Christ,
 
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all of us gathered here for this special Mass in honor of Blessed John Newman
 
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during this International Eucharistic Congress.
 
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Our Eucharistic sacrifice here this evening is but one of many events scheduled during
 
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this Congress built around the theme of the hungers of humanity.
 
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The special theme for today is the hunger for truth and this day is entitled Pilgrim
 
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People Day.
 
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To each of these themes and titles, John Newman, whom we honor in this Mass, has a special claim.
 
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We honor him but we also pray for his intercession that the hunger for truth in our land and
 
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in our world may be satisfied through the endless mercy of the source of all truth,
 
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our Eucharistic Christ.
 
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Hunger is the theme of the Congress but we must pause on an occasion like this in this
 
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bicentennial year of our nation to realize that hunger also was at the heart of the founding
 
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of our nation.
 
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It was literally human hunger that built up our nation over the 200 years that we celebrate
 
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in 1976.
 
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Hunger for freedom and opportunity, hunger for the chance to find a new life, hunger
 
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to share the intellectual and material resources of our land.
 
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It was these hungers that drew millions to our shores.
 
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The readings we have just heard remind us of another hunger, the hunger of the pastor
 
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and it was this hunger alone that brought the nation to its feet.
 
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And it was this hunger alone that drew John Newman to our land.
 
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The whole theme of his life was to give himself to feed the hungers of the pilgrim church.
 
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This was the central theme of the life of this man, John Newman, priest, redemptorist, bishop.
 
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Millions of others came here driven by hunger for food or fortune or fame.
 
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He came only to feed spiritual hunger, not a human hunger but a divine hunger, not a
 
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material hunger but a spiritual hunger drove him.
 
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The readings we have just heard are indeed a description of his life, an expansion of
 
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the work of the spirit in his life and a tribute to his total fidelity, to his vocation to
 
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walk in the footsteps of the Redeemer, the Good Shepherd.
 
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Phrase after phrase that we have just heard were echoed in his thoughts, in his words,
 
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in his actions.
 
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From the moment that he set foot on the streets of the city of New York in 1836 as a young
 
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layman and seminarian until he collapsed on the streets of Philadelphia as its bishop
 
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in 1860.
 
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Here again the words, the spirit of the Lord is upon me because the Lord has anointed me.
 
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Here was a man anointed by God to be a pastor and this was symbolic of the complete dedication
 
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of this man to the people to whom God sent him.
 
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He is truly a man of faith.
 
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He is a model and example for all in the church as our Holy Father Pope Paul has said, a model
 
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to the laity, to the priests, to religious, to bishops because he too was sent as we are
 
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to bring the glad tidings.
 
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This sums up the story of his life.
 
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Constantly he spent himself in the service of the Lord.
 
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This sums up the story of his life.
 
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Constantly he spent himself to feed the hunger for the message of the gospel.
 
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His life is a challenge even today to us, perhaps even a rebuke because we have that
 
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same commission in the church today to bring that message.
 
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It was a man also who gave himself to the goal of healing the brokenhearted.
 
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In the words of the reading we have just heard, this was always his primary concern, to heal
 
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souls, to console, to encourage, to bring people to Christ and to the mother of God.
 
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His concern for the poor, for the broken should shame us today as we honor him and measure
 
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ourselves against the example he has given to the church.
 
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For him too he was called to proclaim liberty to captives.
 
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God only knows how many thousands he freed from the captivity of sin to whom he brought
 
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the freedom of the truth.
 
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How many people in our nation today, in our world, still cry out for liberty and we do
 
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not hear their cry.
 
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John Newman, we beg you, open our ears.
 
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The second reading we heard caught up for us the spirit of St. Paul and this surely
 
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was a spirit which John Newman grasped, to which he gave himself.
 
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For his life was indeed a commentary on those words, in my own flesh I fill up what is lacking
 
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in the sufferings of Christ for the sake of his body, the church.
 
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For here was the good shepherd in the words of Christ himself, spending himself, pouring
 
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out his energy, his talent for the time God gave him for the missionary goals of the church.
 
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For we cannot pass over too lightly that phrase Christ used, he lays down his life for his
 
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sheep.
 
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We know that Christ himself did in this sacrifice we have here in the mass, lay down his life.
 
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But he also laid it out for us to pick up, to lift up.
 
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And as Christ was the center of the life of John Newman, so also the ministry of his life
 
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was centered around the Eucharist.
 
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And it is indeed most fitting that we celebrate and honor him here in this Eucharistic sacrifice.
 
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For this man John Newman has earned the prominence we give him at this Eucharistic Congress here
 
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in our land, here in this city, where he spent the last years of his priestly life as Bishop
 
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of the Diocese.
 
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He surely belongs at an international Eucharistic Congress because he was international by both
 
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birth and by his life.
 
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He was Eucharistic by choice, by the acceptance of the gift of faith he received.
 
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And the primary goal of his life was always to share that faith with those who lacked it,
 
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to strengthen it in the lives of those who had been given the gift of faith.
 
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On this occasion, when we combine this consideration of the work of John Newman in our land as a missionary
 
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with this Eucharistic Congress and this city in our bicentennial year, we should pause to ask ourselves,
 
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why did he come here?
 
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He came here not because of orders given to him.
 
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He did not come here as a religious sent by his superiors.
 
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He did not come to find fame or fortune.
 
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He came only to feed the hungers of human souls.
 
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We should think back to those days when he arrived in our land to give himself to his missionary labors
 
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as a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, and then as a redemptorist missionary,
 
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and then as Bishop of this diocese here.
 
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He brought to these new Americans, in whose footsteps he followed as an immigrant himself,
 
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the deep conviction that they had treasures to bring to this land, not only treasures to garner from it.
 
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He brought to these Americans, who were immigrants like himself, the conviction that they had treasures to bring to this land,
 
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to these Americans, who were immigrants like himself, the conviction that they did not have to set aside or leave behind
 
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the cultural heritage that was theirs, the religious values which they brought with them.
 
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He helped give them courage and ambition to win a livelihood in this strange new land of America.
 
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They could be enriched here, he told them, without losing any of the riches of ideas or faith that they brought with them.
 
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Yes, John Newman was just another immigrant. He was not a native-born American.
 
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But he belongs to our land because he gave himself to it by deliberate choice.
 
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He felt in his life the grace of God drawing him to our shores.
 
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And he landed there, he knew little old New York.
 
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He knew the mule bells and the bugles of barges on the Erie Canal.
 
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He knew Pittsburgh in the brawling days of the log rafters.
 
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He knew the gold rush days of the 49ers.
 
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Harpers Ferry he knew, and Gettysburg, long before war made them famous.
 
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David Crockett was alive when John Newman landed in New York.
 
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Abraham Lincoln was just coming into national prominence in the year he died.
 
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So he knew us, he was one of us. His life has much to say for us today.
 
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He was the shepherd who gave himself for his people.
 
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He was the shepherd who fed the hunger for truth.
 
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And all of his life was spent in fulfilling his God-given call
 
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to be a missionary to the people of God.
 
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And that's what drove him, that was what motivated him for that reason.
 
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He developed a school system for which he is so famous.
 
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He did the writing, the preaching, the traveling, all that people might come to know.
 
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The truth that would make them free in this land of the free.
 
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Free with the freedom of God.
 
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So he gave to this land much more than he took.
 
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He gave it because he loved it.
 
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He gave it because he chose it.
 
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He gave himself health, youth, wisdom, learning, prayers.
 
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He shared with us his deep attachment to Christ, to the Eucharist,
 
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his deep love of the Mother of God.
 
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This is his heritage to this city, to this nation of ours.
 
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And something else he gave us, proof that the soil of our land can nurture saints.
 
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That here in our land of self-made men, anyone with the help of God can be holy.
 
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Men who salute the stars and stripes can also win halos if they wish.
 
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So to all of us he is an example to old and young,
 
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to laymen, to religious, to priests and bishops, to all of us.
 
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This man who centered his life around Christ in the Eucharist speaks to us today.
 
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The example of his life, the message of his life,
 
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bids us to love this Eucharistic Christ which has brought us together around this altar today.
 
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So in this bicentennial year we salute this man who chose our land,
 
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who chose to give himself to the missionary work needed in our land,
 
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who chose to join a missionary order, to found the teaching order of sisters,
 
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sisters of St. Francis, to build church after church
 
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and to try to pair that with school after school,
 
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all that he might meet, the hunger for truth.
 
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This was the story of his life.
 
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We still need the inspiration that he gives us.
 
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On this day then, during this Eucharistic Congress,
 
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dedicated to the Eucharist and the hungers of the human family,
 
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we have before us in this mass a man who has been a great example
 
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We have before us in this mass the example of a man who brushed aside
 
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no human hunger that he could feed.
 
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Above all, we have before us this man who gave his whole missionary life in our midst.
 
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He strove with all his talents, gave all his time and energy.
 
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He poured himself out as a sacrifice for those to whom he was called.
 
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This is a man who lived and died by the message of the liturgy
 
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we celebrate this evening in his honor,
 
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with the living Christ who offers us eternal life.
 
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Proudly we salute and honor this servant of eternal truth
 
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here with our Eucharistic Christ who is now and forever
 
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our way, our truth, our life.
 
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Our Heavenly Father has assured us that anything we ask in his name will be done.
 
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With confidence in this promise, let us pray.
 
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That Jesus, our Eucharistic Lord, will continue to be the inspiration
 
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and guidance of Pope Paul and our bishops in making him known to all men.
 
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We pray to you, Lord.
 
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Lord, hear our prayer.
 
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That the people of God may recognize that the common work of ministry
 
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through the word, the Eucharist, and the love of one another
 
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is a participation in the unity between Jesus and his Father.
 
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We pray to you, Lord.
 
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Lord, hear our prayer.
 
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That all leaders of nations, especially our own government authorities,
 
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may respond to the needs of their people with service, justice, and honesty.
 
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We pray to you, Lord.
 
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Lord, hear our prayer.
 
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That through the intercession of blessed John Newman,
 
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we may be kept strong in faith and love
 
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and come to share in his glory.
 
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We pray to you, Lord.
 
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Lord, hear our prayer.
 
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That the poor, the sick, and the suffering
 
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who share in the paschal mystery of Jesus
 
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may be strengthened through his promise of resurrection.
 
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We pray to you, Lord.
 
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Lord, hear our prayer.
 
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For our own special intentions,
 
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we pray to you, Lord.
 
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Lord, hear our prayer.
 
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That all those who have died will enjoy the peace of everlasting life.
 
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We pray to you, Lord.
 
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Lord, hear our prayer.
 
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We thank you, Father, for the life of service
 
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which your son Jesus undertook for us.
 
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We pray that his coming to us in the banquet of the Eucharist
 
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may lead us to a deeper desire
 
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to be generous servants to one another.
 
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We ask this through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord.
 
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Amen.
 
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The Lord be with you.
 
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And also with you.
 
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Blessed be the name of the Lord.
 
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God forever.
 
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Our help is in the name of the Lord.
 
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Amen.
 
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May Almighty God bless you, the Father and the Son.
 
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And the Holy Spirit.
 
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Amen.
 
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No man can stand there, let us go in peace.
 
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Amen.