Catholic TV Mass Online September 20, 2020: 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Presider: Fr. Mark Payne Parish: Chaplain, Heart of the Nation Choir: Heart of the Nation TEXT FROM THE HOMILY I want to start with the first reading your thoughts are not my thoughts, and your ways are not my ways. And that is so true about God as we encounter God today. But God is a lavishly generous God. He just heaps on and keeps heaping on all of his goodness upon us. What the problem comes down to is our ability to say as we look at our neighbor, and we look over there, well, I want that! That's nicer. That's bigger. That's better. We become envious or jealous about what our neighbor has or what someone else has. Instead of taking a moment and recognizing God's given us so much more than what we ever can imagine! It's because we don't take time and really assess and thank it's a Sunday to really stop and say you know what? I really need to assess and thank, because God has been so generous. And why do I have to have the bigger house or the nicer car? Am I not happy with what I have? Why is it that we're always in search of something more? It seems like even when we get the bigger house and the nicer car we want it bigger! We want it more! It's what God has in store for us. We're going to be so blessed and so richly lavished upon that we will never fully comprehend it but this gospel gives us a moment to really recognize God's ways aren't our ways. But what we need to do is pray and ask for a better insight, to say thank you for the things that I have in front of me. To recognize the goodness that God has granted me. The blessings that I have received and all that I have. It is so easy to forget that especially when we're looking next door, or finding something else that we want. I don't know what it will take aside from in my own life I have to always take some time, and I try to take some quiet prayer time every single day, to just ask the Lord to be with me to get me through the day and sometimes in that moment, just to thank, thank for the people I have, thanks for the good things that I've received and just start to thank. Because I found that the more I thank the less I'm worried about what others seem to have and I recognized, guess what? God you are most generous and blessed and you have blessed me. So let us stand and let us profess our faith. Entrance: Come, Now Is the Time to Worship Text: Brian Doerksen, b. 1965 Music: Brian Doerksen; keyboard acc. By Ed Bolduc, b. 1969 Text and music © 1998, 2004 Vineyard Songs. All rights reserved. Used with permission Psalm 145: The Lord Is Near to All Who Call Upon Him Music © 2001 WLP Steven R. Janco Tone © 1984 WLP Donald J. Reagan 1923-2004 All rights reserved. Preparation: Instrumental Communion: Take and Eat Text: Verse text, James Quinn, SJ b. 1919 © 1989 Used by permission of Selah Publishing, Co., Inc.; refrain text, Michael Joncas, b. 1951 © 1989 GIA Publications, Inc. Tune: Michael Joncas, b. 1951 © 1989 GIA Publications, Inc. Sending Forth: Hallelujah Is Our Song Text : Sarah Hart, b. 1968 Sarah Kroger, Josh Blakesley, b. 1976 and Trey Helfinger Music: Sarah Hart, Sarah Kroger, Josh Blakesley, and Trey Hefflinger; vocal harm. By Scott Soper, b. 1961 Text and Music © 2012, 2015, Sarah Hart, Fiat Music, LLC. Josh Blakesley, River Oaks Music Company, Meaux Jeaux Music, and Tines from The Basement. Published by Spirit and Song. All rights reserved. Mass Setting: Mass of Saint Ann Text © 2010, ICEL Music: Ed Bolduc © 2011 WLP Permission to podcast/stream the music in this liturgy obtained from ONE LICENSE, License No. A-718591. www.HeartoftheNation.org
