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Good Morning. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ…. Brothers and Sisters, today we venerate Mary who, in sharing Jesus’ Passion became Our Lady of Sorrows, as we celebrate the Holy Eucharist in this cathedral dedicated to Mary as Queen of the World.
Penitential Rite Brothers and sisters let us acknowledge our sins and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries. (Formula 1)
Prayer after Communion
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Tonight we have a wonderful opportunity to be in solidarity with our Jewish brothers and sisters who will begin to celebrate "Yom Kippur", the "Day of Atonement", through prayer, fasting, and penance, calling upon the Lord for forgiveness for their sins.
The original Day of Atonement came when the people of Israel repented of having built and worshipped a golden calf and Moses pleaded to the Lord to forgive them. Then Moses instructed them to build the "Tabernacle", the "Ark of the Covenant", the visible witness to God's covenant with his people and in which were deposited the stone tablets of "The Torah", "The Law".
Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, is a Jewess, a daughter of Israel, and her sorrow is the same as that of God and his people over our sinfulness, and Mary intercedes for us with God for his mercy and forgiveness, and she calls upon all of us to repent of our sins, to fast and do penance, to pray to God, to offer sacrifices for sinners, and to adore the Lord our God.
Saint Joseph, pray for us. Blessing and Dismissal
HOMILY
We who are members of the living mystical Body of Christ have been made his members by the Lord Jesus through Baptism, and by believing in Him, He has made us children of God our Father. In his unlimited generosity, the Lord Jesus has also given his Mother Mary to us as our own heavenly Mother. This bequest or inheritance was one of Jesus’ final acts on this Earth as He agonized on the Cross and shed every drop of his precious life’s Blood.
Mary is the first human being, after Jesus, to be so completely taken into the intimate life, love, and communion of the Most Holy Trinity. She has been loved from all eternity by the Father as his own special daughter. She was chosen by the Father to be the Mother of his only begotten Son and she was instructed by the Archangel Gabriel to name God’s Son "Yeshua", Jesus, “God saves”. The moment Mary said “Yes!” to God when she replied to Gabriel, “Let it be done to me as you say.”, she became the chosen Spouse of the Holy Spirit, who overshadowed her in a mysterious way and brought about the Incarnation of the Son of God within her womb.
Mary is our own Mother because she is the Mother of Jesus who became our brother when the Son of God became man. Mary is our own Mother a second time because Jesus entrusted her to his Apostle John and John to her as her son. In declaring this as part of his last will and testament, Jesus intended Mary to become the Mother of us all, and for all of us to love her, care for her, honor her, and listen to her as our very own heavenly Mother.
Mary is our very own Mother a third time because we who believe in Jesus and have been baptized in the Most Holy Trinity are living members of the mystical Body of Christ that is the communion of saints. At this very moment, Mary weeps over our sins and sufferings as she did over the Passion of her divine Son Jesus. Mary, like Jesus, takes to heart everything that happens to us, and to every human being.
In every generation humanity gets into a great deal of trouble because of its separation from the love of God: rebellion, sin. With great compassion for us, God the Most Holy Trinity has repeatedly sent Mary to Earth to bring the message and call to repent, turn away from sin, trust in God, pray, fast, do penance, offer sacrifices for sinners, and care for the poor. Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of Fatima.... Mary even makes her statues weep human tears and tears of blood to get the attention of humanity. Our time is short.
We human beings, for the most part, have turned away from God. Like ungrateful people in Jesus’ parable, we turn down the invitation to the wedding banquet. The wedding banquet is real… it is the eternal life in heaven happening right now… and the wedding is the marriage of God with humanity in the Person of Jesus, who is both God and man. Every day God eagerly waits for us to accept his marriage proposal, his invitation to love Him and our neighbour as ourselves.
O my Jesus, I trust in You. Mother Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us. Saint Joseph, pray for us.
We give praise to You, O God, the Father, + the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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