Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Amen.
The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.
In the fourth Eucharistic prayer, we hear of the salvation of God.
Throughout history, human beings have again and again rejected what God offers,
and yet God's constant love is always there,
acknowledging both our continued failing and God's love.
Brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge our sins
and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.
I confess to Almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters,
that I have greatly sinned in my thoughts and in my words,
in what I have done and in what I have failed to do,
through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.
Therefore I ask Blessed Mary ever, Virgin,
all the angels and saints,
and you my brothers and sisters to pray for me to the Lord our God
may almighty god have mercy on us forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life
Christ, our God, our King.
The Lord have us here.
Brantas, we pray, O Lord, our God, the constant gladness of being devoted to you,
for it is full and lasting happiness to serve with constancy the author of all
that is good. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your son, who lives and reigns
with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
A reading from the
book of Revelation.
The voice which I, John,
had heard from Heaven,
spoke to me again, saying,
Go, take the scroll which is
open in the hand of the angel,
who is standing on the sea
and on the land.
It is said,
So I went to the angel
and I was told you must again prophesy about many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.
Your promise is sweet to my taste, O Lord.
I rejoice to do your will,
as though all riches were mine.
Your will is my delight.
Your statutes are my counsellors.
Your promise is sweet.
Do my tastes alone.
The law from your mouth means more to me than silver and gold.
Your promise is sweeter to my taste than honey in the mouth.
Your promise is sweet
To my taste alone
Your will is my heritage forever
The joy of my heart
I open my mouth and I sigh
As I yearn for your commands
Yea, promise is sweet, do my taste alone.
Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia,
our Saviour Christ, Jesus, abolished her,
and he has proclaimed life through the good news.
Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
Alleluia.
The Lord be with you.
A reading from the Holy Gospel, according to Luke.
Jesus entered the temple
and began to drive out those who sold,
saying to them,
it is written,
my house shall be a house of prayer.
But you have made it a den of robbers."
And he was teaching daily in the temple.
The chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people sought to destroy
him, but they did not find anything they could do for all the people hung upon his words.
in this condemnation by Jesus of the temple cellars,
we may recognize the citation that he uses,
the house that will be a house of prayer for all the peoples.
It's often find it written above the door in places of worship.
Something I didn't know, I'm sure you did though, is that he also could make a second quotation.
The den of robbers.
So the house that is the house of prayer is from Isaiah 56.
While the den of robbers, the reference particularly to the temple as the den of robbers, is from Jeremiah chapter 7.
And so, in this way, in this condemnation, in this teaching, if you like, Jesus uses a very Jewish exegetical method.
That is, of taking two different phrases from...
their own contexts in the scriptures
and combining them to produce a third meaning.
It's the conviction that the scriptures
are ever fruitful and ever deep.
So we have Isaiah brought into conjunction with Jeremiah.
So, it's obviously worth looking at these texts to see how these contexts are brought together.
Isaiah 56 belongs to a third major section of Isaiah that comes after the people of Israel have suffered in exile, suffered the loss of their land to Babylon.
And so it is written that the story of the house, the claim that the house is the house of prayer,
is a new second temple rebuilt after the return to the promised land.
It's a time then of restoration, of renewal.
and the temple the second temple the rebuilt temple is a sign that the lord accepts anyone
who loves him or might say that this is spoken in conjunction or offers a counterpoint to
the history of that time we find in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah which tend towards
a purity, an almost genetic purity of saying the only people that should worship here,
the only people whose land it should be with this temple here, are true people of Israel.
We have the story in Nehemiah of the end of even putting away wives who do not come from the right
stock.
And so in this speaking of the Lord through Isaiah, we see the counterpoint to this.
No, my house shall be a house of prayer for all peoples.
This is the symbol then of the restoration of the renewal of the promised land, the return of the promised land.
Thus says the Lord, this is how Isaiah 56.8 speaks,
Thus says the Lord, who gathers the dispersed of Israel,
I will gather to Israel others besides those already gathered.
Then when we bring this into context with Jeremiah, you have a totally different picture.
Jeremiah is speaking about a hundred years before this return, before the exile, before
the loss of the first temple, and his warning is precisely, you're going to lose it if you
keep behaving like this.
In particular, Jeremiah warns that the temple, the first temple, will not save them.
It's not enough just to have the beautiful temple and to go there and do your rituals
if you are disobeying God's commandments. The similar refrain we find from the words of
the prophets and Jeremiah of course suffers for speaking in such a way.
He particularly in this passage which mentions that the temple is the den of robbers.
Jeremiah says, do not trust in these deceptive words.
This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.
So ritual then does not excuse wickedness.
So we have these two contrasting situations that are brought together by Jesus here.
Where might we then see the third meaning?
Well, in a simple way, we can perhaps say simply that the people of Israel have forgotten the lesson of the exile.
They've forgotten that their sin leads to downfall.
We should always remember the first temple when we're looking at the second.
And the great temple in Jesus' time built by Herod the Great gives an impression of security,
of wealth, of grandeur, of God's love for people because of the greatness of the temple.
thinking of what Jeremiah says and in the context of Isaiah we should be aware
of that complacency. Remember the first temple when looking at the second but
always we should remember who is speaking these words.
Jesus has come to Jerusalem precisely because it is the place which exemplifies humanity's ignorance,
stubbornness in sin, selfishness.
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it.
So in this context, the temple stands as a witness to the continued, boring, repetitive
sin and error into which we constantly fall.
And so it seems like we need a new temple,
a new place where God can dwell among us,
full of grace and truth.
And this is why the people hang upon this temple's words.
For if the Lord does not build the house,
in vain do its builders label.
In your mercy, O Lord,
deliver your people from the pestilence
that presently afflicts them.
To those who are sick,
grant health in mind and body.
To those who are in fear or in isolation,
grant peace of mind
and the consolation of your Holy Spirit.
To those who care for the sick
and all who are in danger,
grant your protection and courage.
Welcome those who have died into your eternal rest.
Consol those who grieve,
and as by your grace we work to establish your kingdom,
grant that we may be a sign of hope for the world.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
Blessed are you, Lord, God of all creation,
for through your goodness,
we have received the bread we offer you,
fruit of the earth and work of human hands.
It will become for us the bread of life.
Blessed are you Lord God of all creation for through your goodness we have received the wine
we offer you fruit of the vine and work of human hands it will become our spiritual drink.
Pray, brothers and sisters, that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to God, the Almighty Father.
God bless you, God bless you, God bless you, God bless you.
Grant, O Lord, we pray that what we offer
in the sight of your majesty may obtain for us the grace of being devoted to you and gain us the prize of everlasting happiness.
Through Christ our Lord.
let us give thanks to the Lord our God it is truly right to give you thanks
truly just to give you glory father most holy for you are the one God living and
true existing before all ages and abiding
for all eternity, dwelling in unapproachable light, yet you who alone are good, the source
of life, have made all that is, so that you might fill your creatures with blessings and
bring joy to many of them by the glory of your light.
And so in your presence are countless hosts of angels,
who serve you day and night,
and gazing upon the glory of your face,
glorify you without ceasing.
With them we too confess your name in exaltation giving voice to every creature under heaven as we acclaim
Our little God of hosts,
Heaven and Earth,
North of your glory,
Hosanna in the highest,
Blessed is he,
Who comes in the name of the Lord.
Uzzah, in the highest.
We give you praise, Father Most Holy, for you are great and you have fashioned all your
works in wisdom and in love.
You formed man in your own image and entrusted the whole world to his care so that in serving
you alone, the Creator, he might have dominion over all creatures.
And when, through disobedience, he had lost your friendship,
you did not abandon him to the domain of death.
For you came in mercy to the aid of all,
so that those who seek might find you.
Time and again you offered them covenants and through the prophets taught them to look forward
to salvation. And you so loved the world, Father, most holy, that in the fullness of time you sent
your only begotten Son to be our Savior, made incarnate by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary.
He shared our human nature in all things but sin.
For the poor he proclaimed the good news of salvation to prisoners of freedom and to the sorrowful of heart joy
To accomplish your plan. He gave himself up to death and rising from the dead
He destroyed death and restored life and that we might live no longer for ourselves
But for him who died and rose again fast
He sent the Holy Spirit from you, Father, as the first fruits for those who believe.
So that, bringing to perfection his work in the world, he might sanctify creation to the full.
Therefore, O Lord, we pray, may this same Holy Spirit graciously sanctify these offerings
that they may become the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ for the celebration
of this great mystery which He Himself left us as an eternal covenant.
For when the hour had come for him to be glorified by you, father most holy,
having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
And while they were at supper, he took bread,
blessed and 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, taking the chalice filled with the fruit of the vine,
he gave thanks and gave the chalice 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.
And process your resurrection
Until you come again
Therefore, O Lord, as we now celebrate the memorial of our redemption,
we remember Christ's death and his descent to the realm of the dead,
we proclaim his resurrection and his ascension to your right hand,
and as we equate his coming in glory, we offer you his body and blood,
the sacrifice acceptable to you which brings salvation to the whole world.
Look, O Lord, upon the sacrifice which you yourself have provided for your church and
grant in your loving kindness to all who partake of this one bread and one chalice that gathered
into one body by the Holy Spirit, they may truly become a living sacrifice in Christ
to the praise of your glory.
Therefore, Lord, remember now all for whom we offer this sacrifice, especially your
servant Francis our Pope, Bernard our bishop and the whole order of bishops, all the clergy,
those who take part in this offering, those gathered here before you, your entire people,
and all who seek you with a sincere heart.
Remember also those who have died in the peace of your Christ and all the dead
whose faith you alone have known.
To all of us, your children, grant a merciful father that we may enter into a heavenly inheritance.
with the blessed Virgin Mary, mother of God,
with blessed Joseph, her spouse,
and with your apostles and saints in your kingdom.
There, with the whole of creation,
freed from the corruption of sin and death,
may we glorify you through Christ our Lord,
through whom you bestow on the world, all that is good.
Through him and with him and in him, O God, almighty Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
O glory and honor is yours forever and ever.
At the Saviour's compound and formed by divine teaching, we dare to say
You're out in heaven, as a redefining, like in heaven come, like in heaven come, all the
fastest years in heaven.
And give us this day off and in the ground
And forgive us of trespasses
And as we forgive those who trespass against us
And heed us not into temptation
But deliver us from here
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 at 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 and reign forever and ever.
The peace of the Lord be with you always.
And this may not be the body of the body of the body,
which is a spirit of love to us or the sea of love.
Let us take away the sins of the world.
Behold the Lamb of God. Behold him who takes away the sins of the world.
Blessed are those called to the Supper of the Lamb.
Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof,
but own this is the world and my soul shall be here.
We have partaken of the gifts of this sacred mystery, humbly imploring a Lord that what
your Son commanded us to do in memory of Him may bring us growth in charity, who Christ
our Lord.
May almighty God bless you, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord.