+ Wednesday 3rd June – Midweek Mass for our friends in classrooms and other places
Dear friends –
You’ll notice a large red section near the top of the website that’s now showing an updated next step and plan for church opening and Masses at Our Lady of the Way. See yesterday’s Parish Blog post, 2nd June, for a full outline including Midweek times for Prayer/Adoration church openings, Masses, Communion Service opportunities and Reconciliation. That post on 2nd June also has some reflections and considerations relevant to the temporary program that is in place from this week. Your continued feedback – and bearing in mind those considerations shared – is most welcome.
SO TODAY, WEDNESDAY, IS SPECIALLY CONNECTING TO THE PARISH SCHOOL CHILDREN
Just for this first day under the new program, they’re all staying in their classrooms, using this blog and connecting through the voice recordings and video. From next Wednesday we will have children and teachers present and also live stream from the church into classrooms to others. And one idea among others, is to have some parish communion ministers with us at Mass at that time to0 – and send them into the school at Communion time to those who are joining us on the screen. Ideally we can reach out further and include some parents and other family members too. Let’s unite in our hope and efforts that we can use this time to develop and extend our parish mission. Hopefully together we’ll do more than settle back.
WELCOME TO MASS ON WEDNESDAY OF WEEK 9 IN ‘ORDINARY TIME’
INTRO TO MASS
The voice recording below is to the children in their classrooms – but is also shared with other adult parishioners joining in online today too. This intro recording is a greeting – shares some comments about Saint Charles Lwanga and companions from Uganda (including 13 year old Kizito) – and mentions the idea of moving back into ‘Ordinary Time’ in the church cycle. The voice recording then prays a penitential rite (Lord have mercy) and the opening prayer.
>>>Click on the triangle play button to activate the voice recording<<<
OPENING PRAYER (included in the recording above)
THE LITURGY OF THE WORD
FIRST READING
A Reading from the 2nd letter to Timothy (1:1-3,6-12)
The word of the Lord
Thanks be to God.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
(Boys and girls – the Psalms are the prayer songs of our ancestors and can sometimes seem very ancient language. This one is written in a time of servants and masters/mistresses! But see if you can work out something that it’s saying and adapt an idea for today. Doing this can help us feel like we’re part of an incredible, big, long story of life and of God’s people)
Psalm 122(123):1-2
Response>To you, O Lord, I lift up my eyes
R>To you, O Lord, I lift up my eyes
R>o you, O Lord, I lift up my eyes
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
(Jn11:25,26)
GOSPEL
A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to Mark (12:18-27)
The Gospel of the Lord
HOMILY SHARED BY FR PAUL TODAY
>>>Click on the triangle play button to activate the voice recording<<<
PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL
You are invited to take some moments now to compose and pray some Prayers of the Faithful. The following themes might assist your own reflections:
- a prayer for students and those who work in education, especially as schools now return
- a prayer for parents and families, especially those with challenges at the moment
- a prayer for each of us for a growing faith to live our lives with purpose
- a prayer for our development of new skills and possibilities in each phase of our lives
- a prayer for places in the world where COVID-19 is still so threatening – and where populations are living in daily fear
- ?
- ?
And so we now bring the bread and wine to the altar – as we now stream the second part of today’s Mass from Our Lady of the Way church
THE LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
>>>Click on the triangle play button in the middle of the picture<<<
See you in the next Parish Blog post and
With friendship in God’s mission
fr Paul
Wonderful Thankyou