Not personal to the priest but the Word of God spoken to God’s people and, if they hear the Word of God there really will be not frustration and anger but there will be that sense that I have heard the Good News that can sustain me in my life and even empower me for mission. They’re words born of the Trinity. If you want to celebrate the Holy Mass now click on the link “Watch online Holy Mass.” and the broadcast website opens automatically. Thank you for this wonderful work of God now you’re bringing me closer to Him….. Now, we know the Bible was composed by human beings. Once we break the bread and share the broken bread we are saying that we too will be the body brokenfor the life of the world. “Glory to God in the Highest, and peace to his people on earth”. The beauty of being a member of the Catholic church is embodied in our name. Of us, our lives, all that we’ve brought with the bread and wine, even the cosmos itself will be transfigured. So the sign of peace is not just another handshake or wishing you well, it’s recognising the truth of whom you have become because of what God has done and you recognising that same truth in me. Which sounds strange to our ears but what it means is, He goes into the dark world of the dead and floods that world with the light of Easter. Out of our silence there comes the post communion prayer that the priest prays, which gathers up the prayer of all the people in that assembly, in that gathering, and simply asks God that this gift which we have received and this feast which we have shared really will be a power in our life individually and in the church as a whole. It’s not the blessing of the priest. Archdiocese of Brisbane Live Stream ... (LIVE) Gospel Preaching, Holy Mass and Eucharistic Adoration (16 July 2020) Divine Retreat Centre UK Divine Retreat Centre UK 8,174 watching. We might decide to go to Mass but, in the end, it’s God who is calling us to share His own life. Absolutely everything. Alternative times on the North American channel are 12.30pm and Europe channel at 7.30pm. God then has touched those gifts of bread and wine with the power of the Holy Spirit and has transfigured those gifts into the Body and Blood of Christ. And this is important. And that becomes the promise that everything will be raised into the fullness of life in this great act of giving birth. In a pastoral letter, Archbishop Coleridge said these were “anxious times” as the country entered into “new and uncharted territory”. Please see below for our online Masses. The bread and the wine, and sometimes other gifts, are brought forward. So that the altar of sacrifice now becomes the table of the feast. Ourselves and the entire cosmos. Mass Times - Cathedral of St Stephen, Brisbane. It’s God’s people saying yes to the God who speaks and yes to the word that we’ve heard here and now. Keep up to date with the web casts planned across the archdiocese and beyond by checking the web cast schedule here. Again, the priest doesn’t have words of his own to speak. Similarly with the wine: “Blessed are You, Lord God of all creation for through Your goodness we have the wine we offer You”. When you enter the chosen page you will see the calendar with the Catholic Holy Masses live online. After the second reading we sing the Alleluia or we say the Alleluia which is a way of preparing to hear the words of Christ Himself. All of them. And the peace that this feast signifies to sit down at table with each other. Watch Queue Queue And we make that prayer in faith that God will do, here and now, what God has done before. Not our gift to You. And that’s where we start. Please consider a donation to help us cover the costs of this website. It is an essentially liturgical moment, the homily. Although I appreciate you advocating more prayer, the rest of your post is not appropriate for this site – you’re not on Facebook. It’s a way of saying symbolically ‘I’m here not just as me but I am here as one through whom the power and the word and the blessing of God pass to you’. Then we pray the prayer: deliver us Lord from every evil. It’s the same breath. So the Penitential Act has those two aspects but, in the end, it’s all about the truth that we discover and acknowledge only once we enter the presence of God, once we enter the sacred space and the sacred time of the Trinity. ‘Go in peace glorifying the Lord by your life’. They can hardly be more ordinary – gifts of bread and wine. So, with the bread there is our whole life. And, in transforming the bread and wine, the promise is made of the transformation of everything. Wherever we are, we are in the presence of God in a very special way. But then when the community gathers, we begin with the sign of the cross. 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