Sunday of the Resurrection, - Morning Mass - Year C - 20th April 2025.

Sunday of the Resurrection, - Morning Mass - Year C - 20th April 2025.

Readings for 20th April 2025- Sunday of the Resurrection. Year C
FIRST READING: Acts 10:34, 37-43: We have eaten and drunk with him after his resurrection
Ps 117:1-2, 16-17, 22-23. "This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad."
SECOND READING: Col 3:1-4: Look for the things that are in heaven, where Christ is. (or alternative - 1 Cor 5:6-8: Throw away the old yeast, that you may be new dough.)
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (1 Cor 5:7-8). Alleluia, alleluia! Christ has become our Paschal sacrifice; let us feast with joy in the Lord.
GOSPEL: Jn 20:1-9: The teaching of scripture is that he must rise from the dead. or Lk 24:1-12: Why look among the dead for someone who is alive? - (or if Easter Sunday evening  Luke 24:13-35)

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Please listen to the audio recordings of the Mass – (Readings, prayers, and homily), for Sunday of the Resurrection, Year C - 20th April 2025 by clicking this link here: https://soundcloud.com/user-633212303/easter-sunday-year-c-2025/s-FQGGJt5ctPT

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Homily (Fr Paul Kelly)

Our Lord's resurrection sends a message to all the world that anyone who suffers matters greatly to the Lord and God will not forget them and will not fail to give them and to restore to them the dignity that the world so often denied them. Hatred, violence, failure to give people the dignity and care they need, these things God does not countenance and they will not last. Our God of faithfulness and justice, our Lord Jesus has definitively and permanently thrown in his lot with us and promises to bring us through to where he has gone ahead of us.

 

Meanwhile, we're made bold in our determination to stand up for those who suffer. We join with Christ in calling out for respect for those who have not been given it and we are emboldened by Christ's life, death and resurrection to do everything and anything in our power to give practical help and care to those in need. Christ shows us that all people are worth every effort and that this effort will ultimately not be in vain.

 

Even if we don't see justice done in this life, Christ will make sure that justice is done in the end. But he calls on justice to be done now, not later. No matter what the obstacles, God is with us.

 

God will never abandon us. God is at work renewing us, restoring us, vindicating those who've been mistreated and giving us new hope, new life and indescribable mercy.

 

Jesus is the unequivocal yes. The enormous and seemingly thankless and much derided cost of self-sacrifice and self-forgetting service, the cost of love and compassion, of mercy and gentleness, the cost of a generous spirit, of thinking more of others and less of ourselves is all worth it, no matter what the world says to deride it. May God bless us and renew us in this astounding love, this ever abiding faithfulness, this eternal care for each one of us. And may our lives be more and more marked by these wonderful qualities in the life, death and resurrection of Christ, with each and every new day.

Happy Easter!

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Fr Paul W. Kelly

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Sunday of the Resurrection, Year C  (20th April 2025)  (EPISODE: 360 )
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
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{{May Our Lord's grace and love abide in you}}

Brothers and sisters, let us acknowledge our sins and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.
Lord Jesus, you raise us to new life: Lord, have mercy// //Lord Jesus, you forgive us our sins: Christ, have mercy//Lord Jesus, you feed us with your body and blood: Lord, have mercy//
May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and bring us to everlasting life.  Amen.
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Ps 117:1-2, 16-17, 22-23. "This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad."

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (1 Cor 5:7-8). Alleluia, alleluia! Christ has become our Paschal sacrifice; let us feast with joy in the Lord.

Memorial Acclamation
3. Save us, Saviour of the world, for by your Cross and Resurrection you have set us free.
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PREFACE: Preface one of Easter
EP II

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{Thanks everyone, and have a happy and safe Easter ! and a grace-filled and compassion-filled week.}

Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord.

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Further information relating to the audio productions linked to this Blog:
"Faith, Hope and Love - Christian worship and reflection"  - Led by Rev Paul Kelly

Prayers and chants  — Roman Missal, 3rd edition, © 2010, The International Commission on English in the liturgy. (ICEL)

Scriptures - New Revised Standard Version: © 1989,  and 2009 by the NCC-USA. (National Council of Churches of Christ - USA)

"The Psalms" ©1963, 2009,  The Grail - Collins publishers.

Prayers of the Faithful -   " Together we pray" by Robert Borg'.   E.J. Dwyer, Publishers, (1993) . (Sydney Australia).

Sung "Mass In Honour of St. Ralph Sherwin" -  By Jeffrey M. Ostrowski. The Gloria,  Copyright © 2011 ccwatershed.org.

- "Faith, Hope and Love" theme hymn - in memory of  William John Kelly -     Inspired by 1 Corinthians 13:1-13. Music by Paul W. Kelly. Arranged and sung, with additional lyrics by Stefan Kelk. 2019.

"Quiet Time."  Instrumental Reflection music. Written by Paul W Kelly. 1988, 2007. & This arrangement: Stefan Kelk, 2020.

- "Today I Arise" - For Trisha J Kelly.  Original words and music by Paul W. Kelly. Inspired by St Patrick's Prayer.  Arranged and sung, with additional lyrics by Stefan Kelk. 2019.

Sound Engineering and editing -  P.W. Kelly.

Microphones: -      RODE-NT-USB-mini

Editing equipment:    NCH software - MixPad Multitrack Studio Recording Software
NCH – WavePad Audio Editing Software. Masters Edition v 12.44

Sound Processing:  iZotope RX 6 Audio Editor

[Production -  KER -  2025]
May God bless and keep you.
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