MASS PROGRAM ST. AUGUSTINE Washington, DC SUNDAY, June 7, 2020

1 TRINITY SUNDAY REFLECTION

Good morning. Today as we join Catholics around the world to celebrate the solemn Feast of The Most Holy Trinity, our Community of faith also celebrates the 162nd anniversary of our founding as a parish.

Saint Augustine Catholic Church traces its birth as a community back to the year 1858 when a group of freed slaves and free blacks founded a Catholic School and a chapel under the patronage of Blessed Martin de Porres, a saint born in Peru who dedicated his life to serving the poor and is the Patron-Saint of mixed race peoples and those seeking racial justice.

The first parishioners of Blessed Martin de Porres chapel met in the basement of Saint Matthews Church (which later would become the Cathedral). This same group of black Catholics would be the inaugural members of the future Saint Augustine Catholic Church; a church that would not be built and dedicated until 1876 – just over 10 years after the end of the Civil War. This new parish community would quickly become known for its unwavering commitment to excellence in education for its children, the courageous pursuit of justice, inspiring liturgies, magnificent music and a prophetic voice of truth to both the Church and the society on behalf of African American Catholics and Black citizens across the nation.

In education: The Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first African American Religious Community in the , served in our parish with extraordinary distinction and dedication for more than 90 years laying the foundation for what we know as Saint Augustine Catholic School today…where another order of Woman Religious, the Handmaids of the Holy Child , has since 2007, been entrusted with carrying the legacy of Catholic education and evangelization into the future.

2 Social Justice: In 1925, parishioner Thomas Wyatt Turner and other black Catholics founded the Federated Colored Catholics organization which, among other things called for an end to the practice of racial segregation in seminaries, Catholic Fraternal Organizations, and Catholic University. Our social justice work today - which includes direct service to the poor and the homeless and advocacy on behalf of those who have no voice or power in society - is a continuation of the legacy of those parishioners who founded the Federated Colored Catholics.

Advocacy for African Americans: In 1889 the first National Colored Catholic Congress was held at Saint Augustine Parish with the opening presided by Fr. Augustus Tolton, the first recognized black priest in the United States and whose cause for sainthood is in process. The Congress addressed ways to better the social and spiritual condition of Black Catholics and Black Americans in general. Before the Congress concluded, 200 delegates met with President Grover Cleveland to discuss the plight of African Americans. Our ongoing commitment to be vigilant to the needs and the plight of African Americans today is rooted in the spirit of the first National Black Catholic Congress.

Music and Liturgy: In 1873 the First Opera Company in Washington DC was made up of parishioners and choir members of the Blessed Martin de Porres Chapel under the esteemed direction of John Esputa, a well-known music teacher whose most famous pupil was John Philip Sousa. The Saint Augustine Chorale traces its beginning to this Opera Company and with the of the Saint Augustine Choir much later, and the Young Adult and Youth Choirs, the legacy of good liturgy and music ministry continues.

As we recognize our 162nd anniversary as a parish today, let us honor those that have gone before us by renewing our commitment to making a good Catholic School Education available to our children, to being drum majors for justice and service on behalf of the poor. And finally, to being a community that continues to lift our hearts, minds, and voices in the liturgy as we offer to our best praise, our 3 fervent prayers and a quality of worship that is worthy of his faithfulness to us for more than a century and a half. Amen.

Introductory Rites

Processional Hymn Come Thou, Almighty King Timothy Wright

Verse: Come Thou Almighty King, help us Thy name to sing. Come Thou Almighty King, help us Thy name to sing.

Chorus: We've come to praise, we've come to praise, we've come to praise Thy name.

Bridge: Father all glorious, O'er all victorious; come and reign over us, come and reign over us

Father all glorious, O'er all victorious; come and reign over us, come and reign over us

Chorus

Vamp: Thy name, Thy name, Thy name,

4 Thy name. Greeting

Penitential Rite

Gloria

Opening Prayer LITURGY OF THE WORD

Reading 1 EX 34:4B-6, 8-9

Early in the morning Moses went up Mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him, taking along the two stone tablets. Having come down in a cloud, the LORD stood with Moses there and proclaimed his name, "LORD." Thus the LORD passed before him and cried out, "The LORD, the LORD, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity." Moses at once bowed down to the ground in worship. Then he said, "If I find favor with you, O Lord, do come along in our company. This is indeed a stiff-necked people; yet pardon our wickedness and sins, and receive us as your own."

Responsorial Psalm DN 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56

R. (52b) Glory and praise for ever! Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers, praiseworthy and exalted above all forever; And blessed is your holy and glorious name, praiseworthy and exalted above all for all ages. R. Glory and praise for ever!

5 Blessed are you in the temple of your holy glory, praiseworthy and glorious above all forever. R. Glory and praise for ever!

Blessed are you on the throne of your kingdom, praiseworthy and exalted above all forever. R. Glory and praise for ever!

Blessed are you who look into the depths from your throne upon the cherubim, praiseworthy and exalted above all forever. R. Glory and praise for ever!

Reading 2 2 COR 13:11-13

Brothers and sisters, rejoice. Mend your ways, encourage one another, agree with one another, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you. Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the holy ones greet you. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the be with all of you.

Alleluia CF. RV 1:8

R. , alleluia. Glory to the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit; to God who is, who was, and who is to come. R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel JN 3:16-18 God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,

6 but that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him will not be condemned, but whoever does not believe has already been condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.

HOMILY

PROFESSION OF FAITH

GENERAL INTERCESSIONS

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST Holy Holy Richard Smallwood

Holy, Holy, Lord God, Almighty Holy, Holy, Lord God, Almighty Heaven and earth are full of Thy glory All heaven and earth are full of Thy glory Lord, Holy and righteous is Your name Omnipotent, Glorious, Holy is Your name

Worthy is the Lamb of God Worthy is the Lamb of God You are worthy, of glory and honour and power You are worthy, of glory and honour and power Lord we praise You, we praise You, we praise You, we praise You We magnify You, we praise You, we praise You, we praise You

All heaven and earth are full of Thy glory Lord Holy and righteous is your name Omnipotent, Glorious, Holy is Your name (We praise you, we praise You, we praise You, we praise You) Lord we praise You

Preface Acclamation “Holy, Holy” 7

Memorial Acclamation:

“Great Amen”

The Lord’s Prayer

Sign of Peace

“Lamb of God”

Reception of Holy Communion

Communion Hymn God Restores Wayne Buckner

God restores God restores God restores God restores

He restores my mind My mind, my mind Restores my soul My soul, my soul

With his healing hands I'm made whole He makes my life complete My reunion is so sweet I'm a living testimony God Restores Repeat 3x

God restores 8x

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

ANNOUNCEMENTS

RECESSIONAL

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