Closing Comments: Kurt Mikuta

Closing Song:

Tuesday, March 2, 2021

7:00pm

St. Bernard Catholic Church

Baskets for free will offerings are located across from the Baptismal Font near entrance into church and in front of the music section. Feeding Your Soul (Eucharist) All donations will go to offset the costs of “Strength for the Journey: Our Lenten Experience.” Thank you for your generosity! Tonight’s Speaker: All music used with permission of OneLicense.net, License #728859-A. Deacon Sam Joutras, OSA Strength for the Journey: Our Lenten Experience Priest: Let us pray! O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament have left us a memorial of your Passion, grant us, we pray, so to revere the sacred mys- Greeting and Remarks: Kurt Mikuta teries of your Body and Blood that we may always experience in ourselves Because of the pandemic, it is not wise to sing at full strength. However, we know that your the fruits of your redemption. Who live and reign with God the Father in experience here tonight will be more meaningful with the song lyrics in front of you. Please join the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. in on the songs by singing in your heart, reading along with the words, humming, or singing lightly behind your mask. ALL: Amen. The celebrant will then bless all present with the Eucharist. Opening Hymn: Please stand.

Strength for the Journey Words and Music by Michael John Poirier

REFRAIN: After the presider has blessed everyone, he will come back in front of the I will be, I will be, altar and kneel and lead everyone in the Divine Praises. I will be strength for the journey! I will be, I will be, Blessed be God. I will be strength for the journey! Blessed be his holy name. Blessed be Jesus Christ, true God and true man. There is a road meant for you to travel. Blessed be the name of Jesus. Narrow and steep is the shepherd’s way, Blessed be his most Sacred Heart. And as you say, “Yes,” letting me guide you, I will be strength for the journey! (To Refrain…) Blessed be his most Precious Blood. Blessed be Jesus in the most holy sacrament of the altar. There is a cross meant for you to carry. Blessed be the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete. There is a cross meant for you alone, Blessed be the great Mother of God, Mary most holy. And as you say, “Yes,” letting me love you, Blessed be her holy and Immaculate Conception. I will be strength for the journey! (To Refrain…) Blessed be her glorious Assumption.

How many times have you doubted my word? Blessed be the name of Mary, virgin and Mother. How many times must I call your name? Blessed be St. Joseph, her most chaste spouse. And as you say, “Yes,” letting me love you, Blessed be God in his angels and in his saints. I will be strength for the journey! (To Refrain…) Amen. The Blessed Sacrament is returned to the tabernacle. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: Time of Silent Prayer The presider will go to the tabernacle and bring the After the Reflection Song, we invite you to spend some time in qui- Blessed Sacrament to the monstrance on the altar. et prayer before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. After approximate- Once he kneels, O Saving Victim is sung. ly 20 minutes we will conclude our evening with Benediction. O saving Victim, open wide You are welcome to stay for the entire time, or to leave when you wish. If you leave before we conclude, please maintain a spirit of The gate of heaven to us below. silence on your way out as others remain to pray. Our foes press on from every side;

Your aid supply, your strength bestow. Benediction To your great name be endless praise, The presider will kneel before the altar as Tantum Ergo is sung. Immortal Godhead, One in Three;

Tantum Ergo O grant us endless length of days In our true native land with thee. Amen. Down in adoration falling, This great Sacrament we hail; Over ancient forms of worship Prayer for Strength and Guidance Newer rites of grace prevail; Led by Fr. Joe McCormick, OSA Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail. ALL:

Lord, I reach out to you for your guidance. To the everlasting Father, Please show me which way to turn. And the Son who made us free, Calm my anxious thoughts, And the Spirit, God proceeding come speak into my mind. From them Each eternally, Strengthen me as I falter and feel weary. Be salvation, honor, blessing, May I feel strength rising up within my heart. Might and endless majesty. Amen. Bring clarity into my visions and dreams.

I trust that you are with me, no matter where I go, Prayer: or what I decide to do. You journey with me always. Amen. Priest: You have given them Bread from heaven.

ALL: Having all sweetness within it. Please be seated.

Scripture Reading: Jim Gow Quiet Reflection John 6:51-58

Jesus said to the Jewish crowds, “I am the living bread that came down from heaven; whoever eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world.” The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Reflection Song: Jesus said to them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life How Beautiful within you. How beautiful, the hands that served Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I The wine and the bread and the children of the earth. will raise him on the last day. For my flesh is true food, and my How beautiful, the feet that walked blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood re- The long dusty roads and the hill to the cross. mains in me and I in him. How beautiful, how beautiful, how beautiful Just as the living Father sent me and I have life because of the Fa- Is the body of Christ. ther, so also the one who feeds on me will have life because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Unlike your ances- How beautiful, the heart that bled tors who ate and still died, whoever eats this bread will live forever.” That took all my sin and bore it instead. How beautiful, the tender eyes That choose to forgive and never despise. How beautiful, how beautiful, how beautiful Is the body of Christ.

And as he lay down his life We offer this sacrifice Introduction of Speaker: Fr. Joe McCormick, OSA That we will live, just as he died Willing to pay the price, Willing to pay the price. How beautiful, the feet that bring Tonight’s Speaker: The sound of good news and the love of the King. Deacon Sam Joutras, OSA How beautiful, the hands that serve The wine and the bread and the children of the Earth. How beautiful, how beautiful, how beautiful Feeding Your Soul (Eucharist) Is the body of Christ.

How beautiful

Songwriters: (dustin) How Beautiful lyrics © Universal Music Corp., Music, Know Music, Sheer Music, Mountain Spring Music, Ariose Music Group Inc.