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Saint Luke 1111 Beach Park Boulevard • Foster City • California 94404 (650) 345‐6660 Fax (650) 345‐8167 www.saintlukefc.org Email: [email protected]

jxÄvÉÅx4 Our warmest welcome to all who worship with our Community here at St. Luke Parish. Whether you are a long time resi‐ dent or have newly arrived in the parish, we thank for you. If you are not registered, please email us.

CHAPEL is open for visit to our Eucharistic Lord every day, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

SACRAMENTS PASTORAL STAFF

Eucharistic Celebrations Monday to Friday — 10:00am ctáàÉÜ Saturdays — 5:00pm Rev. Jonathan G. Paala Sundays — 10:00am WxtvÉÇ Baptism (Infants) Deacon Mar Tano Saturday — 11:00am Please contact the Parish Office to register. W|ÜxvàÉÜ Éy exÄ|z|Éâá Xwâvtà|ÉÇ Sr. Maria Ruth Linaac, RVM Reconciliation (Confession) Saturday, 4:00—4:30pm in the Church fxvÜxàtÜ|xá or by appointment. Maria Teresa Alvarez

Maryvee Estacio Marriage Please call the Parish Office at least 8 ‐ 12 months before the desired wedding date. Parish Office Hours

Anointing of the Sick Monday—Friday 9:00am‐12noon; 1:00pm‐4:00pm Saturday 9:00am‐12noon Please call the parish office at (650) 345‐6660

May 9, 2021 THE PRESENCE OF THE ST. LUKE’S MASS SCHEDULE

We have a unique episode in the Acts of the Apostles WEEKDAYS at 10AM today. A whole roomful of people are baptized with the Holy Spirit before they are baptized with water! SATURDAYS at 5PM SUNDAYS at 10AM The verb used—“the Holy Spirit ‘fell’ on them” (Acts 10:44)—is characteristic of the way the Spirit works So said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat throughout the book of Acts: powerful and surprising. the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life Though this “baptism” is not the normative way the in yourselves. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood New Testament describes baptism, it is still a good reminder today that the Holy Spirit is not controlled has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.” by whether or not we pour water, but rather that our (John 6:53-54) sacramental signs reveal the presence of the Spirit at work among us. And we have a double reinforcement Holy Mass Intentions for May 10 — May 16, 2021 of how this work is accomplished from a Letter and a Date Intention Pray for your Gospel bearing John’s name. It is love, self- priests sacrificing and self-giving love, that manifests the MON Fr. Kieran 10:00am † Alexander Brian Hain Spirit of Jesus in our midst. It is love that is the 10 McCormick greatest of commandments. The Spirit is manifested TUE Fr. Anthony 10:00am † Sophie Wong equally through those who live in that love. 11 Chung Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. WED Fr. 10:00am Butch and Georgie Unson TODAY’S READINGS 12 Al Furtado First Reading — The gift of the Holy Spirit was poured Fr. Francis THU 10:00am † Flory Macaraeg out on the Gentiles also (Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48). 13 Njua Psalm — The Lord has revealed to the nations his saving FRI Fr. Joseph power (Psalm 98). 10:00am Anya Malkiel BD Second Reading — God is love (1 John 4:7-10) or 14 Cardoza 1 John 4:11-16. SAT Fr. Joseph Gospel — No one has greater love than this: to lay down 15 5:00pm † Arturo Macaraeg Kengah one’s life for one’s friends (John 15:9-17) or John 17:11b-19. SUN Fr. Jonathan The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 16 10:00am † Holy Souls in Purgatory Paala, Pastor 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Legend: † - Deceased, SI-Special Intention, BD-Birthday Sunday: Sixth Sunday of Easter; Mother’s Day Missa Pro Populo-General Intentions/Mass for the People Monday: St. Damien de Veuster; St. John De Avila Wednesday: Ss. Nereus and Achilleus; St. Pancras; ADORE OUR LORD IN THE Thursday: Our Lady of Fatima BLESSED SACRAMENT Friday: St. Matthias Celebrating this mystery, we not only renew what Christ Saturday: St. Isidore did in the Upper Room, but we also enter into the mystery of His death! “We proclaim Your death!”- Prayer of Reparation especially during these times redeeming death. “Christ is risen!” We are sharers in the Sacred Triduum and the night of Easter. We are sharers when we are witnessing the desecration of the Blessed in the saving mystery of Christ as we await His coming Eucharist and statues of blessed Saints… in glory...In The Eucharist - all this is celebrated - in It all “ this is fulfilled. Truly The Eucharist is the Great Most Holy Trinity – Father, Son and Holy Sacrament of The Church. —St. John Paul II

Spirit –I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the “For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from most precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of heaven and gives life to the world.” Jesus Christ, present in all the tabernacles of the —John 6:33 CHAPEL is open, Monday through Sunday, world, in reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and indifferences whereby He is offended. And to allow personal encounter with our Lord through the infinite merits of His Most Sacred in the Blessed Sacrament. Heart and the , I beg of For Online Perpetual , visit: Thee the conversion of poor sinners. Amen.” virtualadoration.home.blog May 9, 2021 You expired, Jesus, but the source of life gushed forth for souls, and the ocean of mercy opened up for the whole world. O Fount of Life, unfathomable , envelop the whole world and empty Yourself out upon us.

O Blood and Water, which gushed forth from the Heart of Jesus as a fount of mercy for us, I trust in You! (3x)

Text compilation – © Urszula Grzegorczyk. Consultation – Sister Maria Kalinowska, The Congregation of the Sisters of Merciful Jesus. Translation: © Ewa Olszowa, Copyediting: Matthew Vinall. All rights reserved.

Eternal rest grant unto the souls of Your beloved, O Lord. †Fr. Wilton Smith, †Fr. Frank Bagadiong, †Fr. Dennis Steik, †Fr. Raymond Zohlen, †Fr. Tom Timmins, †Nhi Nguyen, †Prudencio Aromin, †Leonard & Ida Jacobs, †Felicia Mucci, †Adelina Apolinar, †Antonio Gonzalez, †Stephanie Banning, †Terry Lee Taylor, †Rodolfo Llamas, †Arturo Martin, †JoAnne Boyer Krainoff, †Mary Elizabeth Mattson, †Rosetta Parisian, †Zenaida Froilan, †Arturo Almeda, †Teresa Bautista, †Sue Rathjen, † all victims of the pandemic We pray for God’s healing mercies upon the sick: Juris Arcilla Jackie Kuo Violet Pastrana Minerva Barnhart Delfin Lazaro Anna Pham Luu Jennifer Barry Badette Ledesma Tom Pope Jim Bortak Celia Leones Frances Presutto Mary Ann Bravo Dancy Lim Angela F. Reyes Ruben Calderon, Jr. Christian Liwag Estrella Reyes Carmody Natividad Martin Virginia Sabellano Emmanuel Dela Cruz Fr. Kieran McCormick Kathy Sampson Elizabeth Fong Andres Mendez Jennifer Shamway Sarah Gabriela Angela Mihelcic Manny Torres Romulo Garcia Bozidar Mihelcic Joe Touchstone Zahra Karimi Jon Miller Priscilla Touchstone Barbara Keefer Edgar Navarro Cathy Yee Tom Keefer Ed Page Coronavirus patients JoAnn Kozloski “...for by His wounds you were healed.” (1 Peter 2:24) SUFFERING Jesus did not come to do away with suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with his presence. —Paul Claudel May 9, 2021

On this day, let us express our love to our Blessed Mother and to all mothers and pray...

Our Father in heaven, we worship You, our Creator! You have revealed Your tender love for us through the love of our mothers. Bless our mothers and reward them for their sacrificial love. Grant consolation and strength to mothers who are exhausted, those struggling to hold their families together and those in difficult marriages. Bless our mothers, Lord and grant eternal rest to those who have died. Let men and women who never knew a mother’s love come to know that of Your own Mother, our most Blessed Mother Mary. Amen.

God bless all mothers! God fill your day with His Love! “...and His mother treasured all these things in her heart.” (Luke 2:51) May 9, 2021

Feast Day: May 13 bâÜ _twç Éy Ytà|Åt? ÑÜtç yÉÜ âáA Through her Fatima messages, Our Lady requests a number of sincere actions from us that will benefit our own souls and the souls of others as well. The The Blessed Mother desires that we pray the rosary. “Pray the rosary every day in honor of Our Lady of the rosary to obtain peace in the world…” (The Blessed Mother on July 13, 1917). Trust in the rosary’s power to end wars, bring world peace and convert sinners. Everyone who wants to fulfill our Lady’s requests at Fatima must make the resolution to pray the rosary every day. Remember, Mary wants our prayers; Mary needs our prayers for the triumph of her Immaculate Heart. A Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary We are encouraged to consecrate our lives to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Any formula can be used as long as it is sincere and confides oneself without reserve to the Blessed Mother. Five First Saturdays The Blessed Mother asks us to do our part and make the commitment to the Five , which include: reception of Holy Communion and confession (within eight days before or after), to pray five decades of the rosary, and to spend fifteen minutes in meditation on the mysteries of the rosary to be offered up in reparation for sins and ingratitude against the Immaculate Heart of Our Lady. Conversion Transforming the world and establishing the Kingdom of God on earth begins with our own conversion of heart. We pray daily for graces to convert our hearts, to receive those graces and allow God to dwell in us in our interior life. Conversion of heart is an ongoing process. It is not just once in a lifetime. We need to pray every day for the conversion of our hearts so that we can become a brilliant light of God’s love in a darkened world. Reparation and Sacrifice and Love Our Lady of Fatima asks that we offer in reparation our own personal crosses and trials of life and to make sacrifices for the conversion of sinners, especially those sacrifices involved in keeping God’s commandments, in patiently accepting God’s will, and in fulfilling the duties of one’s state in life. We are to offer them through the Immaculate Heart of Mary in reparation to God so offended by sin, and for the conversion of sinners. “Sacrifice yourselves for sinners and say often whenever you make a sacrifice: ‘O Jesus, it is for love of You, for the conversion of sinners, and in reparation for the offenses committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary’” (The Blessed Mother on July 13, 1917). “Pray much and make sacrifices for sinners, for many souls go to hell because there is no one to make sacrifices for them” (The Blessed Mother on August 19, 1917). Excerpted from Our Lady of Fatima: 100 Years of Stories, Prayers, and Devotions, by Donna-Marie Cooper O’Boyle. franciscanmedia.org May 9, 2021 UPDATES and ANNOUNCEMENTS From our Parish at St. Luke’s St. Luke First Holy Communion Face Mask Fundraiser To All Parents of Students who will be receiving The St. Luke Parish Council’s Face Mask Fundraiser First Holy Communion this May 2021 during the is ongoing. You can purchase face masks printed 5:00pm Saturday Holy Mass, please contact the with St. Luke’s logo at $10 each after the weekend Parish Office to confirm the slot you have chosen for Masses. The masks come in adult and children’s your child. Thank you. sizes. Thank you for your support. “For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” (John 6:33) Thankful for Your Donation In spite of the difficult situation we are facing, Let us come & worship our Lord: I wish to thank you for your continuous support of St. Luke’s Mass Schedule our parish through your prayers and generous Our Weekday Masses (Monday to Friday) will be donations. I pray that you and your families will celebrated inside the church at 10:00am. remain safe and well within the shelter of our  Our Saturday Vigil Mass will be celebrated merciful Savior. — Fr. Jonathan Paala inside the Church at 5:00pm. Go to sfarch.org/lifeline select “St. Luke Parish”. Our Sunday Mass will be celebrated outdoors at You can also mail or drop your donation in 10:00am. the parish office mail box or Sunday Collection Box. REMINDERS Thanks so much! God bless your generous hearts! (1) Please stay at home if you are experiencing “Do not neglect to do good and to share COVID-19 symptoms (cough, colds, sore throat, what you have, for such sacrifices headache and fever). are pleasing to God.” (2) Maintain social distancing. (Hebrews 13:16) (3) Wear a face covering. (4) Only those who do not have their consent forms 2nd Collection Next Weekend, on file are required to submit them. The rest, please make sure that you sign the waiver attendance sheet May 15th/16th: before leaving the church. Archdiocesan Annual Appeal The Archdiocesan Annual Appeal (AAA) provides P P F’ I all of us with the opportunity to help our Universal T W O F Church fulfill its mission and simultaneously help Let us pray that those in charge of finance will work thousands of people in our own Archdiocese. Thank with governments to regulate the financial sphere you for your commitment and support in reaching and protect citizens from its dangers. our 2021 parish goal of $47,588.00. God continue to Through Christ our Lord. bestow his abundant blessings upon all of you. Amen. FEAST OF FAITH The Creed Following the readings and the homily, we stand together and say or sing the Creed, our profession of faith. The Creed is a solemn statement of belief, a “rule of faith” (General Instruction of the Roman Missal, 67). It states the core of what we believe about God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The language of the Creed is knotty and difficult at times, precisely because its purpose is to express with precision what we believe about God. The Creed that we pray most often, the , came out of the earliest ecumenical councils: Nicea in 325 and Constantinople in 381. It originated in a time of great controversy about the divinity of Christ, and thus the longest section of the Creed relates to Christ, truly human and truly God. The Creed is both communal and personal: it is “we,” but it is also “I.” In the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, it is only after listening to the teaching of the Church and professing faith in the Holy Trinity that the candidate is admitted to the sacraments. So it is every Sunday. We listen to the word, we profess our faith, and then we come to the altar. —Corinna Laughlin, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. May 9, 2021 UPDATES and ANNOUNCEMENTS From the Archdiocese of San Francisco Pentecost Sunday Retrovaille Marriage-Saving Adult Confirmation Weekend The San Francisco Archdiocese will be celebrating Many married couples have struggled with the the sacrament of Confirmation for Adults on fallout of the pandemic, putting additional stress Pentecost Sunday, May 23, 2021 at the Cathedral of on marriages. St. Mary of the Assumption. Adults who did not Retrouvaille provides a lifeline for married couples. receive the Sacrament of Confirmation but wish to Many come with no hope, as a last effort to save the be Confirmed in order to complete their Sacraments marriage, but leave with the tools and confidence to of Initiation are welcome to participate provided they rebuild the marriage, better than they’d ever hoped. have completed the required preparations. Please For more information and to register at visit the Parish Office no later than May 10, 2021 San Francisco Retrouvaille visit the link to register and to sign up for catechetical preparation www.themarriagehelp.com and orientation. The catechetical preparation class Contact Ed Hopfner and orientation will be held on May 16th at 11:00am 415-614-5547 | [email protected] in St. Luke’s Room 4. Spiritual Accompaniment Stop Taxpayer-Funded Abortion for Families in Crisis What: Congress is trying to force Americans to The St. Raymond Nonnatus Foundation for Freedom, pay abortion. Family, and Faith offers prayer for your intentions; How: The Hyde Amendment and similar laws podcasts and videos on topics related to family crisis; have protected taxpayers from funding elective free spiritual consultation with a Mercedarian friar abortion for 45 years. Now, powerful members of by appointment. Subscribe to the YouTube channel Congress want to take these laws that both at Philly Nonnatus. Website: Nonnatus.org Democrats and Republicans have supported for For free Spiritual Consultation appointments nearly half a century. please email [email protected] What happens without these protections? Billions of taxpayer dollars could be used to pay Short Course on C.S. Lewis abortion. Take Action: Sign the petition to Congress at with Dr. Peter Kreeft NoTaxpayerAbortion.com The School of Pastoral Ministry at the Archdiocese of San Francisco is excited to share that Dr. Peter Kreeft will be teaching a five-part online course on Presentation by Sir James some of C.S. Lewis’s lesser known works of fiction and non-fiction. C.S. Lewis is probably most famous MacMillan with Archbishop in the United States for his series “The Chronicles Salvatore Cordileone of Narnia”. Lesser known is the fact that C.S. Lewis Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone will host a live was also one of the greatest Christian apologists to online lecture followed by a Q&A with world- have ever lived. This course will explore six of his renowned Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan most powerful and life-changing books: Surprised by on the topic of “Music and Some Wider Implica- Joy, Mere Christianity, The Problem of Pain, tions: a Catholic Composer's Perspective.” You A Grief Observed, Till We Have Faces, and won’t want to miss this unique opportunity to hear The Great Divorce. one of the 21st Century's most prolific and influential Tuesdays, May 4 – June 8, 7:00-8:30 pm PDT living composers speak from the heart on the Register now at sfarch.org/cslewis. A $25 donation is importance of music from a Catholic perspective. requested, but no one will be turned down for This event will take place on Saturday, May 29 at inability to pay. Noon PDT and is FREE to attend. Registration, however, is required! Register and learn more by Contact Deacon Fred Totah for more information, visiting sfarch.org/music. 415-614-5504 | [email protected] May 9, 2021 LIVE STREAM MASSES For those who cannot celebrate with us in St. Luke’s... At the heart of the Eucharistic celebration are the bread and wine that, by the words of Christ and the invocation of the Holy Spirit, become Christ's Body and Blood. Faithful to the Lord's command the Church continues to do, in his memory and until his glorious return, what he did on the eve of his Passion: “He took bread. . . .” “He took the cup filled with wine. . . .” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1333)

Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) in San Francisco Television Broadcast https://www.youtube.com/ 5:00 am, 9:00 am, 4:00 pm, 9:00 am archdioceseofsanfrancisco Comcast 229 Direct TV 370, Dish 261, Sunday: 11:00 am AT&T 562, Astound 80, Sirius Website www.ewtn.com/tv/watch-live/united-states SAN MATEO COUNTY St. Gregory Parish, San Mateo All Souls Parish, South San Francisco http://saintgregorychurch.org and https://allsoulsparishssf.org/ https://www.facebook.com/ Daily 6:00 pm saintgregorychurch Daily including weekends at 12:00 noon St. Francis of Assisi Parish, East Palo Alto https://www.facebook.com/Parroquia-de- St. Charles, San Carlos/ San-Francisco-de-Asis-103290567983242 St. Matthias, Redwood City Monday-Friday 8:00 am (Bilingual) https://www.facebook.com/ Saturday 6:00 pm (Spanish) StCharlesParishSC Sunday 7:30 am (English) and Monday-Saturday 5:00 pm 9:30 am (Spanish) Sunday 8:30 am

Our Lady of Angels Parish, Burlingame Our Lady of Mercy Parish, Daly City www.ola.community/parish/live-stream-of- https://www.facebook.com/olmdalycity daily-and-weekend-masses Saturday 4:00 pm Monday-Friday 8:00 am Sunday 9:00 am and 12:00 noon Saturday 5:00 pm Sunday 8:30 am St. Pius Parish, Redwood City https://www.pius.org/stream St. Catherine of Siena, Burlingame Daily Mass 12:00 noon (English) https://www.stcsiena.org Sunday 9:30 (English) & 11:30 am (Spanish) Saturday 5:00 pm Sunday 10:30 am St. Timothy Parish, San Mateo St. Augustine Parish, South San Francisco https://www.facebook.com/ https://www.facebook.com/SACC45thYear sttimothysanmateo/ Daily Mass 10:00 am Sunday Masses: 9:00 am (English), 12:00 noon (Spanish) “One single Mass gives more honor to God than all the penances of the Saints, the labors of the Apostles, the sufferings of the Martyrs and even the burning love of the Blessed Mother of God.” —St. Alphonsus Liguori May 9, 2021

VÉÄÄxvà cÜtçxÜ Grant, almighty God, that we may celebrate with heartfelt devotion these days of joy, which we keep in honor of the risen Lord, and that what we relive in remembrance we may always hold to in what we do. Through our Lord Jesus Tvà Éy cxÜyxvà VÉÇàÜ|à|ÉÇ Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended in the unity of the Holy Spirit, Thee, and I detest all my sins, because I dread the loss God, for ever and ever. AMEN. of heaven, and the pains of hell; but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, Who are all good and `ÉÇà{ Éy `tç deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, to do penance, |á wxw|vtàxw àÉ ÉâÜ UÄxááxw `Éà{xÜ `tÜç and to amend my life. AMEN. exz|ÇtVÉxÄ| cÜtçxÜ àÉ ÉâÜ Xâv{tÜ|áà|v _ÉÜw ]xáâá Queen of Heaven, rejoice, alleluia. Tvà Éy fÑ|Ü|àâtÄ VÉÅÅâÇ|ÉÇ For He whom you did merit to bear, alleluia. MY JESUS, I believe that You are present Has risen, as he said, alleluia. in the Most Blessed Sacrament. Pray for us to God, alleluia. I love You above all things, and I desire to receive Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia. You into my soul. Since I cannot at this moment For the Lord has truly risen, alleluia. receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually Let us pray. into my heart. I desire, my Lord, to receive You O God, who gave joy to the world through the with the purity, humility, and devotion with which resurrection of Thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, Your most holy Mother received You, and with the spirit and fervor of Your saints. grant we beseech Thee, that through I embrace You as if You were already there the intercession of the Virgin Mary, His Mother, and unite myself wholly to You. we may obtain the joys of everlasting life. Never permit me to be separated from You. Through the same Christ our Lord. AMEN. AMEN. PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE Holy Virgin of Guadalupe, Queen of the Angels and Mother of the Americas. We fly to you today as your beloved children. We ask you to intercede for us with your Son, as you did at the wedding in Cana. Pray for us, loving Mother, and gain for our nation and world, and for all our families and loved ones, the protection of your holy angels, that we may be spared the worst of this illness. For those already afflicted, we ask you to obtain the grace of healing and deliverance. Hear the cries of those who are vulnerable and fearful, wipe away their tears and help them to trust. In this time of trial and testing, teach all of us in the Church to love one another and to be patient and kind. Help us to bring the peace of Jesus to our land and to our hearts. We come to you with confidence, knowing that you truly are our compassionate mother, health of the sick and cause of our joy. Shelter us under the mantle of your protection, keep us in the embrace of your arms, help us always to know the love of your Son, Jesus. Amen. —Archbishop José Gómez of Los Angeles, President United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is asking the faithful to unite in prayers with the entire Church and utter the above prayer each day to seek the intercession of our patroness, Our Lady of Guadalupe. BELLS CALL TO PRAYER Set your alarm to these times, then pray the indicated prayer at that hour. 9:00 a.m. - Prayer for those infected with the virus and all who are ill Lord, place your healing hand on those who suffer illness. Bring them to full health and ease their anxious hearts. May our prayer and the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary encourage them that they are not alone. We ask this in Jesus’ Name. Amen. 12:00 p.m. - Prayer for health care workers and those attending to the sick Lord, we are ennobled by those who put their lives at risk in caring for the sick. Keep them safe and embolden them when they are weary. We ask this in Jesus’ Name. Amen. 3:00 p.m. - Prayer for first responders and essential workers Lord, we pray for those who run to danger to keep us safe and those who serve the common good. Embrace them with your mantle of protection and comfort the fears of their families. We ask this in Jesus’ Name. Amen. 6:00 p.m. - Prayer for people of every nation and their leaders Lord, the pandemic opens our eyes to see each other as brothers and sisters in one human family. We pray for people of every nation and their leaders, asking that they be inspired to seek the good of all and quell the voices of division. We ask this in Jesus’ Name. Amen. 9:00 p.m. - Prayer for those who have died today Lord, we grieve the passing of our sisters and brothers who have died this day. We commend them to your tender mercy, confident that nothing, not even death, will separate us from your love. We ask this in Jesus’ Name. Amen.