Main Celebrant: Archbishop Jose Gomez Concelebrant: Monsignor Terrance Fleming

CATHEDRAL OF OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS Wednesday October 14, 2020 A very warm welcome to everyone— especially to all our young missionaries that join us today. Although, we are not able to gather physically at the Cathedral today like we do every year, we know that you are all present in spirit here with us today. We are here to celebrate YOU and your missionary efforts to help other children in other parts of the world through your participation in the Missionary Childhood Association. As one of the pontifical mission societies MCA is present in more than 150 countries all over the world. All donations given to MCA are from children to help other children. MCA fosters children’s awareness of the missionary nature of the church who are part of Catholic Schools and Religious Education by making them aware of their call to mission as members of the church. You as MISSIONARIES have given your answer of “Here I am, send me!” to God’s question of “whom shall I send?” to help those in the peripheries of society, those who are suffering and those who like you deserve to live with dignity as the children of God.

Page 1 ENTRANCE HYMN— We Belong To You

We belong to you, O Lord of our longing, We belong to you. In our daily living, dying and rising We belong to you.

In the waters of your mercy, When the old becomes the new, Souls united in the mystery: We belong to you.

Filled with gifts and filled with goodness, Spirit breathing life into All who seek to find their purpose: We belong to you.

FIRST READING 1 Corinthians 12: 31-13:13

(Proclaimed by Valeria Torres, Nativity School, El Monte)

Bothers and sisters: Strive eagerly for the greatest spiritual gifts. But I shall show you a still more excellent way. If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, love is not pompous, it is not inflated, it is not rude, it does not see its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will brough to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect come, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I use to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child, when I became men, I put aside childish things. At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

The word of the Lord: Thanks be to God

RESPONSORIAL PSALM Psalm 100: 1b-2, 3, 4, 5

Refrain: We are His People (Craig Colson, published OCP) GOSPEL ACCLAMATION (Sung) Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia Page 2 GOSPEL John 15: 12-17

Jesus said this to this disciples: “This is my commandment: love one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I have called you friends, Because I have told you everything I have heard from the Father. It was not you who chose me, but I who chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. This I command you: love one another.

The gospel of the Lord

Praise be to you Lord, Jesus Christ.

HOMILY Monsignor Terrance Fleming PRAYER OF THE FAITHFUL

Spoken Response: Lord hear our prayer Intercessions offered by Vince Mahar, St. Dominic Savio School, Bellflower.

PRESENTATION OF GIFTS: The Servant Song by Richard Gillard Brother, let me be your servant. Let me be as Christ to you. Pray that I might have the grace. To let you be my servant, too.

We are pilgrims on a journey. We are brothers on the road. We are here to help each other. Walk the mile and bear the load.

I will hold the Christ-light for you In the night time of you fear. I will hold my hand out for you; Speak the peace you long to hear. Page 3 HOLY HOLY/SANCTUS (Mass of St. Ann) Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, God of Host, Heaven and earth are full of your glory, Hosanna in the highest Hosanna, hosanna in the highest Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord Hosanna, hosanna in the highest Hosanna, hosanna in the highest

MEMORIAL ACCLAMATION (Mass of St. Ann)

We proclaim your Death, O Lord, And profess your Resurrection Until you come again. Amen

FRACTIONING RITE (Mass of St. Ann)

Lamb of God you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of God you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Lamb of God you take away the sins of the world, grant us peace.

COMMUNION- Here I am, Lord by Dan Schutte

I, the Lord of sea and sky I have heard my people cry All who dwell in dark and sin SPIRITUAL COMMUNION My hand will save. PRAYER

I who made the stars of night I will make the darkness bright My Jesus, I believe that you are Who will bear my light to them present in the most Blessed Whom shall I send? Sacrament. I love You above all things and I desire to receive Here I am Lord You into my soul. Since I cannot Is it I Lord? I have heard you calling in the night now receive You sacramentally, I will go Lord come at least spiritually into my If you lead me heart. I embrace You as if You I will hold your people in my heart. were already there, and unite

myself wholly to You. Never permit I the Lord of snow and rain I have borne my people’s pain me to be separated from You. I have wept for love of them Amen They turn away.

I will break their hearts of stone Fill their hearts with love alone I will speak my word to them Whom shall I send? Page 4 CLOSING SONG—Go out, Go Out by Stephen Curtis

Go out, go out to the world and tell the Good News, tell the good, good news.

Praise the Lord, praise the Lord all you nations; glorify him, glorify him, you peoples.

Stead fast, stead fast is his kindness toward us, and the faithfulness of the Lord endures.

TOP TEN FUNDRAISING SCHOOLS We would like to thank Archbishop Jose Gomez, our

Immaculate Conception School, main celebrant, and Monsignor Fleming for Los Angeles celebrating the MCA Youth Appreciation Mass.

St. Paschal Baylon School, Thank you to all the students, parents, teachers, Thousand Oaks principals and mission moderators in our Catholic American Martyrs, Schools and Religious Education Programs for Manhattan Beach continuing to foster a missionary spirit of solidarity and Cathedral Chapel School, love towards their brothers and sisters in Christ all over Los Angeles the world. The resounding answer of “Here I am, send St. Martin of Tours School, me,” can be seen in all the things the children in the Los Angeles Archdiocese of Los Angeles do to contribute to MCA, Transfiguration School, in the prayers they offer and the kindness that is Los Angeles expressed in all they do. St. Gregory the Great School, Whittier To the Cathedral staff, thank you for your patience and guidance in planning the mass. St. Timothy School, Los Angeles It is our hope that next year we will be able to gather

St. Lawrence Brindisi, in the Cathedral to celebrate the MCA Youth Los Angeles Appreciation Mass 2021 and fill the Cathedral with a

Resurrection School, joyful spirit and the energy that our young church has. Los Angeles Page 5 Amirah Tran Ss Felicitas & Perpetua School

Aubrey Rady St. Maria Goretti School

Busby Berkeley St. Maria Goretti School

Cecilia Santiago All Souls World Language School

Devanie Rosales St. Benedicts School

Easton Kasper SS Felicitas & Perpetua School

Eloisa Lei Nartatez Precious Blood School

Isabel Perez All Souls World Language School

Isabella Mosqueda St. John Eudes School

Joelle Prospero St. John Eudes School

Natalie Gonzalez Precious Blood School

Razelee Zapanta St. John Eudes School

Children in Catholic Schools and Religious Education Programs can enter next year Christmas Artwork Contest. Entry form and guidelines on the MCA website www.missionsla.org/mca Page 6