St. Thomas More Parish A Roman Catholic Parish of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter Holy Sacrifice of the Mass FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY July 11, 2020, 5 p.m. July 12, 2020, 10 a.m. St. Joseph Catholic Church, Scranton, Pennsylvania Regrettably, due to the ongoing Pandemic, reservations are required in order to attend this Mass. If you did not make a reservation, please stand by until all worshipers have arrived; please join us if the total attendance (including the Priest and servers) does not exceed 75 persons, with separate households seated in each pew. If the Mass is full, keep in mind that the Sunday obligation remains commuted; or, you may try back at our 7:00 p.m. Sunday Mass. Thank you! Decade of the Rosary / Silent Devotion Pew booklet p. 35, 36 Announcements Organ Prelude Meditation on ‘Father, We Thank Thee, Who Hast Planted’ L. Bourgeois, arr. T. Hazleton THE INTRODUCTORY RITES The People stand Organ Processional Fanfare J. Lemmens Introit , sung by the Cantor as the Priest censes the Altar Exáudi Dómino plainsong Consider, O Lord and hear me, when I cry unto thee: be thou my succor, O cast me not away, neither forsake me utterly, O God of my salvation. The Lord is my light, and my salvation: whom then shall I fear? Glory be to the Father… | Consider, O Lord and hear me … Sign of the Cross & Collect for Purity The Priest says Almighty God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our Lord. Amen . The Summary of the Law , proclaimed by the Priest Hear what our Lord Jesus Christ saith: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. Kyrie , sung by the Cantor Missa ‘de Angelis’ plainsong Kyrie eleison. Lord, have mercy upon us. Christe eleison. Christ, have mercy upon us. Kyrie eleison. Lord, have mercy upon us. Gloria in excelsis Missa ‘de Angelis’ plainsong Priest Glory be to God on high, Cantor and on earth peace, good will towards men. We praise thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee, we give thanks to thee for thy great glory, O Lord God, heavenly King, God the Father Almighty. O Lord, the only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ; O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Thou that takest away the sins of the world, receive our prayer. Thou that sittest at the right hand of God the Father, have mercy upon us. For thou only art holy; thou only art the Lord; thou only, O Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art most high in the glory of God the Father. Amen. The Collect of the Day The People kneel. The Priest chants the Collect, the People singing ‘Amen.’ Grant, O Lord, we beseech thee: that the course of this world may be so peaceably ordered by thy governance; that thy Church may joyfully serve thee in all godly quietness; through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen . THE LITURGY OF THE WORD The People sit The First Lesson Isaiah 55:10-11 Thus says the LORD : as the rain and the snow come to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I in- down from heaven, and do not return there but water tend, and prosper in the thing for which I sent it.” the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word Lector The Word of the Lord. be that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return People Thanks be to God. Gradual , sung by the Cantor Protector noster Ps. 84:9, 8 / plainsong Behold, O God our defender: and look upon thy servants. O Lord God of hosts: hear the prayers of thy servants. The Second Lesson Romans 8:18-23 Brethren: I consider that the sufferings of this present longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will be revealed to us. For the creation waits with eager but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; 2 because the creation itself will be set free from its the first fruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning with labor pains together until now; Lector The Word of the Lord. and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have People Thanks be to God. The People stand Gospel Procession, Alleluia, & Verse , sung by the Cantor Domine, in virtute tua plainsong Alleluia. Alleluia. The King shall rejoice in thy strength, O Lord: exceeding glad shall he be of thy salvation. Alleluia. The Gospel Matthew 13:1-23 Priest Priest Matthew. That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat ing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, perceive with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and so that he got into a boat and sat there; and the whole understand with their heart, and turn for me to heal crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many them.’ But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. ears, for they hear. Truly, I say to you, many prophets And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and and righteous men longed to see what you see, and did the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear on rocky ground, where they had not much soil, and it. Hear then the parable of the sower. When any one immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth hears the word of the kingdom and does not under- of soil, but when the sun rose they were scorched; and stand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what is since they had no root they withered away. Other sown in his heart; this is what was sown along the seeds fell upon thorns, and the thorns grew up and path. As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is choked them. Other seeds fell on good soil and he who hears the word and immediately receives it brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, with joy; yet he has no root in himself, but endures for some thirty. He who has ears, let him hear.” Then the a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to account of the word, immediately he falls away. As for them in parables?” And he answered them, “To you it what was sown among thorns, this is he who hears the has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of word, but the cares of the world and the delight in heaven, but to them it has not been given. For to him riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. As for who has will more be given, and he will have abun- what was sown on good soil, this is he who hears the dance; but from him who has not, even what he has word and understands it; he indeed bears fruit, and will be taken away. This is why I speak to them in yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing in another thirty.” they do not hear, nor do they understand. With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says: Priest ‘You shall indeed hear but never understand, and you shall indeed see but never perceive. For this people’s heart has grown dull, and their ears are heavy of hear- 3 The People sit The Homily Fr. Bergman The People stand The Nicene Creed Priest I believe in one God, People the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible; And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made; who for us men and for our salvation came down from heaven, genuflect and was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man; arise and was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate; he suffered and was buried; and the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, and ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father; and he shall come again, with glory, to judge both the quick and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.