P ARISH C HURCH OF SAINT BARNABAS Four Sunday of Advent Twenty-third of December, ad 2018 Welcome to Saint Barnabas Church Founded in 1869, Saint Barnabas is a Roman Catholic parish of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter. The Ordinariate was established in 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI in order to preserve elements of the Anglican tradition within the Catholic Church. The parish entered the Catholic Church in 2013. Mass is celebrated using Divine Worship, the Vatican-promulgated Missal also known as the Ordinariate or Anglican Use liturgy. All Catholics may fulfill their Mass obligation on Sundays and holydays at Saint Barnabas. Catholics in full communion with the Holy See of Rome may receive Holy Communion at our Masses. Confessions are heard beginning 25 minutes before Mass at the rear of the church. KALENDAR Sunday, December 23 Fourth Sunday of Advent pro populo Monday, December 24 Greater Advent Feria O Virgo Virginum Tuesday, December 25 Christmas Day Wednesday, December 26 Saint Stephen, Protomartyr Thursday, December 27 Saint John, Apostle & Evangelist Friday, December 28 Holy Innocents, Martyrs Saturday, December 29 Saint Thomas Becket, Bishop & Martyr Sunday, December 30 Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, & Joseph pro populo INTERCESSIONS THE SICK AND OTHERS IN THE CHURCH AND THE NEED OF PRAYER WORLD Helmuth Dahlke, Heather De John, James and Pope Francis and Pope emeritus Benedict XVI Kathryn Drake, Donald Ehrlich, Ronald Bishop Steven Lopes [Ordinariate] Erikson, Kelly Leisure, Fran Nich, Julie Nich, Archbishop George Lucas [Omaha] Jen Schellen, Barb Scofield, Joe Stankus, Marty President Donald Trump Stankus, Mark Stoll, Richard Swanson, Jr., Governor John Peter Ricketts Robert Templin, David and Carolyn Wipfler Mayor Jean Stothert Persecuted Christians throughout the world THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED Ruth Weber Richel von Froisberg HIGH MASS Organ Rorate celi desuper Choral orné Jeanne Demessieux (1921-1968) from Douze Choral Préludes sur des thèmes grégoriens, Opus 8 (1947) Asperges me sprinkling with holy water plainsong, Mode vij priest all O Lord, show thy mercy upon us. And grant us thy salvation. O Lord, hear my prayer. And let my cry come unto thee. Lord be with you. And with thy spirit. LORD, holy Father, Almighty, everlasting to guard and cherish, protect and visit, and O God, we beseech thee to hear us; and evermore defend all who are assembled in this vouchsafe to send thy holy Angel from heaven, place; through Christ our Lord. Amen. Hymn 11 “The King shall come when morning dawns” Saint Stephen MASS of the CATECHUMENS Introit Rorate celi desuper Isaiah xl Gregorian, Mode viij ROP down, ye heavens, from above, and Psalm 19. The heavens declare the glory of D let the skies pour down righteousness: God: and the firmament showeth his handy- let the earth open, and bring forth a Saviour. work. Glory be. Drop down. In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Collect for Purity LMIGHTY God, unto whom all hearts be that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily Aopen, all desires known, and from whom magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our no secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our Lord. Amen. hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, Summary of the Law EAR what our Lord Jesus Christ saith: commandment. And the second is like unto it: H Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with these two commandments hang all the Law all thy mind. This is the first and great and the Prophets. Kyrie eleison stand : sung as indicated Missa Marialis Kyrie cum jubilo WOMEN/CHILDREN MEN WOMEN/CHILDREN MEN WOMEN/CHILDREN MEN WOMEN/CHILDREN MEN WOMEN/CHILDREN ALL Collect The Lord be with you. And with thy spirit. AISE up, we beseech thee, O Lord, thy us, thy bountiful grace and mercy may Rpower, and come among us, and with speedily help and deliver us; who livest and great might succour us: that whereas, through reignest with the Father, in the unity of the our sins and wickedness, we are sorely Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without hindered in running the race that is set before end. Amen. Lesson Micah v. 2-5a HUS SAITH THE LORD: But you, O brought forth; then the rest of his brethren T Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are little to shall return to the people of Israel. And he be among the clans of Judah, from you shall shall stand and feed his flock in the strength come forth for me one who is to be ruler in of the Lord, in the majesty of the name of the Israel, whose origin is from of old, from Lord his God. And they shall dwell secure, ancient days. Therefore he shall give them up for now he shall be great to the ends of the until the time when she who is in travail has earth. And this shall be peace. Gradual Prope est Dominus Psalm cxlv Gregorian, Mode v HE Lord is nigh unto all them that call of the Lord: and let all flesh give thanks unto T upon him: yea, all such as call upon him his holy Name. faithfully. My mouth shall speak the praise Epistle Hebrews x. 5-10 RETHREN: When Christ came into the desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and B world, he said, Sacrifices and offerings offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings you have not desired, but a body you have (these are offered according to the law), then prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin he added, Behold, I have come to do your offerings you have taken no pleasure. Then I will. He abolishes the first in order to said, Behold, I have come to do your will, O establish the second. And by that will we God, as it is written of me in the roll of the have been sanctified through the offering of book. When he said above, You have neither the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Alleluia Veni, Domine c.f. Habakkuk iii Gregorian, Mode i COME, O Lord, and tarry not: forgive the misdeeds of thy people. Gospel Saint Luke i. 39-45 The continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Luke. Glory be to thee, O Lord. T THAT TIME: Mary arose and went blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is A with haste into the hill country, to a city this granted me, that the mother of my Lord of Judah, and she entered the house of should come to me? For behold, when the voice Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. And when of your greeting came to my ears, the babe in Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the babe my womb leaped for joy. And blessed is she leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled who believed that there would be a fulfilment with the Holy Spirit and she exclaimed with a of what was spoken to her from the Lord. loud cry, Blessed are you among women, and The Gospel of the Lord. Praise be to thee, O Christ. Sermon sit Father Jason Catania Creed stand Symbolum Nicaenum plainsong, Mode i Genuflect Stand Intercessions stand Father, we pray for thy holy Catholic Have compassion on those who suffer from Church; any grief or trouble; That we all may be one. That they may be delivered from their Grant that every member of the Church distress. may truly and humbly serve thee; Give to all the departed eternal rest; That thy Name may be glorified by all And let light perpetual shine upon them. people. We praise thee for the Blessed Virgin Mary, We pray for our Holy Father, Pope for Saint Barnabas, for Saint John Cantius, Francis, Steven, our Bishop, and for all and for all thy saints who have entered into joy; Bishops, Priests, and Deacons; May we also come to share in thy heavenly That they may be faithful ministers of thy kingdom. Word and Sacraments. We pray for all who govern and hold RANT, we beseech thee, Almighty God: authority in the nations of the world; G that after the example of blessed John of Kanty, thy Confessor, we may so advance in That they may work for thy peace on earth. the knowledge of the Saints, and likewise so Give us grace to do thy will in all that we learn to show mercy to all men; that by his undertake; merits we may be counted worthy to attain That our works may find favour in thy thy pardon; through Jesus Christ thy Son our sight. Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen. PENITENTIAL RITE Invitation Ye that do truly and earnestly repent … meekly kneeling upon your knees. Prayer kneel; said by all LMIGHTY God, Father of our Lord these our misdoings; the remembrance of A Jesus Christ, Maker of all things, Judge them is grievous unto us; the burden of them of all men; we acknowledge and bewail our is intolerable. Have mercy upon us, have manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from mercy upon us, most merciful Father; for thy time to time, most grievously have committed, Son our Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, forgive us By thought, word, and deed, against thy all that is past; and grant that we may ever Divine Majesty, provoking most justly thy hereafter serve and please thee In newness of wrath and indignation against us.