Catholic TV Mass Online January 28, 2024: Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Presider: Fr. John Puodziunas OFM
Parish: Assumption BVM Province
Choir: Heart of the Nation
Text From the Gospel & Homily ~ January 28, 2024
The Lord be with you. And with your spirit.
A reading from the holy gospel according to Mark. Glory to you, o Lord.
Then they came to Capernaum, and on the sabbath Jesus entered the synagogue and taught there. The people were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority not as the other scribes. In their synagogue was a man with an unclean spirit; he cried out, "What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are - the holy one of God!" Jesus rebuked him and said, "Quiet! Come out of him!" The unclean spirit convulsed him and with a loud cry came out of him. All were amazed and asked one another, "What is this? A new teaching with authority. He commands even the unclean spirits, and they obey him." His fame spread everywhere throughout the whole region of Galilee.
The gospel of the Lord. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.
Interruptions. Few of us welcome interruptions. They are disruptions of the ordinary. The familiar. The comfortable. They cause anxiety. Let's consider today's gospel. It was the sabbath. And like all Jews whether from piety, habit or duty, on any given sabbath, Jews find themselves in the synagogue. In the midst of the ordinary. The familiar. The comfortable. But this sabbath is different. There's a guest preacher and every congregation loves to have a guest preacher, don't they? Something new. And here was this strange young man unknown from Nazareth. While all preachers deliver a message, Mark tells us that the congregation here was astonished they were mesmerized. They saw a certain authority. Quickly they began to realize that this preacher was not only delivering a message, he was the message. But then the unexpected happens. The service is interrupted. Jesus is interrupted by another stranger. The one possessed by an unclean spirit. This one steps forward and challenges the authority of this preacher. Only then to be silenced. Quiet! Jesus commands him. Quiet, and commands the unclean spirit come out of him. At that moment the stranger must have felt at peace. But the only one in that whole synagogue at peace for the others are looking, saying what is going on? They're startled, they're shocked, they're shaken, they're confused. “Who is this man?” they ask themselves. “Who is this preacher?” “Who is this man who was possessed by the unclean spirit?” “Who has interrupted our familiar?” Our lives are most often very ordinary. And very familiar. It makes us comfortable in our homes, in our rooms, in the midst of our families, our neighborhoods, in the midst of our friends. Even in the Mass that is so familiar, we live in this comfortable place. Here we can mind our own business. And let the world go on until an interruption happens. The unexpected visitor shows up and startles us. A shocking event in the world. Health crisis. Any other kind of difficulty. An unexpected word from a stranger. A kind word. Our familiar. The ordinary is interrupted. Let us hear Jesus. Quiet. Be still. We may hear his voice in the midst of that interruption. It is here that we may find Christ. It is here that we may find the peace.
Entrance: All Creatures of Our God and King
Francis of Assisi, 1182-1226
Tr. by William H. Draper, 1855-1933
Geistliche Kirchengeslinge, Cologne, 1623
Arr © 2018 WLP a div of GIA Publications, Inc.
Arr. by Ed Bolduc
Psalm 95: If Today You Heart His Voice
Text © 1969, 1981, 1997, ICEL. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Music © 2016, Ben Walther. Published by OCP. All rights reserved.
Preparation: You Are The Healing
Text and music: Scott Soper, b. 1961, © 1992, OCP. All rights reserved.
Communion: You Alone
Text: Sarah Hart, b. 1968, and Dwight Liles, b. 1957.
Music: Sarah Hart and Dwight Liles; keyboard acc. by Rick Modlin, b. 1966.
Text and music © 1999, 2002, BMG Songs, Inc. (ASCAP) (All rights reserved. Administered by Music Services, Inc., o/b/o BMG Music Publishing. Used with permission.)
and Sarah Hart. Published by spiritandsong.com®, a division of OCP. All rights reserved.
Sending Forth: Hallelujah Is Our Song
© 2012, Meaux Jeaux Music, Tunes From The Basement, River Oaks Music Company, Sarah Hart, all administered at CapitolCMGPublishing.com, Fiat Music, LLC, and Josh Blakesley. Published by Spirit & Song®, a division of OCP. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Mass Setting: Mass of Saint Ann
Text: ICEL, © 2010 Music: Mass of Saint Ann, Ed Bolduc, © 2011, World Library Publications
Permission to podcast/stream the music in this liturgy obtained from ONE LICENSE, License No. A-718591
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Thank you for today's Mass, Heart of the Nation! I normally attend Mass in person but did not today. I particularly enjoyed the Sarah Hart songs. We've been singing them a lot in my parish also.

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Thank you for sharing this beautiful celebration of the Lord's Eucharist! He Has Risen ! AMEN! I would like to acknowledge The Heart of The Nation Choir on such a phenomenal job they did singing and proclaiming with their inspirational voices!! Music 🎵🎶❣️❣️🙏🌄 makes the Mass so much more inspirational! I would like to acknowledge the Lector, Earl Bracy , on such a wonderful reading voice and he read the readings with so much reverence ❤❤❤! I want to acknowledge the Cantor, Chris Schulteis, on a spectacular job he did with the responsorial Psalms and the other antiphons ❤❤ that he sang! I look forward to seeing this celebration every week watching This Service from Brasil! I really loved the offerertory song and I never heard it before and it was so moving! I would like to acknowledge the pianist, the flutist, and the Priest, Father John, on such a great sermon he gave! Could I please ask for your prayers for my friend, Hianna Marilia, who passed her ENEM Medical Exam, to apply for Medical Colleges! She wants to go to a Medical College in another State, but her parents think it will be very dangerous for her going to College by herself! She would have to travel by herself and be away from her family ❤️💓🙏🙏 for a long time! Please pray for Hianna that she finds the right Medical College that will be close to her home and that she will be happy with the College that she chooses! She is very anxious and she needs our Prayers ! Prayers Move Mountains 🙏🙏🙏❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹! Thank you for your prayers and God bless everyone and have a good week!!!❤❤❤😊

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