Catholic TV Mass Online October 27, 2019: 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Presider: Fr. John Puodziunas OFM Parish: Assumption BVM Province Choir: Heart of the Nation TEXT FROM THE GOSPEL AND HOMILY The Lord be with you. And with your spirit. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke. Glory to you o Lord. Jesus addressed this parable to those who were convinced of their own righteousness and despised everyone else, "Two people went up to the temple area to pray; one was a Pharisee and the other was a tax collector. The Pharisee took up his position and spoke this prayer to himself, 'O God I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity - greedy, dishonest, adulterous or even like the tax collector. I fast twice a week and I pay tithes on my whole income.' But the tax collector stood off at a distance and would not even raise his eyes to heaven but beat his breast and prayed. 'O God be merciful to me a sinner.' I tell you the latter went home justified, not the former; for whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted." The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ Let us consider the parable in today's gospel for our reflection, the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. Not to identify ourselves nor someone else with one or the other. Please don't do that. But to simply examine and reflect on their stance before God. According to the Pharisee, he's the good guy. He follows the rules, follows all the regulations, he tithes, he fasts, he does his worship. He is a very pious person, he's all about what he is doing and also what he is not doing. He's not being adulterous, he's not being dishonest, he's not being greedy. The Pharisee is such a good guy, such a righteous person, he doesn't even need God. He has it all figured out. Then we have the tax collector. Now, we know he's the bad guy, right? He collects taxes, he rips off the poor, taking advantage of them. But at the end of the day, it's the tax collector who goes home justified. Justified not because he's gazing down, or not because he's beating his breast, or not because he knows his sinfulness. He's justified, or goes home justified because he recognizes who God is. And he recognizes that God is of love and mercy. And he recognizes that God wants to shower that love and mercy upon him as unworthy as he is. You see, righteousness, justification before God is not about who we are. It's not about what we do. It's not about how we see ourselves. Justification before God is about how we see God in our lives. How we define God. How we need God. Faith, justification, is knowing that God is God and I am not. Faith is knowing that God is the creator of all and I am the created. Faith is about knowing that God loves and I am loved, that we are loved by this God. Faith and justification is knowing that God is merciful and that I, we, the sinners, though at times so undeserving, still need mercy and that we are then the recipients of God's unbounded mercy to us. Entrance: All Who Enter Here John Angotti & Daniel Houze, Arr. by Ed Bolduc Copyright © 2016, World Library Publications. All Rights Reserved. Psalm 34: The Lord Hears the Cry of the Poor © 2019 John Angotti Preparation: Whatever You Do From the music collection Joy Beyond Our Dreams WLP John Angotti, vocal arr. by Paul A. Tate Keyboard arr. by Ed Bolduc Copyright © 2008 World Library Publications. All rights reserved. Communion: Seek and You Will Find From the CD Extraordinary Love WLP John Angotti Keyboard arr. by Ed Bolduc Copyright © 2010 World Library Publications. all rights reserved. Sending Forth: I Send You Out John Angotti Arr. by Paul A. Tate Text and music © 2000, WLP Mass Setting: Mass of Rejoicing John Angotti, Keyboard arr. by Ed Bolduc Text copyright © 2010 ICEL Music copyright © 2000, 2013 World Library Publications Permission to podcast/stream the music in this liturgy obtained from ONE LICENSE, License No. A-718591. www.HeartoftheNation.org