Well, to prepare a little for the celebration of tomorrow's Sunday, the 15th Sunday after Pentecost. These Sundays, as you know, are the days, the seventh day or the eighth day, the day of the resurrection. And one day that after Mary was created, we met him first. Man was created as the crown on the sixth day, but the seventh day was the day in which God rested. So it is as if man would face the first day of his life as that day on which God rests from all his works, as if he would rest in that crown that he had created in man.

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It is therefore the day of contemplations, the day of the joy of our salvation, sabbatismus, the day of rest, my rest, into which we enter. St. Paul explains it in such a beautiful way in the beginning of the epistle to the Hebrews. Today, when you hear his voice, don't harden your heart. And that today, that is Sunday, that's the seventh day, that is the day of God's rest. And you will enter into my rest. So may this also and everything that we say, my dear friends, about tomorrow, Sunday, help to lead us into that rest that God, the creator, the giver of all good things, has in his mind for us that he intends should be ours.

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So tomorrow also this Mass that we celebrate together has a special, how shall we say, personal or local significance. As you know very well, the mysteries of the Church are not something objective, they are not something impersonal, but they are life. And they are our life, my life. You and I. And still there are moments and there are days in which that is more evident to us. And tomorrow, of course, it is more evident because we have so many of our dear friends here to celebrate this holy sacrifice, the sacrament of life with us. And also it receives to us a special actuality and importance by the fact

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That one of these, our friends, has just today been received into the unity of the Church. And therefore then tomorrow, for the first time, receive a holy communion. What a great, wonderful reason for rejoicing. and also what an occasion for us to prove ourselves, test ourselves, see how we as what we say, what we call cradle Catholics, those who go day by day, take the unity of the Church, take the being there of our Mother for granted, How that is new in us and becomes new in us by the very fact that tomorrow there's one in our midst who there for the third first time sees that flesh, the Lord's undying and absolute love for him that is the whole source of life and of rest for us.

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So let us look at tomorrow's Sunday just under that light and say, let us think, for example, we enjoy tomorrow out of the heart of this, our faith, which is, after all, we are all, for that matter, in the same boat. It's our heart. Bow down thy ear, O Lord, we say, to me, and hear me. Save thy servants, O my God, that trust in thee. Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I have cried to thee all day. That is really the meaning of man's day, that all day we cry. Cry to the one whom we long to behold that he may turn and may show his face to us.

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Give us his eyes, as we say. That is our great longing, and that also was the great longing that in the heart of this, our friend, Reverend Roberts, was alive for such a long time. for a long time to find out all the distance. Until then, finally, that basic trust in God's absolute love for us was to take the way of life that I am engaged into the depth of our human life. And how beautiful is it that tomorrow then, this longing, this waiting, which by the way also is expressed so beautifully in the offertory verse.

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All these verses from the Psalms, where our human person, our human self, the old and the new, raises its voice with, I waited, or to translate that, expectams, expectavi domi. I waited, and I waited, and lo, behold, he gave me his eye. And he heard my prayer. And he put a new cataclysm into my heart. A song to our God. You must weigh every word. See there what is the essence of the new life. What is the gift that God the Father puts into us. A new song. What is the song

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Song is the answer to love. The song is abundance. The song is joy. The song is totality, peace. Without all this, no song. But what kind of a song is it? The song to honor our God. You see, the one who in this way is adopted who receives God's saving grace, he is then not alone, because the one who saves him is our Father. A song is essentially a community affair. A song is only then full when it is supported by a choir. In this case, in our case, it is the Ecclesia, the song to our God.

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That is, of course, the essence of the songs of our church. And that is the beauty for a soul that expectans expectami, I awaited. And I waited. And then, lo, behold, he gave me his cry. And he put a new song upon my mouth, and the song to our God. There, this isolation, the loneliness, all that is finished. And integration has taken place, which not only establishes the inner wholeness of the one we saved, but also puts him into the greater universal wholeness of the ecclesial act of the Mother Church. And that is, of course, what we see

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happening in tomorrow's gospel. There it is, the Sunday gospel, the Sunday gospel. But how wonderful it is that in this special Sunday tomorrow, now there it stands before us, not as an event which has taken place 2,000 years ago, but there it is as something that takes place in this moment. Because that is, to most, this gospel. It is that of the youth of Nain. At that time, Jesus went into a city called Nain. And there went with him his disciples and a great multitude. And when he came nigh to the city, behold, a dead man was carried out, the only son of his mother. And she was a widow. and much people of the city were with her.

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And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said to her, Weep not. Then he came here and touched the deer, and they that carried it stood still. He said, Young man, I say to thee, Arise. He then was dead, sat up, and began to speak. And he delivered him to his mother. And there came a fear on them all, and they glorified God. A new category. A great prophet is present amongst us, and God has visited his people. That's that beautiful gospel of Timothy. And that we see, see how the Lord, what urges him? It is the sorrow of the mother.

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The mother who resents the church. And let us think of that. We are the church. We are the church. We are that mother. And therefore, let us not forget that the Lord, as it were, is waiting, waiting for our sorrow, waiting for us, that he have mercy, commensuration with the sorrow of the mother, the sorrow that he carries, that she carries in her heart. That, as it were, moves the Lord to raise the dead son They receive the tremendous importance of the Ecclesia, of the Church. They receive also the mystery, the depth, the beauty of what is a conversion to the Catholic faith, to that faith which the Church holds, in which the Church lives as the mother of so many children.

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There is a mediation. There is a real, one can say, necessary mediation. The Lord himself instituted the Ecclesia. What is here, what happens here, in the raising of the young man of name, that we see taking place at the moment of the Lord's death, when he died on the cross, Behold your mother. Behold your son. Our Lady standing by the cross represents and gives the ecclesia. And there at this moment, she becomes the mother of the son. She receives the son. So it is there where the church is born. It's there where one can say the mystery of her power lies.

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It's the sorrow over the Son. Our sorrow over the Son. Our sorrow over the crucifixion. Our sorrow over the dead Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. That is what gives life. Life to the dead. So where is that song? It is, one can say, of bringing all its reality at the sacrifice of the Holy Mass. They put the church stands by the cross. They are retuned. as the Ecclesia, as the Mother, we see the Son dead. This is my body. This is my blood. There is that, that victory of salvation, of the new life. There it is. The active reality of us.

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But not only this, not only this type of mental work, Of course, that is the basis, the foundation. But it is also, we may call it, in the spiritual way. Because this, what raises the dead from the dead into life, is the flesh of the soul that is given for their salvation. That flesh that we receive in Holy Communion. But that flesh is the source of a new spirit. That is the source of the spirit of the church. And what is that spirit of the church? And that we have to see so that we realize what is our world. What does the Lord expect from us?

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What are the tears that bring life to those who are dead? How easily to forget it. How easily to forget that we should be truly mothers at the spirit of the mother. Especially as priests. But all Christians are priests. We all take part in that motherly function. In that commiseration. And how is it? And that is the beautiful epistle of tomorrow. If we are made alive in the Spirit, then let us walk in the Spirit. And what is that? First, what it is not, let us not be made desirous, as it is said here, don't know how good the English is, be made desirous of vain glory.

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That's the opposite. That is what kills the life. That is the flesh, the flesh, the flesh of the old man, desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, competition, envy one another. All that is diametrically opposed to the spirit of the mother. That is the pride that kills. But then, brethren, if a man be overtaken in any fault, you men of the spirit instruct such a one in the spirit of meekness Consider it yourself.

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Consider it yourself. That is a thing which comes in this epistle again and again. That spirit, and I would say the spirit of the Ecclesia Mater, the spirit of the Mother Church, That is a spirit which gives us a very clear and specific insight into ourselves. That spirit is not the spirit in which we boast. It's not the spirit that blows up. But it is the spirit which reduces us to our sons, to our true sons. Therefore, you who are spiritually instructed in saying meekness, considering thyself, and that means being very careful, lest thou also be tempted.

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Bear ye one another's burdens. And so you shall fulfill the law of Christ. That's the spirit of the mother. That's the spirit in which we should live in this world. For if any man think himself to be something, whereas he is nothing, he deceives him. That spirit is the spirit of truth. That is the spirit of absolute sincerity. That is the spirit which produces us to our size. What is it? If any man think himself to be something whereas he is nothing. That's our size. He deceives himself. But let every one

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just by himself, be very sincere about his own work, and then he shall keep all his glory by himself and not promulgate it before the public. Everyone bearing his own burdens That is the spirit of the Buddha, that spirit of humanity, that spirit of love, that spirit that picks up, carries the other one, forgets about himself, that him that is instructed in the world communicate to him that instructed him in all good things. The truth, the treasures of God's wisdom that this spirit carries within and that this spirit teaches us in the depth of our heart, that should be shared with others in all good things.

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Be not deceived. God is not mocked. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. And he that soweth in his flesh of the flesh also shall reap corruption. But he that soweth in the spirit of the spirit shall reap life everlasting. And let us never get tired doing good. For in due time we shall win, not failing. Therefore, whilst we have time, let us work good to all men, but especially to those who are the household of the faith.

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That is the spirit of the Ecclesia Mater, as a program of life for every one of us. We are so blessed by that good through which the Church, that munus as it is here said in the Oration of Mars, call it so beautifully, because the Church cannot continue in safety without them. You see how, shall we say, logical all that is, and how beautifully the Church confesses her own size in this Mass tomorrow, because the Church cannot continue for one moment in safety without them. Therefore, govern the church all the time with thy gift.

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What a beautiful concept that is. Govern with thy gift. That is the way in which Christ as the bridegroom, who gives his blood for his church, Goggins her with his gift. That's the Eucharist. That's what we see tomorrow on the altar. There is the gift of the Lord. There is the bread and there is the wine. There is the body and there is the blood. And there is the gift of the Lord. With that gift, he rules his church. that is the voice of love that is the life of love that is heaven on earth and it is so true and it is so overbearingly deep if we think that it is one of the basic truth which the church teaches that the power the priestly power the ruling power

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of the High Lord, of the ecclesiastical authority, of the bishop and of the priest, is based upon what? Upon the power of consecrating, the power of performing, of giving to the church this gift, this body and this blood. That's the source of all Shall we call it that way? Power in the church. And that is the way in which Christ, the Lord, rules his church through his gift, his body and his blood. Take it and eat it. Drink it. It is shed for the salvation of you and of the many. No limit. That is the way he rules. And that is, of course, what we then, who are the receivers, the ecclesiastics, realize all the time.

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That we are the channel. What we receive, we have to give it to others. It is never our own. And therefore, listen, how beautifully the very function of the priest in the church, and again I say, of every Christian in this world, because he takes part in that priesthood, how beautifully it is formulated, as we sing it tomorrow, as a song in the graduate, to show forth thy mercy in the morning and thy truth in the night. It is good to give praise to the Lord and to sing to thy name almost high, to show forth thy mercy in the morning and thy truth in the night. Those are the two essential tasks

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between which the life of man constantly changes, morning, that means day, and night, the day in which man realizes his own power, his capacity of action, his work, and all these things. And in this morning, when everything goes well, When we are, let us say, we say today, a success, then what is the function of the church? To sing to thy name, to show forth thy mercy in this morning. That's what we do. When everything that goes away, we show the mercy. We show and we realize that it is nothing But the love of our Heavenly Father shown to us in the curious, in the resurrection of Christ, that makes our life.

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That really is our life. And the other time is the night. The night is when man's powers, when they batch, when we feel our helplessness, That is the light. The light leaves us. We are helpless. We are unable to move. And then, to show thy truth in the night. I would say, thy loyalty. Thy absolute faithfulness in the night. And that is our life. We sit with Christ. We still live our life. day and night. They are the two essential parts of our life. The day really is fulfilled, glorified, transfigured only in the love of God, in that creative love with which the Savior approaches the beer, the dead, you, and says, arise.

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And the night, the night is the time when we realize that the world is of powers over which we have no control. And then we announce the faithfulness. And we are at the end of our own width. the faithfulness of God, that eye that never sleeps, as the Old Testament says so beautifully, the never-sleeping eye watches us, gives us life. And that is the message that we as priests have to address to the faithful. When things go good and men are tempted to build up the Tower of Babylon, we have to war. We have to announce the truth that is only the gift of mercy that rules the affairs of man.

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When men are disillusioned When men are subject to all the light of despair, then we have to keep the light shining, that light of the never-sleeping eye, of his everlasting faithfulness. So let us celebrate that tomorrow then all together. And when we come to the altar and there we sing then, the bread that I will give is my flesh for the life of the world. And then everybody receives that flesh. This is the body of the Lord Jesus Christ. Corpus Dominus to Jesus Christ. Custodia vita me terciatura.

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custodiate in vitam eterna, may keep you for everlasting life. And then we say, Amen. A jubilant Amen. Just as jubilant as it will rise out of the heart of our friend Vernon Roberts. Amen. That Amen with which we surrender to that ruler, Who governs his church with his body and his blood?

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