Scouts & Other Youth Groups Mass

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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
 
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and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
 
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My brothers and sisters on this occasion
 
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we welcome in a very special way all Scouts and their leaders.
 
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We welcome those who have received today the Panis Vitae Awards.
 
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We welcome
 
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their chaplains so loyal and dedicated.
 
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We welcome our
 
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former Episcopal moderator Bishop Kinnair and
 
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then in a very special way our homilist Bishop Daly from Derry in the north of Ireland.
 
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As we celebrate in this year our bicentennial
 
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we think of our founding fathers in the belief that their nation was founded upon God
 
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And so also, scouting, not quite as old as our nation, but still it voices a very basic belief in God.
 
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And so today we examine ourselves on our fidelity to God, to the Scout Oath, and to the Scout Law.
 
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Lord Jesus, you came to reconcile us to one another and to the Father.
 
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Lord have mercy.
 
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Lord Jesus, you heal the wounds of sin and division.
 
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Christ have mercy.
 
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Lord Jesus, you intercede for us with your Father.
 
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have mercy. May almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins and bring us
 
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to everlasting life. Glory to God in the highest and peace to his people on earth.
 
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Lord God, heavenly King, almighty God and Father, we worship you, we give you thanks,
 
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we praise you for your glory Lord Jesus Christ only Son of the Father Lord God
 
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Lamb of God you take away the sin of the world have mercy on us you are seated at
 
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the right hand of the Father receive our prayer for you alone are the Holy One
 
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you alone are the Lord you alone are the Most High Jesus Christ with the Holy
 
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Spirit in the glory of God the Father, amen. Let us pray.
 
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Father of mercy, you made Saint John Vianney outstanding in his priestly zeal
 
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and concern for your people. By his example and prayers enable us to win
 
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our brothers and sisters to the love of Christ and come with them to eternal
 
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glory. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ your Son who lives and reigns with
 
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you and the Holy Spirit one God forever and ever.
 
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As young people look forward to the inheritance they shall receive, they may somehow be frightened
 
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because they have a need for peace, a need for peace among all mankind.
 
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Let us be heartened and encouraged and listen to the word of Isaiah, who told a troubled
 
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world to look up and discover the salvation of God.
 
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A reading from the book of the Prophet Isaiah. All the ends of the earth shall
 
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see the salvation of our God.
 
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How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him
 
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who brings glad tidings, announcing peace,
 
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bearing good news, announcing salvation, and saying to Zion,
 
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your God is King.
 
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Hark, your watchmen raise a cry.
 
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Together they shout for joy, for they see directly
 
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before their eyes the Lord restoring Zion.
 
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Break out together in song, oh ruins of Jerusalem,
 
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for the Lord comforts his people.
 
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He redeems Jerusalem.
 
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The Lord has bared his holy arm in the sight
 
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of all the nations.
 
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All the ends of the earth will behold the salvation
 
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of our God.
 
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This is the word of the Lord.
 
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As youth prepares to accept its inheritance,
 
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youth will be served.
 
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But more than anything else, youth will serve.
 
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The kind of service Jesus calls us to,
 
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Saint Paul speaks about to the Ephesians.
 
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Listen to his word.
 
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A reading from the letter of Paul to the Ephesians.
 
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I plead with you as a prisoner for the Lord
 
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to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.
 
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With perfect humility, meekness, and patience,
 
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bearing with one another lovingly,
 
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make every effort to preserve the unity which
 
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has the spirit as its origin and peace as its binding force.
 
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There is but one body and one spirit,
 
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just as there is but one hope given all of you by your call.
 
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There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
 
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one God and Father of all, who is over all
 
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and works through all and is in all.
 
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Each of us has received God's favor
 
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in the measure in which Christ bestows it.
 
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It is he who gave apostles, prophets, evangelists,
 
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pastors, and teachers in the roles of service
 
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for the faithful to build up the body of Christ so we become one in faith and in
 
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the knowledge of God's Son and form that perfect man who is Christ come to full
 
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satire. This is the word of the Lord.
 
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The Lord be with you. And also with you. A reading from the Holy Gospel according to
 
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St. Matthew. When he saw the crowds he had compassion for them. Jesus continued
 
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his tour of all the towns and villages. He taught in their synagogues, he
 
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proclaimed the good news of God's reign, and he cured every sickness and disease.
 
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At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity.
 
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They were lying prostrate from exhaustion, like sheep without a shepherd.
 
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He said to his disciples, the harvest is good, but laborers are scarce.
 
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Beg the harvest master to send out laborers to gather his harvest.
 
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Then he summoned his twelve disciples and gave them authority to expel unclean spirits
 
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and to cure sickness and disease of every kind.
 
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This is the Gospel of the Lord.
 
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Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
 
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as they spotlight the tableaus.
 
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Our first tableau speaks of the indomitable love of Christ.
 
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Who will separate us from the love of Christ?
 
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trial, distress, persecution, hunger, nakedness, danger of the sword.
 
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Scripture says, for your sake we are being slain all the day long.
 
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We are looked upon as sheep to be slaughtered.
 
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Yet, in all this, we are more than conquerors because of him who loves us.
 
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I am certain that neither death nor life, angels nor principalities, the present nor
 
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the future, power, height nor depth, nor any other creature will be able to separate us
 
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from the love of God that comes to us in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
 
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The first beatitude concerns the poor in spirit.
 
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Tableau shows St. Francis, the poor man of Assisi,
 
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standing before the bishop, his father, and the townspeople.
 
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He had stripped himself of his clothes
 
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and returned them to his father.
 
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He wished to possess nothing but God, for the poor in spirit,
 
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God is always enough.
 
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The tableau for the fourth beatitude shows concerned people of today who hunger and thirst
 
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for justice. They cry out for the lives of the unborn who cannot plead for themselves.
 
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They pray that the Supreme Court will tip the scales of justice in the baby's and God's
 
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in God's direction.
 
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The sixth beatitude exemplifies the clean in heart achieved by those who practice the
 
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seven virtues in God's name and the twelve fruits of the Holy Spirit.
 
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The white worn by the angels and the blessed virgin
 
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represents the purity of heart of those who see God
 
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and continue to live with him in happiness forever.
 
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My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, life is for living.
 
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That's the message that Christ brought to us.
 
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Life's for living and living to the full.
 
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Christ said that he came that man might of life and have it more abundantly.
 
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And precisely because he takes with the utmost seriousness the claim that Jesus made at the
 
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testing point of his life, that his kingdom is not of this world, the Christian, and particularly
 
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the young Christian should see a new dimension to history and to present day living. There's
 
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no corner of man's darkness beyond Christ's power to illuminate. There's no future point
 
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of history at which he will still not be coming to meet man and heal him of his wounds. And
 
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This is the victory that we proclaim when we celebrate the Eucharist in the words,
 
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Christ has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again.
 
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Our faith, the faith that we profess, is more than a set of beliefs.
 
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It is a living bond with someone whose impact on human history
 
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is such that it has not only never been surpassed,
 
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it has never been approached.
 
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And this is what motivates the Christian.
 
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This is what should motivate the follower of Christ.
 
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We read in the Acts of the Apostles,
 
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that book of the New Testament that tells us
 
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the years after Pentecost.
 
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We read in that book of the enthusiasm,
 
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the uncontainable enthusiasm of the apostles
 
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to tell the world about Christ
 
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after that first Pentecost Sunday.
 
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And that's the enthusiasm that we,
 
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as Christians, should have.
 
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Too many of us, too many of us today,
 
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are inclined to be shy about our religious beliefs.
 
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Too many of us are inclined to hide
 
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the beliefs that are within us.
 
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We must be prepared, in St. Paul's words,
 
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to put on Christ.
 
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We must be prepared to live our lives
 
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in a manner that will inspire those
 
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who have not got faith,
 
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or who have no faith, to be curious,
 
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to be inquiring and to ask,
 
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what has he got that I haven't got?
 
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Our Christian lives should and must be lived to the full,
 
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and we must pray continually for a fuller
 
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and a deeper understanding of our faith.
 
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We must continually endeavor to discover
 
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what Christ wants of us, what Christ wants of you,
 
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what he wants of me.
 
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In the Eucharistic meal that we are now privileged to share, we can receive the nourishment,
 
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the strength to go on and be other Christ, to be witnesses to Christ in the world.
 
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As young people today, you live in a world that has lost its way, a world which to a
 
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a large extent has lost sight of Christ in the quest for wealth, in the quest for pleasure,
 
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in the quest for power. You should never have an inferiority complex about having the title
 
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Christian. You should consider it a privilege. The world is waiting for you. The modern world
 
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has tried every wrong answer to the meaning of life,
 
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and it is ready for the right answer.
 
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You yourselves have the gift, the gift of faith,
 
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for which you must be thankful,
 
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because by having the faith, you have a route map.
 
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You have a way through life, a way of living life,
 
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a way of understanding life that gives meaning to life,
 
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that gives purpose to life,
 
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that gives you an understanding of death.
 
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I am the way, the truth, and the life.
 
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We live today in an escapist world,
 
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a world that vainly seeks satisfaction
 
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and meaning and fulfillment in worldly things,
 
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in the things of man rather than the things of God.
 
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But these things do not bring lasting satisfaction.
 
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or lasting happiness.
 
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Wealth is sought after as the key to all the world's problems.
 
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But many of the most wealthy people in the world are
 
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also some of the most unhappy people in the world.
 
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Escape is sought on alcohol, it's sought on drugs, in sexual promiscuity.
 
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They scream at us from every book stand, from every billboard, from every theater canopy.
 
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And as a result, we have an enormous worldwide breakdown of growth in alcoholism, drug addiction,
 
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suicide, broken marriages, unwanted and neglected children, and all the unhappiness that results
 
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from these phenomena.
 
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The quest for worldly power has led men to wage war, to kill, to maim, to destroy, and
 
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to break bodies and to shatter minds.
 
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The quest for wealth, pleasure, power
 
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has caused misery and it has caused suffering
 
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in this world.
 
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And still men seek these things
 
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and still men encourage others
 
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to do likewise.
 
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Surely these cannot be the keys to life.
 
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Surely this cannot be living life.
 
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life. The quest of these leads to the destruction of life. There is another world, a world that
 
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some of you perhaps may have had the privilege of hearing described yesterday by Mother Teresa
 
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of Calcutta in that inspiring and moving talk she gave at the Convention Centre. The other
 
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center, the other world, the world of the poor, the world of the oppressed, the world
 
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of the deprived, of the handicapped, that men in today's world, in their quest for wealth,
 
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pleasure or power, ignore and trample on and make to suffer more. Happiness sought for
 
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Happiness sought for its own sake never comes.
 
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Happiness can only be found as a by-product of doing what God created us for,
 
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and by living our lives as God meant us to live them.
 
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Happiness is found in following the Maker's instructions.
 
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The kingdom of happiness cannot be taken by storm.
 
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I would ask you, as young people today, what world do you choose?
 
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Do you want to serve or do you want to be served?
 
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Are you also, like so many others, going to ignore the Samaritan lying at the roadside?
 
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Actually the only way of living life is the Christian way.
 
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It gives meaning to life.
 
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It gives the person living that life the satisfaction, the satisfaction of knowing that he is doing
 
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what his Creator meant him to do.
 
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It gives one a purpose.
 
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Man needs a creed.
 
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He needs something to follow.
 
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And the Church offers this to you and to me.
 
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Christ offered this to the Church.
 
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Each one of you, as young people here today, as youth leaders in this world of ours, can
 
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make an impact on your own particular world, small though it may be, whether it be in the
 
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home, your own home, or high school, or university campus, or college, perhaps it
 
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might be in an industrial plant or office. Each one of you can be another
 
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Christ because it's not enough that the good news of the gospel be proclaimed
 
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only in liturgical assemblies or on pulpits. God calls man in the world, man
 
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man in the mammoth industrial plant, man in the university, man in the inner city, man
 
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in the suburban area.
 
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God speaks to man in Scripture, but he must also speak to men through other Christs who
 
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proclaim by their lives and the witness that they give that God has entered human history
 
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and that God can so change a man by his spirit that he lives in the love of Christ, which
 
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which knows how to serve and work in close union
 
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with others for goals which are truly human.
 
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There was an Indian leader called Mahatma Gandhi.
 
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He was a man of great sanctity.
 
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He was a Hindu.
 
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He was a man who had a great interest
 
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and a great attraction to Christ's teachings,
 
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great love for Christ.
 
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And one of the things that always puzzled him and disenchanted him to some extent was
 
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that he could never see Christ in the Christians he met.
 
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And he's not the only one who has sometimes felt the same.
 
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There are many today who sincerely seek a life of communion and service and search in
 
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vain for proofs that Christianity makes this life possible because many of their fellow
 
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workers, their colleagues, their friends who are Christians show no apparent concern for
 
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bettering this city, this country, this world which according to their faith God loved enough
 
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to send his own son. Those with failing faith or no faith know that Christ taught his disciples
 
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disciples that mutual love and unity were to be the recognizable signs of their belonging
 
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to Him. Yet they meet too many Christians who cannot get along together, or work together,
 
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or who live unconcerned in the midst of crying social injustice or poverty. I ask you, as
 
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young Christians today to opt for Christ and for his fuller life. Opting for Christ means
 
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serving rather than being served. It means giving rather than getting. Many of you are
 
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at the start of life. You wonder how you'll spend your life. Spend it as you'd spend money.
 
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it to get something better. Give it away in order to get something better. Christian love
 
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is a love of self-giving. So I give you today a slogan for Christian living, a Christian
 
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slogan for youth, and that slogan is, living is giving. This is the slogan of Christ, for
 
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Christ has said, it is a better thing to give than to receive.
 
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Many of you are members of the Scouting Program
 
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here in the United States and other parts of the world.
 
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And I feel very proud that amongst the people
 
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here are a group of Scouts from my own diocese
 
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from Derry in Ireland.
 
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The Scouting Program is an example of Christian self-giving.
 
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Scouting is good because it does not pamper young people.
 
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It treats them as adults.
 
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It asks something of them.
 
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The recreation Scouting Movement offers
 
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is recreation in the real sense.
 
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It makes a man out of a boy.
 
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It recreates them, creates them anew.
 
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And Scouting offers you a recipe for living.
 
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It offers you a challenge, an exciting challenge.
 
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And it offers you a Christian formation.
 
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It offers you companionship and comradeship.
 
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It offers you adventure and basic skills.
 
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It gives you an opportunity to come closer to nature,
 
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to appreciate the beauty and the wonder of God's creation in the fields,
 
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in the mountains, in the forests, in the streams.
 
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And most of all, it teaches you to fend for yourselves and to help others as best you
 
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can.
 
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In the world of today, too many young people are given too much and asked for too little.
 
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Some parents pander to their child's every little need.
 
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And such children may well grow up into a gimme generation.
 
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Gimme this, gimme that.
 
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Always asking, never giving.
 
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A generation that wants to be given everything and is prepared to give nothing.
 
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A generation that is unwilling to share.
 
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A generation that is filled with selfishness, which is one of the great evils in the modern
 
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world.
 
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Scouting will widen your vision in these areas.
 
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It will help you during these important formative years of your lives to get your priorities
 
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right as citizens and as Christians.
 
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Scouting can instill in young people true Christian values that can help you in later
 
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life to be good Christians and good citizens. Be loyal to your scouting ideals. You'll be
 
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better people for it. I come from Ireland and as you know, St. Patrick is our national
 
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apostle. St. Patrick's Day in fact is much more honoured and observed here in the United
 
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States than it is at home in Ireland. I remember once being here in the month of March and
 
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the United States seemed to be submerged in a sea of green,
 
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with large green shamrocks sprouting
 
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from every school window.
 
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Patrick was a courageous man.
 
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And I'm convinced that had there been scouts
 
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since in Patrick's time, he would have been
 
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a most enthusiastic boy scout.

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Patrick won a great number of merit badges or proficiency badges too. Patrick was a man
 
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of great faith, had strong feet. He travelled all over the island of Ireland, preaching
 
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and teaching by word and by example, the good news, the gospel of Christ. He baptised tens
 
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of thousands of people. He offered the sacrifice of the Eucharist as we are doing now, and
 
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he offered it on the hillsides, the mountainsides, in the palaces of the high kings, and in the
 
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straw huts of serfs. The age we live in today prefers action to adoration, and prefers protest
 
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to prayer. But it is impossible to have worthwhile action without adoration. It is impossible
 
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to have effective protest without prayer,
 
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as Martin Luther King so dramatically exemplified
 
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in this country.
 
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Today, it is worth remembering that St. Patrick,
 
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that man of action, effective action,
 
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was above all a man of prayer.
 
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A man who wrote of himself in his confessions,
 
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the love of God and the fear of him increased more and more,
 
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and my faith grew, and my spirit was stirred up,
 
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so that in a single day, I prayed as often as 100 times,
 
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and by night, almost as frequently,
 
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while I was in the woods or in the mountains.
 
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Patrick was, above all, a man of prayer.
 
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And it is good to remember that the last, great,
 
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and most successful non-violent revolution in Ireland
 
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was the work of Patrick, single-handed.
 
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So Patrick would have been a fine Scout.
 
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Scouts should be fine St. Patrick's.
 
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They should be proud of their nation.
 
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They should be proud of their faith.
 
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And they should live up to both those titles.
 
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Today, at the Eucharistic Congress,
 
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is a day of prayer for religious vocations
 
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and religious commitment by priests
 
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and religious of the world.
 
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And I would ask each one of you young people
 
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here present, boys and girls, I would
 
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ask you during this mass and during this week
 
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to pray for those intentions.
 
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And I would ask you on the occasion of this Congress
 
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to do more than that.
 
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I would ask you to consider seriously
 
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whether you would like to serve God,
 
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the Church, and your fellow man
 
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in a special manner in the priesthood or religious life.
 
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If you feel that God might be calling you
 
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to dedicate yourselves to him in a special manner,
 
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Don't be frightened about it.
 
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Don't think you're going a little strange.
 
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Pray about it.
 
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Discuss it with somebody, perhaps your father or your mother,
 
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perhaps a priest whom you know and who knows you.
 
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However, I would ask you never to dismiss a feeling of this kind with the remark,
 
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me, a priest, me, a religious sister.
 
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Never.
 
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never dismiss it in that way. The Church needs people and needs them badly to come forward
 
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and to serve the Church, God and their fellow man as priests and sisters. Life in the priesthood
 
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is a good life, it's a challenging life, it's a stimulating life. I've been a priest for almost
 
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19 years and I can thoroughly recommend it. It's a wonderful privilege to be able to serve God,
 
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the Church and one's fellow man in this manner, not to speak of the privilege it is
 
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to of offering the Eucharist. Living today is a matter of choosing sides.
 
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Which side do you choose to be on?
 
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In the world of today, there are the enemies of Jesus
 
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and there are the friends of Jesus.
 
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Just as Jesus, whilst he was on earth, had his friends and his enemies.
 
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We've all met the enemies of Jesus.
 
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We have at times become afraid of them.
 
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They have power, they have energy, they have enormous ambition.
 
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their spirit does not warm or kindle.
 
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It terrifies us because it has a flair for disorder,
 
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destruction and death.
 
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It can work havoc in a community.
 
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It can bring and has brought war to the world.
 
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It does not create or recreate, but tears down and destroys.
 
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And history so often is the story of these men,
 
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and nations of the world bear the scars of their madness and their pathology.
 
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They are men possessed of power to dominate a population in what it says,
 
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in what they say, think, read or watch. Their spirit is in the world, make no
 
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mistake about it. It does not lead to love of life. Its only conclusion is
 
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death and Jesus was a victim of its malice. But Jesus too has his friends and
 
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we too must be men of spirit. Death is all around us in the world. Human life is
 
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cheap. To believe in death is natural and human, but to believe in resurrection is
 
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is Christian.
 
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The Spirit possessed the apostles
 
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and made them equal to every adversity.
 
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And the Spirit can possess us too, you and me,
 
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if we allow it and if we are sufficiently generous.
 
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We cannot opt out, we cannot drop out.
 
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We must opt in, for we believe in a Spirit
 
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that can renew the face of a very stubborn earth.
 
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This then is your challenge as young people,
 
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members of the Scouting Movement and other youth groups,
 
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this is your challenge today.
 
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Live up to that challenge.
 
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Life is for living and living to the full.
 
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Living is giving.
 
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Be generous, be good to others,
 
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live your faith, and live it to the full.
 
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And by doing so, you'll find meaning in your lives.
 
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You'll find purpose in your lives,
 
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and you'll inspire others to find meaning in theirs.
 
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son,
 
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and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
 
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God our father sent his son to bring salvation to people of every time place and condition
 
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through prayer and openness to his message
 
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Salvation and service can spread to all the world
 
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Our response to the petitions
 
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Satisfy the hungers of your family
 
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That more men and women may give their lives to proclaim the gospel to the people of our time,
 
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we pray to you, Lord.
 
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Satisfy the hungers of your family.
 
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That the Christian community may have leaders who reflect Jesus' wisdom and love,
 
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especially for the lowly, we pray to you, Lord.
 
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Satisfy the hungers of your family.
 
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That more young people may consider the priesthood and religious life important vocations in God's eyes and people's estimation.
 
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We pray to you, Lord,
 
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Satisfy the hungers of your family.
 
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As we share the true bread from heaven, may we share the good things of life with others.
 
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We pray to you, Lord,
 
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Satisfy the hungers of your family.
 
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family. That the Eucharist may keep us one with Jesus as he prayed for all his
 
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friends at the Last Supper. We pray to you Lord. Satisfy the hungers of your
 
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family. Oh Father in heaven you have made us for yourself. Our hearts are restless
 
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until they rest in you. Fulfill this longing through Jesus the bread of life
 
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so that we may witness to him who alone satisfies the hungers of the human family.
 
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You satisfy the hungry heart with this, our finest wheat.
 
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Come give to us, O serving Lord, the bread of life to eat.
 
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That when the shepherd calls his sheep,
 
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they know and hear his voice.
 
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So when you call your family, Lord, we follow and rejoice.
 
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You satisfy the hungry heart with gift of finest wheat.
 
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A victorious, a saving Lord, the bread of life to me.
 
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With joyful lips we sing to you our praise and gratitude.
 
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That you should count us worthy, Lord,
 
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to share this heavenly food.
 
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You satisfy the hungry heart with gift of kindness free.
 
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Come give to us, O saving Word, the bread of life to eat.
 
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Is not the cup we bless and share the blood of Christ our Lord?
 
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Do not one cup, one life declare our oneness in the Lord.
 
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You satisfy the hungry heart with gifts of finest wheat.
 
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Come give to us, O saving Lord, the breath of life to eat.
 
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The mystery of your presence, Lord,
 
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no mortal tongue can tell, whom all the world cannot contain.
 
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comes in our hearts to dwell.
 
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You satisfy the hungry heart with gift of kindness.
 
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We come give to us, O Savior, the bread of life to eat.
 
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You give yourself to us, O Lord, than selfless men must be,
 
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to serve each other in your name, in truth and charity.
 
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You satisfy the hungry heart with gift of finest wheat.
 
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Come give to us, O saving Lord, the bread of life to eat.
 
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Please be seated for just a moment.
 
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During this time of Thanksgiving, it's very appropriate for me as the Episcopal moderator
 
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of the National Catholic Committee on Scouting
 
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to give thanks to so many people,
 
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in particular to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia
 
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as the host of this Eucharistic Congress.
 
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We think of the prodigious tasks
 
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they've taken upon themselves
 
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and are doing it so admirably.
 
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We give thanks for the privilege of being present here
 
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At this Eucharistic congressman we can give
 
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witness to our faith
 
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We give thanks at being able to increase our faith that seeing all that is taking place
 
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We thank
 
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Especially
 
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our Heavenly Father for the opportunity of
 
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Expressing our unity as
 
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Catholics and
 
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Christians. We thank in a very special way this day for the leaders of our scouting movement,
 
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for those who have been active in the youth movement all throughout the world.
 
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We thank the scouts themselves and their parents. We thank those who support this movement.
 
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We wish to express our gratitude in a very particular way today for the service corps of Scouts.
 
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I don't know how many of you know it, but two years ago when the idea was brought that the Eucharistic Congress would be held here,
 
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the National Catholic Committee on Scouting volunteered the services of Scouts throughout this nation.
 
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nation and already over 10,000 hours have been given here at this Eucharistic
 
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Congress so we're very particularly grateful. We're very grateful to those
 
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who have received the Panis Vitae award who by their sign and their witness have
 
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showed in a very special way their love for our Lord in the Eucharist and we
 
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We thank too those who have participated in the sign program, service in God's name,
 
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who have given hours and hours of service in the name of the Lord.
 
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We thank all of you who have given witness by your presence.
 
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And I think maybe finally that we wish to give a special thanks to Bishop Daly.
 
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I don't know how many of you have known our homilist,
 
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but some years ago before he became the bishop
 
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in the north of Ireland,
 
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his picture appeared all throughout
 
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the streets of the world.
 
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He waved a handkerchief so that he might get
 
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to people who were shot and injured
 
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by the bullets of soldiers,
 
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risking his life to give the last sacraments.
 
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So we would ask him and his contingent
 
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to please stand as we give them a sign of our regard
 
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and an affection in the name of all the Scouts
 
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throughout the world.
 
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puzzles.
 
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And finally, we give thanks to Father Dolan, the local Scout Chaplain, and all his Scouts
 
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who have helped us so very much to make this a very memorable event in the lives of scouts
 
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and youth throughout the world.
 
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God bless you and keep you.
 
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And let us pray.
 
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All-powerful God, by our love and worship, may we who share this holy meal always follow
 
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the example of Saint John Vianney. Grant this in the name of Jesus the Lord.
 
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Bow your heads and pray for God's blessing.
 
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God our Father, may all Christian people rejoice in the glory of your saints.
 
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Give us fellowship with them and unending joy in your kingdom.
 
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We ask this in the name of Jesus the Lord.
 
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And may almighty God bless you, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
 
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This Mass has ended. Go in peace.
 
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Thanks be to God.