Black Community Eucharist - Side A

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Now begin.
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In the spirit of holiness, the spirit of the truth of Christ, prepare your heart and your
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mind in that true spirit of Catholicity that says the whole world now in Christ rises again
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to praise him.
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In the name of the Father, in the name of the Son,
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In the name of the spirit, the blessed three in one.
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I know that something for sure is happening.
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When with love for the Holy Spirit,
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oh, revive my soul again.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah,
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hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah,
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when with love for the Holy Spirit,
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♪ Who revived my soul again
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♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah
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♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah
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♪ Thanks for the love of the Holy Spirit
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♪ Who revived my soul again
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♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah
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♪ Hallelujah, thank the Lord
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Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
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Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
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Oh, we've got our song again.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, praise the Lord for the Holy Spirit.
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Ooh, we've got control of our spirit.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, praise the Lord.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah,
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Thank the Lord for all we've given.
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Glory, world, and all our giving.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Thank the Lord for all we've given.
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Glory, world, and all our giving.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah,
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Sound of drums.
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Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
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Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
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Oh, Lord, all is healing.
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Oh, we've got my soul again.
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Oh, we've got my soul again.
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Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah.
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Oh, hallelujah.
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Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah.
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Hallelujah.
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Oh, Lord, all is healing.
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Oh, we've got my soul again.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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And the Lord for the Holy Spirit,
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who is as my soul, I'm filled.
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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♪ Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia
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Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Let the whole world know His Spirit,
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Who He was and for us is.
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
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Let the whole world know His Spirit,
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
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Let the whole world know His Spirit,
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Oh, we are nervous, All of us are dangerous
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Aleluya, Aleluya!
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Aleluya!
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Thank the Lord for all we've given. Glory, world, and all our giving. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, oh, who revived my soul again
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I myself am the living bread come down from heaven.
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If you eat this bread, you shall live forever.
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If you drink the water that I give, you will never thirst.
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For the water that I give shall become an ever-flowing fountain
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springing up within you, giving life everlasting.
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If you thirst, come unto me.
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Drink, if you believe in me.
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For from within me, rivers of living water,
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the waters of the spirit shall flow.
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First reading, a reading from the book of Ezekiel.
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All my people, I am going to take you from among the nations
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and gather you together from all the foreign countries
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and bring you home to a land to call your own.
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I shall pour clean water over you.
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It will make you clean and renewed.
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I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in it.
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I shall remove the heart of stone from your bodies
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and give you a heart of flesh instead.
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Then you shall be my people and I will be your God.
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Then I shall summon the corn and make it plentiful.
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And I shall increase the yield of your fruit trees.
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And food shortages will no longer plague you.
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I will repopulate your deserted cities
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and cause their ruins to be rebuilt.
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And everyone will say,
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this land so recently wasted
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is now like a garden of Eden.
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And the ruined cities,
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once abandoned and leveled to the ground,
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are now strongholds
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with the new people living in them.
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I, the Lord God, have said it,
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have said it, and I will do it.
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The second reading...
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is taken from the letter of St. Paul
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to the Corinthians.
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Just as a human body, though it is made of many members,
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is but one body, so also it is with Christ.
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In one spirit, we were all baptized,
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Jews and Greeks, slaves,
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slaves as well as free citizens.
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And we were all given to drink of one spirit.
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Is not the cup of blessing that we bless
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a sharing in the blood of Jesus Christ?
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And is not the bread that we break
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a sharing in the body of Christ.
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Because the bread is one,
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we many are one body,
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for we all partake of the one bread.
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This is the word of the Lord.
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The Lord be with you.
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And also with you.
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A reading from the Holy Gospel according to John.
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Glory to you, O Lord.
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Jesus had to pass through Samaria,
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and his journey brought him to a Samaritan town named Shechem,
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near the plot of land which Jacob had given to his son, Joseph.
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Now this was the site of Jacob's well.
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And Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down at the well to rest.
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The hour was about noon.
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But when a Samaritan woman came near to draw water,
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Jesus said to her,
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Give me a drink.
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The Samaritan woman said to him,
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You? You are a Jew.
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How can you ask me, a Samaritan, and a woman for a drink?
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Jesus replied,
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If only you recognized God's gift
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and who it is that is asking you for a drink,
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then you would have asked Him instead,
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and He would have given you living water.
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Sir, she challenged Him,
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You do not have a bucket, and this well is very deep.
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Where do you expect to get this flowing water?
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Surely you do not pretend to be greater than our ancestor Jacob,
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who gave us this well and drank from it with his sons and his fox.
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Jesus replied,
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Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.
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But whoever drinks the water I give him will never be thirsty.
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No, the water I give shall become a fountain within him,
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leaping up to provide eternal life.
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Sir, answered the woman,
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I can see you are a prophet.
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Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain,
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but you people claim that Jerusalem is the place
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where men ought to worship God.
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Jesus told her,
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Believe me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
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Yes, yes, an hour is coming and is already here when authentic worshippers will worship
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the Father in spirit and in truth.
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Indeed, it is just such worshippers the Father seeks.
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God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.
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If you thirst, come unto me.
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Drink and believe in me.
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From within me rivers of living water, the waters of the spirit
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shall flow.
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Your Eminence Cardinal Knox.
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Your Eminence Cardinal Otunga.
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Your Excellency Archbishop Jadot.
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Your Eminences, my brother bishops and priests,
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my brothers and sisters in Christ.
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When he visited the martyr's shrine in Uganda,
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our Holy Father, Pope Paul, raised up the possibility,
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the possibility that for some of us has long been a glorious dream
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that black people's might, and I quote,
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enrich the church with their unique
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and treasured gift of negritude,
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which Pope Paul went on to say,
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the church has need of,
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especially in this moment of her history.
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And why especially at this moment in her history?
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Especially at this moment in her history
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because the Church knows
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that evangelization, preaching the gospel to people,
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which we wish to undertake today with renewed vigor,
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and again I quote from His Holiness,
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loses much of its effectiveness if it does not take into consideration the actual people
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to whom it is addressed.
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If it does not use their language, their signs and symbols, if it does not answer the questions
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they ask, and if it does not have an impact
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on their concrete life.
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These are the words of our Holy Father in his document
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on evangelization.
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Without taking into account the experience of black peoples,
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preaching the gospel would be directed
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at a very limited world.
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And the gospel would not take root
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among vast multitudes of people now struggling
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for their liberation, but inevitably
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moving to the day when they will exercise their right
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to fashion their own destiny and the character
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of the world of tomorrow.
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Especially at this moment in her history,
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because the church knows that her efforts to renew
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and revitalize her life of worship
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can be greatly enriched by those traditions of black people,
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embodying those aspirations, those unique ways of praying,
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of loving, and of looking at life and the world, which
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have been so beautifully summed up in the word soul.
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Especially at this moment in her history,
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because so many of the sentiments of her long history
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as a pilgrim people find a vibrant echo
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in the folklore and experience of black people.
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The consolations and anxieties inspired by God
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and captured in sacred scripture by the Psalms
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can find a living response in the contemporary Psalms
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of black people, which in their own way tell the story of oppression and salvation with
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liveliness and dynamism.
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Especially at this moment in her history, because the church knows that something more
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than structural reform is needed so that her worshiping
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congregation, which ought to be alive with the rhythms
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of God's spirit, will not be, like Ezekiel's vision,
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a stagnant sprawl of lifeless bones.
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It is at this special moment in history that black peoples who were previously oppressed
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within Mother Africa, or scattered and oppressed in exile, have now begun to reestablish their
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nationhood, to reestablish their contacts with one another, as we do this evening, to
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rediscover that they share in common a manifestation of the Spirit.
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It is at this special moment in history when many people are coming to realize that the
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culture of black folk is the vehicle for the spirit of God, and that the soulfulness, the
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The spirituality, the spiritual dynamism always so evident in happenings among black folk
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is an example of what is so frequently lacking in assemblies both within and outside the
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church.
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One could not have watched the recent National Convention of the Democratic Party without
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recognizing that there were only two moments that were genuinely soul-inspiring.
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When Barbara Jordan, the black congresswoman from Texas, preached at the beginning, and
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when the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr., prayed at the end.
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This is the kind of soul stirring that is frequently missing from our liturgical celebrations.
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This is the kind of unique gift that black folk want to bring, want to share with the
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church.
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We want to bring what is unique to us because it is the best that we have.
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It is our experience of having been uprooted from Mother Africa, of having been transplanted
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to a foreign and hostile land.
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It is the experience of centuries of oppression when our unique celebration of God's presence
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among us gave us life and gave us light and gave us hope.
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And it is this unique culture and heritage that we wish to make available to the Church.
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We offer it to enrich the worship of God.
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Black Catholic communities pray for the grace to renew their devotion to the Gospel, to
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be faithful to the gift of grace so that they can share their unique spirit with the entire
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Church.
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In this spirit of service, with joyful enthusiasm, we invite believing assemblies to learn from
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the worship of the black community.
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They will find in our experience an inspiration which
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typifies what the gift of negritude is all about,
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what soul means and can mean for the church.
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It is such soul-filling inspiration that black members of the Body of Christ can bring with
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them for the uplifting of all Christ's members as they gather round the table of the Lord
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for the breaking of bread.
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It is such due of the Spirit that can bring life to dry bones.
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The gift of blackness can help the Church to produce preachers who can make the Word
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of God live, to beget prophets whose burning words can transform our cold hearts of stone
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into warm hearts of flesh.
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Make the Church have ministers whose skill with words of prayer
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will give heaven-bent wings to the heavy thoughts
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that anchor our hearts to the ground.
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We wish that all believers,
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hear in our testimony of faith and worship the words of the Lord,
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speaking to the woman at Jacob's well.
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If you thirst, come unto me.
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Drink and believe in me.
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From within me rivers of living water,
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the water of the spirit shall flow.
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All you who thirst, come to the waters.
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Drink your fill of what is good.
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Come and drink of the spirit, and your soul shall live.
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Brothers and sisters, a time is coming, and indeed it's already here, when authentic
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worshipers will worship the Father with spirit and truly.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen.
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This is the end of side one.
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To hear side two and the remainder of the Mass, turn the cassette over now.