Sunday Night Online Praise & Worship
M O T H E R O F G O D C O M M U N I T Y
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Welcome HOSTS
Nancy McCambridge
Bob McCambridge
Music:
Betsey Swan
Slide Deck Template:
Kinday Toto
AGENDA
- Bob: Our Role – Priest, Prophet, King –
- Nancy: The New Heart
- Betsey: Praise & Worship
- YouTube Talk: Mary Healy
- Open Intercession
- Betsey: Praise & Worship
- Conclusion/Announcements
Priest, Prophet, King
in our world BOB MCCAMBRIDGE
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1976 Prophecy and Word
Fr. Mike Scanlan
“Son of man, do you see the crime and lawlessness in your city streets, and towns and institutions? Are you willing to see no law, no order, no protection for you except that which I will give you? Son of man, do you see the country which you love and which you are now celebrating – a country’s history that you look back on with nostalgia? Are you willing to see no country – no country to call your own except those that I give you as my body?”
Jan 1976 National Service Committee/CCR
1976 Prophecy and Word
Then-Cardinal Karol Wojtyla
“We are now standing in the face of the greatest historical confrontation humanity has ever experienced. I do not think that the wide circle of the American Society, or the whole wide circle of the Christian Community realize this fully. We are now facing the final confrontation between the Church and the anti-church, between the gospel and the anti-gospel, between Christ and the antichrist. The confrontation lies within the plans of Divine Providence. It is, therefore, in God’s Plan, and it must be a trial which the Church must take up, and face courageously…”
Aug 1976 Eucharistic Congress at Philadelphia, Pa.
Scripture Rom 1:18-32 “The wrath of God is indeed being revealed
from heaven against every impiety and wickedness of those
who suppress the truth by their wickedness. For what can be
known about God is evident to them because God made it
evident to them. Ever since the creation of the world, his
invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been
able to be understood and perceived in what he has made.
As a result, they have no excuse; for although they knew
God, they did not accord him glory as God or give him
thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and
their senseless minds were darkened…”
Scripture 2 Thes 2:3-12 “…the man of lawlessness is revealed, the
son of perdition, who opposes and exalts himself against
every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes
his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be
God… For the mystery of lawlessness is already at
work… The coming of the lawless one by the activity of
Satan will be with all power and with pretended signs and
wonders, and with all wicked deception for those who are
to perish, because they refused to love the truth and so be
saved. Therefore, God sends upon them a strong delusion,
to make them believe what is false, so that all may be
condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure
in unrighteousness…”
But – We are in the world, not of it!
With Baptism comes the anointing with sacred chrism:
“As Christ was anointed Priest, Prophet, and King, so
may you live always as a member of his body, sharing
everlasting life”.
Baptism makes us members of the Body of Christ. … “to
be a holy priesthood” (1 Peter 2:5). By Baptism they
share in the priesthood of Christ, in his prophetic and
royal mission. They are “a chosen race, a royal
priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people …” (1
Peter 2:9). Baptism gives a share in the common
priesthood of all believers (CCC, 1267, 1268).
Priest
It surprises some to learn that the common priesthood designates all the baptized. Sharing in
the priesthood of Christ begins at one’s Baptism. Ordained priests, by Holy Orders, become
members of the ministerial priesthood. Yet the common priesthood
Christ, high priest and unique mediator, has made of the Church “a kingdom, priests for his
God and Father” (Revelation 1:6, see 5:9–10; 1 Peter 2:5,9). … The faithful exercise their
baptismal priesthood through their participation, each according to his own vocation, in
Christ’s mission as priest, prophet, and king (CCC, 1546). (Note: The Catechism also
references the common priesthood in paragraphs 1141, 1143, 1268, 1305, 1535, 1547,
1591, and 1592.)
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Prophet The laity live these prophetic and kingly offices by :…seeking the
kingdom of God by engaging in temporal affairs and directing
them according to God’s will … so to illuminate and order all
temporal things with which they are closely associated that these
may always be effected and grow according to Christ and may
be to the glory of the Creator and Redeemer (CCC, 898).
Lay believers are in the front line of Church life; for them the
Church is the animating principle of human society. Therefore, they
in particular ought to have an ever-clearer consciousness not only
of belonging to the Church, but of being the Church (CCC, 899).
The laity act prophetically when they speak the truth, and live the
Gospel by example before their families, neighbors, and co-
workers. Their mission is “accomplished in the ordinary
circumstances of the world” (CCC, 905).
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King The laity’s kingly office is exercised by leadership in temporal affairs,
acting as Christ would. Jesus, the king of heaven, gave his life to conquer
sin and death, to bring resurrection and new life. By bringing Christ’s
leadership and governance in our own spheres, we offer renewal and new
life where it is most needed.
“Moreover, by uniting their forces let the laity so remedy the institutions
and conditions of the world when the latter are an inducement to sin, that
these may be conformed to the norms of justice, favoring rather than
hindering the practice of virtue. By so doing they will impregnate culture
and human works with a moral value” (CCC, 909; Lumen Gentium, 36 § 3).
Finally, lay leadership helps the local church to flourish.
“The laity … cooperate with their pastors … for the sake of [church]
growth and life … through the exercise of different kinds of ministries
according to the grace and charisms which the Lord has been pleased to
bestow on them” (CCC, 910; Paul VI, Evangelii Nuntiandi, 73).
The New Heart NANCY MCCCAMBRIDGE
Ezekiel 36:26-27
…I will give you a new heart
and put a new spirit in you. I
will remove from you your heart
of stone and give you a heart
of flesh. And I will put my Spirit
in you and move you to follow
my decrees and be careful to
keep my laws. …
Worship by Betsey Swan
Mary Healy
2016 Anthony Jordan Lecture Series
with Dr. Mary Healy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJoiCQEkcXA
We shared about 20 minutes of Mary’s talk,
29:34 to 49:36, about evangelization.
Intercession
OPEN REQUESTS FOR PRAYERS VIA CHAT BOX
Conclusion/Announcements
Have a blessed two weeks! Note: there will be no Praise Call or Meeting next Sunday, July 5th as it is Fourth of July weekend.
We hope that our next gathering, Sunday evening, July 12th at 7 PM, will be in the Mother of God School Gym. The Praise & Worship gathering will also be available via a Zoom call. Details will be sent via email and on the MOGC website.
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