About today's Holy Mass Video - There is a small interruption in the video about a minute, but the Holy Mass is full and complete. It was a technical blip while streaming. Thank you for participating. God Bless!
FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
(Passiontide)
By your help, we beseech you, Lord our God,
may we walk eagerly in that same charity
with which, out of love for the world,
your Son handed himself over to death.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
Amen.
O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power, and idle talk.
But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience, and love to Thy servant.
Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own transgressions, and not to judge my brother, for blessed art Thou, unto ages of ages. Amen.
We regret to inform you that, as of March 17, 2020, public Masses and other liturgical services have been suspended in the Diocese of Providence.
Daily Mass will be premiered on our web homepage by 8:30 am and Vespers (Evening Prayers) by 6:15 pm.
SUNDAY MASS will also premiere at 8:30 am.
SIGHT AND BLINDNESS: THE BLIND CURED
In today’s gospel Jesus meets a blind man and cures him. He does this by spitting on the ground, kneading it with dust, and spreading it over the blind man’s eyes. He then tells the fellow to go and wash in the pool of Siloam. (Ancient therapeutics attributed healing powers to spittle, so this isn’t as odd as it may sound to modern ears.)
The blind man obeys, returns able to see and there’s a terrific commotion. First the healed man is brought before the Pharisees who challenge him rudely. Then he’s taken to the high council where both he and his parents are questioned in a confused and tiresome series of hostile exchanges. Through all this he courageously defends the authenticity of his cure. (I like this guy.)
