St. Bernadette Catholic Church

The 13th Sunday of Ordinary Time

June 28, 2020

Home Prayer Packet

Holy.

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GATHERING THE BODY OF CHRIST

Visit www. stbchurch.org/spiritual-communion to “watch & pray” mass online celebrated by

our own priests and make a “Spiritual Communion.” There is a separate packet online to help

you participate with the online Mass.

Included in this packet are instructions designed to help you “set up church” in your home &

pray a Home Prayer Service.

Prepare for prayer:

Set up a prayer area with a candle, cross/crucifix, bible, & a green colored cloth

• include fresh flowers or a blooming plant to signify God’s role as creator

Individuals: call a friend to pray at the same time to help your celebration.

Families/groups: designate and share roles so a variety of voices are involved

& arrange for enough chairs (sofa, sitting space, etc)

Families with young children: consider using only some of the reading options and/or a

few intercessions. Movements can help (raised hands & changes in posture).

Prayer of Preparation

“Let us offer our hunger and sorrow in solidarity with those around the world who regularly go

without the Sunday Eucharist because of illness, lack of ministers, or isolation. May Christ, who

is present wherever two or three are gathered in his name, bring us all healing and peace and

unite us together in his Spirit of love.” (Diana Macalintal, www.liturgy.life)

Other things to remember

Prepare your heart & enrich your prayer with the abundance of online resources.

Dress up as you would for Mass.

Take pictures of your prayer space & family at prayer & share them on St. Bernadette’s

Facebook page and email your pictures to office@stbchurch.org.

When we are finally able to celebrate together at Church, we will use your pictures to

remind us of our time together while we were apart!

Thank you to all who continue to show your generosity

through your online giving or by sending us your offering in the mail.

You can now also give by texting $ amount to 346-209-9877.

Gathering

{All Stand.}

Prayer Leader: Let us begin our prayer, united with the whole Church,

and sign ourselves: in the name of the Father, and of the Son

and of the Holy Spirit.

All: Amen!

Prayer Leader: Gathered as a community in our homes at God’s invitation,

we are disciples awaiting a word from God.

Today we will hear more

about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus:

We are to love Christ above all, and to take up our cross.

Yet we do not do this alone.

We have our community of faith to support us.

Let us pray therefore today that our sense of discipleship

may be strengthened and deepened...

Reader: Please respond: Lord, have mercy.

Lord Jesus, you are the promised one of God, and so we pray:

All: Lord, have mercy.

Reader: Lord Jesus, you are our shield, strength, and salvation, and so we pray:

All: Lord, have mercy.

Reader: Lord Jesus, you call us to take up our crosses and follow you,

and so we pray:

All: Lord, have mercy.

Prayer Leader: Let us bow our heads and pray…

O God, who through the grace of adoption

chose us to be children of light,

help us so we may not be wrapped in the darkness of mistakes

but to always be seen to stand in the bright light of truth.

We ask this through your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

All: Amen.

Prayer Leader: Let us now listen as Christ makes Himself present to us

through the Word of God.

{All but the Reader sits. Allow for a small pause/moment of silence between each reading}

Liturgy of the Word

{The translations of all the readings are taken from the Lectionary for Masses with Children.}

First Reading 2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16a

Reader: A reading from the second book of Kings

One day Elisha went to the town of Shunem.

A rich woman lived there, and she invited him for a meal.

Each time Elisha was in town after that, he would eat at her home.

The woman said to her husband,

“I’m sure that this man who comes by here so often is a holy man of God.

Let’s build him a small room on our flat roof.

We can put a bed, a table, a chair, and an oil lamp in the room.

He can stay there whenever he comes to visit us.”

The next time Elisha came to Shunem, he spent the night in his room.

Elisha asked his servant Gehazi,

“What can we do to repay this woman for being so kind?”

Gehazi answered,

“She doesn’t have a son, and her husband is old.”

Elisha said the Gehazi,

“Tell the woman to come here.”

He told her, and she came and stood in the doorway of the room.

Elisha promised the woman,

Next year about this time you will have a son of your own.”.

The Word of the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God.

Responsorial Psalm 89:1-2, 15-16

{The psalm reader should be prepared to gesture to any others when it is time to pray the response.}

Reader: Our response is “For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.”

Our LORD, I will sing of your love forever.

Everyone yet to be born will hear me praise your faithfulness.

I will tell them, “God’s love can always be trusted,

and his faithfulness lasts as long as the heavens.”

{gesture to others to respond}

“For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.”

Our LORD, you bless those who join in the festival

and walk in the brightness of your presence.

We are happy all day because of you,

and your saving power brings honor to us.

{gesture to others to respond}

“For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.”

Second Reading Romans 6:3-4, 8-9

Reader: A reading from the letter of Paul to the Romans

Brothers and sisters:

Don’t you know that all who share in Christ Jesus by being baptized

also share in his death?

When we were baptized, we died and were buried with Christ.

We were baptized, so that we would live a new life,

as Christ was raised to life by the glory of God the Father.

As surely as we died with Christ,

we believe we will also live with him.

We know that death no longer has any power over Christ.

He died and was raised to life, never again to die.

The Word of the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God.

{All Stand}

Prayer Leader: Alleluia, alleluia!

All: Alleluia, alleluia!

Prayer Leader: You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy people.

Praise God who called you out of darkness and into his marvelous light.

All: Alleluia, alleluia!

Gospel Matthew 10:40-42

Reader: A reading from the holy gospel according to Matthew

Glory to you, O Lord.

{All may make the sign of the cross over their forehead, lips & heart.}

Jesus said to his disciples:

“Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me.

And anyone who welcomes me also welcomes the one who sent me.

“Anyone who welcomes a prophet, just because that person is a prophet,

will be given the same reward as a prophet.

Anyone who welcomes a good person, just because that person is good,

will be given the same reward as a good person.

“And anyone who gives one of my most humble followers

a cup of cool water,

just because the person is my follower,

will surely be rewarded.”.”

The Gospel of the Lord.

All: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

Faith Sharing Questions for Journaling or Discussion:

In the first reading we are given an example of hospitality in the care given to Elisha.

How does your family practice hospitality?

In today’s psalm we announce, “Forever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.”

For which of God’s blessings are you thankful today?

In the second reading, St. Paul talks about being dead to sin and living for God in Jesus.

In your daily life, what kinds of habits do you have that show you are “living for God”?

{All Stand}

Renewal of Baptismal Promises

Prayer Leader: When we were Baptized, we were joined

to the same death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

We will now renew our baptismal promises.

If so, say “I do” to each promise.

Do you renounce Satan? R/. I do.

And all his works? R/. I do.

And all his empty show? R/. I do.

Do you believe in God,

the Father almighty,

creator

of heaven and earth?

R/. I do.

Do you believe

in Jesus Christ,

his only Son, our Lord,

who was born

of the Virgin Mary,

suffered death

and was buried,

rose again from the dead,

and is seated at the right

hand of the Father?

R/. I do.

Do you believe

in the Holy Spirit,

the holy Catholic Church,

the communion of saints,

the forgiveness of sins,

the resurrection of the body,

and life everlasting?

R/. I do.

Intercessions

Prayer Leader: God’s word today has taught us about how the grace of hospitality

and the new life of baptism draw us closer to Jesus Christ.

Let us then bring our needs, and the needs of our world, before the Lord.

For Pope Francis, as he leads our Church to focus ever more on Christ in our service to those

on the peripheries of our world, {pause}

For our national leaders, that they might recall and live by the principles upon which our

nation was founded, {pause}

For respect and welcome for the immigrants, refugees, strangers and those who are different

from ourselves, {pause} we pray,

{gesture to others to respond}

Lord, hear our prayer.

That every day Christians will value the new life we received in baptism, so that by dying to

the sins of selfishness, greed and violence, we will be thoughtful of others, generous in charity

and peaceful in relationships: {pause}

That as the rates of Covid-19 infection continue to increase around the world, governments

and citizens will continue to play their part to halt its spread and assist those whose lives are

affected by it: {pause} we pray.

{gesture to others to respond}

Lord, hear our prayer.

For all who are sick, for those who are dying, for those who have died, as well as for those

who mourn their beloved dead, {pause}

For the prayers offered through the St. Bernadette Prayer Heartline and those we offer

now…{additional prayers may be offered up at this time}…

{gesture to others to respond}

Lord, hear our prayer.

The Lord’s Prayer

Prayer Leader: Gathering these prayers together,

as well as those we hold in the silence of our hearts,

we pray in the words that Jesus taught us.

Our Father…

Prayer Leader: Creator God, hear our prayers that as faithful disciples,

we might help to restore and repair creation through the work of our hands.

We ask this through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen!

Act of Spiritual Communion

Prayer Leader: Let us remember Jesus’ promise to be with us until the end of the age,

as we acknowledge that he is with us today.

All: My Jesus,

I believe that you are present

in the Most Holy Sacrament.

I love you above all things

and I desire to receive you in my soul.

Since I cannot at this moment receive you sacramentally,

come at least spiritually into my heart.

I embrace you as if you were already there

and unite myself wholly to you.

Never permit me to be separated from you.

Amen.

Conclusion

Prayer Leader: As we conclude our prayer, let us go in the hope of the day

when we can again gather in our Church home once again.

{as the sign of the cross is made over him/herself}

May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil

and bring us to everlasting life.

All: Amen!

Reminders

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for information on how to sign up for Mass when you’re ready!

Don’t forget to share your pictures of your family & home church

with us on Facebook & office@stbchurch.org! Let us continue to #praytogether.

Song of Praise Glory and Praise to Our God

If singing verses: feel free to choose one verse to sing