Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Sending Out the 72 

July 5, 2025

Presider: Juanita

Responder: Pat

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Greetings: Our readings today speak about proclaiming peace to everyone we encounter in our lives.  Jesus is asking us to be peacemakers.

Opening Song:  

Let There Be Peace on Earth | Choir and Piano

with Lyrics 

https://youtu.be/_AMvzan3EKM?si=KEDYZXqFSTYXNzar

 

Reconciliation Rite:

Presider:  God, you created us in your likeness, living among us, naming us as your own.

R: Strengthen us to bring honor and glory to your name.

Presider:  God, you sustain us in our daily lives, offering your love and peace, guiding us as your children.
R:  Lead us to transformation and action. 

Presider:  God, you promise us eternal hope, raising us up, calling us to new life in you.

 R: Lead us to acts of heartfelt compassion for others.

Nick:  Loving God, whose glory it is always to be merciful, may your Word take root in us and bring forth an openness of heart in all our words and deeds. Amen

Opening Prayer:

Creator God, You are the road we follow and the destination of our journey.  With grace as our walking stick, may we discover your love and healing along the way.  By the compassion and peace, we are able to offer, may we cast out demons of fear, estrangement and injustice; may we become seeds of your peace and grace in our homes, schools, and workplaces.

Galen: As we prepare to celebrate this glorious Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, we open our minds and hearts to hear the Word of God.

LITURGY OF THE WORD

A reading from the writings of Fr. John Dear Cathy P

“The mission of work and peace are really needed today.  We seem to speak only the language of war and violence, even in our day-to-day relationships and encounters… Each one of us can do our part to change this direction by taking up Jesus’s campaign of nonviolence, adopting his language of peace and nonviolence, and practicing his peace so that our very presence is disarming and healing. Wherever we go, we can talk about God’s reign of peace, help people step into God’s reign of nonviolence, and work for a new culture without war, poverty, racism, or violence.  We can spend our lives living his mission.”

These are the words of Fr. John Dear, taken from his book The Gospel of Peace.  We affirm them by saying: AMEN

Psalm 66 John

Response: Let all the earth cry out to God with joy

Verses: Sing a joyful song to the Beloved all the earth, and praise Love’s name: Sing with glorious exultation!  We say yes to You; How magnificent are your ways: So great is your power that fear and doubt vanish before You.

 

Blessed be the Holy Name of the Beloved, Loving Companion Presence, who has embraced me, and renewed my life. Response 

(Psalms for Praying- Nan C. Merrill) 

A reading from the letter of Paul to the Galatians 6: 14-18 Kathy N.

May I never boast of anything but the cross of our Savior Jesus Christ!  Through it the world has been crucified to me and I to the world.  It means nothing whether one bothers with the “eternals” of religion or not.  All that matters is that one is created anew.  Peace and mercy on all who follow this rule of life, and on the Israel of God.  Henceforth, let no one trouble me, for I bear the brand-marks of Jesus in my body.  Sisters and brother, may the grace of our Savior Jesus Christ be with you. 

The Word of God     R: Thanks be to God

Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia by W. Clifford Petty

https://youtu.be/WYJajwW9Zhc?si=jYBsRQLkEGSULE93

Our God of Love and peace be with you.  R: and also, with you

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke 10: 1-12, 17-20

After this, Jesus appointed a further seventy-two and sent them in pairs in advance to every town and place he intended to visit.  He said to them: The harvest is rich but the workers are few; therefore, ask the overseer to send workers to the harvest.  Be on your way, and remember: I am sending you as lambs in the midst of wolves.  Do not carry a walking stick or traveling bag; wear no sandals and greet no one on the way.  On entering any house, first say, “peace to this house.”  If they are peaceable there, your peace will rest on them; if not it will come back to you.  Stay in the one house, eating and drinking what they have, for the laborer is worth a wage.  Do not move from one house to another.

“Into whatever city you go, after they welcome you, eat what they set before you and cure the sick there.  Say to them, “The reign of God is at hand.”  If the people of any town you enter do not welcome you, go into the streets and say, “We shake off the dust of this town from our feet as testimony against you.  But know that the reign of God is nearby.  I assure you, on that day the fate of Sodom will be less severe than that of such a town.

The seventy-two returned in jubilation saying, “Teacher, even the demons are subject to us in your name.”  Jesus said in reply,” I have watched Satan fall from the sky like lightening.  See what I have done; I have given you power to tread on snakes and scorpions and all the forces of the enemy and nothing will ever injure you.  Nevertheless, do not rejoice so much in the fact that the devils are subject to you as your names are inscribes in heaven.

The Good News of Salvation!   R: Glory and praise to our Saviors Jesus the Christ! 

 

Homily: Juanita

 

Statement of Faith: Therese alternate with Linda

We believe in God, the creator of the universe whose divinity infuses all that exists, making everything everywhere sacred.

We believe in Jesus, the Christ who leads us to the fullness of humanity.  Through him we become a new people, called beyond the consequences of our brokenness.

  

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Wisdom who keeps the Christ-vision present to all who are searching for meaning and wholeness in their lives – and the Sustainer who heals and energizes us when our spirits may grow weary in our journeys. 

 

We say: Amen to courage, to hope, and to truth.          We say: Amen to the partnership and equality of all people of different genders, races, and faiths.                                                                                              We believe in a world of justice and peace for everyone, everywhere, with no exceptions.  In all of this, we surely believe.  Amen.

Prayers of the Community

Jay Cee: As we prepare for this sacred meal, we are aware of our call to serve, and just as Jesus is anointed, so is each of us. 

Patti: With trust in our connection to the Holy One, we bring to this table our blessings, cares and concerns. Please feel free to voice your intentions with, I bring to the table… Answering each petition with Gracious God hear our prayer.

Closing: We pray for these and all unspoken intentions. Amen

Barbara:  Peace Offering

Let us extend this Peace of Christ to each other
 by holding our hands over our hearts for a moment.
Feel the hope and love that resides there. (pause)
Now send it out - to those gathered here, (pause) 
and to the wider world in need of
so much peace and so much hope. Amen 

Our tables are set, let us Offer our Bread and Wine:

Barbara: Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation, for through your goodness. We have received the bread we offer you: fruit of the earth and work of human hands, It will become for us the bread of life and our Eucharist today 

R:  Blessed be God forever.

Presider: (While pouring water into wine) By the mystery of this water and wine may we come to share in the divinity of Christ, who himself shares in our humanity.

Rita: Blessed are you God of all creation, through your goodness we have received this wine we offer you: fruit of the vine and work of human hands, it will become our spiritual drink.

R:  Blessed be God forever.

Cathy W: With humble spirits, and loving hearts we ask you, O God, to accept us.  May the offerings that we bring to this altar be pleasing to you.

Gina: Pray, brothers and sisters, that this offering of bread and wine be acceptable to God, the Almighty Father.

R: May the Lord accept this offering at your hands,

For the praise and glory of God’s name,

For our good, and the good of all God’s holy Church.

Prayer over the gifts: 

Rita: Loving God through faith and baptism we have become a new creation.  Accept our offerings of bread and wine gifts from your people especially all those who are suffering.

Eucharistic Prayer:

Presider: Our God of peace be with you.  R: And also, with you.

Presider: Lift up your hearts.   R: We lift our hearts to God and to one another.

Presider: Let us give thanks to our God.  R: It is right to give God thanks and praise.

Presider: 

Holy One, Through your all-inclusive spirit of kinship, 

you call us into a vision of a Beloved Community. We gathered to give you thanks and praise, You are the one God, living and true, from the beginning of all time and throughout all eternity. 

Therefore, with people of all faith in every part of the world we join with all of heaven as we sing:

Holy, Holy, Holy (Upper Room) – Karen Drucker shortened

https://youtu.be/nTewBnxBy30?si=i5AwQo0JUhVI-_ze

 

 Cathy P: Holy One, we acknowledge your greatness, your wisdom and your power. You have formed us in your likeness, and knit us in our mother’s womb. You call us to serve you and one another. You have entrusted to us the gift of your creation: this precious earth with all its amazing life forms. 

In each, and every being you placed upon the earth, your covenant is revealed.

Presider: We extend our hands over our bread and wine in unity with the Spirit Loving God, pour out your Spirit upon this bread and wine, so that these gifts may become the + Body and + Blood of Jesus. We celebrate this great mystery and everlasting covenant which Jesus left to us.

Presider:  As we lift our bread, we remember that, on the night before he died, Jesus took bread and gave God thanks and praise.  He broke the bread and gave it to his friends saying:

Presider and All:
 “Take and eat, this is my Body, which has been given up for you.

 Presider:  As we lift our cup we remember how, after supper Jesus lifted the cup of wine.  He blessed and praised God, and shared the cup with his friends saying:

 

Presider and All: “This is the cup of the Covenant of my Love poured out for you.  As often as you drink of it, remember me.

Presider: Let us proclaim the Mystery of our Faith. 

Presider and All:  Christ of the Cosmos, you are the Love in whom we believe, the Wisdom in whom we trust, and the Compassion that calls us to Justice.

Karla:  We thank you for the fullness of your grace, that never ceases. Send your Spirit sweeping through all human institutions. Transform our structures and traditions to create a world responsive to your vision so that we might complete the work of Jesus. Inspire us to confront patriarchal systems that discriminate against women and all those who are alienated. Inspire us to dismantle white privilege and truly live in ways where all people are treated equal, as they are in your sight.

Judy:  Inspire all leaders throughout the world to model compassion, justice, peace, and love.  Guide our Pope Leo XIV ,our Bishop Bridget Mary Meehan, our presiders, and all members of our community to seek you with sincere hearts.  May each of us be aware of our own moments of leadership so that we might embrace the challenges of these times and provide moral leadership to build the Beloved kin-dom of peace for all Creation.

Janet: We know in faith that these individuals are now free by your mercy, and we anticipate the day when we will be together with them again.  

Presider: 

Holy One, we are your beloved. We unite with all creation through Jesus the Christ, in whom all perfect goodness is revealed.

All:

Through Christ, with Christ and in Christ, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, One God of all! 

All glory and honor be yours, forever and ever. AMEN 

Jesus Prayer:

Janet: ARAMAIC LORD’S PRAYER 

O Cosmic Birther of all radiance and vibration! 

Soften the ground of our being

and carve out a space within us

where your presence can abide.

Fill us with your creativity 

so that we may be empowered 

to bear the fruit of your mission.

Let each of our actions bear fruit 

in accordance with your desire.

Endow us with the wisdom.

to produce and share what each being needs

to grow and flourish.  

Untie the tangled threads of destiny that bind us,

as we release others from the entanglement of past mistakes.

Do not let us be seduced 

by that which would divert us from our true purpose,

but illuminate the opportunities of the present moment.

For you are the ground and fruitful vision, 

the birth, power and fulfillment,

as all is gathered and made whole once again.   

Amen.

Communion:

Nick and All:
May the generous, welcome of the Creator
accept us for who we are. May the incarnation of the Word touch and hold us close.
May the birth of the Spirit within help us risk ourselves for love.

Presider: We raise our bread and wine together:

Presider and All:
This is the Body and Blood of Christ
We are the Body and Blood of Christ for the world.
Let us receive as one.

We Are Companions on a Journey: Carey Landry

Song: 

https://youtu.be/rSXC1J2rXAI?si=Muw5Uj7CznYJYtwg

Prayer After Communion:

Presider: Let us pray: Jesus, your bread and your cup renew our spirits. The gift of your wisdom is balm to our souls.
In our partaking of this celebration together, you illuminate your radical love within and around us.
You turn us from patterns that replicate pain and violence and point us in directions that free and uplift all peoples.
With thanks for the Christ that lives in us, enabling the way of integrity, we recommit to a life of shared discipleship.
Amen

Closing Blessing: 

Please extend your hands and pray our blessing together.

May God grant us the strength and courage to honor the dignity of every human being, to speak the truth to one another in love and walk humbly with each other and our God for the good of all people. The good of all people in the nation and the world.  Amen (Bishop Budde)

Karla:  As we leave this Liturgy and are sent forth,
 let us be open to the call of Christ for each of us in this coming week.

Dismissal: Nick

 Closing Song: Go Out to All the World

https://youtu.be/REe2d0He1p4?si=br3iHK_aPhP_NGu0