Mary Mother of Jesus Inclusive Catholic Community: Mary Mother of Jesus Inclusive Catholic Community 19 th Sunday of Extra-Ordinary Time August 10th, 2024 Presiders: Cathy Alexander and Elena Garcia Readers and Prayer Leaders Beth P and David P Music Ministers: Linda and Rick Miller IT: Cheryl Brandi

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Theme: To Be Bread For Others on our Journey

WELCOME AND GATHERING

(Cathy) Welcome to our Zoom liturgy at Mary Mother of Jesus, an inclusive Catholic Community where all are welcome. Please have bread and wine/juice nearby as we pray our Eucharistic prayer.

Whoever you are,

Wherever you are,

Just as you are,

You are welcome at this table. (Integral Christianity by Paul Smith)

Let us now take a few minutes to collect ourselves as we prepare to focus our minds and our hearts on our knowledge that we are all one, brought together at this time to be transformed as the bread of loving service for our neighbors.

Let us begin our liturgy by expressing this love through song.

The Servant Song

https://youtu.be/f9sGlj2XJhc?si=DNb4TLa72XkQV3lY

OPENING PRAYER

(Elena)

In the name of our Creator, Jesus our brother, and Holy Spirit Sophia Wisdom, we gather to celebrate our oneness with and in you and in all things. This Great Mystery is the foundation and template for the entire universe, and when fully experienced, has the capacity to change everything. We seek to fully understand this Great Mystery, but more importantly to understand how we live it in our lives. Let our ears hear, our eyes see, and our hearts receive as we remember and expand the power of love on Earth, as Bread for each other. We live with the certainty that you walk with us, Infinite One, as we continue to awaken to the fullness of grace consciousness, expressing unconditional love toward all living things. We know you are here with us as we walk together as companions on this journey. May we respond to your invitation to be, like you, bread of service for each other on this life journey.

All: Amen

RITE OF TRANSFORMATION

Hooponopono

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac5SGwRPv0o

(Cathy and All) We ask for and receive forgiveness, and we open our hearts to Infinite Love. Jesus calls us to be bread for others, in the same way that he assures us that he ishimself food for our journey. Let it be so. Yes, Alleluia!

SIGN OF PEACE:

(Elena) Eternal wellspring of peace-

May we be drenched with the longing for peace

That we may give ourselves over

As the earth to the rain, to the dew,

Until peace overflows our lives

As living waters overflow the seas. (Marcia Falk)

Jesus said to his disciples, “My peace I leave you. My peace I give you.” Let us now extend a sign of peace to one another as we say, “Namaste, Namaste, Namaste.”

A Joyful Gloria: Linda Lee Miller and graphics by Rick Miller

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lA5I0nODZI

LITURGY OF THE WORD

(David) First Reading: Kings 19:4-8

When Elijah saw how things were, he ran for dear life to Beersheba, far in the South of Judah. He left his young servant there and then went on into the desert another day’s journey. He came to a lone broom bush and collapsed in its shade, wanting in the worst way to be done with it all-to just die: “Enough of this God! Take my life—I’m ready to join my ancestors in the grave!” Exhausted, he fell asleep under the lone broom bush.

Suddenly an angel shook him awake, and said, “Get up and eat!”

He looked around and, to his surprise, right by his head were a loaf of bread baked on some coals and a jug of water. He ate the meal and went back to sleep.

The angel of God came back, shook him awake again, and said, “Get up and eat some more—you’ve got a long journey ahead of you.”

He got up, ate and drank his fill, and set out. Nourished by that meal, he walked forty days and nights, all the way to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

We affirm these words by saying, All: AMEN.

(Beth) Second Reading: (pause and contemplate)

God’s Word Today by Ruben Tanseco SJ 2004 To Be Bread for Others. "This is my body to be given to you." (1 Cor. 11:24).To be shared and spent for you. To sacrifice and die for you. Not just this piece of bread, but Me. My person. My Life. This bread is merely a symbol of what I have done and I will do for you. I, as your companion and friend, will nourish and sustain your body, your mind and heart, your spirit, your life. And all this I will do at my own expense. At the cost of my own life. This is how much I love you.
All this and more is what Jesus meant by becoming oneamong us, climaxed by the Last Supper, the Washing of the Feet, the Carrying of the Cross, and the Crucifixion. ThePassion of the Christ.
"Do this in memory of me." This was never meant to simplysay that we should repeat this ritual of the bread, receive it in Holy Communion, and feel holy with the Lord within us, period!
What Jesus meant was this: Remember my story often, asyou receive my Bread, so that you, too, as my followers, may offer your own body to be given for others. You, too, must be bread for others. You, too, must be shared and spent and sacrificed for others. This is what love really means. This is what Eucharist means. This is what the Mass is really all about.
It is what you bring to the Mass, what you have been and have done for others, and what you commit yourself to do further after the Liturgy – that’s it. Otherwise, the Mass is nothing but a meaningless ritual, done for the sake of the letter of the law.
So when you pronounce the words of consecration at every Liturgy in which you participate, repeat those words, too, in your heart, and mean every word you say: This is my body, to be given to you. And by you is meant the neighbor, the human family of God. To be bread for others.
~This bread could literally be food for my family which I choose to share with those who need it even more.
~This bread could be the karinyo that my spouse needs which I habitually fail to give.
~This bread could be the listening heart that my children keep claiming they do not get from me.
~This bread could be my professional time and services given to those who need me but cannot afford me.
~This bread could be the big risk I take in investing my money in a business that would be the bread and butter of a hundred families.
~This bread could be the profits of my company – shared with my employees in a more proportionate way, beyond the so-called minimum wage law.
~This bread could be my land that belongs to God and must be shared with God’s people who have no place they can call their home.
~This bread would be my courageous involvement in socio-political issues that concern the welfare of my disadvantaged countrymen.
~This bread could be my committed love in bringing the message and life of Jesus to others, even at the risk and sacrifice of my own life.
Yes. My bread broken and shared until I have no more. My supply will inevitably run out someday. But replenishment will surely come. Only this time, it will be eternal bread.
Jesus, thank you for showing me THE WAY.

Words to pause and contemplate shared by Ruben Tanseco SJ All: AMEN

CELTIC ALLELUIA

https://youtu.be/o1rc7ojQtJU

(Cathy) Gospel: John 6:41-51

The Jews murmured about Jesus because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” And they said: “Isn’t this the son of Joseph? Don’t we know his father? Don’t we know his mother? How can he now say, ‘I came down out of heaven’ and expect anyone to believe him?”

Jesus said, “Don’t bicker among yourselves over me. You’re not in charge here. The Father who sent me is in charge. He draws people to me – that’s the only way you’ll ever come. Only then do I do my work, putting people together, setting them on their feet, ready for the End. This is what the prophets meant when they wrote, ‘And then they will all be personally taught by God.’ Anyone who has spent any time at all listening to the Father, really listening and therefore learning, comes to me to be taught personally – to see it with his own eyes, hear it with his own ears, from me, since I have it firsthand from the Father. No one has seen the Father except the One who has his Being alongside the Father – and you can see me.

“I am telling you the most solemn and sober truth now: Whoever believes in me has real life, eternal life. I am the Bread of Life. Your ancestors ate the manna bread in the desert and died. But now here is Bread that truly comes down out of heaven. Anyone eating this Bread will never die, ever. I am the Bread – living Bread! – who came down from heaven. Anyone who eats this Bread will live – and forever! The Bread that I present to the world so that it can eat and live is myself, this flesh-and-blood self.”

Words found in the Gospel attributed to John the evangelist. All: So Be It!

The Message – Bible in contemporary language by Eugene Peterson

CELTIC ALLELUIA

https://youtu.be/o1rc7ojQtJU

HOMILY STARTER AND COMMUNITY SHARING

COMMUNAL STATEMENT OF FAITH

(David and All) We believe in one God, a divine mystery beyond all definition and rational understanding, the heart of all that has ever existed, that exists now, or that ever will exist.

We believe in Jesus, messenger of God's Word, bringer of God's healing, heart of God's compassion, bright star in the firmament of God's prophets, mystics, and saints.

We believe that we are called to follow Jesus as a vehicle of God's love, a source of God's wisdom and truth, and an instrument of God's peace in the world.

We believe in the Spirit of the Holy One, the life that is our innermost life,
the breath moving in our being, the depth living in each of us.

We believe that the Divine kin-dom is here and now,stretched out all around us for those with eyes to see it, hearts to receive it, and hands to make it happen.

PRAYERS OF AND FOR THE COMMUNITY

(

Beth) As we prepare for the sacred meal, we now bring our prayer intentions to the Table, saying, “We bring to the Table…” And we respond: May we be the bread of life for each other on this journey.

We bring to the table all those suffering as a result of the natural disasters taking place on our planet.