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Saturday, July 4
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor reminds all Americans that millions have paid for our independence and freedom through their generous sacrifices for many years. The below morning hymn of America the Beautiful is not only patriotic, but a sacred reminder of God’s goodness and blessings to us.
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Today’s
Readings
Morning Hymn
America the Beautiful
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare of freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law!
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
Source: Words by Katharine Lee Bates, Melody by Samuel Ward
Other liturgical prayers for today can be found through the link above.
Gospel: Mt 9:14-17
The disciples of John approached Jesus and said,
"Why do we and the Pharisees fast much,
but your disciples do not fast?"
Jesus answered them, "Can the wedding guests mourn
as long as the bridegroom is with them?
The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them,
and then they will fast.
No one patches an old cloak with a piece of unshrunken cloth,
for its fullness pulls away from the cloak and the tear gets worse.
People do not put new wine into old wineskins.
Otherwise the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined.
Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."
Reflection
The good Lord said that there is a time for everything: fasting and celebration etc. Fasting strengthens the body and soul; Celebration rejoices in the spirit and gives thanks God for spiritual victory, gifts, and divine favors to us and across our nation. The sacrifice of Jesus Christ and Christianity and its establishment did not come easy and automatic. We too must do our part to promote peace and goodwill daily at all cost by honoring God’s commandments and obeying our nation’s laws with justice and equity for all. God bless America!
Gospel Hymn
BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! His day is marching on.
I have read a fiery Gospel writ in burnished rows of steel;
“As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal”,
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
Since God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Since God is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet;
Our God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free;
[originally …let us die to make men free]
While God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! While God is marching on.
He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is wisdom to the mighty, He is honor to the brave;
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of wrong His slave,
Our God is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah! Our God is marching on.
Source Words: Julia W. Howe, 1861, alt. This hymn was born during the American civil war, when Howe visited a Union Army camp on the Potomac River near Washington, D. C. The hymn appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1862.
The Calendar link is below.
Calendar
of Saints
Calendar includes: Saint Elizabeth of Portugal, Maria Crocifissa Curcio, Pier Giorgio Frassati, Procopius, Ulric of Augsburg, and William of Hirsau.
Reflection:
The devotion to the memory of the dead is one of the most beautiful expression of the Catholic spirit. Blessed John XXIII.
Millions have paid for our independence, liberty and freedom with the generous sacrifice of their lives. Greater love than this no person has than to lay one’s life down for another. Scripture tells us that by this we will be known as children of God.
Evening Hymn
MY COUNTRY ’TIS OF THEE
My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountainside,
Let freedom ring!
My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills;
My heart with rapture thrills,
Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees,
Sweet freedom’s song;
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
Our fathers’ God, to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedom’s holy light;
Protect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King.
Source: Words: Samuel F. Smith, 1832; Music: America, Thesaurus Musicus, 1744
Our Lord told Sister Pierina, a nun that fostered the Holy Face devotion.
"Whoever gazes upon my face already consoles Me." See link
below. The holy face of Jesus from the Shroud of Turin is considered an
esteemed and sacred relic and can be viewed in the link below.
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