10/06/2010

Opening Prayer

Let us begin: + In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Let us pray that God will help us to love one another.

Lord, our help and guide, make your love the foundation of our lives.

May our love for you express itself in our eagerness to do good for others.

Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who live and reigns with you and the
Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

+ In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
 October 10, 2010
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
2 Kings 5:14-17
Luke 17:11-19

A reading from the second book of Kings.

Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan seven times at the word of Elisha, the man of God. His flesh became again like
the flesh of a little child, and he was clean of his leprosy.

Naaman returned with his whole retinue to the man of God. On his arrival he stood before Elisha and said, "Now I know that
there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel. Please accept a gift from your servant."

Elisha replied, "As the LORD lives whom I serve, I will not take it;" and despite Naaman's urging, he still refused. Naaman said:
"If you will not accept, please let me, your servant, have two mule-loads of earth, for I will no longer offer holocaust or sacrifice
to any other god except to the LORD."

The Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

The Lord be with you. And also with you.

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Luke. Glory to you Lord.
+ May the gospel always be on my mind, + on my lips, + and in my heart.

As Jesus continued his journey to Jerusalem, he traveled through Samaria and Galilee. As he was entering a village, ten lepers
met him. They stood at a distance from him and raised their voices, saying, "Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!" And when he saw
them, he said, "Go show yourselves to the priests." As they were going they were cleansed. And one of them, realizing he had
been healed, returned, glorifying God in a loud voice; and he fell at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. He was a Samaritan.
Jesus said in reply, "Ten were cleansed, were they not? Where are the other nine? Has none but this foreigner returned to give
thanks to God?" Then he said to him, "Stand up and go; your faith has saved you."

The Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

 Catechism of the Catholic Church

2616 Prayer to Jesus is answered by him already during his ministry, through signs that
anticipate the power of his death and Resurrection: Jesus hears the prayer of faith,
expressed in words (the leper, Jairus, the Canaanite woman, the good thief) or in silence
(the bearers of the paralytic, the woman with a hemorrhage who touches his clothes, the
tears and ointment of the sinful woman). The urgent request of the blind men, “Have mercy
on us, Son of David” or “Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!” has-been renewed in
the traditional prayer to Jesus known as the Jesus Prayer: “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God,
have mercy on me, a sinner!” Healing infirmities or forgiving sins, Jesus always responds
to a prayer offered in faith: “Your faith has made you well; go in peace.”
St. Augustine wonderfully summarizes the three dimensions of Jesus’ prayer: “He prays for
us as our priest, prays in us as our Head, and is prayed to by us as our God. Therefore let
us acknowledge our voice in him and his in us.”
 Catholic Study Bible
Lk 17, 11–19: This incident recounting the thankfulness of the cleansed Samaritan leper is
narrated only in Luke’s gospel and provides an instance of Jesus holding up a non–Jew
(18) as an example to his Jewish contemporaries (cf 10,33 where a similar purpose is
achieved in the story of the good Samaritan). Moreover, it is the faith in Jesus manifested
by the foreigner that has brought him salvation (19; cf the similar relationship between
faith and salvation in Lk 7,50; 8,48.50).

Luke 17:18 Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?”

Luke 17:19 Then he said to him, “Stand up and go; your faith has saved you.”

Luke 7:50 But he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”

Luke 8:48 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has saved you; go in peace.” 49 While he
was still speaking, someone from the synagogue official’s house arrived and said, “Your
daughter is dead; do not trouble the teacher any longer.” 50 On hearing this, Jesus
answered him, “Do not be afraid; just have faith and she will be saved.”
 The Rosary
A Bouquet of Prayers
 History
• 4th century prayer rope used by the Desert Fathers to count repetitions of the Jesus Prayer
• In the 7th century, St. Eligius (c.588-660) wrote of making a chair adorned with 150 gold and silver nails to aid in the praying of the Psalter of Blessed Mary, which
substituted one Hail Mary for each of the Psalms.
• In the early 8th century,Venerable Bede (d. 733) attests that churches and public places in France and England had prayer beads available for the faithful to use.
• c. 1075 Lady Godiva refers in her will to "the circlet of precious stones which she had threaded on a cord in order that by fingering them one after another she might
count her prayers exactly"
• A rule for anchorites in mid-12th century England gives directions on how 50 Hail Marys are to be said divided into sets of ten, with prostrations and other marks of
reverence.
• It is recorded in 12th century Mary-legends (Marien-legenden) that a certain Eulalia was told to pray five decades slowly and devoutly instead of 15 decades in a hurry.
• It is recorded by a contemporary biographer that St. Aibert, who died in 1140, recited 150 Hail Marys daily, 100 with genuflexions and 50 with prostrations.
• 1160 Saint Rosalia is buried with a string of prayer beads
• 1214 traditional date of the legend of Saint Dominic's reception of the rosary from the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of the Rosary
• It is recorded of St. Louis of France (1214-70) that "without counting his other prayers the holy King knelt down every evening 50 times and each time he stood upright
then knelt again and repeated slowly an Ave Maria."
• Mid-13th century word "Rosary" first used (by Thomas of Champitre, in De apibus, ii. 13), not referring to prayer beads but in a Marian context.
• 1268 A reference to guild of "paternosterers" in Paris in "Livre des métiers" of Stephen Boyleau.
• Early 15th century, Dominic of Prussia, a Carthusian, introduces 50 mysteries, one for each Ave Maria
• c. 1514 Hail Mary prayer attains its current form.
• 1569 Pope Pius V established the current form of the original 15 mysteries
• 1587 A Book on the Rosary entitled Rosario della Sacratissima Vergine Maria by Ven. Luis de Granada is published in Italian1603 Tractatus de Rosario de B.Virginis Mariae
by Francisco Arias is published
• 1597 first recorded use of the term "rosary" to refer to prayer beads.
• 1917 Our Lady of Fatima is said to ask that the Fatima Prayer be added to the Rosary. Her visionaries state that she also asks for the Rosary to be said to stop the war,
and as part of the Immaculate Heart's reparation.
• 1974 Pope Paul VI issues the Apostolic Letter Marialis Cultus which devotes 14 sections to the use of the rosary within the Roman Catholic Church.
• 2002 Pope John Paul II introduces the Luminous Mysteries as an option for Roman Catholics in an Apostolic Letter on the Rosary, Rosarium Virginis Mariae.
• (Wikipedia “Rosary”)
Rosary - “Beads”

Conventional Alternative

Ring Single Decade

Bracelet
Built In
Rosary - Prayers

Sign of the Cross

Glory Be
!Doxology"

Apostle#s Creed

Fatima Prayer
Our Father
!The Lord#s Prayer"
!Pater Noster"
Hail Holy Queen
Hail Mary !Salve Regina"
!Ave Maria"
The Rosary and Sacred Scripture
• Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.
- Luke 1:28 "And coming to her, he said, "Hail, full of grace, the Lord is
with you."

• Blessed art thou among women

- Luke 1:41-42a "When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant
leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out
in a loud voice and said, "Most blessed are you among women..."

- Luke 1:48 "For he has looked upon his handmaid's lowliness; behold,
from now on will all ages call me blessed."

• Blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus

- Luke 1:42b "and blessed is the fruit of your womb."
 Mysteries

• Joyful • Sorrowful
- Annunciation - Agony in the Garden

- Visitation - Scourging at the Pillar

- Nativity - Crowning with Thorns

- Presentation in the Temple - Carrying of the Cross

- Finding Jesus in the Temple - Crucifixion

• Luminous • Glorious
- Baptism in the Jordan - Resurrection

- Wedding at Cana - Ascension

- Proclamation of the Gospel - Descent of the Holy Spirit

- Transfiguration - Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary

- Institution of the Eucharist - Coronation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Jesus Prayer
“Lord Jesus Christ, Son
of God, have mercy on
me, a sinner.”
 CCC

2666 But the one name that contains everything is the one that the Son of God received in his
incarnation: JESUS. The divine name may not be spoken by human lips, but by assuming our
humanity The Word of God hands it over to us and we can invoke it: “Jesus,” “YHWH saves.” The
name “Jesus” contains all: God and man and the whole economy of creation and salvation. To
pray “Jesus” is to invoke him and to call him within us. His name is the only one that contains
the presence it signifies. Jesus is the Risen One, and whoever invokes the name of Jesus is
welcoming the Son of God who loved him and who gave himself up for him.

2667 This simple invocation of faith developed in the tradition of prayer under many forms in
East and West. The most usual formulation, transmitted by the spiritual writers of the Sinai,
Syria, and Mt. Athos, is the invocation, “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on us
sinners.” It combines the Christological hymn of Philippians 2:6-11 with the cry of the publican
and the blind men begging for light. By it the heart is opened to human wretchedness and the
Savior’s mercy.

2668 The invocation of the holy name of Jesus is the simplest way of praying always. When the
holy name is repeated often by a humbly attentive heart, the prayer is not lost by heaping up
empty phrases, but holds fast to the word and “brings forth fruit with patience.” This prayer is
possible “at all times” because it is not one occupation among others but the only occupation:
that of loving God, which animates and transfigures every action in Christ Jesus.
Liturgy of the Hours / Divine Office / Breviary
All three names refer to the same reality, the official prayer of the Church offered at various times of
the day in order to sanctify it. Clergy and religious have a canonical obligation to pray the Liturgy of
the Hours as official representatives of the Church. Increasingly, the laity are also praying it, though
they do not do so in the name of the Church.
Hour of the Day Latin Name English Name
During the Night Matins Office of Readings

Sunrise Lauds Morning Prayer

First Hour of the Day Prime

Third Hour of the Day Terce Mid-morning Prayer

Sixth Hour of the Day Sext Midday Prayer

Ninth Hour of the Day None Mid-afternoon Prayer

As evening approaches Vespers Evening Prayer

Nightfall Compline Night Prayer