C ATHOLIC C OMMUNITY Charleston, South Carolina

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dvent, this powerful liturgical season that we are beginning, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence. It is an invitation to understand that the individual events of the day are hints that God is giving us, signs of the attention he has for each one of us. How often does God give us a glimpse of his love! To keep, as it were, an "interior journal" of this love would be a beautiful and salutary task for our life! Advent invites and stimulates us to contemplate the Lord present. Should not the certainty of his presence help us see the world with different eyes? Should it not help us to consider the whole of our life as a "visit", as a way in which he can come to us and become close to us in every situation? Benedict XVI

THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT 27 November 2016

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WELCOME!

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RACE AND PEACE TO YOU IN THE N AME OF OUR L ORD J ESUS C HRIST ! Corpus Christi is a Roman

Catholic community of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, a structure within the Catholic Church in which the patrimony of Anglican liturgy and spirituality is preserved, nourished, and renewed “as a precious gift nourishing the faith of the members of the Ordinariate and as a treasure to be shared” (Benedict XVI, Anglicanorum coetibus). All Catholics who are properly disposed may receive Holy Communion at this Mass. We are grateful to the Pastor and People of Sacred Heart Catholic Church for their warm hospitality.

NOTICES T HE G REAT L ITANY & L ITURGICAL N OTES On the First Sunday of Advent, Holy Mass begins with the Litany, and proceeds immediately to the Introit & Kyrie. During Advent we will sing the simple Greek & Latin chants of the Ordinary of the Mass. The Gloria is omitted in Advent, and the Organ is only used to support the congregation’s singing.

RETIREMENT FUND FOR PRIESTS

CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC COMMUNITY

The Most Rev’d Steven J. Lopes, Bishop The Rev’d Patrick S. Allen, Parish Priest [email protected] • 843.531.6855 PO Box 430, Charleston SC 29402 corpuschristicsp.org • ordinariate.net facebook.com/charlestonordinariate

On Dec. 3-4, parishes of the Ordinariate will take up a second collection for the Retirement Fund for Priests. Gifts to this campaign will help establish a future pension for the Ordinariate’s clergy. Please take a donation envelope (provided by the Ordinariate for this collection) and consider giving a gift next weekend. Checks should be made to the “Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.” Gifts will be taken up at Mass next weekend, or you may send your gift directly to the Ordinariate Chancery using the pre-addressed envelope.

H YMNS Found in blue “Hymnal 1982 ”

Offertory Hymn: 60 “Creator of the stars of night” Retiring Processional: 57 “Lo he comes, with clouds descending”

ORDINARY OF THE MASS Kyrie

the God of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. O house of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the LORD. G RADUAL Universi qui te exspéctant

Ps. 25.3,4 FOR all they that look for thee: shall not be ashamed, O LORD. Make known to me thy ways, O LORD: and teach me thy paths.

Sanctus & Benedictus

T HE E PISTLE Romans 13.11-14 RETHREN: You know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed; the night is far gone, the day is at hand. Let us then cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of light; let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh.

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Agnus Dei

M ASS P ROPERS I NTROIT Ad te levávi

Ps. 25.1-3 UNTO thee, O LORD, lift I up my soul: O my God, in thee have I trusted, let me not be con- founded; neither let mine enemies triumph over me: for all they that look for thee shall not be ashamed. Ps. Shew me thy ways, O LORD: and teach me thy paths. Glory be... Unto thee...

T HE C OLLECT OF THE D AY MIGHTY GOD, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon the armour of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which thy Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility: that, in the last day, when he shall come again in his glorious majesty, to judge both the quick and the dead; we may rise to the life immortal; through the same Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. R Am en.

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T HE L ESSON Isaiah 2.1-5 HE word which Isai'ah the son of A'moz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of

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St Matthew 24.37-44 Jesus said to his disciples, “As were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they did not know until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of man. Then two men will be in the field; one is taken and one is left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one is taken and one is left. Watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your Lord is coming. But know this, that if the householder had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready; for the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” T HE G OSPEL

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O FFERTORY Ad te, Dómine, levávi

Ps. 25:1-3 UNTO thee O LORD, lift I up my soul; O my God; in thee have I trusted, let me not be confounded; Neither let mine enemies triumph over me; for all they that look for thee shall not be ashamed.

C OMMUNION V ERSE Dóminus dabit benignitátem Ps. 85:13 THE LORD shall show loving-kindness, and the land shall give increase.