MASS FOR YOU AT HOME with Fr Joshua Whicker MGL – 1st Sunday of Advent (Yr A)

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** EPISODE DETAILS **
1st Sunday of Advent [Yr A]
Original air date: 30 November 2025

* EPISODE CAST **
Celebrant: Rev Joshua Whicker MGL, assistant priest at St Declan's Catholic Parish Penshurst (Archdiocese of Sydney)
Readers: Mouna Roche and Tim Gilmour
Altar Server: Joshua Lee
Auslan interpreters: Daina Caruana and Rosemary Profilio
Music: Seth Harsh, Fiesita Mataele and Michaela Gimondo

** SERIES CREW **
Executive Producer: Daniel Hopper
Director: Daniel Hopper
Assistant Director: Amy Micallef
Director of Photography: Glenn Hanns ACS
Camera Operators: Glenn Hanns ACS and Paul King
Sound: Glenn Hanns ACS
Editor: Daniel Hopper, Jeremy Yuen and Clayton Diack
Make-up artist: Meryll Faulkner
Production Manager: Daniel Hopper
Online Editor/Colourist: Daniel Hopper
Graphic Artist: Daniel Hopper
Music Editor: Seth Harsh
Music Supervisor: Daniel Hopper
Auslan Director of Photography: Daniel Hopper
Auslan Coordinator: Liz McDowell
Deaf Consultant: David Parker

** MAJOR SPONSORS **
Catholic Mission Australia
CathNews

** WITH THANKS **
National Mass for You at Home Transition Committee
Lumen Christi Catholic Parish, Wollongong
The Ephephta Centre, Sydney
Primavera Flowers, Wollongong
Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney
Catholic Diocese of Parramatta
Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay

** MUSIC CREDITS **
Responsorial Psalm
“Let Us Go Rejoicing” by Paul Mason.
Text: Psalm 121(122): 1–2. 3–4a. 4b–5. 6–7. 8–9. The English translation of the psalm response from the Lectionary of the Mass, © 1969, 1981, 1997 ICEL. All rights reserved. Verses © 1963 The Grail (England), by permission of A.P. Watt Ltd on behalf of The Grail, England. Music: © 2007, Paul Mason. Published in 2016 by Liturgical Song. PO Box 1871 Wollongong NSW 2500 Australia. www.liturgicalsong.com. All rights reserved.

Gospel Acclamation
Text: The English translation of the Gospel acclamation and verse from
The Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997 ICEL. All rights reserved.
Music: English translation and chants of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

Offertory Hymn
“Stay With Me” by Taizé. Text: Public Domain. Music: © 1981 Ateliers et Presses de Taizé Contributors: Jacques Berthier, Taizé. Used with permission.

Communion Hymn
“O Jesus Christ, Remember” by Edward Caswall.
Text: Edward Caswall. Music: AURELIA 7.6.7.6 D, Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1864). Public Domain.

Mass setting
“Glendalough Mass” by Liam Lawton.
© 2010 by GIA Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

All music for broadcast used with permission by the publishers.
Permission to reprint, podcast, and / or stream the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE with license # A-705872.

Liturgy
Excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal
© 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Inc (ICEL). All rights reserved.

Excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Pontifical
© 2012, Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. All rights reserved.

Prayer of the Faithful. © Creative Ministry Resources Pty Ltd. Used with permission.

Stock video footage and artwork: www.shutterstock.com , www.lightstock.com, www.pexels.com, www.pixabay.com and Public domain.