Catholic TV Mass Online August 31, 2025: 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Presider: Fr. Mark Payne
Parish: Chaplain, Heart of the Nation
Choir: St. Charles schola

Text from the Homily ~ August 31, 2025

I didn't realize when I came into church, I was going to have the angels singing for us at Mass and I’m just delighted for all of these angels to be with us. When we enter into this gospel and the first reading, we are going to talk about humility. And I think the most beautiful example of humility is at the last supper. When Jesus removed his outer garment he put on a towel around his waist, he took a basin and a pitcher of water, and he moved over to his disciples, and he began to wash their feet. And Peter of course said to him, “You're not going to wash my feet!” And Jesus said, “No, I need to wash your feet if you're going to have a share in the kingdom.” See, humility runs through all of these gospel readings. When we think of the other it's about the other. It's not about ourselves. And Jesus reminded his disciples after he finished washing his feet, he said “You probably don't understand what I just did for you but you will later.” And isn't that true when we do something for the other? It's not whether we're uncomfortable visiting someone in the hospital. We need to think of the person in the hospital and to think what joy you may bring that person by just showing up and saying hello. It may be that someone's carrying heavy things and when you come to the door you open the door, we're not thinking of ourselves to get a pat on the back for holding the door, but we are thinking of the other who may be struggling to get through the door. There are so many stories folks that we all know. Whether it's teachers we need to pay attention to, classmates that we need to pay attention, coworkers that we need to help along the way. We need to think of the other. That's humility. If we're always thinking about ourselves and that's why Jesus uses this powerful image of the invited guest, it's not always looking for what we can get out of it. I'm going to challenge some of us who are drivers on the highways and the byways. It's not always trying to get ahead of the person or trying to cut off the person or trying to be the first one. Through that ramp. Why don't you let someone else go? Think of the other person. If we started to all do that, boy our highways would be a different place to travel on. If we started to think of the other all the time. The problem is, we're always worried about how the other is going to treat us. You know something, you're not always going to be treated well when you treat someone well. But that doesn't mean that we refrain from treating people well. In fact, we need to work even harder so if someone doesn't respond in the grocery store, but they may be talking on the phone because they have these buds in their ears, and you say good morning and they don't respond. It's ok. It's ok. Just keep offering that good morning to all the people you encounter. And you may make a difference in some lives and you may not in others. So, my dear angels, remember about the other classmates, brothers and sisters, the people in your lives. Folks, everywhere remember it's about the other and that's what Jesus talks about. Not about ourselves.

Entrance: Seek Ye First
Text: Matthew 6:33, 7:7; adapt. by Karen Lafferty, b.1948 Tune: SEEK YE FIRST, Irregular; Karen Lafferty, b.1948 © 1972, CCCM Music/Universal Music–Brentwood Benson Publishing (admin. CapitolCMGPublishing.com)

Psalm 68: God In Your Goodness You Have Made a Home For The Poor
Text © 1969, 1981, 1997, ICEL. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Music © 2017, Chris Muglia. Published by OCP. All rights reserved.

Preparation: The Cry Of The Poor
Text: Based on Psalm 34:2–3, 18–19a, 19b–20, 4. Text and music © 1978, 1991, John B. Foley, S.J., and OCP. All rights reserved.

Communion: Jesus Meek and Humble
© 2015, Ben Walther and Sarah Hart. Published by Spirit & Song®, a division of OCP. All rights reserved

Sending Forth: Act Justly
Text: Based on Micah 6:8. Text and music © 2011, Bernadette Farrell. Published by OCP. All rights reserved

Mass Setting: Mass of Renewal
Text © 2010, ICEL. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Music © 2009, Curtis Stephan. Published by OCP. All rights reserved.

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