EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
THROUGH THE LITURGICAL YEAR (Vol. 2, n. 13)
7th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B
February 19-25, 2006
“Lord, Heal My Soul!”
(+) In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
(A moment of silence)
SONG: Any suitable Eucharistic hymn or any appropriate song may be sung.
INTRODUCTION – by Caryll Houselander
(Cf. Meditations on the Sunday Gospel, Year B, New York: New City Press, 1996, p.86-87)
Our contemplation in the world is the contemplation of the humiliated Christ in the human race … It is so to speak, the suffering face of Christ on the via crucis, impressed upon humanity, his face covered in blood and sweat and tears, just as we do literally see so many faces now. This disfigurement is caused by sin; exactly as Christ’s historical passion was caused by sin, so is his passion in us. It is he whom we meet every day and in every house and every street, and were it not that his love has transformed even the wounding and bruising of sin, we should meet the ugliness of despair everywhere. As it is, Christ, by giving himself to our humanity has given his own mysterious beauty and significance to every tear on the human face, to every drop of blood shed from its veins. So it is Christ whom we look on today, in everyone, everywhere, in the hospitals, in the factories, in the streets. We see him in the wounded, in the helpless old people and the infants, in the bereaved, in the homeless, in the refugees … We cannot begin to understand this without wanting to respond to such love and to comfort Christ in all people.
SILENT ADORATION
OPENING PRAYER
Leader: Lord,
may your healing love turn us from sin
and keep us on the way that leads to you.
We love you and give you praise
for you restore us from all our infirmities.
You live and reign forever and ever.
Assembly: Amen.
Part I
JESUS MASTER TRUTH
Listening to the Word
FIRST READING: Is 43:18-19, 21-22, 24b-25
RESPONSORIAL PSALM
GOSPEL READING: Mk 2:1-12
PERSONAL REFLECTION
(As a tool for personal reflection, please visit the PDDM Website: www.pddm.org // www.pddm.us for BREAKING THE BREAD OF THE WORD [Series 4, n. 13]: A Lectio Divina Approach to the Sunday Liturgy. The Biblico-Liturgical Reflections are an aid for a deeper understanding of the Gospel reading.)
SONG: Any Eucharistic hymn or suitable song of praise may be sung.
Part II
JESUS MASTER WAY
Confrontation with the Word
POINTS FOR THE EXAMINATION OF THE HEART
Leader: We open our hearts to listen to the promptings of the living Word. Let us ask ourselves with limpid honesty:
A. What are the various images that deeply strike us in the healing episode of the paralytic in the village of Capernaum? How do the healing words of Jesus, “Child, your sins are forgiven” personally touch us? What are the various paralyses and illnesses that afflict our soul and body?
B. How do we respond to Yahweh’s compassionate offer of forgiveness: “Remember not the events of the past, the things of long ago consider not. See. I am doing something new … It is I, I, who wipe out, for my own sake, your offenses; your sins I remember no more”?
C. How do we treasure the healing acts of Christ made present to us through the Church’s sacraments of healing? How do we respond to the distressed cry in today’s world: “Lord, heal my soul”?
PRAYER
(Adapted from Cl. Bernard, Le temps du Coeur nouveau: Chantes, Prieres, cf. Days of the Lord, vol. 5, Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1993, p. 69)
Leader: Inert before you, this man
at your word takes his pallet
in the very instant God forgives.
Paralyzed by our fear
we hope to see the sinner freed,
walking in your footsteps.
Come to us again on our roads,
You, the Lord who can heal us!
Say one word, stretch out your hand,
Our wounded bodies will blossom anew!
Assembly: Lord Jesus, you alone can heal us.
Only say the word, and my soul shall be healed.
SONG: Any suitable song may be sung.
Part III
JESUS LIFE
Acting upon the Word
PERSONAL PRAYER
CONTEMPLATING WITH MARY THE FACE OF CHRIST: The Mysteries of Light of the Rosary may be prayed in part or in full.
THE WAY OF SOLIDARITY: PRAYER OF INTERCESSION
Leader: God, our loving Father, you console us in our sufferings. We pray for all the sick. Be near to them and give them health and consolation. We turn to you and say:
(R.) LORD, HEAL OUR SOUL AND BODY.
1. With those whose bodies are broken through crime and violence and whose spirits are crushed in misery, we pray: (R.)
2. With those whose bodies are paralyzed and whose spirits are imprisoned in anger and fear, we pray: (R.)
3. With those whose bodies are deformed by physical illness and whose spirits are sad and deeply grieved, we pray: (R.)
4. With those whose bodies are adulterated by sexual and drug abuse and whose spirits are brutally deprived of dignity and grace, we pray: (R.)
5. With those who promote the healing of the sick and whose spirits are overwhelmed by the world’s sufferings, we pray: (R.)
(Other prayers may be added.)
THE LORD’S PRAYER
CONCLUDING PRAYER
Leader: Loving Father,
we obtain healing of soul and body and total integrity
by the passion and death on the cross
of your Son Jesus Christ, the physician par excellence.
In healing the paralytic at Capernaum,
he has given us a glimpse of the mysterious beauty of your redeeming love
and the power of your healing forgiveness.
Help us to respond to the grandeur of your love
by offering his gift of reconciliation
to a broken world that is afflicted by sin
and paralyzed by countless bodily and spiritual infirmities.
We trust in you and we glorify you.
You live and reign with your Son Jesus Christ,
in unity with the Holy Spirit,
one God forever and ever.
Assembly: Amen.
FINAL SONG: Any suitable Eucharistic hymn or song of praise may be sung.
Prepared by Sr. Mary Margaret Tapang PDDM
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