Kolbe Mass

Opening Prayer
God our Father,St. Maximilian Kolbe practicedwhat your Son

Jesus called the greatest love that disposes a personto lay
down one's life for one's friends.Through Jesus, who calls us
his friends,and with the help of the prayers of St Maximilian
make our love as strong as life and death.Let it always have
the last word in usand be given for free, like yours.Make us
love one another as Jesus has loved us,he who is our Lord
for ever.
Prayer over the Gifts
Lord our God, loving Father,your love appeared with a
human facein your Son Jesus Christ.He showed all the depth
of your love and hisby laying down his life for us, his friends.
May he be our food on the road of life and of lovenot only
when it is easy to lovebut also when it is hard to be faithful
and when love demands self-forgetting sacrifice.We ask this
through Christ our Lord.
Prayer after Communion
Our loving God,in this eucharistic celebrationyou have given
us new proof of your loveby giving us your Son and his
Spirit.Jesus has strengthened our love.Accept our thanks
and bring out the best in us,that we may bear rich fruit of
faithful, reliable love.Let your Spirit unite usto build
community with one anotherand to live in your love and joy
now and for ever.
A reading from the Book of the Prophet Joshua

Joshua gathered together all the tribes of Israel at Shechem,
summoning their elders, their leaders,
their judges and their officers.
When they stood in ranks before God, Joshua addressed all
the people:
Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel:
In times past your fathers, down to Terah,
father of Abraham and Nahor,
dwelt beyond the River and served other gods.
But I brought your father Abraham from the region beyond
the River
and led him through the entire land of Canaan.
I made his descendants numerous, and gave him Isaac.
To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau.
To Esau I assigned the mountain region of Seir in which to
settle,
while Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and smote Egypt with the
prodigies
which I wrought in her midst.
Afterward I led you out of Egypt, and when you reached the
sea,
the Egyptians pursued your fathers to the Red Sea
with chariots and horsemen.
Because they cried out to the LORD,
he put darkness between your people and the Egyptians,
upon whom he brought the sea so that it engulfed them.
After you witnessed what I did to Egypt,
and dwelt a long time in the desert,
I brought you into the land of the Amorites
who lived east of the Jordan.

They fought against you, but I delivered them into your
power.
You took possession of their land, and I destroyed them,
the two kings of the Amorites, before you.
Then Balak, son of Zippor, king of Moab,
prepared to war against Israel.
He summoned Balaam, son of Beor, to curse you;
but I would not listen to Balaam.
On the contrary, he had to bless you, and I saved you from
him.
Once you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho,
the men of Jericho fought against you,
but I delivered them also into your power.
And I sent the hornets ahead of you that drove them
(the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites,
Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites and Jebusites)
out of your way; it was not your sword or your bow.
I gave you a land that you had not tilled
and cities that you had not built, to dwell in;
you have eaten of vineyards and olive groves
which you did not plant.
The Word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God
Responsorial Psalm: Ps 136:1-3, 16-18, 21-22 and 24

R./His mercy endures forever.
1. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,
for his mercy endures forever;
Give thanks to the God of gods,
Give thanks to the Lord of lords,
for his mercy endures forever. R.esponse.
His mercy endures forever.
2. Who led his people through the wilderness,
for his mercy endures forever; Who smote great kings,
And slew powerful kings,
for his mercy endures forever. Response
3. And made their land a heritage,
The heritage of Israel his servant,
for his mercy endures forever; And freed us from our foes,
for his mercy endures forever. Response,
Gospel Reading: Matthew 19:3-12

Some Pharisees approached Jesus, and tested him, saying,
Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any cause
whatever?
He said in reply, Have you not read that from the beginning
the Creator made them male and female and said,
For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother
and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one
flesh?
So they are no longer two, but one flesh.
Therefore, what God has joined together, man must not
separate.
They said to him, Then why did Moses command
that the man give the woman a bill of divorce and dismiss
her?
He said to them, Because of the hardness of your hearts
Moses allowed you to divorce your wives,
but from the beginning it was not so.
I say to you, whoever divorces his wife
(unless the marriage is unlawful)
and marries another commits adultery.
His disciples said to him,
If that is the case of a man with his wife,
it is better not to marry.

He answered, Not all can accept this word,
but only those to whom that is granted.
Some are incapable of marriage because they were born so;
some, because they were made so by others;
some, because they have renounced marriage
for the sake of the Kingdom of heaven.
Whoever can accept this ought to accept it.
The Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.

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Opening Prayer

God our Father,St. Maximilian Kolbe practicedwhat your Son

A reading from the Book of the Prophet Joshua

who lived east of the Jordan.

Responsorial Psalm: Ps 136:1-3, 16-18, 21-22 and 24

Gospel Reading: Matthew 19:3-12

it is better not to marry.

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