Youth Taize 2023
Youth Taize 2023
Youth Taize 2023
I. OPENING HYMN
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Bless the Lord, my soul, and bless God's holy name.
Bless the Lord, my soul, who leads me into life.
SILENCE
IV. PSALM
II. Rest your heart not in riches, nor honor of the world
weighed out with the heart of God
these blow to nothingness, vanish like breath.
V. TAIZE SONG
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VI. GOSPEL READING
Beloved:
See what love the Father has bestowed on us
that we may be called the children of God.
Yet so we are.
The reason the world does not know us
is that it did not know him.
Beloved, we are God’s children now;
what we shall be has not yet been revealed.
We do know that when it is revealed we shall be like him,
for we shall see him as he is.
Everyone who has this hope based on him makes himself pure,
as he is pure.
LEADER: Christ Jesus, sent by God to reveal his love to all human beings, we pray
to you.
ALL: O Lord, hear my prayer, O Lord hear my prayer. When I Call, answer me.
O Lord, hear my prayer, O Lord hear my prayer. Come and listen to me.
L: Blessed are the poor of heart; Father, make us depend on you in everything
we do, and so we pray.
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L: Blessed are those who mourn; Father, hear our plea in the miseries and
sorrows of life and make us hopeful in you always, and so we pray.
L: Blessed are the meek of heart; Father form our hearts to be gentle and
compassionate just like the heart of Jesus, Your Son, and so we pray.
L: Blessed are those who long for righteousness; Father, inspire always to think,
speak and do what is only good, and so we pray.
L: Blessed are the merciful; Father, may we show mercy to others just as you
have shown mercy to us, and so we pray.
L: Blessed are the pure of heart; Father, help us to be modest in our clothing,
thinking and speaking that as we develop relationship with others we may only
love them with love for you, and so we pray.
L: Blessed are those who are persecuted for Your sake; Father, form us to strong
and genuine witnesses of truth and love of You, and so we pray.
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after this time of trial.
Help us, Mother of Divine Love,
to conform to the will of the Father
and to do as we are told by Jesus,
who has taken upon himself our sufferings
and carried our sorrows
to lead us, through the cross,
to the joy of the resurrection. Amen.