Worship Aid for Pentecost May 30-31, 2020

Welcome to St. Philip's Catholic Church, Bemidji, Minnesota

Worship Aid for May 30-31, 2020

It is wonderful we can worship together and vital that we welcome everyone into our parish. Thank you for your willingness to serve our parish family. The spiritual and physical health of all in attendance are important to us. Please help us create a safe, healthy environment.

If you are 65 or older or are considered vulnerable to Covid-19, please consider attending a weekly Mass or continuing to "attend" via livestream. (Info below.)
Wash your hands well before leaving home, use hand sanitizer when you enter the building and whenever needed.
Maintain a 6-ft distance from anyone outside your family.
Wear a cloth face covering that fits snugly and reaches above your nose, below your chin, and completely covers your mouth and nostrils, except when receiving communion. Face coverings are HIGHLY recommended to promote a healthy environment for all.
Please silence your mobile device.
Ushers will help seat and dismiss people to help maintain social distancing. Please follow their directions.
Please remain in your place during communion. Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion will distribute the Body of Christ to people in their pews.

Thank you for your patience and flexibility, we will continue to modify practices and protocols as needed.

Opening Hymm

Reading 1

ACTS 2:1-11

When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled,

they were all in one place together.

And suddenly there came from the sky

a noise like a strong driving wind,

and it filled the entire house in which they were.

Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire,

which parted and came to rest on each one of them.

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit

and began to speak in different tongues,

as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.

Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven staying in Jerusalem.

At this sound, they gathered in a large crowd,

but they were confused

because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

They were astounded, and in amazement they asked,

“Are not all these people who are speaking Galileans?

Then how does each of us hear them in his native language?

We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites,

inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia,

Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia,

Egypt and the districts of Libya near Cyrene,

as well as travelers from Rome,

both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs,

yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues

of the mighty acts of God.”

Responsorial Psalm #104

Lord, Send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the Earth.

Reading 2

1 COR 12:3B-7, 12-13

Brothers and sisters:

No one can say, “Jesus is Lord,” except by the Holy Spirit.

There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit;

there are different forms of service but the same Lord;

there are different workings but the same God

who produces all of them in everyone.

To each individual the manifestation of the Spirit

is given for some benefit.

As a body is one though it has many parts,

and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body,

so also Christ.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body,

whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons,

and we were all given to drink of one Spirit.

Sequence- follows the New Testament reading

Veni, Sancte Spiritus

Gospel

JN 20:19-23

On the evening of that first day of the week,

when the doors were locked, where the disciples were,

for fear of the Jews,

Jesus came and stood in their midst

and said to them, “Peace be with you.”

When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side.

The disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord.

Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you.

As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”

And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them,

“Receive the Holy Spirit.

Whose sins you forgive are forgiven them,

and whose sins you retain are retained.”

Creed

I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth,

of all things visible and invisible.

I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God,

born of the Father before all ages. God from God, Light from Light,

true God from true God, begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father; through him all things were made. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven,

and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,

and became man.

For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, he suffered death and was buried, and rose again on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures. He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end.

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified, who has spoken through the prophets.

I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church. I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. Amen