MASS GUIDE
INTRODUCTION
Entrance Hymn: (Sung)
Greetings
Priest: In the name + of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit.
All : Amen.
Priest: Peace be with you!
All : And with your Spirit.
Penitential Rite
Priest: Brethren, let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare
ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.
(Brief Period of Silence)
All: I confess to Almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I
have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have
done and in what I have failed to do, through my fault, through my
fault, through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary
ever-Virgin, all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and
sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.
Bishop: May Almighty God have mercy on us, forgive us our sins, and
bring us to everlasting life.
All: Amen.
KYRIE: (Sung)
GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST: (Sung)
Collect
Priest: Let us pray (brief silence)
O God, who assigned Saint Matthias a place in the college
of Apostles, grant us, through his intercession, that,
rejoicing at how your love has been alloted to us, we may
merit to be numbered among the elect. Through our Lord
Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the
unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.
All: Amen.
Commentator: Please be seated for the Liturgy of the Word.
LITURGY OF THE WORD
First Reading: (Isaiah 61:1-3. 6. 8-9)
A reading from the book of the prophet Isaiah
A reading from the Acts of the Apostles
Peter stood up in the midst of the brothers and sisters (there was a
group of about one hundred and twenty persons in the one place). He said,
“My brothers and sisters, the Scripture had to be fulfilled which the Holy
Spirit spoke beforehand through the mouth of David, concerning Judas,
who was the guide for those who arrested Jesus.
Judas was numbered among us and was allotted a share in this
ministry. For it is written in the Book of Psalms: Let his encampment become
desolate, and may no one dwell in it. and: May another take his office.
Therefore, it is necessary that one of the men who accompanied us
the whole time the Lord Jesus came and went among us, beginning from the
baptism of John until the day on which he was taken up from us, become
with us a witness to his resurrection.” So they proposed two, Joseph called
Barsabbas, was also known as Justus, and Matthias.
Then they prayed, “You, Lord, who know the hearts of all, show which
one of these two you have chosen to take the place in this apostolic ministry
from which Judas turned away to go to his own place.”
Then they gave lots to them, and the lot fell upon Matthias, and he was
counted with the Eleven Apostles..
The word of the Lord.
All: Thanks be to God
Responsorial Psalm
Psalmists: The Lord will give him a seat with the leaders of his people.
Praise, you servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord. Blessed be the
name of the Lord both now and forever. (Response)
From the rising to the setting of the sun is the name of the Lord to be praised.
High above all nations is the Lord; above the heavens is his glory.! (Response)
Who is like the Lord, our God, who is enthroned on high and looks upon the
heavens and the earth below?. (Response)
He raises up the lowly from the dust; from the dunghill he lifts up the poor To
seat them with princes, with the princes of his own people. (Response)
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION AND PROCLAMATION
Commentator: Please all stand to honor the Gospel!
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: (Sung)
Priest: The Lord be with you.
All: And with your Spirit.
Gospel Reading: (John 20:19-23)
Bishop: A reading from the holy Gospel according to John.
All: Glory to You, O Lord.
Jesus said to his disciples: “As the Father loves me, so I also
love you. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will
remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments
and remain in his love. “I have told you this so that my joy might be in
you and your joy might be complete. This is my commandment: love
one another as I love you. No one has greater love than this, to lay
down one’s life for one’s friends.
You are my friends if you do what I command you. I no longer call you
slaves, because a slave does not know what his master is doing. I
have called you friends, because I have told you everything I have
heard from my Father. It was not you who chose me, but I who chose
you and appointed you to go and bear fruit that will remain, so that
whatever you ask the Father in my name he may give you. This I
command you: love one another.”
The Gospel of the Lord.
All: Praise to you, O Lord Jesus Christ.
Commentator: Please be seated.
PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL
Response: SUSTAIN US, O LORD.
Priest: ….. This we ask of you through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
Offertory Song: (Sung)
(Presentation of the Gifts /Preparation of the Altar)
Priest: Pray, brethren, that my sacrifice and yours may be
acceptable to God, the Father.
All: May the Lord accept the sacrifice at your hands for the
praise and glory of His name, for our good, and the good of
all his holy Church.
Prayer Over the Gifts
Print: Mercifully receive the prayer of your servants, Lord, we
pray, and grant that, configured more perfectly to your Son,
they may grow steadily in bearing witness to Him as they
share in the memorial of His redemption, by which He
gained for us Spirit. Through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
Preface
Priest: The Lord be with you.
All: And with your Spirit.
Priest: Lift up your hearts.
All: We lift them up to the Lord.
Priest: Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.
All: It is right and just.
Bishop: It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation, always
and everywhere to give you thanks, Father most holy,
through your beloved Son, Jesus Christ, your Word through
whom you made all things, whom you sent as our Saviour
and Redeemer, incarnate by the Holy Spirit and born of the
Virgin.
Fulfilling your will and gaining for you a holy people, he
stretched out his hands as he endured his Passion, so as to
break the bonds of death and manifest the resurrection.
And so, with the Angels and all the Saints we declare your
glory, as with one voice we acclaim:
ALL: Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full
of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who
comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.
The Eucharistic Prayer II
Bishop: Lord, you are indeed Holy, O Lord, the fount of all holiness. Make
holy therefore, these gifts, we pray, by sending down your Spirit
upon them like the dewfall, so that they may become for us the
body Body + and Blood of our Lord, Jesus Christ.
At the time he was betrayed and entered willingly into his
Passion, he took bread and, giving thanks, broke it, and gave it to
his disciples, saying: Take THIS ALL OF YOU, AND EAT OF IT,
FOR THIS IS MY BODY, WHICH WILL BE GIVEN UP FOR YOU.
In similar way, when supper was ended, he took the chalice
and, once more giving thanks, he gave it to his disciples, saying:
TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND DRINK FROM IT: THIS IS THE
CHALICE OF MY BLOOD, THE BLOOD OF THE NEW AND
EVERLASTING COVENANT, FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.
DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME.
Priest: The mystery of faith.
ALL: We proclaim your Death, O Lord, and profess your Resurrection
until you come again.
Priest: Therefore, as we celebrate the memorial of his Death and
Resurrection, we offer you, Lord, the Bread of life and the
Chalice of salvation, giving thanks that you have held us
worthy to be in your presence and minister to you.
Humbly we pray that, partaking of the Body and Blood of
Christ, we may be gathered into one by the Holy Spirit.
Remember, Lord, your Church, spread throughout the
world, and bring her to the fullness of charity, together with
Francis our Pope and our Priest and all the clergy.
Remember also our brothers and sisters who have fallen
asleep in the hope of the resurrection, and all who have died
in your mercy;
Welcome them into the light of your face. Have mercy on us
all, we pray, that with the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of
God, with the blessed Apostles, and all the Saints who have
pleased you throughout the ages, we may merit to be
coheirs to eternal life, and may praise and glorify you
through your Son Jesus Christ.
Through Him, and with Him, and in Him, O God, almighty
Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honour is
yours, forever and ever.
Great Amen: (Sung)
THE COMMUNION RITE
Priest: At the Savior’s command and formed by the divine teaching,
we dare to say:
ALL: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom
come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our
daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who
trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us
from evil.
Priest: Deliver us Lord; we pray, from every evil, graciously grant
peace in our days, that, by the help of your mercy, we may
be always free from sin and safe from all distress, as we
await the blessed hope and the coming of our Saviour,
Jesus Christ.
ALL: For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours now and for ever.
Priest: Lord Jesus Christ, you said to your Apostles: Peace I leave
you, my peace I give to you, look not on our sins, but the
faith of your Church, and graciously grant her peace and
unity in accordance with your will. Who live and reign
forever and ever.
All: Amen.
Priest: The peace of the Lord be with you always.
All: And with your Spirit.
Priest: Let us offer each other the sign of peace.
Breaking of the Bread
ALL: Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, grant us peace
Priest: Behold the Lamb of God; behold him who takes away the
sins of the world. Blessed are those called to the supper of
the Lamb.
All: Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say
the word and my soul shall be healed.
PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION:
Bishop: Let us pray… (Brief silence)
Accompany with your blessing from this day on, Lord, those
anointed with the Holy Spirit and nourished by the Sacrament of
your Son, so that overcoming every adversity, they may gladden
your Church by their holiness and foster her growth in the world
by their works of charity. We ask this through Christ our Lord.
All: Amen.
Commentator: Please be seated.
Acknowledgment: (Commentator)
THE FINAL BLESSING
(The Priestextends his hands over the people and chant or recites)
Priest: The Lord be with you.
All: And with your Spirit.
Bishop: Go forth, the Mass is ended..
All: Thanks be to God.
Recessional Hymn: (Sung)
