Liturgical Colour : White
Psalm 116 : 1-2
Alleluia! Praise the Lord, all you nations; all you peoples, praise Him. How great is His love for us! His faithfulness lasts forever.
Homily and Reflection :
exaltation
Saturday, 29 November 2014 : 34th Week of Ordinary Time (Psalm)
Liturgical Colour : Green or White (Saturday Mass of our Lady)
Psalm 94 : 1-2, 3-5, 6-7
Come, let us sing to the Lord, let us make a joyful sound to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before Him giving thanks, with music and songs of praise.
For the Lord is the great God, the great King above all gods. In His hand are the depths of the earth and the mountain heights. The sea is His, for He made it, and His hand shaped the dry land.
Come and worship; let us bow down, kneel before the Lord, our Maker. He is our God, and we His people; the flock He leads and pastures. Would that today you heard His voice!
Homily and Reflection :
Thursday, 27 November 2014 : 34th Week of Ordinary Time (Psalm)
Liturgical Colour : Green
Psalm 99 : 2, 3, 4, 5
Serve the Lord with gladness; come before Him with joyful songs.
Know that the Lord is God; He created us and we are His people, the sheep of His fold.
Enter His gates with thanksgiving, His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him and bless His Name.
For the Lord is good; His love lasts forever and His faithfulness through all generations.
Homily and Reflection :
Thursday, 20 November 2014 : 33rd Week of Ordinary Time (Psalm)
Liturgical Colour : Green
Psalm 149 : 1-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b
Alleluia! Sing to the Lord a new song, sing His praise in the assembly of His saints. Let Israel rejoice in his Maker, let the people of Zion glory in their King!
Let them dance in praise of His Name and make music for Him with harp and timbrel. For the Lord delights in His people; He crowns the lowly with victory.
The saints will exult in triumph; even at night on their couches. Let the praise of God be on their lips. This is the glory of all His saints. Alleluia!
Homily and Reflection :
Tuesday, 4 November 2014 : 31st Week of Ordinary Time, Memorial of St. Charles Borromeo, Bishop (First Reading)
Liturgical Colour : White
Philippians 2 : 5-11
Your attitude should be the same as Jesus Christ had : Though He was in the form of God, He did not regard equality with God as something to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking on the nature of a Servant, made in human likeness, and in His appearance found as a Man.
He humbled Himself by being obedient to death, death on the cross. That is why God exalted Him and gave Him the Name which outshines all names, so that at the Name of Jesus all knees should bend in heaven, on earth and among the dead, and all tongues proclaim that, Christ Jesus is the Lord to the glory of God the Father.
Homily and Reflection :
Friday, 24 October 2014 : 29th Week of Ordinary Time, Memorial of St. Anthony Mary Claret, Bishop (Psalm)
Liturgical Colour : Green or White (Bishops)
Psalm 23 : 1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6
The earth and its fullness belong to the Lord, the world and all that dwell in it. He has founded it upon the ocean and set it firmly upon the waters.
Who will ascend the mountain of the Lord? Who will stand in His holy place? Those with clean hands and pure heart, who desire not what is vain.
They will receive blessings from the Lord, a reward from God, their Saviour. Such are the people who seek Him, who seek the face of Jacob’s God.
Monday, 13 October 2014 : 28th Week of Ordinary Time (Psalm)
Liturgical Colour : Green
Psalm 112 : 1-2, 3-4, 5a and 6-7
Alleluia! Praise, o servants of the Lord, praise the Name of the Lord! Blessed be the Name of the Lord now and forever!
From eastern lands to the western islands, may the Name of the Lord be praised! The Lord is exalted over the nations, His glory above the heavens.
Who is like the Lord our God, He who bends down to see on earth as in heaven? He lifts up the poor from the dust and the needy from the ash heap.
Tuesday, 26 August 2014 : 21st Week of Ordinary Time (Psalm)
Liturgical Colour : Green
Psalm 95 : 10, 11-12a, 12b-13
Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns!” He will judge the peoples with justice.
Let the heavens be glad, the earth rejoice; let the sea and all that fills it resound; let the fields exult and everything in them.
Let the forest, all the trees sing for joy. Let them sing before the Lord who comes to judge the earth. He will rule the world with justice and the peoples with fairness.
(Usus Antiquior) Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Feast of St. Bartholomew the Apostle (Double II Classis) – Sunday, 24 August 2014 : Offertory Prayer, Secret Prayer of the Priest, Communion and Postcommunion Prayer
Offertory Prayer
Exaltabo Te, Domine, quoniam suscepisti me, nec delectasti inimicos meos super me : Domine, clamavi ad Te, et sanasti me.
English translation
I will extol You, o Lord, for You had upheld me, and You had not made my enemies to rejoice over me. O Lord, I have cried to You, and You have healed me.
Secret Prayer of the Priest
Respice, Domine, quaesumus, nostram propitius servitutem : ut, quod offerimus, sit tibi munus acceptum, et sit nostrae fragilitatis subsidium. Per Dominum…
English translation
Look with mercy, we beseech You, o Lord, upon our homage, that the gift we offer may be accepted by You and be the support of our frailty. Through our Lord…
Communion
Honora Dominum de tua substantia, et de primitiis frugum tuarum : et implebuntur horrea tua saturitate, et vino torcularia redundabunt.
English translation
Honour the Lord with your substance, and with the first of all your fruits. And your barns shall be filled with abundance, and your presses shall run over with wine.
Postcommunion Prayer
Sentiamus, quaesumus, Domine, tui perceptione sacramenti, subsidium mentis et corporis : ut, in utroque salvati, caelestis remedii plenitudine gloriemur. Per Dominum…
English translation
By receiving Your sacrament, we beseech You, o Lord, that we may experience help in soul and body, that, being saved in both, we may glory in the fullness of our heavenly remedy. Through our Lord…
(Usus Antiquior) Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Feast of St. Bartholomew the Apostle (Double II Classis) – Sunday, 24 August 2014 : Gradual and Alleluia
Psalm 27 : 7, 1 and Psalm 80 : 2-3
In Deo speravit cor meum, et adjutus sum : et refloruit caro mea, et ex voluntate mea confitebor illi.
Response : Ad Te, Domine, clamavi : Deus meus, ne sileas, ne discedas a me.
Alleluja, alleluja.
Response : Exsultate Deo, adjutori nostro, jubilate Deo Jacob : sumite psalmum jucundum cum cithara. Alleluja.
English translation
In God I had confided my heart, and I have been helped, and my flesh had flourished again. And with my will I will give praise to Him.
Response : Unto You I will cry, o Lord. O my God, may You not be silent, and depart not from me.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Response : Rejoice in our God, our Helper. Sing aloud to the God of Jacob. Take a pleasant psalm with the harp. Alleluia.
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