Liturgical Colour : Purple/Violet
Psalm 79 : 2ac and 3bc, 15-16, 18-19
Listen, o Shepherd of Israel, You who sit enthroned between the Cherubim. Stir up Your might and come to save us.
Turn again, o Lord of hosts, look down from heaven and see; care for this vine, and protect the stock Your hand has planted.
But lay Your hand on Your instrument, on the Son of Man Whom You make strong for Yourself. Then we will never turn away from You; give us life, and we will call on Your Name.
Liturgical Colour : Purple/Violet or White (Memorial of our Lady of Guadalupe)
Psalm 79 : 2ac and 3bc, 15-16, 18-19
Listen, o Shepherd of Israel, You who sit enthroned between the Cherubim. Stir up Your might and come to save us.
Turn again, o Lord of hosts, look down from heaven and see; care for this vine, and protect the stock Your hand has planted.
But lay Your hand on Your instrument, on the Son of Man Whom You make strong for Yourself. Then we will never turn away from You; give us life, and we will call on Your Name.
Alternative reading (for the Mass of our Lady of Guadalupe)
1 Samuel 2 : 1, 4-8
My heart exults in YHVH, I feel strong in my God. I rejoice and laugh at my enemies for You came with power to save me.
The bow of the mighty is broken but the weak are girded with strength. The well-fed must labour for bread but the hungry need work no more. The childless wife has borne seven children, but the proud mother is left alone.
YHVH is Lord of life and death, He brings down to the grave and raises up. YHVH makes poor and makes rich, He beings low and He exalts. He lifts up the lowly from the dust, and raises the poor from the ash heap; they will be called to the company of princes, and inherit a seat of honour. The earth to its pillars belongs to YHVH and on them He has set the world.
Liturgical Colour : Green or White (Bishops)
Psalm 78 : 8, 9, 11, 13
Do not remember against us the sins of our fathers. Let Your compassion hurry to us, for we have been brought very low.
Help us, God, our Saviour, for the glory of Your Name; forgive us for the sake of Your Name.
Listen to the groans of the prisoners; by the strength of Your arm, deliver those doomed to die.
Then we, Your people, the flock of Your pasture, will thank You forever. We will recount Your praise from generation to generation.
Liturgical Colour : Purple/Violet or Rose (Gaudete Sunday)
Psalm 79 : 2-3 and Psalm 79 : 2
Qui sedes, Domine, super Cherubim, excita potentiam Tuam, et veni.
Response : Qui Regis Israel, intende : qui deducis, velut ovem, Joseph.
Alleluja, Alleluja.
Response : Excita, Domine, potentiam Tuam, et veni, ut salvos facias nos. Alleluja.
English translation
You o Lord, who sits upon the cherubim, stir up Your might and come.
Response : Give ear, o You who rule Israel, You who lead Joseph like a sheep.
Alleluia, Alleluia.
Response : Stir up Your might, o Lord, and come, that You may save us. Alleluia.
Liturgical Colour : Red
Psalm 79 : 2ac and 3bc, 15-16, 18-19
Listen, o Shepherd of Israel, You who sit enthroned between the cherubim. Stir up Your might and come to save us.
Turn again, o Lord of hosts, look down from heaven and see; care for this vine, and protect the stock Your hand has planted.
But lay Your hand on Your instrument, on the Son of Man whom You make strong for Yourself. Then we will never turn away from You; give us life, and we will call on Your Name.
Homily and Reflection :
Liturgical Colour : Purple or Violet
Introit
Isaiah 30 : 30 and Psalm 79 : 2
Populus Sion, ecce, Dominus veniet ad salvandas gentes : et auditam faciet Dominus gloriam vocis suae in laetitia cordis vestri.
Qui Regis Israel, intende : qui deducis, velut ovem, Joseph.
Response : Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto, sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper : et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
English translation
People of Sion, behold, the Lord shall come to save the nations, and the Lord shall make the glory of His voice to be heard in the joy of your heart.
Give ear, o You who rules Israel. You who leads Joseph like a sheep.
Response : Glory be to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Collect
Excita, Domine, corda nostra ad praeparandas Unigeniti Tui vias : ut, per ejus adventum, purificatis Tibi mentibus servire mereamur : Qui Tecum…
English translation
Stir up our hearts, o Lord, to prepare the ways of Your only begotten Son, that through His coming we may be worthy to serve You with purified minds. Who lives…
Liturgical Colour : Purple or Violet
Psalm 79 : 2ac and 3bc, 15-16, 18-19
Listen, o Shepherd of Israel, You who sit enthroned between the cherubim. Stir up Your might and come to save us.
Turn again, o Lord of hosts, look down from heaven and see; care for this vine, and protect the stock Your hand has planted.
But lay Your hand on Your instrument, on the Son of Man whom You make strong for Yourself. Then we will never turn away from You; give us life, and we will call on Your Name.
Homily and Reflection :
Liturgical Colour : Green
Psalm 79 : 9 and 12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20
You had a vine You brought from Egypt. You drove nations out, to plant it in their land. Its branches reached out to the sea and its shoots to the River.
Why, then, have You broken down its walls, so that all who pass by pluck its fruits? The beasts of the forest ravage it and all creatures of the field feed on it.
Turn again, o Lord of hosts, look down from heaven and see; care for this vine, and protect the stock Your hand has planted.
Then we will never turn away from You; give us life, and we will call on Your Name. Restore us, o Lord, God of hosts; make Your face shine on us, that we may be saved.
Liturgical Colour : Green
Psalm 79 : 2ac and 3b, 15-16
Listen, o Shepherd of Israel, You who sit enthroned between the cherubim. Stir up Your might and come to save us.
Turn again, o Lord of hosts, look down from heaven and see; care for this vine, and protect the stock Your hand has planted.
Liturgical Colour : Green
Psalm 78 : 1-2, 3-5, 8, 9
O God, the pagans have invaded Your inheritance; they have defiled Your holy Temple and reduced Jerusalem to rubble. They have given Your servants’ corpses to the birds, and the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth.
They have poured out the blood of Your faithful like around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them. Mocked and reviled by those around us, we are scorned by our neighbours. How long will this last, o Lord? Will You be angry forever? Will Your wrath always burn to avenge Your rights?
Do not remember against us the sins of our fathers. Let Your compassion hurry to us, for we have been brought very low.
Help us, God, our Saviour, for the glory of Your Name; forgive us for the sake of Your Name.
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