Liturgical Colour : Green or White (Religious)
Psalm 118 : 14, 24, 72, 103, 111, 131
I delight in following Your laws, more so than in all riches.
Your laws are my delight, my counselors who uphold me.
Your law is more precious to me than heaps of silver and gold.
How sweet are Your promises to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
Your statutes are my heritage forever, they are the joy of my heart.
I gasp in ardent yearning for Your commandments that I love.
Liturgical Colour : White
Psalm 148 : 1-2, 11-12ab, 12c-14a, 14bcd
Alleluia! Praise the Lord from the heavens; praise Him in the heavenly heights. Praise Him, all His angels; praise Him, all His heavenly hosts.
Kings of the earth and nations, princes and all rulers of the world, young men and maidens.
Old and young together, let them praise the Name of the Lord. For His Name alone is exalted; His majesty is above earth and heaven. He has given His people glory.
He has given a praise to His faithful, to Israel, the people close to Him. Alleluia.
Psalm 8 : 2 and Psalm 58 : 2
Domine, Dominus noster, quam admirabile est Nomen Tuum in universa terra!
Response : Quoniam elevata est magnificentia Tua super caelos.
Alleluja, alleluja.
Response : Eripe me de inimicis meus, Deus meus : et ab insurgentibus in me libera me. Alleluja.
English translation
O Lord our Lord, how admirable is Your Name in the whole earth.
Response : For Your magnificence is elevated above the heavens.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Response : Deliver me from my enemies, o my God, and defend me from those that rise up against me. Alleluia.
Introit
Psalm 53 : 6-7, 3
Ecce, Deus adjuvat me, et Dominus susceptor est animae meae : averte mala inimicis meis, et in veritate Tua disperde illos, protector meus, Domine.
Deus, in Nomine Tuo salvum me fac : et in virtute Tua libera me.
Response : Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto, sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper : et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
English translation
Behold, God is my Helper, and the Lord is the protector of my soul. Turn back the evils upon my enemies, and cut them off in Your truth, o Lord, my Protector.
Save me, o God, by Your Name, and deliver me in Your strength.
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
Pateant aures misericordiae Tuae, Domine, precibus supplicantium : et, ut petentibus desiderata concedas; fac eos quae tibi sunt placita, postulare. Per Dominum…
English translation
Let the ears of Your mercy, o Lord, be open to the prayers of Your suppliants, and that You may grant their desires to them that seek, make them to ask only for those things that please You. Through our Lord…
Liturgical Colour : Green
Psalm 84 : 9ab-10, 11-12, 13-14
Would that I hear God’s proclamation that He promise peace to His people, His saints. Yet His salvation is near to those who fear Him, and His Glory will dwell in our land.
Love and faithfulness have met; righteousness and peace have embraced. Faithfulness will reach up from the earth while justice bends down from heaven.
The Lord will give what is good, and our land will yield its fruit. Justice will go before Him, and peace will follow along His path.
Liturgical Colour : Green or Red (Martyrs) or White (Saturday Mass of our Lady)
Psalm 9 : 8-9, 10-11, 12-13
But the Lord reigns forever, having set up His throne for judgement. He will judge the nations with justice and govern the peoples in righteousness.
The Lord is a rampart for the oppressed, a refuge in times of distress. Those who cherish Your Name, o Lord, can rely on You, for You have never forsaken those who look to You.
Sing praises to the Lord enthroned in Zion, proclaim His deeds among the nations. For He who avenges blood remembers, He does not ignore the cry of the lowly.
Liturgical Colour : White
Deuteronomy 32 : 35cd-36ab, 39abcd, 41
Their day of calamity is at hand, and swiftly their doom will come. The Lord will give justice to His people and have mercy on His servants.
Learn this now – that I alone am He; there is no god besides Me. It is I who give both death and life; It is I who wound and heal as well and out of My hand no one can deliver.
When I sharpen My glittering sword and My hand takes hold of judgment, I will deal out vengeance upon My foes and retribution upon those who hate Me.
Liturgical Colour : Green or Red (Martyrs) or White (Priests)
Psalm 50 : 12-13, 14-15, 18-19
Create in me, o God, a pure heart; give me a new and steadfast spirit. Do not cast me out of Your presence nor take Your Holy Spirit from me.
Give me again the joy of Your salvation and sustain me with a willing spirit. Then I will show wrongdoers Your ways and sinners will return to You.
You take no pleasure in sacrifice; were I to give a burnt offering, You would not delight in it. O God, my sacrifice is a broken spirit; a contrite heart You will not despise.
Liturgical Colour : White
Psalm 96 : 1-2, 5-6, 9
The Lord reigns; let the earth rejoice; let the distant islands be glad. Clouds and darkness surround Him; justice and right are His throne.
The mountains melt like wax before the Lord, the Lord of all the earth. The heavens proclaim His justice, all peoples see His glory.
For You are the Master of the universe, exalted far above all gods.
Liturgical Colour : Green or White (Dedication of a Basilica)
Psalm 101 : 16-18, 19-21, 29 and 22-23
O Lord, the nations will revere Your Name, and the kings of the earth Your glory, when the Lord will rebuild Zion and appear in all His splendour. For He will answer the prayer of the needy and will not despise their plea.
Let this be written for future ages, “the Lord will be praised by a people He will form.” From His holy height in heaven, the Lord has looked on the earth to hear the groaning of the prisoners, and free those condemned to death.
Your servants’ children will dwell secure; their posterity will endure without fail. Then the Name of the Lord will be declared in Zion, and His praise in Jerusalem, when the peoples and the kingdoms assemble to worship Him.
Alternative reading (Mass for Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major)
Judith 13 : 18bcde, 19
My daughter, may the Most High God bless you more than all women on earth. And blessed be the Lord God, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has led you to behead the leader of our enemies.
Never will people forget the confidence you have shown; they will always remember the power of God.
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