Liturgical Colour : Green or White (Saints and Virgins)
Psalm 150 : 1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Alleluia! Praise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in the vault of heaven. Praise Him for His mighty deeds; praise Him for His own greatness.
Praise Him with trumpet blast; praise Him with lyre and harp. Praise Him with dance and tambourines; praise Him with pipe and strings.
Praise Him with clashing cymbals; praise Him with clanging cymbals. Let everything that breathes sing praise to the Lord. Alleluia!
Liturgical Colour : White
Song of Songs 3 : 1-4a
On my bed at night I looked for the One I love, I sought Him without finding Him; I called Him and He did not answer. I will rise and go about the city, through the streets and the squares; I will seek the love of my heart.
I sought Him without finding Him; the watchmen came upon me, those who patrol the city, “Have you seen the love of my heart?”
As soon as I left them, I found the love of my heart.
Alternative reading
2 Corinthians 5 : 14-17
Indeed the love of Christ holds us and we realise that if He died for all, all have died. He died for all so that those who live may live no longer for themselves, but for Him Who died and rose again for them. And so from now on, we do not regard anyone from a human point of view; and even if we once knew Christ personally, we should now regard Him in another way.
For that same reason, the one who is in Christ is a new creature. For him the old things have passed away; a new world has come.
Liturgical Colour : Green or Red (Martyrs)
Psalm 104 : 2-3, 4-5, 6-7
Sing to Him, sing His praise, proclaim all His wondrous deeds. Glory in His holy Name; let those who seek the Lord rejoice.
Look to the Lord and be strong; seek His face always. Remember His wonderful works, His miracles and His judgments.
You descendants of His servant Abraham, you sons of Jacob, His chosen ones! He is the Lord our God; His judgments reach the whole world.
Liturgical Colour : Green
Psalm 97 : 1, 2-3ab, 7-8, 9
Sing to the Lord a new song, for He has done wonders; His right hand, His holy arm, has won victory for Him.
The Lord has shown His salvation, revealing His justice to the nations. He has not forgotten His love nor His faithfulness to Israel.
Let the sea resound and everything in it, the world and all its peoples. Let rivers clap their hands, hills and mountains sing with joy before the Lord.
For He comes to rule the earth. He will judge the world with justice and the peoples with fairness.
Homily and Reflection :
Offertory
Psalm 39 : 2, 3, 4
Exspectans exspectavi Dominum, et respexit me : et exaudivit deprecationem meam : et immisit in os meum canticum novum, hymnum Deo nostro.
English translation
With expectation I have waited for the Lord, and He had regard to me, and He heard my prayer, and He put a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God.
Secret Prayer of the Priest
Tua nos, Domine, sacramenta custodiant : et contra diabolicos semper tueantur incursus. Per Dominum…
English translation
May Your sacraments, o Lord, keep us and guard us always from the assaults of the devil. Through our Lord…
Communion
John 6 : 52
Panis, quem ego dedero, caro mea est pro saeculi vita.
English translation
The bread that I will give is My flesh for the life of the world.
Post-Communion Prayer
Mentes nostras et corpora possideat, quaesumus, Domine, doni caelestis operatio : ut non noster sensus in nobis, sed jugiter ejus praeveniat effectus. Per Dominum…
English translation
Let the operation of the heavenly gift, o Lord, possess our souls and bodies, that, its holy grace, not our own impulses, may continually be our guide. Through our Lord…
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