SAINT PAUL SEMINARY

ORDER OF THE MASS

March 29, 2016
Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent
 INTRODUCTORY RITES
Priest: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.
Assembly: Amen.

either:
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
and the love of God,
and the communion of the Holy Spirit
be with you all.
And with your spirit.
or:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father
and the Lord Jesus Christ.
And with your spirit.
or:
The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.

PENITENTIAL ACT
Brethren (brothers and sisters), let us acknowledge our sins,
and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.

Have mercy on us, O Lord.

For we have sinned against you.

Show us, O Lord, your mercy.

And grant us your salvation.

May almighty God have mercy on us,

forgive us our sins,
and bring us to everlasting life.
Amen.
Priest: Lord, have mercy.
Priest: Christ, have mercy.
Priest: Lord, have mercy.
or:
Priest: Kyrie, eleison.
Priest: Christe, eleison.
Priest: Kyrie, eleison.
Response: Lord, have mercy
Response: Christ, have mercy
Response: Lord, have mercy
Response: Kyrie, eleison.
Response: Christe, eleison.
Response: Kyrie, eleison.

The Gloria is not said

COLLECT
Let us pray.
O God, who reward the merits of the just
and offer pardon to sinners who do penance,
have mercy, we pray, on those who call upon you,
that the admission of our guilt
may serve to obtain your pardon for our sins.
Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.

At the end of the Collect, the people acclaim:

Amen.
 LITURGY OF THE WORD

FIRST READING Is 49:8-15

I have given you as a covenant to the people,
to restore the land.

A reading from the Book of the Prophet Isaiah

Thus says the LORD:

In a time of favor I answer you,
on the day of salvation I help you;
and I have kept you and given you as a covenant to the people,
To restore the land
and allot the desolate heritages,
Saying to the prisoners: Come out!
To those in darkness: Show yourselves!
Along the ways they shall find pasture,
on every bare height shall their pastures be.
They shall not hunger or thirst,
nor shall the scorching wind or the sun strike them;
For he who pities them leads them
and guides them beside springs of water.
I will cut a road through all my mountains,
and make my highways level.
See, some shall come from afar,
others from the north and the west,
and some from the land of Syene.
Sing out, O heavens, and rejoice, O earth,
break forth into song, you mountains.
For the LORD comforts his people
and shows mercy to his afflicted.
 But Zion said, The LORD has forsaken me;
my Lord has forgotten me.
Can a mother forget her infant,
be without tenderness for the child of her womb?
Even should she forget,
I will never forget you.

The word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.
RESPONSORIAL PSALM Ps 145:8-9, 13cd-14, 17-18

(R) The Lord is gracious and merciful.

The LORD is gracious and merciful,

slow to anger and of great kindness.
The LORD is good to all
and compassionate toward all his works.(R)

The LORD is faithful in all his words

and holy in all his works.
The LORD lifts up all who are falling
and raises up all who are bowed down. (R)

The LORD is just in all his ways

and holy in all his works.
The LORD is near to all who call upon him,
to all who call upon him in truth. (R)
Gospel Acclamation Jn 11:25a, 26
I am the resurrection and the life, says the Lord;
whoever believes in me will never die.

GOSPEL Jn 5:17-30
As the Father raises the dead and gives them life,
so also does the Son give life to those whom he chooses.

The Lord be with you.

And with your spirit.

A reading from the holy Gospel according to John

Jesus answered the Jews:

My Father is at work until now, so I am at work.
For this reason they tried all the more to kill him,
because he not only broke the sabbath
but he also called God his own father, making
himself equal to God.

Jesus answered and said to them,

Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son cannot do
anything on his own,
but only what he sees the Father doing;
for what he does, the Son will do also.
For the Father loves the Son
and shows him everything that he himself does,
and he will show him greater works than these,
so that you may be amazed.
For just as the Father raises the dead and gives life,
so also does the Son give life to whomever he wishes.
Nor does the Father judge anyone,
 but he has given all judgment to the Son,
so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father.
Whoever does not honor the Son
does not honor the Father who sent him.
Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever hears my word
and believes in the one who sent me
has eternal life and will not come to condemnation,
but has passed from death to life.
Amen, amen, I say to you, the hour is coming and is now here
when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God,
and those who hear will live.
For just as the Father has life in himself,
so also he gave to the Son the possession of life in himself.
And he gave him power to exercise judgment,
because he is the Son of Man.
Do not be amazed at this,
because the hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs
will hear his voice and will come out,
those who have done good deeds
to the resurrection of life,
but those who have done wicked deeds
to the resurrection of condemnation.

I cannot do anything on my own;

I judge as I hear, and my judgment is just,
because I do not seek my own will
but the will of the one who sent me.

The Gospel of the Lord.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
HOMILY

PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL

ALL STAND FOR THE GENERAL INTERCESSIONS
 LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

PREPARATION OF THE GIFTS

INVITATION TO PRAYER
Pray, brethren (brothers and sisters),
that my sacrifice and yours
may be acceptable to God,
the almighty Father.
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 OFFERINGS

May the power of this sacrifice, O Lord, we pray,
mercifully wipe away what is old in us,
and increase in us grace of salvation and newness of life.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
PREFACE IV OF LENT
The fruits of fasting

V. The Lord be with you.

R. And with your spirit.

V. Lift up your hearts.

R. We lift them up to the Lord.

V. Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

R. It is right and just.

It is truly right and just, our duty and our salvation,

always and everywhere to give you thanks,
Lord, holy Father, almighty and eternal God.

For through bodily fasting you restrain our faults,

raise up our minds,
and bestow both virtue and its rewards,
through Christ our Lord.

Through him the Angels praise your majesty,

Dominions adore and Powers tremble before you.
Heaven and the Virtues of heaven and the blessed Seraphim
worship together with exultation.
May our voices, we pray, join with theirs
in humble praise, as we acclaim:

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.
 EUCHARISTIC PRAYER II

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 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.

He shows the consecrated host to the people, places it again on the paten, and
genuflects in adoration. After this, he continues:

In a 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,
FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY BLOOD,
THE BLOOD OF THE NEW AND ETERNAL COVENANT,
WHICH WILL BE POURED OUT FOR YOU AND FOR MANY
FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS.
DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME.
He shows the chalice to the people, places it on the corporal, and genuflects in
adoration.

Then he says:

The mystery of faith.

And the people continue, acclaiming:

We proclaim your Death, O Lord,

and profess your Resurrection
until you come again.

Then the Priest, with hands extended, says:

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.

Concelebrant 1:
Remember, Lord, your Church,
spread throughout the world,
and bring her to the fullness of charity,
together with Francis our Pope
and Reynaldo our Bishop,
and all the clergy.
 Concelebrant 2:
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 blessed Joseph, her Spouse
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
He joins his hands.
through your Son, Jesus Christ.

He takes the chalice and the paten with the host and, raising both, he says:

Through him, and with him, and in him,

O God, almighty Father,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
all glory and honor is yours,
for ever and ever.

The people acclaim:

Amen.
THE COMMUNION RITE

At the Saviours command

and formed by divine teaching,
we dare to say:
Our Father, who art in heaven

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.
For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours
now and for ever.

Lord Jesus Christ,

who said to your Apostles:
Peace I leave you, my peace I give you;
look not on our sins,
but on the faith of your Church,
and graciously grant her peace and unity
in accordance with your will.
Who live and reign for ever and ever.
Amen.

The peace of the Lord be with you always.

And with your spirit.

Let us offer each other the sign of peace.

 AGNUS DEI
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.

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.
Lord, I am not worthy
that you should enter under my roof,
but only say the word
and my soul shall be healed.

After this, he takes the paten or ciborium and approaches the communicants. The
Priest raises a host slightly and shows it to each of the communicants, saying:

The Body of Christ.

Amen.

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION

May your heavenly gifts, O Lord, we pray,
which you bestow as a heavenly remedy on your people,
not bring judgment to those who receive them.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
 THE CONCLUDING RITE
The Lord be with you.
And with your spirit.

Bow down for the blessing.

Then the Priest, with hands outstretched over the people, says:

May your servants be shielded, O Lord,

by the protection of your loving-kindness,
that, doing what is good in this world,
they may reach you, their highest good.
Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

And may the blessing of almighty God,

the Father, and the Son, + and the Holy Spirit,
come down on you
and remain with you for ever.
Amen.

either:
Go forth, the Mass is ended.
Thanks be to God.
or:
Go and announce the Gospel of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
or:
Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.
Thanks be to God.
or:
Go in peace.
Thanks be to God.