“Christ died out of love for us, while we were still ‘enemies’. The Lord asks us to love as he does, even
our enemies, to make ourselves the neighbor of those farthest away, and to love children and the poor
as Christ himself.
The Apostle Paul has given an incomparable depiction of charity: charity is patient and kind, charity is
not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant r rude. Charity does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable
or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Charity bears all things, believes all
things, hopes all things, endures all things. “(CCC 1825)
celebrate the sacred mysteries. people of good will. │We
(Pause) praise you, we bless you, │we
All — I confess to almighty adore you, we glorify you, │we
God │and to you, my brothers give you thanks for your great
and sisters, │ that I have glory, │Lord God, heavenly
greatly sinned, in my thoughts King, O God, Almighty Father.
and in my words, │ in what I Lord Jesus Christ, │ Only
have done and in what I have Begotten Son, Lord God, │
failed to do, │through my fault, Lamb of God, Son of the
through my fault, through my Father, │you take away the
most grievous fault; │therefore sins of the world, have mercy
I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, on us; │you take away the sins
all the Angels and Saints, │ of the world, receive our
and you, my brothers and prayer; │you are seated at the
Entrance Antiphon sisters, │to pray for me to the right hand of the Father, have
Lord our God. mercy on us. │ For you alone
O Lord, I trust in your merciful
P — May almighty God have are the Holy One, │you alone
love. │ My heart will rejoice in are the Lord, │you alone are
your salvation. │ I will sing to mercy on us, forgive us our sins,
and bring us to everlasting life. the Most High, Jesus Christ,
the Lord who has been
│with the Holy Spirit, in the
bountiful with me. All — Amen. glory of God the Father.
Greeting Kyrie Amen.
(The sign of the cross is made here)
P —Lord, have mercy. Collect
The grace of our Lord Jesus All — Lord, have mercy. P — Let us pray. (Pause)
Christ, and the love of God, and
the communion of the Holy Spirit P —Christ, have mercy. Grant, we pray, almighty God,
be with you all. All — Christ, have mercy. that, always pondering spiritual
things, we may carry out in both
All — And with your spirit. P —Lord, have mercy. word and deed that which is
Penitential Act All — Lord, have mercy. pleasing to you.
.All — Amen.
would not harm the LORD’s
anointed.”
— The word of the Lord.
B ROTHERS AND SISTERS:
│ It is written, The first man,
All — Thanks be to God. Adam, became a living being, │
the last Adam a life-giving spirit.
(Pause for 15 to 20 seconds) │ But the spiritual was not first; │
rather the natural and then the
Responsorial Psalm [Ps 103]
[1 Sm 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23] (Be
seated) spiritual. │ The first man was
℞ — The Lord is kind and from the earth, earthly; │ the
This Old Testament tradition shows us
merciful. second man, from heaven. │ As
a beautiful feature of David’s
was the earthly one, so also are
character – his magnanimity. He
the earthly, │ and as is the
spares his enemy when he could
heavenly one, so also are the
easily kill him with impunity!
heavenly. │ Just as we have
A reading from the first borne the image of the earthly
Book of the Samuel one, │ we shall also bear the
1. Bless the LORD, O my soul; image of the heavenly one.