Entrance Antiphon: Within your will, O Lord, all things are established, and there is none that can resist your will. For you have made all things, the heaven and the earth, and all that is held within the circle of heaven; you are the Lord of all. (Cf. Est 4: 17)
Collect: Almighty ever-living God,
who in the abundance of your kindness
surpass the merits and the desires of those who entreat you,
pour out your mercy upon us
to pardon what conscience dreads
and to give what prayer does not dare to ask.
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.
First Reading: Genesis 2:18-23
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 128:1-2, 3, 4-5, 6
May the Lord bless us all the days of our lives.
Second Reading: Hebrews 2:9-11
Gospel: Mark 10:2-16 or 10:2-12
Prayer over the Offerings: Accept, O Lord, we pray,
the sacrifices instituted by your commands
and, through the sacred mysteries,
which we celebrate with dutiful service,
graciously complete the sanctifying work
by which you are pleased to redeem us.
Through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon: The Lord is good to those who hope in him, to the soul that seeks him. (Lam 3: 25)
Prayer after Communion: Grant us, almighty God,
that we may be refreshed and nourished
by the Sacrament which we have received,
so as to be transformed into what we consume.
Through Christ our Lord.
Suggested Music:
Processional Hymn: Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
Entrance Antiphon: from the Ignatius Pew Missal
Responsorial Psalm: from the Ignatius Pew Missal
Alleluia: from the Ignatius Pew Missal
Offertory Hymn: Come, My Way, My Truth, My Life
Communion Antiphon: from the Ignatius Pew Missal
A Eucharistic hymn is appropriate during or after communion.
Recessional Hymn: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling