Entrance Antiphon: You are just, O Lord, and your judgment is right; treat your servant in accord with your merciful love. (Ps 119 (118): 137, 124)
Collect: O God, by whom we are redeemed and receive adoption,
look graciously upon your beloved sons and daughters,
that those who believe in Christ
may receive true freedom
and an everlasting inheritance.
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: Wisdom 9:13–18b
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 90:3–4, 5–6, 12–13, 14 and 17
In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.
Second Reading: Philemon 9–10, 12–17
Gospel: Luke 14:25–33
Prayer over the Offerings: O God, who give us the gift of true prayer and of peace,
graciously grant that, through this offering,
we may do fitting homage to your divine majesty
and, by partaking of the sacred mystery,
we may be faithfully united in mind and heart.
Through Christ our Lord.
Communion Antiphon: Like the deer that yearns for running streams, so my soul is yearning for you, my God; my soul is thirsting for God, the living God. (Cf. Ps 42 (41): 2-3)
Prayer after Communion: Grant that your faithful, O Lord,
whom you nourish and endow with life
through the food of your Word and heavenly Sacrament,
may so benefit from your beloved Son’s great gifts
that we may merit an eternal share in his life.
Who lives and reigns for ever and ever.
Suggested Music:
Processional Hymn: Praise to the Lord
Entrance Antiphon: from the Ignatius Pew Missal
Responsorial Psalm: from the Ignatius Pew Missal
Alleluia: from the Ignatius Pew Missal
Offertory Hymn: Take Up Your Cross
Communion Antiphon: from the Ignatius Pew Missal
A Eucharistic hymn is appropriate during or after communion.
Recessional Hymn: Crown Him with Many Crowns