FIRST READING
A reading from the Second Book of Kings 4:8-11. 14-16
The man who is constantly passing our way must be a holy man of God.
One day as Elisha was on his way to Shunem, a woman of rank who
lived there pressed him to stay and eat there. After this he always
broke his journey for a meal when he passed that way. She said to
her husband, ‘Look, I am sure the man who is constantly passing our
way must be a holy man of God. Let us build him a small room on
the roof, and put him a bed in it, and a table and chair and lamp;
whenever he comes to us he can rest there.’
One day when he came, he retired to the upper room and lay
down. ‘What can be done for her then?’ he asked. Gehazi
answered, ‘Well, she has no son and her husband is old’. Elisha said,
‘Call her’. The servant called her and she stood at the door. ‘This
time next year,’ he said ‘you will hold a son in your arms.’
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm Ps 88
Response: I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.
1. I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord;
through all ages my mouth will proclaim your truth.
Of this I am sure, that your love lasts for ever,
that your truth is firmly established as the heavens.
Response: I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.
2. Happy the people who acclaim such a king,
who walk, O Lord, in the light of your face,
who find their joy every day in your name,
who make your justice the source of their bliss.
Response: I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.
3. For it is you, O Lord, who are the glory of their strength;
it is by your favour that our might is exalted:
for our ruler is in the keeping of the Lord;
our king in the keeping of the Holy One of lsrael.
Response: I will sing for ever of your love, O Lord.
SECOND READING
A reading from the first letter of St Paul to the Romans 6: 3-4. 8-11
When we were baptised we went into the tomb with Christ, so that
we too might live a new life.
You have been taught that when we were baptised in Christ Jesus
we were baptised in his death; in other words, when we were
baptised we went into the tomb with him and joined him in death, so
that as Christ was raised from the dead by the Father’s glory, we too
might live a new life.
But we believe that having died with Christ we shall return to life with
him: Christ, as we know, having been raised from the dead will never
die again. Death has no power over him any more. When he died,
he died, once for all, to sin, so his life now is life with God; and in that
way, you too must consider yourselves to be dead to sin but alive for
God in Christ Jesus.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation Acts 16: 10
Alleluia, alleluia!
Open our heart, O Lord,
to accept the words of your Son.
Alleluia!
Or 1 Peter 2:9
Alleluia, alleluia!
You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a people set apart,
to sing the praises of God
who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Alleluia!
GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Matthew 10:37-42
Anyone who does not take his cross and follow in my footsteps is not
worthy of me. Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me.
Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows :
‘Anyone who prefers father or mother to me is not worthy of me.
Anyone who prefers son or daughter to me is not worthy of me.
Anyone who does not take his cross and follow in my footsteps is not
worthy of me.
Anyone who finds his life will lose it; anyone who loses his life for my
sake will find it.
Anyone who welcomes you welcomes me; and those who welcome
me welcome the one who sent me.
Anyone who welcomes a prophet will have a prophet’s reward; and
anyone who welcomes a holy man will have a holy man’s reward.
‘If anyone gives so much as a cup of cold water to one of these little
ones because he is a disciple, then I tell you solemnly, he will most
certainly not lose his reward.’
The Gospel of the Lord.
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Saturday 27 June 2020
Saturday 20 June 2020
Mass Readings: Sunday, 21st June 2020
FIRST READING
A reading from the book of the Prophet Jeremiah 20:10-13
He has delivered the soul of the needy from the hands of evil men.
Jeremiah said:
I hear so many disparaging me,
‘”Terror from every side!”
Denounce him! Let us denounce him!’
All those who used to be my friends watched for my downfall,
‘Perhaps he will be seduced into error.
Then we will master him
and take our revenge!’
But the Lord is at my side, a mighty hero;
my opponents will stumble, mastered,
confounded by their failure;
everlasting, unforgettable disgrace will be theirs.
But you, Lord of Hosts, you who probe with justice,
who scrutinise the loins and heart,
let me see the vengeance you will take on them,
for I have committed my cause to you.
Sing to the Lord, praise the Lord,
for he has delivered the soul of the needy
from the hands of evil men.
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm Ps 68
Response: In your great love, answer me, 0 God.
1. It is for you that I suffer taunts,
that shame covers my face,
that I have become a stranger to my brothers,
an alien to my own mother’s sons.
I burn with zeal for your house
and taunts against you fall on me.
2. This is my prayer to you,
my prayer for your favour.
In your great love, answer me, 0 God,
with your help that never fails:
Lord, answer, for your love is kind;
in your compassion, turn towards me.
3. The poor when they see it will be glad
and God-seeking hearts will revive;
for the Lord listens to the needy
and does not spurn his servants in their chains.
Let the heavens and the earth give him praise,
the sea and all its living creatures.
SECOND READING
A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Romans 5:12-15
The gift itself considerably outweighed the fall.
Sin entered the world through one man, and through sin death, and
thus death has spread through the whole human race because
everyone has sinned. Sin existed in the world long before the Law
was given. There was no law and so no one could be accused of
the sin of ‘law-breaking’, yet death reigned over all from Adam to
Moses, even though their sin, unlike that of Adam, was not a matter
of breaking a law.
Adam prefigured the One to come, but the gift itself considerably
outweighed the fall. If it is certain that through one man’s fall so
many died, it is even more certain that divine grace, coming
through the one man, Jesus Christ, came to so many as an
abundant free gift.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation Jn 1: 14.12
Alleluia, alleluia!
The Word was made flesh and lived among us;
to all who did accept him
he gave power to become children of God.
Alleluia!
or Jn 15: 26.27
Alleluia, alleluia!
The Spirit of truth will be my witnes;
and you too will be my witnesses.
Alleluia!
GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Matthew 10:26-33
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body.
Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: ‘Do not be afraid of them
therefore. For everything that is now covered will be uncovered, and
everything now hidden will be made clear. What I say to you in the
dark, tell in the daylight; what you hear in whispers, proclaim from
the housetops.
‘Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul;
fear him rather who can destroy both body and soul in hell. Can you
not buy two sparrows for a penny? And yet not one falls to the
ground without your Father knowing. Why, every hair on your head
has been counted. So there is no need to be afraid; you are worth
more than hundreds of sparrows.
‘So if anyone declares himself for me in the presence of men, I will
declare myself for him in the presence of my Father in heaven. But
the one who disowns me in the presence of men, I will disown in the
presence of my Father in heaven.
The Gospel of the Lord.
A reading from the book of the Prophet Jeremiah 20:10-13
He has delivered the soul of the needy from the hands of evil men.
Jeremiah said:
I hear so many disparaging me,
‘”Terror from every side!”
Denounce him! Let us denounce him!’
All those who used to be my friends watched for my downfall,
‘Perhaps he will be seduced into error.
Then we will master him
and take our revenge!’
But the Lord is at my side, a mighty hero;
my opponents will stumble, mastered,
confounded by their failure;
everlasting, unforgettable disgrace will be theirs.
But you, Lord of Hosts, you who probe with justice,
who scrutinise the loins and heart,
let me see the vengeance you will take on them,
for I have committed my cause to you.
Sing to the Lord, praise the Lord,
for he has delivered the soul of the needy
from the hands of evil men.
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm Ps 68
Response: In your great love, answer me, 0 God.
1. It is for you that I suffer taunts,
that shame covers my face,
that I have become a stranger to my brothers,
an alien to my own mother’s sons.
I burn with zeal for your house
and taunts against you fall on me.
2. This is my prayer to you,
my prayer for your favour.
In your great love, answer me, 0 God,
with your help that never fails:
Lord, answer, for your love is kind;
in your compassion, turn towards me.
3. The poor when they see it will be glad
and God-seeking hearts will revive;
for the Lord listens to the needy
and does not spurn his servants in their chains.
Let the heavens and the earth give him praise,
the sea and all its living creatures.
SECOND READING
A reading from the letter of St Paul to the Romans 5:12-15
The gift itself considerably outweighed the fall.
Sin entered the world through one man, and through sin death, and
thus death has spread through the whole human race because
everyone has sinned. Sin existed in the world long before the Law
was given. There was no law and so no one could be accused of
the sin of ‘law-breaking’, yet death reigned over all from Adam to
Moses, even though their sin, unlike that of Adam, was not a matter
of breaking a law.
Adam prefigured the One to come, but the gift itself considerably
outweighed the fall. If it is certain that through one man’s fall so
many died, it is even more certain that divine grace, coming
through the one man, Jesus Christ, came to so many as an
abundant free gift.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation Jn 1: 14.12
Alleluia, alleluia!
The Word was made flesh and lived among us;
to all who did accept him
he gave power to become children of God.
Alleluia!
or Jn 15: 26.27
Alleluia, alleluia!
The Spirit of truth will be my witnes;
and you too will be my witnesses.
Alleluia!
GOSPEL
A reading from the Gospel according to Matthew 10:26-33
Do not be afraid of those who kill the body.
Jesus instructed the Twelve as follows: ‘Do not be afraid of them
therefore. For everything that is now covered will be uncovered, and
everything now hidden will be made clear. What I say to you in the
dark, tell in the daylight; what you hear in whispers, proclaim from
the housetops.
‘Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul;
fear him rather who can destroy both body and soul in hell. Can you
not buy two sparrows for a penny? And yet not one falls to the
ground without your Father knowing. Why, every hair on your head
has been counted. So there is no need to be afraid; you are worth
more than hundreds of sparrows.
‘So if anyone declares himself for me in the presence of men, I will
declare myself for him in the presence of my Father in heaven. But
the one who disowns me in the presence of men, I will disown in the
presence of my Father in heaven.
The Gospel of the Lord.
Friday 19 June 2020
Mass Readings: Friday, 19th June 2020
First Reading
Deuteronomy 7:6-11 ·
The Lord set his heart on you and chose you
Moses said to the people: ‘You are a people consecrated to the Lord your God; it is you that the Lord our God has chosen to be his very own people out of all the peoples on the earth.
‘If the Lord set his heart on you and chose you, it was not because you outnumbered other peoples: you were the least of all peoples. It was for love of you and to keep the oath he swore to your fathers that the Lord brought you out with his mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know then that the Lord your God is God indeed, the faithful God who is true to his covenant and his graciousness for a thousand generations towards those who love him and keep his commandments, but who punishes in their own persons those that hate him. He is not slow to destroy the man who hates him; he makes him work out his punishment in person. You are therefore to keep and observe the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I lay down for you today.’
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
________
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 102(103):1-4,6-8,10
The love of the Lord is everlasting upon those who hold him in fear.
My soul, give thanks to the Lord
all my being, bless his holy name.
My soul, give thanks to the Lord
and never forget all his blessings.
The love of the Lord is everlasting upon those who hold him in fear.
It is he who forgives all your guilt,
who heals every one of your ills,
who redeems your life from the grave,
who crowns you with love and compassion,
The love of the Lord is everlasting upon those who hold him in fear.
The Lord does deeds of justice,
gives judgement for all who are oppressed.
He made known his ways to Moses
and his deeds to Israel’s sons.
The love of the Lord is everlasting upon those who hold him in fear.
The Lord is compassion and love,
slow to anger and rich in mercy.
He does not treat us according to our sins
nor repay us according to our faults.
The love of the Lord is everlasting upon those who hold him in fear.
________
Second Reading
1 John 4:7-16
Let us love one another, since love comes from God
My dear people,
let us love one another
since love comes from God
and everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.
Anyone who fails to love can never have known God,
because God is love.
God’s love for us was revealed
when God sent into the world his only Son
so that we could have life through him;
this is the love I mean:
not our love for God,
but God’s love for us when he sent his Son
to be the sacrifice that takes our sins away.
My dear people,
since God has loved us so much,
we too should love one another.
No one has ever seen God;
but as long as we love one another
God will live in us
and his love will be complete in us.
We can know that we are living in him
and he is living in us
because he lets us share his Spirit.
We ourselves saw and we testify
that the Father sent his Son
as saviour of the world.
If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,
God lives in him, and he in God.
We ourselves have known and put our faith in
God’s love towards ourselves.
God is love
and anyone who lives in love lives in God,
and God lives in him.
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
_______
Gospel Acclamation
Mt11:29
Alleluia, alleluia!
Shoulder my yoke and learn from me,
for I am gentle and humble in heart.
Alleluia!
________
Gospel
Matthew 11:25-30
You have hidden these things from the wise and revealed them to little children
Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.’
The Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Deuteronomy 7:6-11 ·
The Lord set his heart on you and chose you
Moses said to the people: ‘You are a people consecrated to the Lord your God; it is you that the Lord our God has chosen to be his very own people out of all the peoples on the earth.
‘If the Lord set his heart on you and chose you, it was not because you outnumbered other peoples: you were the least of all peoples. It was for love of you and to keep the oath he swore to your fathers that the Lord brought you out with his mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Know then that the Lord your God is God indeed, the faithful God who is true to his covenant and his graciousness for a thousand generations towards those who love him and keep his commandments, but who punishes in their own persons those that hate him. He is not slow to destroy the man who hates him; he makes him work out his punishment in person. You are therefore to keep and observe the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I lay down for you today.’
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
________
Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 102(103):1-4,6-8,10
The love of the Lord is everlasting upon those who hold him in fear.
My soul, give thanks to the Lord
all my being, bless his holy name.
My soul, give thanks to the Lord
and never forget all his blessings.
The love of the Lord is everlasting upon those who hold him in fear.
It is he who forgives all your guilt,
who heals every one of your ills,
who redeems your life from the grave,
who crowns you with love and compassion,
The love of the Lord is everlasting upon those who hold him in fear.
The Lord does deeds of justice,
gives judgement for all who are oppressed.
He made known his ways to Moses
and his deeds to Israel’s sons.
The love of the Lord is everlasting upon those who hold him in fear.
The Lord is compassion and love,
slow to anger and rich in mercy.
He does not treat us according to our sins
nor repay us according to our faults.
The love of the Lord is everlasting upon those who hold him in fear.
________
Second Reading
1 John 4:7-16
Let us love one another, since love comes from God
My dear people,
let us love one another
since love comes from God
and everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God.
Anyone who fails to love can never have known God,
because God is love.
God’s love for us was revealed
when God sent into the world his only Son
so that we could have life through him;
this is the love I mean:
not our love for God,
but God’s love for us when he sent his Son
to be the sacrifice that takes our sins away.
My dear people,
since God has loved us so much,
we too should love one another.
No one has ever seen God;
but as long as we love one another
God will live in us
and his love will be complete in us.
We can know that we are living in him
and he is living in us
because he lets us share his Spirit.
We ourselves saw and we testify
that the Father sent his Son
as saviour of the world.
If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God,
God lives in him, and he in God.
We ourselves have known and put our faith in
God’s love towards ourselves.
God is love
and anyone who lives in love lives in God,
and God lives in him.
The word of the Lord.
Thanks be to God.
_______
Gospel Acclamation
Mt11:29
Alleluia, alleluia!
Shoulder my yoke and learn from me,
for I am gentle and humble in heart.
Alleluia!
________
Gospel
Matthew 11:25-30
You have hidden these things from the wise and revealed them to little children
Jesus exclaimed, ‘I bless you, Father, Lord of heaven and of earth, for hiding these things from the learned and the clever and revealing them to mere children. Yes, Father, for that is what it pleased you to do. Everything has been entrusted to me by my Father; and no one knows the Son except the Father, just as no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
‘Come to me, all you who labour and are overburdened, and I will give you rest. Shoulder my yoke and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Yes, my yoke is easy and my burden light.’
The Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
Tuesday 16 June 2020
Saturday 13 June 2020
Mass Readings: Corpus Christi - Sunday, 14th June 2020
FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of Deuteronomy 8:2-3. 14-16
He fed you with manna which neither you nor your fathers had known
Moses said to the people: ‘Remember how the Lord your God led
you for forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, to test you and
know your inmost heart – whether you would keep his
commandments or not. He humbled you, he made you feel hunger,
he fed you with manna which neither you nor your fathers had
known, to make you understand that man does not live on bread
alone but that man lives on everything that comes from the mouth
of the Lord. do not become proud of heart.
Do not then forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery: who guided you through
this vast and dreadful wilderness, a land of fiery serpents, scorpions,
thirst; who in this waterless place brought you water from the hardest
rock; who in this wilderness fed you with manna that your fathers had
not known, to humble you and test you and so make your future the
happier.
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm Ps 147
Response : O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
1. O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
Zion, praise your God!
He has strengthened the bars of your gates,
he has blessed the children within you.
2. He established peace on your borders,
he feeds you with finest wheat.
He sends out his word to the earth
and swiftly runs his command.
3. He makes his word known to Jacob,
to Israel his laws and decrees.
He has not dealt thus with other nations;
he has not taught them his decrees.
SECOND READING
A reading from the first letter of St Paul to the Corinthians 10:16-17
There is only one loaf means that, though there are many of us, we
form a single body
The blessing-cup that we bless is a communion with the blood of
Christ, and the bread that we break is a communion with the body
of Christ. The fact that there is only one loaf means that, though
there are many of us, we form a single body because we all have a
share in this one loaf.
The Word of the Lord.
Sequence
Sing forth, O Zion, sweetly sing
The praises of thy Shepherd-King,
In hymns and canticles divine;
Dare all thou canst, thou hast no song
Worthy his praises to prolong,
So far surpassing powers like thine.
Today no theme of common praise
Forms the sweet burden of thy lays-
The living, life-dispensing food
That food which at the sacred board
Unto the brethren twelve our Lord
His parting legacy bestowed.
Then be the anthem clear and strong,
Thy fullest note, thy sweetest song,
The very music of the breast:a
For now shines forth the day sublime
That brings remembrance of the time
When Jesus first his table blessed.
Within our new King’s banquet-hall
They meet to keep the festival
That closed the ancient paschal rite:
The old is by the new replaced;
The substance hath the shadow chased;
And rising day dispels the night.
Christ willed what he himself had done
Should be renewed while time should run,
In memory of his parting hour:
Thus, tutored in his school divine,
We consecrate the bread and wine;
And lo – a Host of saving power.
This faith to Christian men is given
Bread is made flesh by words from heaven:
Into his blood the wine is turned:
What though it baffles nature’s powers
Of sense and sight? This faith of ours
Proves more than nature e’er discerned.
Concealed beneath the two-fold sign,—
Meet symbols of the gifts divine,
There lie the mysteries adored:
The living body is our food;
Our drink the ever-precious blood;
In each, one undivided Lord.
Not he that eateth it divides
The sacred food, which whole abides
Unbroken still, nor knows decay;
Be one, or be a thousand fed,
They eat alike that living bread
Which, still received, ne’er wastes away.
The good, the guilty share therein,
With sure increase of grace or sin,
The ghostly life, or ghostly death:
Death to the guilty; to the good
Immortal life. See how one food
Man’s joy or woe accomplisheth.
We break the Sacrament; but bold
And firm thy faith shall keep its hold;
Deem not the whole doth more enfold
Than in the fractured part resides:
Deem not that Christ doth broken lie;
‘Tis but the sign that meets the eye;
The hidden deep reality
In all its fullness still abides.
*Behold the bread of angels, sent
For pilgrims in their banishment,
The bread for God’s true children meant,
That may not unto dogs be given:
Oft in the olden types foreshowed;
In Isaac on the altar bowed,
And in the ancient paschal food,
And in the manna sent from heaven.
*Come then, good shepherd, bread divine,
Still show to us thy mercy sign;
Oh, feed us still, still keep us thine;
So may we see thy glories shine
In fields of immortality;
*O thou, the wisest, mightiest, best,
Our present food, our future rest,
Come, make us each thy chosen guest,
Co-heirs of thine, and comrades blest
With saints whose dwelling is with thee.
Gospel Acclamation Jn 6: 51-52
Alleluia, alleluia!
I am the living bread which has come down from heaven says the
Lord. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever
Alleluia!
Gospel John 6:51-58
My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
Jesus said to the Jews:
I am the living bread which has come down from heaven.
Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever;
and the bread that I shall give
is my flesh, for the life of the world.’
Then the Jews started arguing with one another:
‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ they said.
Jesus replied:
I tell you most solemnly,
if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man
and drink his blood, you will not have life in you.
Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood
has eternal life, and I shall raise him up on the last day.
For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood
lives in me and I live in him.
As I, who am sent by the living Father,
myself draw life from the Father,
so whoever eats me will draw life from me.
This is the bread come down from heaven;
not like the bread our ancestors ate:
they are dead,
but anyone who eats this bread
will live for ever.’
The Gospel of the Lord.
A reading from the Book of Deuteronomy 8:2-3. 14-16
He fed you with manna which neither you nor your fathers had known
Moses said to the people: ‘Remember how the Lord your God led
you for forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, to test you and
know your inmost heart – whether you would keep his
commandments or not. He humbled you, he made you feel hunger,
he fed you with manna which neither you nor your fathers had
known, to make you understand that man does not live on bread
alone but that man lives on everything that comes from the mouth
of the Lord. do not become proud of heart.
Do not then forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery: who guided you through
this vast and dreadful wilderness, a land of fiery serpents, scorpions,
thirst; who in this waterless place brought you water from the hardest
rock; who in this wilderness fed you with manna that your fathers had
not known, to humble you and test you and so make your future the
happier.
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm Ps 147
Response : O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
1. O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
Zion, praise your God!
He has strengthened the bars of your gates,
he has blessed the children within you.
2. He established peace on your borders,
he feeds you with finest wheat.
He sends out his word to the earth
and swiftly runs his command.
3. He makes his word known to Jacob,
to Israel his laws and decrees.
He has not dealt thus with other nations;
he has not taught them his decrees.
SECOND READING
A reading from the first letter of St Paul to the Corinthians 10:16-17
There is only one loaf means that, though there are many of us, we
form a single body
The blessing-cup that we bless is a communion with the blood of
Christ, and the bread that we break is a communion with the body
of Christ. The fact that there is only one loaf means that, though
there are many of us, we form a single body because we all have a
share in this one loaf.
The Word of the Lord.
Sequence
Sing forth, O Zion, sweetly sing
The praises of thy Shepherd-King,
In hymns and canticles divine;
Dare all thou canst, thou hast no song
Worthy his praises to prolong,
So far surpassing powers like thine.
Today no theme of common praise
Forms the sweet burden of thy lays-
The living, life-dispensing food
That food which at the sacred board
Unto the brethren twelve our Lord
His parting legacy bestowed.
Then be the anthem clear and strong,
Thy fullest note, thy sweetest song,
The very music of the breast:a
For now shines forth the day sublime
That brings remembrance of the time
When Jesus first his table blessed.
Within our new King’s banquet-hall
They meet to keep the festival
That closed the ancient paschal rite:
The old is by the new replaced;
The substance hath the shadow chased;
And rising day dispels the night.
Christ willed what he himself had done
Should be renewed while time should run,
In memory of his parting hour:
Thus, tutored in his school divine,
We consecrate the bread and wine;
And lo – a Host of saving power.
This faith to Christian men is given
Bread is made flesh by words from heaven:
Into his blood the wine is turned:
What though it baffles nature’s powers
Of sense and sight? This faith of ours
Proves more than nature e’er discerned.
Concealed beneath the two-fold sign,—
Meet symbols of the gifts divine,
There lie the mysteries adored:
The living body is our food;
Our drink the ever-precious blood;
In each, one undivided Lord.
Not he that eateth it divides
The sacred food, which whole abides
Unbroken still, nor knows decay;
Be one, or be a thousand fed,
They eat alike that living bread
Which, still received, ne’er wastes away.
The good, the guilty share therein,
With sure increase of grace or sin,
The ghostly life, or ghostly death:
Death to the guilty; to the good
Immortal life. See how one food
Man’s joy or woe accomplisheth.
We break the Sacrament; but bold
And firm thy faith shall keep its hold;
Deem not the whole doth more enfold
Than in the fractured part resides:
Deem not that Christ doth broken lie;
‘Tis but the sign that meets the eye;
The hidden deep reality
In all its fullness still abides.
*Behold the bread of angels, sent
For pilgrims in their banishment,
The bread for God’s true children meant,
That may not unto dogs be given:
Oft in the olden types foreshowed;
In Isaac on the altar bowed,
And in the ancient paschal food,
And in the manna sent from heaven.
*Come then, good shepherd, bread divine,
Still show to us thy mercy sign;
Oh, feed us still, still keep us thine;
So may we see thy glories shine
In fields of immortality;
*O thou, the wisest, mightiest, best,
Our present food, our future rest,
Come, make us each thy chosen guest,
Co-heirs of thine, and comrades blest
With saints whose dwelling is with thee.
Gospel Acclamation Jn 6: 51-52
Alleluia, alleluia!
I am the living bread which has come down from heaven says the
Lord. Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever
Alleluia!
Gospel John 6:51-58
My flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
Jesus said to the Jews:
I am the living bread which has come down from heaven.
Anyone who eats this bread will live for ever;
and the bread that I shall give
is my flesh, for the life of the world.’
Then the Jews started arguing with one another:
‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ they said.
Jesus replied:
I tell you most solemnly,
if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man
and drink his blood, you will not have life in you.
Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood
has eternal life, and I shall raise him up on the last day.
For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink.
He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood
lives in me and I live in him.
As I, who am sent by the living Father,
myself draw life from the Father,
so whoever eats me will draw life from me.
This is the bread come down from heaven;
not like the bread our ancestors ate:
they are dead,
but anyone who eats this bread
will live for ever.’
The Gospel of the Lord.
Saturday 6 June 2020
Mass Readings - Sunday, 7th June 2020
FIRST READING
A reading from the Book of Exodus 34:4-6. 8-9
Our Lord is a God of tenderness and compassion.
With the two tablets of stone in his hands, he went up the mountain
of Sinai in the early morning as the Lord had commanded him. And
the Lord descended in the form of a cloud, and Moses stood with
him there.
He called on the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and
proclaimed, the Lord, a God of tenderness and compassion, slow to
anger, rich in kindness and faithfulness; And Moses bowed down to
the ground at once and worshipped.
‘If I have indeed won your favour, Lord,’ he said ‘let my Lord come
with us, I beg. True, they are a headstrong people, but forgive us our
faults and our sins, and adopt us as your heritage.’
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm Dan 3:52-56
Response: To you glory and praise for evermore.
1. You are blest, Lord God of our fathers.
Blest your glorious holy name.
2. You are blest in the temple of your glory.
You are blest on the throne of your kingdom.
3. You are blest who gaze into the depths.
You are blest in the firmament of heaven.
SECOND READING
A reading from the second letter of St Paul to the Corinthians 13:11-13
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
Brothers, we wish you happiness; try to grow perfect; help one
another.
Be united; live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with
you.
Greet one another with the holy kiss. All the saints send you
greetings.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation Apoc 1:8
Alleluia, alleluia!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
the God who is, who was, and who is to come
Alleluia!
GOSPEL John 3:16-18
For God sent his Son into the world so that through him the world
might be saved.
Jesus said to Nicodemus,
God loved the world so much
that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him
may not be lost but may have eternal life.
For God sent his Son into the world
not to condemn the world,
but so that through him the world might be saved.
No one who believes in him will be condemned;
but whoever refuses to believe is condemned already,
because he has refused to believe
in the name of God’s only Son.
The Gospel of the Lord.
A reading from the Book of Exodus 34:4-6. 8-9
Our Lord is a God of tenderness and compassion.
With the two tablets of stone in his hands, he went up the mountain
of Sinai in the early morning as the Lord had commanded him. And
the Lord descended in the form of a cloud, and Moses stood with
him there.
He called on the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and
proclaimed, the Lord, a God of tenderness and compassion, slow to
anger, rich in kindness and faithfulness; And Moses bowed down to
the ground at once and worshipped.
‘If I have indeed won your favour, Lord,’ he said ‘let my Lord come
with us, I beg. True, they are a headstrong people, but forgive us our
faults and our sins, and adopt us as your heritage.’
The Word of the Lord.
Responsorial Psalm Dan 3:52-56
Response: To you glory and praise for evermore.
1. You are blest, Lord God of our fathers.
Blest your glorious holy name.
2. You are blest in the temple of your glory.
You are blest on the throne of your kingdom.
3. You are blest who gaze into the depths.
You are blest in the firmament of heaven.
SECOND READING
A reading from the second letter of St Paul to the Corinthians 13:11-13
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
Brothers, we wish you happiness; try to grow perfect; help one
another.
Be united; live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with
you.
Greet one another with the holy kiss. All the saints send you
greetings.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God and the
fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
The Word of the Lord.
Gospel Acclamation Apoc 1:8
Alleluia, alleluia!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
the God who is, who was, and who is to come
Alleluia!
GOSPEL John 3:16-18
For God sent his Son into the world so that through him the world
might be saved.
Jesus said to Nicodemus,
God loved the world so much
that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him
may not be lost but may have eternal life.
For God sent his Son into the world
not to condemn the world,
but so that through him the world might be saved.
No one who believes in him will be condemned;
but whoever refuses to believe is condemned already,
because he has refused to believe
in the name of God’s only Son.
The Gospel of the Lord.
Tuesday 2 June 2020
Laudato Si'
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