. (MALE VOICE SPEAKING) BEHOLD THE LAMB OF GOD WHO TAKES AWAY THE SINS OF THE WORLD (MUSIC) (FEMALE VOICE CHANTING SOFTLY) (MUSIC) ( MALE VOICE) TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU AND EAT OF IT, FOR THIS IS MY BODY WHICH WILL BE GIVEN UP FOR YOU. (MUSIC) ( MALE VOICE) TAKE THIS, ALL OF YOU, AND DRINK FROM IT, FOR THIS IS THE CHALICE OF MY BLOOD, (MUSIC) (MALE VOICE) DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME. (MUSIC) . (SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY) (ENTRANCE ANTIPHON) (BELL) (CANTORS) ♪ANSWER US, LORD, FOR YOUR MERCY IS KIND; IN THE ABUNDANCE OF YOUR MERCIES, LOOK UPON US. ♪ (ALL) ANSWER US, LORD, FOR YOUR MERCY IS KIND; IN THE ABUNDANCE OF YOUR MERCIES, LOOK UPON US. ♪ (CANTORS) GLORY BE TO THE FATHER AND TO THE SON AND TO THE HOLY SPIRIT AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING IT IS NOW AND EVER SHALL BE WORLD WITHOUT END. AMEN. ♪ (ALL) ANSWER US, LORD, FOR YOUR MERCY IS KIND; IN THE ABUNDANCE OF YOUR MERCIES, LOOK UPON US. . (PRIEST:) IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON, AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. R. AMEN. . (PRIEST:) THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THE LOVE OF GOD, AND THE COMMUNION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT BE WITH YOU ALL. R. AND WITH YOUR SPIRIT. . (PENITENTIAL ACT) (PRIEST:) BRETHREN [BROTHERS AND SISTERS] LET US ACKNOWLEDGE OUR SINS, AND SO PREPARE OURSELVES TO CELEBRATE THE SACRED MYSTERIES. (ALL:) I CONFESS TO ALMIGHTY GOD AND TO YOU, MY BROTHER, [BROTHERS AND SISTERS] THAT I HAVE GREATLY SINNED, IN MY THOUGHTS AND IN MY WORDS, IN WHAT I HAVE DONE AND IN WHAT I HAVE FAILED TO DO, (PEOPLE STRIKE THEIR BREAST, SAYING) THROUGH MY FAULT, THROUGH MY FAULT, THROUGH MY MOST GRIEVOUS FAULT; THEREFORE I ASK BLESSED MARY EVER-VIRGIN, ALL THE ANGELS AND SAINTS, AND YOU MY BROTHER, TO PRAY FOR ME TO THE LORD OUR GOD. (ABSOLUTION BY THE PRIEST ) MAY ALMIGHTY GOD HAVE MERCY ON US, FORGIVE US OUR SINS, AND BRING US TO EVERLASTING LIFE. . ♪ >>KYRIE, ELEISON. ♪ R. KYRIE, ELEISON. ♪ >>CHRISTE, ELEISON. ♪ R. CHRISTE, ELEISON. ♪ >>KYRIE, ELEISON. ♪ R. KYRIE, ELEISON. . (SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY) (COLLECT) (PRIEST) LET US PRAY. ALMIGHTY EVER LIVING GOD, LOOK WITH COMPASSION ON OUR WEAKNESS AND ENSURE US YOUR PROTECTION BY STRETCHING FORTH THE RIGHT HAND OF YOUR MAJESTY. THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, YOUR SON, WHO LIVES AND REIGNS WITH YOU IN THE UNITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, GOD, FOR EVER AND EVER. R. AMEN. . (222 )(SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY) (FIRST READING) (READER) A READING FROM THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET ISAIAH( 58:9-14) (READER) THUS SAYS THE LORD: IF YOU REMOVE FROM YOUR MIDST OPPRESSION, FALSE ACCUSATION AND MALICIOUS SPEECH; IF YOU BESTOW YOUR BREAD ON THE HUNGRY AND SATISFY THE AFFLICTED; THEN LIGHT SHALL RISE FOR YOU IN THE DARKNESS, AND THE GLOOM SHALL BECOME FOR YOU LIKE MIDDAY; THEN THE LORD WILL GUIDE YOU ALWAYS AND GIVE YOU PLENTY EVEN ON THE PARCHED LAND. HE WILL RENEW YOUR STRENGTH, AND YOU SHALL BE LIKE A WATERED GARDEN, LIKE A SPRING WHOSE WATER NEVER FAILS. THE ANCIENT RUINS SHALL BE REBUILT FOR YOUR SAKE, AND THE FOUNDATIONS FROM AGES PAST YOU SHALL RAISE UP; REPAIRER OF THE BREACH, THEY SHALL CALL YOU RESTORER OF RUINED HOMESTEADS. IF YOU HOLD BACK YOUR FOOT ON THE SABBATH FROM FOLLOWING YOUR OWN PURSUITS ON MY HOLY DAY; IF YOU CALL THE SABBATH A DELIGHT, AND THE LORD'S HOLY DAY HONORABLE; IF YOU HONOR IT BY NOT FOLLOWING YOUR WAYS, SEEKING YOUR OWN INTERESTS, OR SPEAKING WITH MALICE THEN YOU SHALL DELIGHT IN THE LORD, AND I WILL MAKE YOU RIDE ON THE HEIGHTS OF THE EARTH; I WILL NOURISH YOU WITH THE HERITAGE OF JACOB, YOUR FATHER, FOR THE MOUTH OF THE LORD HAS SPOKEN. (LATIN WORDS) ♪(READER) VERBUM DOMINI ♪(R.) DEO GRATIAS. (RESPONSORIAL PSALM 86:1-6) (READER) TEACH ME YOUR WAY, O LORD, THAT I MAY WALK IN YOUR TRUTH. R. TEACH ME YOUR WAY, O LORD, THAT I MAY WALK IN YOUR TRUTH. (READER) INCLINE YOUR EAR, O LORD; ANSWER ME, FOR I AM AFFLICTED AND POOR. KEEP MY LIFE, FOR I AM DEVOTED TO YOU; SAVE YOUR SERVANT WHO TRUSTS IN YOU. YOU ARE MY GOD. R. TEACH ME YOUR WAY, O LORD, THAT I MAY WALK IN YOUR TRUTH. (READER) HAVE MERCY ON ME, O LORD, FOR TO YOU I CALL ALL THE DAY. GLADDEN THE SOUL OF YOUR SERVANT, FOR TO YOU, O LORD, I LIFT UP MY SOUL. R. TEACH ME YOUR WAY, O LORD, THAT I MAY WALK IN YOUR TRUTH. (READER) FOR YOU, O LORD, ARE GOOD AND FORGIVING, ABOUNDING IN KINDNESS TO ALL WHO CALL UPON YOU. HEARKEN, O LORD, TO MY PRAYER AND ATTEND TO THE SOUND OF MY PLEADING. R. TEACH ME YOUR WAY, O LORD, THAT I MAY WALK IN YOUR TRUTH. ( VERSE BEFORE THE GOSPEL ) (ORGAN) (CANTORS) ♪GLORY AND PRAISE TO YOU, LORD JESUS CHRIST. ♪(R. ) GLORY AND PRAISE TO YOU, LORD JESUS CHRIST. (CANTOR) ♪I TAKE NO PLEASURE IN THE DEATH OF THE WICKED MAN, SAYS THE LORD, BUT RATHER IN HIS CONVERSION, THAT HE MAY LIVE. ♪ (R. ) GLORY AND PRAISE TO YOU, LORD JESUS CHRIST. (GOSPEL) ♪(LATIN WORDS) >>DOMINUS VOBISCUM. ♪ R. ET CUM SPIRITU TUO ♪>>LECTIO SANCTI EVANGELII SECUNDUM LUCAM( 5:27-32 ) ♪ R. GLORIA TIBI, DOMINE. >>JESUS SAW A TAX COLLECTOR NAMED LEVI SITTING AT THE CUSTOMS POST. HE SAID TO HIM, FOLLOW ME. AND LEAVING EVERYTHING BEHIND, HE GOT UP AND FOLLOWED HIM. THEN LEVI GAVE A GREAT BANQUET FOR HIM IN HIS HOUSE, AND A LARGE CROWD OF TAX COLLECTORS AND OTHERS WERE AT TABLE WITH THEM. THE PHARISEES AND THEIR SCRIBES COMPLAINED TO HIS DISCIPLES, SAYING, WHY DO YOU EAT AND DRINK WITH TAX COLLECTORS AND SINNERS? JESUS SAID TO THEM IN REPLY, THOSE WHO ARE HEALTHY DO NOT NEED A PHYSICIAN, BUT THE SICK DO. I HAVE NOT COME TO CALL THE RIGHTEOUS TO REPENTANCE BUT SINNERS. ♪(LATIN WORDS) ♪VERBUM DOMINI ♪R. LAUS TIBI, CHRISTE DURING LENT WE TAKE A SPECIAL PENANCE AND FASTING AND PRAYER AND ALMSGIVING AND EXPRESSION OF CONVERSION. OFTEN LIKE TO LOOK AT MY FAULTS AND SINS AND TRY TO GIVE IT THAT STUFF ESPECIALLY DURING LENT. SO HOW'S IT GOING? WE ARE A FEW DAYS IN. EVERYBODY IS MAINTAINING THE RESOLUTIONS NO PROBLEMS? I THINK WE ALL KNOW THE STRUGGLE OF OVERCOMING OURSELVES. IT IS NO SMALL TASK TO GUIDE OURSELVES AND GROW IN HOLINESS. AND WE SEE THIS INCREDIBLE EXAMPLE TODAY THE CALL OF LEVI KNOWN AS MATTHEW. 1 OF THE GOSPEL WRITERS. HE IS A TAX COLLECTOR. HE COLLECTS THE TAXES FOR ROME. ROME OCCUPIES THE HOLY LAND SO TO SPEAK SO IT IS SENT BACK TO ROME TO PAY FOR THEIR GOVERNMENT AND THEIR PROJECTS AND THINGS. SO HE NEEDS TO EXERCISE THESE TAXES A CERTAIN AMOUNT FOR ROME AND THEN HE ALSO GETS TAXES FOR HIS OWN SALARY AND HE ASKED TO BUY THE POSITION AND BUYS THE JOB SO TO SPEAK FROM THE ROMAN GOVERNMENT. SO HE WANTS THIS. HE DOES IT. IT MAKES HIM HIM I AM SURE VERY UNPOPULAR WITH HIS COUNTRYMEN. HIS PROBABLY HATED. HE GIVES GREAT PARTIES APPARENTLY. HE IS KNOWN TAX COLLECTORS ARE KNOWN TO DO THAT WITH THEIR WEALTH. AND JESUS WE ARE TOLD TODAY HE SEES LEVI SITTING AT THE CUSTOM POST AND SAYS FOLLOW ME. HE CALLS HIM WHILE HE IS SITTING AT HIS CUSTOMS POST. I READ A REFLECTION A FEW YEARS AGO IN THE MAGNIFICAT NOT. A SIMPLE LINE IN IT ABOUT THIS SCENE STRUCK ME. IT SAYS, HIS CALL IS OUR CURE. HIS CALL IS OUR CURE. HE IS CALLING US TO A VOCATION, TO OUR STATE IN LIFE, CALLING US TO BE HOLY, JESUS IS CALLING US TO STRIVE FOR HOLINESS TO SEEK HIS WILL, AND ARE ANSWERED THAT CALL ARE FOLLOWING HIM IS OUR CURE. THAT IS OUR PATH TO HOLINESS. THAT IS OUR PATH TO HEALING. THE PHARISEES DID NOT LIKE WHAT THEY ARE SEEING. IT SEEMS LIKE IF YOU WERE GOING TO START A MOVEMENT YOU WOULD CALL IN THE TOWN AND CALL IN THE HOLIEST AND SMARTEST PEOPLE IN THE BRIGHTEST PEOPLE IN THE MOST POPULAR PEOPLE. THIS GUY HAS TO WRITE A GOSPEL AND PREACHED EVERYBODY IT IS GOOD IF YOU'RE NOT HATED RIGHT? IT SEEMS LIKE IT WOULD BE MORE EFFECTIVE AND THAT IS NOT AN OBSTACLE TO JESUS. HE GIVES US GRACE. HE PURIFIES US. THE PHARISEES TAKE ISSUE. WHY DO YOU EAT AND DRINK WITH TAX COLLECTORS AND SINNERS AND JESUS HIS ANSWER IS THE HEALTHY DO NOT NEED A PHYSICIAN BUT THE SICK DO. IN HUMILITY WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT. THAT WE ARE SICK. THAT WE NEED DIVINE PHYSICIAN. WE ARE SICK WITH SIN. SIN WARPS US. IT ATTACHES US THE THINGS. IT ATTACHES US TO SIN AND ISOLATES US. IT MAKES US MORE UNLIKABLE MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS. THERE IS A LOT OF BAD STUFF GOING ON WITH THAT. WE NEED HELP. JESUS IS THE DIVINE PHYSICIAN. HE IS THE HEALER. HE CARES THAT SICKNESS. THAT SICKNESS OF SOUL OF SIN. LEVI IS SITTING AT HIS CUSTOMS POST. AND HE HEARS THIS FOLLOW ME. HE GETS UP. HE FOLLOWS THE LORD. AND THAT IS TRUE FOR ALL OF US. WE ARE SITTING OFTEN TIME STRUGGLING WITH OUR SIN AND IT IS EASY TO BECOME DISCOURAGED. I HEARD A GREAT QUOTATION. PADRE P PIO SAID EVEN SINS ARE USED FOR THE GOOD OF THOSE WHO SERVE HIM BY DIVINE PROVIDENCE. IF THE HOLY KING DAVID AND NEVER SINNED HE WOULD NEVER WOULD'VE ACQUIRED SUCH A PROFOUND HUMILITY. NOR WOULD MARY MAGDALENE HAVE SO ARDENTLY LOVED JESUS IF HE HAD NOT FORGIVEN HER SO MANY SINS. AND IF SHE HAD NOT COMMITTED THEM. THAT JESUS EVEN USES THESE FAILURES MAY BE THIS POVERTY OF FAULTS AND CHARACTERISTICS THAT WE HAVE TO COME LEAD US IN THOSE WEAK POINTS TO STRENGTHEN US AND POUR HIS GRACE AND MERCY INTO THAT TO TRANSFORM US. THAT IS OUR SICKNESS. POPE BENEDICT THE 16TH SAID IN SPEAKING ABOUT THE SAINTS HE SAID THERE PEOPLE LIKE US WITH PROBLEMS. EVEN COMPLICATED PROBLEMS. SANCTITY DOES NOT CONSIST AND NEVER HAVING MADE MISTAKES BUT IT SANCTITY GROSS INCAPACITY OF A WILLINGNESS TO START AGAIN AND ABOVE ALL IN THE CAPACITY FOR RECONCILIATION AND FORGIVENESS. TO ACCEPT THAT MERCY BE RECONCILED WITH GOD. ARE WE EVER GOING TO BE PERFECT? WE HAVE A FALLEN HUMAN NATURE WE LIVE IN A FALLEN CULTURE. WE HAVE FAMILY OF ORIGIN STUFF RAGING IN US. WE ARE CALLED TO A PERFECTION OF CHARITY BUT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE FAULTS AND STRUGGLES IN OUR CHARACTER AND WEAKNESSES. GOD GIVES US GRACE TO STRENGTHEN US THAT WE HAVE TO BEGIN AGAIN AND HAVE TO REPENT OF OUR SINS AND TRUST BORN HIM. JESUS IS THE SOURCE OF OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. NOT OURSELVES. NOT OUR OWN EFFORTS. AND WE SEE THE OBSTACLES AND DIFFICULTIES MAY BE IN OUR CHARACTER BUT WE CAN BE AFRAID BUT I THINK WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT IF WE READ THE SAINTS THE MESSAGE THEY TELL US IN SCRIPTURES IS THAT GOD IS WITH US. GOD IS WITH US. DO NOT BE AFRAID. HE IS WITH US IN THAT STORM ON THE SEA. HE IS IN CONTROL. OF EVERYTHING. HE USES ALL THINGS IN OUR LIFE. TO HEAL US. TO MAKE US WHOLE. TO BRING US SALVATION. AND WE HAVE TO KEEP OUR EYES ON THE CROSS ON HIS PASSION HIS SUFFERING DEATH AND RESURRECTION. THAT IS THE SOURCE OF OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. THAT IS THE SOURCE OF OUR HOLINESS. AND THERE IS SUCH I THINK A COMFORT AND SEEING THE SUFFERING JESUS IN THE SENSE THAT HE KNOWS SUFFERING. HE KNOWS STRUGGLE. HE KNOWS HE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH TAKING ON THE WEIGHT OF OUR SIN TO OVERCOME THAT ON THE CROSS. HE STRENGTHENS US TO ENDURE. IN THE CARE THAT CROSS. HIS CALL IS OUR CURE. HIS CALL TO HOLINESS. OUR FOLLOWING HIM. OUR TRUSTING HIM. I KEEP YOUR EYES ON HIM IS OUR CURE. JESUS SAW LEVI. THE TAX COLLECTOR. SITTING AT THE CUSTOMS POST. HOW DOES JESUS SEE US? IF WE WERE TO REVIEW OUR DAY, MAKE LIKE A PARTICULAR EXAMINATION AND YOU KNOW IS ST. IGNATIUS WAS A PRAY THE HOLY SPIRIT ASKING HIS GUIDANCE AND INSIGHT AND EXAMINE OUR DAY WE CAN LOOK AT MOMENTS OF SIN OR MOMENTS OF FAILURE, OF OUR RAGING CHARACTER FLAWS WEAKNESSES AND ETC. HOW DOES JESUS SEE THAT? SOMETIMES WE CAN BE MERCILESS WITH OURSELVES. SOMETIMES WE DEMAND THIS EXTERIOR PERFECTION AND WE CAN CONDEMN OURSELVES AND REALLY DISCOURAGE OURSELVES AND NOT SEE OURSELVES IN THE LIGHT OF HIS LOVE AND MERCY. YES I AM SICK. I NEED A PHYSICIAN. THAT IS OKAY. I HAVE FAITH. THAT JESUS IS THERE TO GIVE US HIS FORGIVENESS, TO GIVE US HIS LOVE AND MERCY. TO SEE IT THROUGH THE EYES OF JESUS. TO LOOK AT THAT. TO LOOK AT THE GOOD THINGS WE DO DURING THE DAY. TO SEE HOW THAT IS A GIFT TO US. BY GOD'S GRACE. THERE GO I BUT BY THE GRACE OF GOD. MAYBE WE COULD HAVE FALLEN INTO BUT WE DIDN'T. WE CAN REPENT OF OUR WEAKNESSES. NOT STAY ISOLATED. NOT JUST HIDE OURSELVES FROM THE GAZE OF CHRIST. AS WE GET MORE CRAZY AND NEUROTIC. IF WE OPEN OURSELVES UP TO HIS GAZE WE CAN ACCEPT HIS LOVE AND MERCY. HE SEES US AS A CHILD OF GOD. HE WANTS TO HEAL US. HE WANTS TO HEAL US. HE WANTS OUR SALVATION. IF YOU BEEN TO THE DOCTOR. IF YOU HAD A GOOD DOCTOR, I HAVE GOT SOME GOOD DOCTORS IN MY LIFE. AND I MARVEL AT HOW EFFECTIVE THEY CAN BE. IF THERE A GOOD DOCTOR. IF THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING. IF THEY ARE THOROUGH. THEY LISTEN TO YOU. THEY KNOW AND FOLLOW UP ON WHAT YOU TELL THEM. AND DIRECTS US MAYBE TO A SPECIALIST OR SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE NEED. BUT JESUS IS THE DIVINE DOCTOR. THE DIVINE PHYSICIAN. HE ALLOWS TRIALS AND SITUATIONS IN OUR LIFE THAT TEST US AND CAUSE US TO GROW AND HE IS WITH US AND ALL OF THAT. HIS ASSURING US AND ALL OF THAT AND GUIDING US IN THAT GROWTH IN HOLINESS. A GOOD DOCTOR HAS SOME COMPASSION. HE IS NOT COLD. HE IS NOT INSENSITIVE. HE IS ENCOURAGING. HE WANTS US TO BE HEALTHY. MAYBE TELLS US WE CAN DO IT. BE FAITHFUL OF THIS PLAN. WE CAN DO THIS. YOU CAN GET BETTER. JESUS DOES ALL OF THAT FOR US. HE HAS COMPASSION. HE STRENGTHENS US BY THE GIFT OF HIS HOLY SPIRIT. HE IS LEADING US. AND ANY TRIALS AND DIFFICULTIES YOU KNOW HE CAN USE. IT IS NOT THAT WE ARE SO HOPELESS THAT HE CANNOT BE THERE FOR US TO MAKE US HOLY. WHATEVER THE SITUATION. WHATEVER DIFFICULTY WE ARE IN. OUR JOB IS TO GET UP AND TO FOLLOW HIM. TO BE WILLING TO LET GO OF THE SIN TO LET GO OF OUR SELF-CENTEREDNESS AND JUST OUR DESIRES NOT JUST OUR DESIRES BUT TO SEEK WHERE HE IS LEADING US. . (INTERCESSIONS FOR SAT., W4) (PRIEST INVITES THE PEOPLE TO PRAY.) ...LET US OFFER OUR PETITIONS TO GOD... (READER:) 1) THAT THE CHURCH MAY FOLLOW WHERE CHRIST HAS LED AND FIND ALL ITS HOPE IN HIS GLORY IN HEAVEN. WE PRAY TO THE LORD. R. LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER. (READER) 2) THAT OUR HOLY FATHER MAY BEAR FRUIT THAT WILL ENDURE IN THE WORK OF EVANGELIZATION. WE PRAY TO THE LORD. R. LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER. (READER:) 3) FOR ALL HERE PRESENT AND FOR THOSE WHO HAVE ASKED FOR OUR PRAYERS, THAT THE LORD MAY INCREASE OUR TRUST IN HIS LOVE AND PROVIDENTIAL CARE. WE PRAY TO THE LORD. R. LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER. (READER:) 4) FOR MARRIED COUPLES, THAT THEY MAY GROW IN MUTUAL LOVE AND REFLECT THAT LOVE IN THEIR FAMILY LIFE AND SERVICE OF OTHERS. WE PRAY TO THE LORD. R. LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER. (READER:) 5) FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED, THAT JESUS, WHO LAID DOWN HIS LIFE FOR THE FLOCK, MAY BRING THEM HOME TO THE FATHER'S HOUSE. WE PRAY TO THE LORD. R. LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER. (PRIEST CONCLUDES INTERCESSIONS) WE PRAY TO THE LORD. R. LORD, HEAR OUR PRAYER. ( PRIEST) ...WE MAKE OUR PRAYER THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD. R. AMEN. . (PRIEST) BLESSED ARE YOU, LORD GOD OF ALL CREATION, FOR THROUGH YOUR GOODNESS WE HAVE RECEIVED THE BREAD WE OFFER YOU: FRUIT OF THE EARTH AND WORK OF HUMAN HANDS, IT WILL BECOME FOR US THE BREAD OF LIFE. (PRIEST SAYS THE FOLLOWING INAUDIBLY) (BY THE MYSTERY OF THIS WATER AND WINE MAY WE COME TO SHARE IN THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST WHO HUMBLED HIMSELF TO SHARE IN OUR HUMANITY.) (PRIEST INAUDIBLY ) BLESSED ARE YOU, LORD GOD OF ALL CREATION, FOR THROUGH YOUR GOODNESS WE HAVE RECEIVED THE WINE WE OFFER YOU; FRUIT OF THE VINE AND WORK OF HUMAN HANDS, IT WILL BECOME OUR SPIRITUAL DRINK. (PRIEST SAYS THE FOLLOWING INAUDIBLY) (WITH HUMBLE SPIRIT AND CONTRITE HEART MAY WE BE ACCEPTED BY YOU, O LORD, AND MAY OUR SACRIFICE IN YOUR SIGHT THIS DAY BE PLEASING TO YOU, LORD GOD. WASH ME O LORD FROM MY INIQUITY AND CLEANSE ME FROM MY SIN.) . (PRIEST) PRAY, BRETHREN, (BROTHERS AND SISTERS) THAT MY SACRIFICE AND YOURS MAY BE ACCEPTABLE TO GOD THE ALMIGHTY FATHER. R. 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. . (SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY) (PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS) (PRIEST) ACCEPT, WE PRAY, O LORD, THE SACRIFICE OF CONCILIATION AND PRAISE, AND GRANT THAT, CLEANSED BY ITS WORKING, WE MAY OFFER MINDS WELL PLEASING TO YOU. R. AMEN. . ♪( PRIEST:) DOMINUS VOBISCUM. ♪R. ET CUM SPIRITU TUO. ♪( PRIEST:) SURSUM CORDA. ♪R. HABEMUS AD DOMINUM. ♪( PRIEST: ) GRATIAS AGAMUS DOMINO DEO NOSTRO. ♪R. DIGNUM ET IUSTUM EST. . . (P 41)(PREFACE III OF LENT) (THE FRUITS OF ABSTINENCE) (PRIEST) 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 YOU WILL THAT OUR SELF-DENIAL SHOULD GIVE YOU THANKS, HUMBLE OUR SINFUL PRIDE, CONTRIBUTE TO THE FEEDING OF THE POOR, AND SO HELP US IMITATE YOU IN YOUR KINDNESS. AND SO WE GLORIFY YOU WITH COUNTLESS ANGELS, AS WITH ONE VOICE OF PRAISE WE ACCLAIM: . (LATIN WORDS) ♪SANCTUS, SANCTUS, SANCTUS DOMINUS DEUS SABAOTH. PLENI SUNT CAELI ET TERRA GLORIA TUA. HOSANA IN EXCELSIS. BENEDICTUS QUI VENIT IN NOMINE DOMINI. HOSANA IN EXCELSIS. . (EUCHARISTIC PRAYER II) (PRIEST) YOUR ARE INDEED HOLY, O LORD, THE FOUNT OF ALL HOLINESS. MAKE HOLY, THEREFORE, (BELLS)THESE GIFTS, WE PRAY, BY SENDING DOWN YOUR SPIRIT UPON THEM LIKE THE DEW-FALL, 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. (BELLS) 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. (BELLS) ♪ (MYSTERY OF FAITH) (PRIEST) THE MYSTERY OF FAITH. ("MYSTERY OF FAITH"/LATIN WORDS:) (PRIEST) MYSTERIUM FIDEI ♪ ( LATIN) (R.) SALVATOR MUNDI ,SALVA NOS QUI PER CRUCEM ET RESURRECTIONEM TUAM LIBERASTI NOS (PRIEST:) 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. REMEMBER, LORD, YOUR CHURCH, SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, AND BRING HER TO THE FULLNESS OF CHARITY, TOGETHER WITH FRANCIS OUR POPE AND STEVEN, OUR BISHOP AND ALL THE CLERGY. 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 AS 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 THROUGH OUT THE AGES , WE MAY MERIT TO BE COHEIRS TO ETERNAL LIFE, AND MAY PRAISE AND GLORIFY YOU THROUGH YOUR SON, JESUS CHRIST. ♪ (LATIN WORDS) (PRIEST) PER IPSUM, ET CUM IPSO, ET IN IPSO, EST TIBI DEO PATRI OMNIPOTENTI, IN UNITATE SPIRITUS SANCTI, OMNIS HONOR ET GLORIA PER OMNIA SAECULA SAECULORUM. ♪ R. AMEN. . (LATIN WORDS OF THE "OUR FATHER" PRAYER) ♪(PRIEST) PRAECEPTIS SALUTARIBUS MONITI, ET DIVINIA INSTITUTIONE FORMATI AUDEMUS DICERE. ♪(PRIEST AND PEOPLE PRAY) PATER NOSTER, QUI ES IN CAELIS: SANCTIFICETUR NOMEN TUUM; ADVENIAT REGNUM TUUM; FIAT VOLUNTAS TUA, SICUT IN CAELO, ET IN TERRA. PANEM NOSTRUM QUOTIDIANUM DA NOBIS HODIE; ET DIMITTE NOBIS DEBITA NOSTRA, SICUT ET NOS DIMITTIMUS DEBITORIBUS NOSTRIS; ET NE NOS INDUCAS IN TENTATIONEM; SED LIBERA NOS A MALO. (PRIEST) ♪LIBERA NOS, QUAESUMUS, DOMINE, AB OMNIBUS MALIS, DA PROPITIUS PACEM IN DIEBUS NOSTRIS, UT, OPE MISERICORDIAE TUAE ADIUTI, ET A PECCATO SIMUS SEMPER LIBERI ET AB OMNI PERTURBATIONE SECURI: EXSPECTANTES BEATAM SPEM ET ADVENTUM SALVATORIS NOSTRI IESU CHRISTI. ♪ R. QUIA TUUM EST REGNUM, ET POTESTAS, ET GLORIA IN SAECULA. (PRIEST) DOMINE IESU CHRISTE, QUI DIXISTI APOSTOLIS TUIS: PACEM RELINQUO VOBIS, PACEM MEAM DO VOBIS: NE RESPICIAS PECCATA NOSTRA, SED FIDEM ECCLESIAE TUAE; EAMQUE SECUNDUM VOLUNTATEM TUAM PACIFICARE ET COADUNARE DIGNERIS. QUI VIVIS ET REGNAS IN SAECULA SAECULORUM. ♪ R. AMEN. ♪ >>PAX DOMINI SIT SEMPER VOBISCUM. ♪R. ET CUM SPIRITU TUO. . (CANTORS) ♪(LATIN WORDS) AGNUS DEI, ♪ (ALL) QUI TOLLIS PECCATA MUNDI: MISERERE NOBIS. ♪ (CANTORS) AGNUS DEI, ♪ ( ALL) QUI TOLLIS PECCATA MUNDI: MISERERE NOBIS. ♪ (CANTORS) AGNUS DEI, ♪ (ALL) QUI TOLLIS PECCATA MUNDI: DONA NOBIS PACEM. . (PRIEST:) 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 R. LORD I AM NOT WORTHY THAT YOU SHOULD ENTER UNDER MY ROOF BUT ONLY SAY THE WORD AND MY SOUL SHALL BE HEALED. ( BELLS) . (SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY) (COMMUNION ANTIPHON ) (PRIEST) I DESIRE MERCY, NOT SACRIFICE, SAYS THE LORD, FOR I DID NOT COME TO CALL THE JUST BUT SINNERS. . (FEMALE VOICE) FOR THOSE WHO ANNOT NOW RECEIVE JESUS IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT, WE OFFER THE FOLLOWING PRAYER. ♪ ( COMMUNION MUSIC) ( ORGAN) ( CANTORS) (LATIN HYMN) ♪ ♪ ( COMMUNION MUSIC) ( ORGAN) ♪ ♪ ( CANTORS) ( "THINK OF THE SON OF GOD") ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ . (SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY) (PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION) (PRIEST) LET US PRAY. NOURISHED WITH THE GIFT OF HEAVENLY LIFE, WE PRAY, O LORD, THAT WHAT REMAINS FOR US A MYSTERY IN THIS PRESENT LIFE MAY BE FOR US A HELP TO REACH ETERNITY. R. AMEN. . ( PRIEST) THE LORD BE WITH YOU. R. AND WITH YOUR SPIRIT. . (SATURDAY AFTER ASH WEDNESDAY) >>BOW YOUR HEADS AND PRAY FOR GOD'S BLESSING. (PRAYER OVER THE PEOPLE) >>ABIDE GRACIOUSLY, O LORD, WITH YOUR PEOPLE, WHO HAVE TOUCHED THE SACRED MYSTERIES, THAT NO DANGERS MAY BRING AFFLICTION TO THOSE WHO TRUST IN YOU, THEIR PROTECTOR. R. AMEN. . (PRIEST) AND MAY THE BLESSING OF ALMIGHTY GOD, THE FATHER, AND THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, DESCEND UPON YOU AND REMAIN WITH YOU FOR EVER. R. AMEN. >>GO IN PEACE. R. THANKS BE TO GOD. (FIRST SATURDAY ROSARY FOLLOWS )
