Pentecost Sunday 31 May 2020 Full Printable Version Here. Collect O God, who by the mystery of today’s great feastsanctify your whole Church in every people and nation,pour out, we pray, the gifts of the Holy Spiritacross the face of the earthand, with the divine grace that was at workwhen the Gospel was first proclaimed,fill … [Read more…]
Printable Version CollectGladden us with holy joys, almighty God,and make us rejoice with devout thanksgiving,for the Ascension of Christ your Sonis our exaltation,and, where the Head has gone before in glory,the Body is called to follow in hope.Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy … [Read more…]
READ AT HOME Sixth Sunday of Easter 17 May 2020 Full Version Here. Collect Grant, almighty God,that we may celebrate with heartfelt devotion these days of joy,which we keep in honour of the risen Lord,and that what we relive in remembrancewe may always hold to in what we do.Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,who … [Read more…]
Fifth Sunday of Easter – 10 May 2020 Full Version here. Collect Almighty ever-living God, constantly accomplish the Paschal Mystery within us, that those you were pleased to make new in Holy Baptism may, under your protective care, bear much fruit and come to the joys of life eternal. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your … [Read more…]
Mothers’ Day 10th May 2020 I love the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary; it is the Church’s warm appreciation of Mary the Mother of God as our Mother also. I invite you in the warmth of your hearts to recite this litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary – linked always with the Rosary that … [Read more…]
Christ the Good Shepherd First Reading – Acts of the Apostles 2: 14, 36-41 A reading from the Acts of the ApostlesGod has made Jesus both Lord and Christ.On the day of Pentecost Peter stood up with the Eleven and addressed the crowd with a loud voice:‘The whole House of Israel can be certain that … [Read more…]
READ AT HOME Printable Version Third Sunday of Easter – 26 April 2020 CollectMay your people exult for ever, O God,in renewed youthfulness of spirit,so that, rejoicing now in the restored glory of our adoption,we may look forward in confident hopeto the rejoicing of the day of resurrection.Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,who lives … [Read more…]
Sunday 19 Apr 2020 PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL Bishop: God calls us to respond in faith to the risen Lord. Let us bring our needs and those of the world before the God of all. Reader: For Christians, that like Thomas they may acknowledge Jesus as their Lord and God, and show by their lives … [Read more…]
Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord Sunday 12 Apr 2020 PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL Bishop: Sisters and brothers, rejoicing in Christ’s triumph over death, we bring our prayers before the God of glory. Reader: That our Holy Father Pope Francis may continue to proclaim the new life that Jesus Christ offers to all … [Read more…]
Entrance AntiphonI have risen, and I am with you still, alleluia.You have laid your hand upon me, alleluia.Too wonderful for me, this knowledge, alleluia, alleluia.The Gloria in excelsis (Glory to God in the highest) is said. First ReadingA reading from the Acts of the Apostles 10:34. 37-43Peter addressed Cornelius and his household: ‘You must have … [Read more…]