Liturgical Music

Lectionary: 167

 

1st reading

Deuteronomy 8:2-3, 14b-16a

 

A reading from the Book of the Deuteronomy

 

Moses said to the people:
"Remember how for forty years now the LORD, your God,
has directed all your journeying in the desert,
so as to test you by affliction
and find out whether or not it was your intention
to keep his commandments. 
He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger,
and then fed you with manna,
a food unknown to you and your fathers,
in order to show you that not by bread alone does one live,
but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the LORD.

 

"Do not forget the LORD, your God,
who brought you out of the land of Egypt,
that place of slavery;
who guided you through the vast and terrible desert
with its saraph serpents and scorpions,
its parched and waterless ground;
who brought forth water for you from the flinty rock
and fed you in the desert with manna,
a food unknown to your fathers."

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​​​The word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

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Responsorial Psalm

Psalm 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20

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R. (12) Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.
Glorify the LORD, O Jerusalem;
praise your God, O Zion.
For he has strengthened the bars of your gates;
he has blessed your children within you.
R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.
He has granted peace in your borders;
with the best of wheat he fills you.
He sends forth his command to the earth;
swiftly runs his word!
R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.
He has proclaimed his word to Jacob,
his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
He has not done thus for any other nation;
his ordinances he has not made known to them. Alleluia.
R. Praise the Lord, Jerusalem.

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2nd reading

1 Corinthians 10:16-17

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A reading from the First Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians

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Brothers and sisters:
The cup of blessing that we bless,
is it not a participation in the blood of Christ?
The bread that we break,
is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
Because the loaf of bread is one,
we, though many, are one body,
for we all partake of the one loaf.

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​​The word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

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Gospel Acclamation: Alleluia

John 6:51

R. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

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I am the living bread that came down from heaven, says the Lord;
whoever eats this bread will live forever.

R. Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

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Gospel

John 3:16-18

 

The Lord be with you. And with your spirit

A reading from the holy Gospel according to John

Glory to you, O Lord.

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Jesus said to the Jewish crowds:
"I am the living bread that came down from heaven;
whoever eats this bread will live forever;
and the bread that I will give
is my flesh for the life of the world."

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The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying,
"How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" 
Jesus said to them,
"Amen, amen, I say to you,
unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood,
you do not have life within you. 
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood
has eternal life,
and I will raise him on the last day. 
For my flesh is true food,
and my blood is true drink. 
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood
remains in me and I in him. 
Just as the living Father sent me
and I have life because of the Father,
so also the one who feeds on me
will have life because of me. 
This is the bread that came down from heaven. 
Unlike your ancestors who ate and still died,
whoever eats this bread will live forever."

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​​The Gospel of the Lord.

Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

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NICENE CREED

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I believe in one God,
the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.

 

I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the Only Begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages.
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father;
through him all things were made.
For us men and for our salvation

he came down from heaven,

(ALL BOW)
and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,
and became man.

For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate,
he suffered death and was buried,
and rose again on the third day
in accordance with the Scriptures.
He ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory
to judge the living and the dead
and his kingdom will have no end.

 

I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.

 

I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.
I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sins
and I look forward to the resurrection of the dead
and the life of the world to come.

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Amen.

Offertory: As Christ is for Us

Verse 1:
In the bread we share with the hungry,
in the help we give to the poor,
in the kindness we show to the stranger
we find Christ the open door.
Refrain:
So we rise with him each morning,
and we work, as work we must
to be Christ for others as Christ is for us,
to be Christ for others as Christ is for us.
Verse 2:
May the bread we share give us courage
to restore the earth in this time.
For the sake of our children’s descendants
let us honor God’s ancient design. [Refrain]
Verse 3
May the bread we share keep us mindful
and the fruit of the vine make us one.
Let the whole human fam’ly together
heed the cry of our island home. [Refrain]

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