2. Mass of the Holy Spirit 2014

MASS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

PRESIDER AND HOMILIST : Rev. Msgr. Porfirio C. Colon, Jr. School Director

COMMENTATOR : Ms. Licie Rose Mila

INTRODUCTION:

Good morning, Brothers and Sisters of Christ.We are gathered together today for our Mass of the Holy Spirit to

officially open our school year 2015 – 2016. The celebration of the Holy Eucharist is offered as a thanksgiving offering to welcome the day and the people. Like a family celebrating the gift of life and endowed also to a prayer for a grace-filled year. As we celebrate this Holy Eucharist, let us ask the Holy Spirit to be our guide and source of strength in doing our role of building God’s kingdom here in our community.

Our Mass presider is Rev. Msgr. Porfirio C. Colon, Jr. PC, our school director.

Please rise as we joyfully join the choir singing the entrance hymn.

PROCESSION: (Bible, Incense, Cross, Candle, Lectors, Teachers, and Celebrants)

INTRODUCTORY RITESign of the Cross:

Priest: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit.All: 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.

All: And with your spirit.

OPENING PRAYER:God of power and mercy, send your Holy Spirit to

live in our hearts and make us temples of his glory. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your son who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

All: Amen

PENITENTIAL RITE

Priest: Dear brothers and sisters of Christ, this water will be used to remind us of our baptism. Let us thank God to bless it, and to keep to the Spirit He has given us.

(After brief silence, he joined his hands and continues)

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God, Our Father, your gift of water brings life and freshness to the earth; it washes away our sins and brings us to eternal life.

We ask you now to bless this water, and to give us your protection on this day which you have made your presence and receive your gift of salvation. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen

(Taking the sprinkler, the presider sprinkles himself and the choir will sing the appropriate song may be sung)When he return to his place and the song is finished, the presider faces the people and with joined hand say…

Priest: May almighty God cleanse us of our sins, and through the Eucharist we celebrate make us worthy to sit at his table in His heavenly kingdom.

All: AmenGLORIAPriest: Glory to God in the highest…The Glory to God is sang or recited.

Priest: Let us pray…God our Father of all gifts, we praise you, the source of all we have. Teach us always many good things your infinite love has given us. Help us to love You with all our hearts and all our strengths. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

All: Amen

Comentator: Please sit down.

LITURGY OF THE WORD

FIRST READING: Ezekiel 36: 25 - 28

A Reading from the book of the prophet Ezekiel

I will sprinkle clean water upon you to cleanse you from all your impurities, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. I will give you a new heart and place a new spirit within you, taking from your bodies your stony hearts and giving you natural hearts. I will put my spirit within you and make you live by my statutes, careful to observe my decrees. You shall live in the land I gave your fathers: you shall be my people, and I will be your God.

The Word of the Lord.

All: Thanks be to God



RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Psalm 104: 1, 24, 29-30,31,34 Psalm for the Holy Spirit

R:

Lord, send out Your Spirit and renew the face of the earth.

1. Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, you are great indeed! How manifold are you works, O Lord! The earth is full of your creatures. R:

2. May the glory of the Lord endure forever, May the Lord be glad in his works! Pleasing to Him be my theme, I will be glad in the Lord. R:

3. If you take away their breath, they perish And return to their dust. When you send forth your spirit they created, And you renew the face of the earth. R:

SECOND READING: Romans 5: 1 – 2, 5 – 8

From the letter of Paul to the Romans

Now that we have been justified by faith, we are at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have gained access by faith to the grace in which we now stand, and we boast of our hope for the glory of God. And this hope will not leave us disappointed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. At the appointed time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for us godless men. It is rare that anyone should lay down his life for a just man, though it is barely possible that for a good man someone may have the courage to die. It is precisely in this that God proves his love for us: that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.


All: Thanks be to God.

Comentator: Please all stand.

GOSPEL ACCLAMATION : Alleluia



GOSPEL:John 15:18-21, 26-27

A Reading from the Holy Gospel according to John

Jesus said to his disciples:“If you find that the world hates you, know it has

hated me before you. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own; the reason it hates you is that you do not belong to the world. But I chose you out of the world. Remember what I told you: no slave is greater than his master. They will harry you as they harried me. They will respect your words as much as they respected mine. All this they will do to you because of my name, for they know nothing of him who sent me. When the Paraclete comes, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father and whom I myself will send from the Father he will bear witness on my behalf. You must bear witness as well, for you have been with me from the beginning.”

The Gospel of the Lord.

All: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.


HOMILY


PROFESSION OF FAITH: I believe in God, the Father almighty, Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,

At the words that follow, up to and including the Virgin Mary, all bow.

who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died and was buried; he descended into hell; on the third day he rose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and is seated at the right hand of God the Father almighty; from there he will come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.



PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL

Priest: The Father through the Holy Spirit has given us life to the humanity of Christ his Son, and has made him source of life for us; Let us raise our voices in praise to the triune God. Let us pray… Lord, graciously hear us.

1. Lord Jesus, source of our life, we pray for the Holy Father Francis, tireless apostle of the gospel, may the Holy Spirit filled him always strong and nourish him always with your presence, and continue to perform his ministry of shepherd of souls, the communion of all churches and of their pastors, the fidelity and love of all young people of the world. Let us pray… Lord, graciously hear us..

2. For all Christian that they may share always the message of the Gospel with all its radical demands while showing respect for the beliefs and opinion of others. Let us pray… Lord, graciously hear us.

3. For governors and government that they may always respect the fundamental right to religious freedom of every person. Let us pray… Lord, graciously hear us.

4. For all the millions of refugees in the world, that they may receive brotherly love and constant generous concrete aid from all Christians. Let us pray… Lord, graciously hear us.

5. For all Parents, that they may grow in holiness in every life following the examples of so many Christian spouses. Let us pray… Lord, graciously hear us.

6. For all the sick person who suffered from different kinds of illnesses in their homes and in the hospitals, that they may always receive constant service and rejoice from their heart and show them hope by imitating the Christ’s suffering and celebrate in the Lord’s passion. Let us pray… Lord, graciously hear us.

7. For all students especially of IHMA, that they may become responsible of our duties as a member of our respective communities and families, they may feel also their obligations to live harmoniously with everyone and to respect life, as we know Life is a precious gift that God has given us. Let us pray… Lord, graciously hear us.

Priest: Lord Jesus Christ, you know that we are incapable of building up a new world without you. Come, stay with us in our pilgrim journey and build with us, that we may belong to you and that this world be yours now and forever.



All: Amen


PREPARATION OF THE GIFTS

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

PRAYER OVER THE GIFTS:


Priest: Lord, accept our offerings. Make us grow in Holiness and grant what we ask you in faith. We ask this through Christ our Lord.

All : Amen

Priest : Pray, brethren (brothers and sisters), that my sacrifice and yours may be acceptable to

God, the almighty Father.

All : 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.

EUCHARISTIC PRAYER

Priest : The Lord be with you.

All : And with your Spirit.

Priest : Lift up your hearts.

All : We lift them up to the Lord.

Priest : Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.

All : It is right and Just.

Priest : Father, all powerful and ever-loving God we do always and everywhere to give you thanks. You have no needs of your praise yet our desire to thank You is itself your gift. Our prayer of thanksgiving adds nothing to your greatness but makes us grow in your grace,



through Jesus Christ our Lord. In Your joy we sing Your glory with all the choir of angels.

Sanctus: Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts.Heaven and earth are full of your glory.

Hosanna in the highest.Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.

Hosanna in the highest.

Comentator: Please kneel down.

CONSECRATION OF THE BREAD AND WINE

Priest: Lord, you are holy indeed, the fountain of the holiness. Let your spirit come upon these gifts to make them holy so that they may come for us the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Before he was given up to death, a death he freely accepted, He took bread and gave you thanks. He broke the bread and gave it to his disciples and said:

“TAKE THIS ALL OF YOU AND EAT IT,THIS MY BODY WHICH WILL BE GIVEN UP FOR YOU”.

When supper was ended, He took the cup. Again he gave you thanks and praise, give the cup to his disciples, and said:

“TAKE THIS ALL OF YOU AND DRINK FROMK IT.THIS IS THE CUP OF MY BLOOD,

THE BLOOD OF THE NEW AND EVERLASTING COVENANT IT WILL BE SHARED FOR YOU AND FOR ALL SO THAT SINS

MAY BE FORGIVEN. DO THIS IN MEMORY OF ME”.

Priest: The mystery of faith.


All: We proclaim your Death, O Lord, and profess your Resurrection until you come again.

He takes the chalice and the paten with the host and, raising both, he says:

Priest: In memory of this death and resurrection we offer you, Father this life given bread, the saving cup. We thank you for counting us worthy to stand in your presence and serve you. May all of us who share in the body and blood of Christ be brought together in the unity by the Holy Spirit Lord, remember your church throughout the world, make us grow in love together with Francis, our Pope, Juan and Zacharias, our bishops and all the clergy. Remember our brothers and sisters who have gone to their rest in the hope of rising again, bring them and all the departed be the light of your presence. Have mercy on us all; make us worthy to share eternal life with Mary, the Virgin mother of God, with the Apostles and



with all the Saints who have done your will throughout the ages. May we praise you in union with them through your son Jesus Christ.

All: Amen

Priest: Through him, and with him, and in him,O God, almighty Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit,all glory and honor is yours, for ever and ever.

In this part Amen should be sang.

All: Amen.

COMMUNION RITE

Priest: At the Savior’s command and formed by divine teaching, we dare to say:

All : Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

Priest : Deliver us, Lord, we pray, from every evil, graciously grant peace in our days, that, by the help of your mercy, we may be always free from sin and safe from all distress, as we await the blessed hope and the coming of our Savior, Jesus Christ.

All : For the kingdom, the power and the glory are yours now and for ever.

SIGN OF PEACE Priest : Lord, Jesus Christ, you said to your Apostles:

“I LEAVE YOU PEACE, MY PEACE I GIVE YOU. LOOK NOT ON OUR SINS, BUT ON THE FAITH OF YOUR CHURCH, AND GRANT US PEACE AND UNITY OF YOUR KINGDOM WHERE YOU LIVE FOREVER AND EVER”.



All : Amen.

The Priest, turned towards the people, extending and then joining his hands, adds:

Priest : The peace of the Lord be with you always.

All : And with your spirit.

Then, if appropriate, the Deacon, or the Priest, adds:

Priest : Let us offer each other the sign of peace.

LAMB OF GOD

Then he takes the host, breaks it over the paten, and places a small piece in the chalice, saying quietly:

Priest : May this mingling of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ bring eternal life to us who receive it.

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us.

Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, grant us peace.

Comentator: Please kneel down.

The Priest genuflects, takes the host and, holding it slightly raised above the paten or above the chalice, while facing the people, says aloud:

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.

And together with the people he adds once:

All : Lord, I am not worthy that you should enter under my roof, but only say the word

and my soul shall be healed.

Communion

Then, standing at the altar or at the chair and facing the people, with hands joined, the Priest says:

Comentator: You may sit down. Everybody is encouraged to receive the Body of Christ.

PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION


All pray in silence with the Priest for a while, unless silence has just been observed.Then the Priest, with hands extended, says the Prayer after Communion, at the end of which the people acclaim:

Priest : Let us pray. ALL POWERFUL GOD, BY THIS BREAD OF LIFE, YOU FREE YOUR PEOPLE FROM THE POWER OF SIN AND IN YOUR LOVE RENEW THEIR STRENGHT. HELP US GROW CONSTANTLY IN THE HOME OF ETERNAL GLORY. GRANT THIS THROUGH CHRIST OUR LORD.

All : Amen.

If they are necessary, any brief announcements to the people follow here.

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Then the dismissal takes place. The Priest, facing the people and extending his hands, says:

Priest : The Lord be with you.

All : And with your spirit.

The Priest blesses the people,

Priest: The Father of the light has enlightened the minds of the disciples by outpouring of the Holy Spirit. May He bless you and give you the gifts of the Spirit forever.

All: Amen

Priest: May that fire which hovered the disciples as tongues of flame burn out all evil from your hearts and make them glow with pure light.

All: Amen

Priest: God inspired speech in different tongues to proclaim one faith. May he strengthen your faith and fulfill your hope of seeing him face to face.

All: Amen

Priest: May Almighty God bless you, the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

All: Amen

Priest: Go in peace, glorifying the Lord by your life.


READINGS

FIRST READING: (Ezekiel 36: 25 - 28)

A Reading from the book of the prophet Ezekiel



I will sprinkle clean water upon you to cleanse you from all your impurities, and from all your idols I will cleanse you. I will give you a new heart and place a new spirit within you, taking from your bodies your stony hearts and giving you natural hearts. I will put my spirit within you and make you live by my statutes, careful to observe my decrees. You shall live in the land I gave your fathers: you shall be my people, and I will be your God.


All: Thanks be to God



RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Psalm 104: 1, 24, 29-30,31,34 Psalm for the Holy Spirit

R: Lord, send out Your Spirit and renew the face of the earth.

1. Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, you are great indeed! How manifold are you works, O Lord! The earth is full of your creatures. R:

2. May the glory of the Lord endure forever, May the Lord be glad in his works! Pleasing to Him be my theme, I will be glad in the Lord. R:

3. If you take away their breath, they perish And return to their dust. When you send forth your spirit they created, And you renew the face of the earth. R:



SECOND READING: (Romans 5: 1 – 2, 5 – 8)

From the letter of Paul to the Romans

Now that we have been justified by faith, we are at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have gained access by faith to the grace in which we now stand, and we boast of our hope for the glory of God. And this hope will not leave us disappointed, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. At the appointed time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for us godless men. It is rare that anyone should lay down his life for a just man, though it is barely possible that for a good man someone may have the courage to die. It is precisely in this that God proves his love for us: that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.





GOSPEL: (John 15:18-21, 26-27)

From the Holy Gospel according to John

Jesus said to his disciples:“If you find that the world hates you, know it has hated

me before you. If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own; the reason it hates you is that you do not belong to the world. But I chose you out of the world. Remember what I told you: no slave is greater than his master. They will harry you as they harried me. They will respect your words as much as they respected mine. All this they will do to you because of my name, for they know nothing of him who sent me. When the Paraclete comes, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father and whom I myself will send from the Father he will bear witness on my behalf. You must bear witness as well, for you have been with me from the beginning.”

The Gospel of the Lord.

All: Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.

HOMILY



PRAYERS OF THE FAITHFUL

Priest: The Father through the Holy Spirit has given us life to the humanity of Christ his Son, and has made him source of life for us; Let us raise our voices in praise to the triune God. Let us pray… Lord, graciously hear us.

1. Lord Jesus, source of our life, we pray for the Holy Father Francis, tireless apostle of the gospel, may the Holy Spirit filled him always strong and nourish him always with your presence, and continue to perform his ministry of shepherd of souls, the communion of all churches and of their pastors, the fidelity and love of all young people of the world. Let us pray… Lord, graciously hear us..

2. For all Christian that they may share always the message of the Gospel with all its radical demands while showing respect for the beliefs and opinion of others. Let us pray… Lord, graciously hear us.

3. For government servants that they may always respect the fundamental right to religious freedom of every person. Let us pray… Lord, graciously hear us.



4. For all the millions of refugees in the world, that they may receive brotherly love and constant generous concrete aid from all Christians. Let us pray… Lord, graciously hear us.

5. For all Parents, that they may grow in holiness in every life following the examples of so many Christian spouses. Let us pray… Lord, graciously hear us.

6. For all the sick person who suffered from different kinds of illnesses in their homes and in the hospitals, that they may always receive constant service and rejoice from their heart and show them hope by imitating the Christ’s suffering and celebrate in the Lord’s passion. Let us pray… Lord, graciously hear us.

7. For all students especially of IHMA, that they may become responsible of our duties as a member of our respective communities and families, they may feel also their obligations to live harmoniously with everyone and to respect life, as we know Life is a precious gift that God has given us. Let us pray… Lord, graciously hear us.

Priest: Lord Jesus Christ, you know that we are incapable of building up a new world without you. Come, stay with us in our pilgrim journey and build with us, that we may belong to you and that this world be yours now and forever.

All: Amen



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